S&P Global (NYSE SPGI) is the parent of S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices, S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts), S&P Global Mobility, and S&P Global Sustainable1. Its public developer surface is anchored by Kensho Technologies (a wholly-owned S&P Global AI subsidiary) which ships REST APIs for the S&P Global LLM-ready API (kFinance), Extract, NERD, Scribe, and the Grounding Agent, plus the S&P Capital IQ Pro and Marketplace data products distributed through the S&P Global Marketplace.
S&P Global publishes 12 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including LLM-Ready API (kFinance), Kensho Extract API, Kensho NERD API, and 9 more. Tagged areas include Capital IQ, Commodity Insights, Credit Ratings, Document Extraction, and ESG.
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REST API and Model Context Protocol server exposing S&P Capital IQ Financials, Market Data, Business Relationships, Earnings Call Transcripts, Company Intelligence, M&A Transact...
Transforms unstructured PDF and image documents into machine-readable JSON, identifying titles, subtitles, paragraphs, tables, and footers in natural reading order. Optional OCR...
Named-Entity Recognition and Disambiguation REST service linking text mentions to S&P Capital IQ company identifiers and to Wikimedia entities (people, places, events). Supports...
Asynchronous audio and video transcription REST API. POST a media file to start a transcription job, then poll the transcription ID for completion. Optimised for finance and bus...
Real-time streaming transcription over a WebSocket at wss://scribe.kensho.com/ws. Clients send an Authenticate message with a Kensho OIDC access token, then StartTranscription w...
Legacy v1 batch transcription endpoint (POST /api/v1/transcription). Superseded by the v2 batch API which decouples submission from result retrieval. Documented here for custome...
Data retrieval service that translates natural-language queries into structured retrieval tasks across S&P Global AI-ready datasets. Returns answers with source citations linkin...
Flagship desktop and API platform for S&P Global Market Intelligence — company fundamentals, ownership, transactions, estimates, news, screening, charting, and Office plug-ins. ...
Data and analytics catalog spanning S&P Global business units (Market Intelligence, Ratings, Commodity Insights/Platts, Mobility, Sustainable1, Indices, Dow Jones) plus third-pa...
Comprehensive financial data API providing access to fundamental data, industry-specific and segment data, valuations and pricing, S&P Global Credit Ratings and Research, and re...
API providing programmatic access to the S&P Global Marketplace catalog of premium fundamental and alternative datasets. Enables discovery and integration of datasets available ...
Hosted (remote) MCP server for the S&P Global LLM-Ready API (kFinance), operated by Kensho. Documented first-class integrations: Claude (Desktop/Cowork/Code), ChatGPT, Microsoft...
Real-time streaming transcription WebSocket API from Kensho Technologies (a wholly-owned S&P Global subsidiary). Companion to the Kensho Scribe v2 batch REST API. Streams uncomp...
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Ground LLM-generated investment notes, tearsheets, and earnings previews in live S&P Capital IQ data via the LLM-ready API and the S&P Global Claude Cowork plugin.
M&A and Funding Intelligence
Pull merger, acquisition, advisor, and funding-round details for deal sourcing, target screening, and competitive intelligence.
Earnings and Estimates Workflows
Retrieve consensus, estimates, calendar dates, and transcripts for earnings preview generation and post-call analysis.
Document Intelligence
Convert PDF filings, decks, and research into structured JSON with Kensho Extract for downstream RAG and analytics pipelines.
Entity Linking for Financial Text
Use Kensho NERD to disambiguate company and security mentions in news, filings, and chat to canonical Capital IQ IDs.
Earnings Call Transcription
Transcribe finance and business audio with Kensho Scribe v2 batch and real-time APIs, including Human-in-the-Loop review for highest accuracy.
Grounded Conversational Analytics
Build chatbots and analyst assistants that return cited answers from S&P Global datasets via the Grounding Agent.
aid: sp-global
name: S&P Global
description: S&P Global (NYSE SPGI) is the parent of S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices,
S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts), S&P Global Mobility, and S&P Global Sustainable1. Its public developer surface is
anchored by Kensho Technologies (a wholly-owned S&P Global AI subsidiary) which ships REST APIs for the S&P Global LLM-ready
API (kFinance), Extract, NERD, Scribe, and the Grounding Agent, plus the S&P Capital IQ Pro and Marketplace data products
distributed through the S&P Global Marketplace.
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name: S&P Global LLM-Ready API (kFinance)
description: REST API and Model Context Protocol server exposing S&P Capital IQ Financials, Market Data, Business Relationships,
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AI applications. Distributed via the kensho-kfinance Python library and an MCP server compatible with Claude, ChatGPT,
Microsoft Copilot Studio, Amazon QuickSuite, Databricks, and Mistral. 60 documented REST endpoints across companies, securities,
statements, estimates, transcripts, mergers, funding rounds, and identifier crosswalks.
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- LLM
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/sp-global-pricing-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
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- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/sp-global-transcript-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/sp-global-users-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
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title: Harvested original (superseded by the per-tag refined specs above)
- type: Overlay
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- type: Documentation
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- type: APIReference
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- type: Overview
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- type: SDKs
url: https://pypi.org/project/kensho-kfinance/
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- type: SDKs
url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/kfinance
title: kFinance source on GitHub
- type: Sandbox
url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/llm-ready-api-examples
title: LLM-ready API example notebooks (basic usage, function calling, code generation, LangChain)
- type: MCPServer
url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/mcp
title: kFinance MCP server (stdio, SSE, streamable-http transports)
- type: SDKs
url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/spglobal-agent-skills
title: S&P Global Plugin for Claude Cowork (tearsheets, funding digests, earnings previews)
- type: Authentication
url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
title: OIDC / OAuth 2.0 with public-private keypairs or refresh tokens
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url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/solutions/kensho-llm-ready-api-%28a156fe9f-5564-4f60-a624-95d8645dc98f%29
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- aid: sp-global:kensho-extract-api
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description: Transforms unstructured PDF and image documents into machine-readable JSON, identifying titles, subtitles,
paragraphs, tables, and footers in natural reading order. Optional OCR and Figure Extraction (FigEx). REST API at extract.kensho.com
with asynchronous extractions and presigned upload/download URLs.
humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/extract
baseURL: https://extract.kensho.com
tags:
- Document Extraction
- OCR
- PDF
- Tables
- Unstructured Data
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url: openapi/_original/kensho-extract-openapi.yml
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- type: Overlay
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- type: Documentation
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- type: APIReference
url: https://docs.kensho.com/extract/api
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://docs.kensho.com/extract/quickstart
- type: Tutorials
url: https://docs.kensho.com/extract/toolkit
- type: Authentication
url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
- type: Signup
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- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
- aid: sp-global:kensho-nerd-api
name: Kensho NERD API
description: Named-Entity Recognition and Disambiguation REST service linking text mentions to S&P Capital IQ company identifiers
and to Wikimedia entities (people, places, events). Supports asynchronous batch annotation with optional person tagging
and originating-entity context for financial documents.
humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd
baseURL: https://nerd.kensho.com
tags:
- NER
- Entity Linking
- Natural Language Processing
- Capital IQ
- Wikimedia
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description: Asynchronous audio and video transcription REST API. POST a media file to start a transcription job, then poll
the transcription ID for completion. Optimised for finance and business audio (earnings calls, conferences). Companion
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name: Kensho Scribe Real Time API
description: Real-time streaming transcription over a WebSocket at wss://scribe.kensho.com/ws. Clients send an Authenticate
message with a Kensho OIDC access token, then StartTranscription with an audio_format (RAW pcm_s16le, 16 kHz, mono), followed
by base64-encoded AddData chunks of at most 15 seconds each carrying monotonically increasing sequence_numbers, and finally
EndOfStream. The server streams TranscriptionStarted, DataAdded, AddTranscript, EndOfTranscript, and Error messages back
over the same socket. This is the only public WebSocket surface S&P Global exposes — Capital IQ Pro, Marketplace, and
other market-data feeds are delivered via REST, file/SFTP, Snowflake share, and Databricks share.
humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/developer-guide
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- type: Overlay
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- type: Authentication
url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
- aid: sp-global:kensho-grounding-agent
name: Kensho Grounding Agent (Alpha)
description: Data retrieval service that translates natural-language queries into structured retrieval tasks across S&P
Global AI-ready datasets. Returns answers with source citations linking back to the underlying S&P Global data. Currently
Alpha — access by request to commercial@kensho.com. No public OpenAPI yet.
humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/grounding/overview
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- Agents
- Retrieval
- Citations
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- aid: sp-global:sp-capital-iq-pro
name: S&P Capital IQ Pro
description: Flagship desktop and API platform for S&P Global Market Intelligence — company fundamentals, ownership, transactions,
estimates, news, screening, charting, and Office plug-ins. The Capital IQ Pro API is delivered as part of an enterprise
subscription rather than as a self-serve developer signup; the LLM-ready API exposes a substantial subset of the same
dataset.
humanURL: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/solutions/products/sp-capital-iq-pro
tags:
- Capital IQ
- Market Intelligence
- Financial Data
- Enterprise
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/solutions/products/sp-capital-iq-pro
- type: Signup
url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/contact-us
- aid: sp-global:sp-marketplace
name: S&P Global Marketplace
description: Data and analytics catalog spanning S&P Global business units (Market Intelligence, Ratings, Commodity Insights/Platts,
Mobility, Sustainable1, Indices, Dow Jones) plus third-party vendors. Distribution mechanisms include Snowflake shares,
Databricks shares, file/SFTP delivery, API access, and packaged datasets. The Marketplace is the front door for discovering
S&P Global APIs that are sold through enterprise channels.
humanURL: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com
tags:
- Marketplace
- Data Catalog
- Distribution
- Snowflake Share
- Databricks
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com
- type: Signup
url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/sign-up
- aid: sp-global:market-intelligence
name: S&P Capital IQ Market Intelligence API
description: Comprehensive financial data API providing access to fundamental data, industry-specific and segment data,
valuations and pricing, S&P Global Credit Ratings and Research, and reference and terms and conditions data. Uses Bearer
token authentication with tokens valid for 60 minutes.
humanURL: https://developer.marketintelligence.spglobal.com/
baseURL: https://api-ciq.marketintelligence.spglobal.com
tags:
- Market Intelligence
- Capital IQ
- Financial Data
- Credit Ratings
properties:
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- type: Authentication
url: https://developer.marketintelligence.spglobal.com/catalog-service/
- aid: sp-global:marketplace-catalog
name: S&P Global Marketplace Catalog API
description: API providing programmatic access to the S&P Global Marketplace catalog of premium fundamental and alternative
datasets. Enables discovery and integration of datasets available on the marketplace platform.
humanURL: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/solutions/s-p-global-marketplace-catalog-api-(03f3c047-dcac-4fa7-a1ef-fb48a4d9b75d)
baseURL: https://marketplace.spglobal.com
tags:
- Marketplace
- Catalog
- Datasets
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/solutions/api-solutions-(61953ac7-ea64-4fac-926a-feb7f846c2be)
- aid: sp-global:sp-global-funding-rounds-api
name: S&P Global Funding Rounds API
description: The Funding Rounds API from S&P Global — 2 operation(s) for funding rounds.
humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi
baseURL: https://kfinance.kensho.com
tags:
- Funding Rounds
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/sp-global-funding-rounds-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/api/getting-started
- type: Authentication
url: https://developer.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/api/getting-started?tab=authentication
- type: SDKs
url: https://pypi.org/project/spgci/
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.link.kensho.com/docs/guides/rest-api/
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
url: capabilities/sp-global-capability-edges.yml
name: S&P Global Business Capability Map
- type: PostmanWorkspace
url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/sp-global/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/sp-global-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/sp-global-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/sp-global-authentication.yml
- type: Portal
url: https://developer.spglobal.com
title: S&P Global Developer Portal (root)
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.kensho.com
title: Kensho Documentation (canonical S&P Global API docs)
- type: Marketplace
url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com
title: S&P Global Marketplace
- type: Authentication
url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
title: OIDC / OAuth 2.0 with keypair or refresh-token grants
- type: SDKs
url: https://pypi.org/project/kensho-kfinance/
title: kensho-kfinance Python library
- type: SDKs
url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/kfinance
title: kFinance Python library source
- type: SDKs
url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/spglobal-agent-skills
title: S&P Global Plugin (Claude Cowork skills)
- type: CodeExamples
url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/llm-ready-api-examples
title: LLM-ready API example notebooks
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies
title: Kensho Technologies GitHub organization (S&P Global AI subsidiary)
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/SP-Global
title: SP-Global GitHub organization (currently no public repos)
- type: Blog
url: https://www.spglobal.com/en/research-insights
title: S&P Global Research & Insights
- type: Blog
url: https://kensho.com/blog
title: Kensho Blog
- type: Plans
url: plans/sp-global-plans-pricing.yml
title: S&P Global / Kensho API Plans (API Commons Plans 0.1)
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/sp-global-rate-limits.yml
title: S&P Global / Kensho API Rate Limits (API Commons Rate Limits 0.1)
- type: FinOps
url: finops/sp-global-finops.yml
title: S&P Global / Kensho API FinOps mapping (FOCUS aligned)
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
title: S&P Global JSON-LD context
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/kensho-llmready-company-info-schema.json
title: LLM-ready API Company Info JSON Schema
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/kensho-extract-extraction-schema.json
title: Kensho Extract Extraction JSON Schema
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/kensho-nerd-annotation-schema.json
title: Kensho NERD Annotation JSON Schema
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/sp-global-vocabulary.yml
title: S&P Global vocabulary
- type: Features
data:
- 5 public REST OpenAPI surfaces (LLM-ready, Extract, NERD, Scribe v1 batch, Scribe v2 batch)
- 71 documented REST endpoints across the 5 specs (60 LLM-ready, 5 Extract, 3 NERD, 1 Scribe v1, 2 Scribe v2)
- MCP server for the LLM-ready API with stdio, SSE, and streamable-http transports
- Claude Cowork plugin shipping tearsheets, funding digests, and earnings preview skills
- kensho-kfinance Python SDK on PyPI with LangChain/OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini examples
- OIDC authentication with keypair (production) or refresh token (development) flows
- Distribution via Snowflake and Databricks marketplace shares in addition to direct REST
- Capital IQ database back-end powering financial entity disambiguation across products
- Real-time WebSocket transcription companion to the Scribe batch APIs
- Grounding Agent (Alpha) for retrieval-with-citations over AI-ready datasets
sources:
- https://docs.kensho.com
- https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/api
- https://github.com/kensho-technologies/kfinance
- https://github.com/kensho-technologies/spglobal-agent-skills
updated: '2026-05-23'
- type: UseCases
data:
- name: AI Equity Research
description: Ground LLM-generated investment notes, tearsheets, and earnings previews in live S&P Capital IQ data via
the LLM-ready API and the S&P Global Claude Cowork plugin.
- name: M&A and Funding Intelligence
description: Pull merger, acquisition, advisor, and funding-round details for deal sourcing, target screening, and competitive
intelligence.
- name: Earnings and Estimates Workflows
description: Retrieve consensus, estimates, calendar dates, and transcripts for earnings preview generation and post-call
analysis.
- name: Document Intelligence
description: Convert PDF filings, decks, and research into structured JSON with Kensho Extract for downstream RAG and
analytics pipelines.
- name: Entity Linking for Financial Text
description: Use Kensho NERD to disambiguate company and security mentions in news, filings, and chat to canonical Capital
IQ IDs.
- name: Earnings Call Transcription
description: Transcribe finance and business audio with Kensho Scribe v2 batch and real-time APIs, including Human-in-the-Loop
review for highest accuracy.
- name: Grounded Conversational Analytics
description: Build chatbots and analyst assistants that return cited answers from S&P Global datasets via the Grounding
Agent.
- type: Integrations
data:
- name: Claude (Anthropic)
description: First-class Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code MCP integrations including the S&P Global Plugin.
- name: ChatGPT (OpenAI)
description: MCP connector documented under llmreadyapi/mcp/third-party/chatgpt; code-generation and function-calling
notebooks for OpenAI models.
- name: Microsoft Copilot Studio
description: Documented MCP third-party integration path for enterprise Copilot deployments.
- name: Amazon QuickSuite
description: Documented MCP integration for AWS-hosted GenAI workflows.
- name: Databricks
description: MCP integration plus Databricks marketplace shares for AI-ready data distribution.
- name: Mistral (Beta)
description: MCP integration in beta for Mistral-hosted agents.
- name: LangChain
description: Function-calling notebooks under llm-ready-api-examples wrap kFinance tools as LangChain tools across OpenAI,
Anthropic, and Google Gemini providers.
- name: Snowflake Marketplace
description: Distribution channel for S&P Global Marketplace datasets via Snowflake data sharing.
- type: Subsidiaries
data:
- name: Kensho Technologies
description: S&P Global AI subsidiary that owns the public developer API surface (LLM-ready API, Extract, NERD, Scribe,
Grounding) and the kensho-kfinance SDK.
url: https://kensho.com
- name: S&P Global Market Intelligence
description: Capital IQ Pro, Marketplace, Compustat, RatingsXpress, Panjiva, 451 Research, and other data-intelligence
brands.
url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence
- name: S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts)
description: Commodity benchmarks, market reports, and price assessment data services.
url: https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights
- name: S&P Global Ratings
description: Credit ratings and ratings research.
url: https://www.spglobal.com/ratings
- name: S&P Dow Jones Indices
description: Equity, fixed-income, and commodity index data including the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average.
url: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji
- name: S&P Global Sustainable1
description: ESG scores, climate, and biodiversity datasets.
url: https://www.spglobal.com/esg
- name: S&P Global Mobility
description: Automotive intelligence (formerly IHS Markit automotive) covering production, sales, and connected-vehicle
data.
url: https://www.spglobal.com/mobility
- type: Packages
url: packages/sp-global-packages.yml
title: First-party packages (kensho-kfinance on PyPI)
- type: WellKnown
url: well-known/sp-global-well-known.yml
title: Well-known probe index (RFC 8414 + RFC 9728 metadata on kfinance.kensho.com)
- type: MCPServer
url: mcp/sp-global-mcp.yml
title: Hosted kFinance MCP server manifest (https://kfinance.kensho.com/integrations/mcp)
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/sp-global-llms.txt
title: Generated llms.txt for the S&P Global / Kensho API surface
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/sp-global-scopes.yml
title: OAuth scopes (from live RFC 8414 metadata)
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/sp-global-conformance.yml
title: Standards conformance (OAuth2/OIDC/PKCE/MCP/RFC 8414/9728)
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/sp-global-problem-types.yml
title: Error catalog derived from OpenAPI 4xx/5xx responses
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/sp-global-lifecycle.yml
title: Versioning, supersession, and status-page lifecycle profile
- type: StatusPage
url: https://status.kensho.com
title: Kensho status page (Atlassian Statuspage)
- type: ChangeLog
url: changelog/sp-global-changelog.yml
title: kensho-kfinance changelog (semver, current 7.0.2)
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/sp-global-conventions.yml
title: Cross-cutting API conventions (auth, batching, async jobs, errors)
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/sp-global-data-model.yml
title: Capital IQ identification-triple entity graph
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
title: S&P Global Plugin Agent Skills (provider-published, saved verbatim)
- type: PostmanCollection
url: collections/kensho-llmready.postman_collection.json
title: Postman collection for the LLM-Ready API (repo artifact)
- type: Examples
url: examples/kensho-llmready-get-company-information-example.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/kensho-llmready-get-financial-statement-example.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/kensho-extract-post-v3-extractions-example.json
- type: SignUp
url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/sign-up
title: S&P Global Marketplace sign-up
- type: Support
url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/contact-us
title: S&P Global Market Intelligence contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.spglobal.com/en/privacy/privacy-policy-english
title: S&P Global Corporate Privacy Policy
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.spglobal.com/en/terms-of-use
title: S&P Global Terms of Use
- type: Website
url: https://www.spglobal.com
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/api/getting-started
- type: Blog
url: https://www.spglobal.com/en/research-insights/articles
tags:
- Capital IQ
- Commodity Insights
- Credit Ratings
- Document Extraction
- ESG
- Financial Data
- Index Data
- LLM
- MCP
- Market Intelligence
- Mobility
- Named Entity Recognition
- Speech-to-Text
- Real-Time
tags_raw:
- Capital IQ
- Commodity Insights
- Credit Ratings
- Document Extraction
- ESG
- Financial Data
- Index Data
- LLM
- MCP
- Market Intelligence
- Mobility
- Named Entity Recognition
- Speech to Text
- Real-Time
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- name: Kensho Technologies (S&P Global)
email: commercial@kensho.com
url: https://kensho.com
- name: S&P Global Market Intelligence
email: market.intelligence@spglobal.com
url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence
S&P Global API — frequently asked questions
Does S&P Global have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 12 APIs from S&P Global, including S&P Global LLM-Ready API (kFinance), Kensho Extract API and Kensho NERD API, and 9 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the S&P Global API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for S&P Global, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the S&P Global API?
S&P Global documents its authentication (http/oauth2/openIdConnect · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Sp Global Authentication.
How much does the S&P Global API cost?
APIs.io lists 7 pricing plans for S&P Global, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Does S&P Global have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 2 MCP servers for S&P Global: Hosted (remote) MCP server for the S&P Global LLM-Ready API (kFinance), operated by Kensho. Documented first-class integrations: Claude (Desktop/Cowork/Code), ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Amazon
Is the S&P Global API ready for AI agents?
S&P Global has a Kin Score of 61.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 65.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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