S&P Global

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.
image: https://www.spglobal.com/spglobal-corporate-identity/spglobal-logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sp-global/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
humanURL: https://www.spglobal.com
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-29'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
kind: contract
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consuming
apis:
  - aid: sp-global:kensho-llm-ready-api
    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, Earnings Call Transcripts, Company Intelligence, M&A Transactions, and Global Securities
      information to LLMs and agentic 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.
    humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi
    baseURL: https://kfinance.kensho.com
    tags:
      - Financial Data
      - Capital IQ
      - LLM
      - MCP
      - Agents
      - Market Intelligence
    properties:
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/kensho-llmready-openapi.yml
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/api
      - type: Overview
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/overview
      - type: SDK
        url: https://pypi.org/project/kensho-kfinance/
        title: kensho-kfinance Python library
      - type: SDK
        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: SDK
        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
      - type: SignUp
        url: >-
          https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/solutions/kensho-llm-ready-api-%28a156fe9f-5564-4f60-a624-95d8645dc98f%29
      - type: JSONLD
        url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
  - aid: sp-global:kensho-extract-api
    name: Kensho Extract API
    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
    properties:
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/kensho-extract-openapi.yml
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/extract
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/extract/api
      - type: Quickstart
        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
        url: https://kensho.com/extract
      - 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
      - NLP
      - Capital IQ
      - Wikimedia
    properties:
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/kensho-nerd-openapi.yml
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd/api
      - type: Overview
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd/overview
      - type: Tutorials
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd/text-annotation
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
      - type: JSONLD
        url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
  - aid: sp-global:kensho-scribe-batch-v2-api
    name: Kensho Scribe Batch API v2
    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
      real-time WebSocket API and Human-in-the-Loop batch option are documented alongside.
    humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/developer-guide
    baseURL: https://scribe.kensho.com
    tags:
      - Speech to Text
      - Transcription
      - Audio
      - Video
      - Batch
    properties:
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/kensho-scribe-batch-v2-openapi.yml
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/developer-guide
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/batch-api-specification
      - type: Tutorials
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/batch-development
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
      - type: JSONLD
        url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
  - aid: sp-global:kensho-scribe-realtime-api
    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
    baseURL: wss://scribe.kensho.com/ws
    tags:
      - Speech to Text
      - Transcription
      - WebSocket
      - Streaming
      - Real Time
      - AsyncAPI
    properties:
      - type: AsyncAPI
        url: asyncapi/kensho-scribe-realtime-asyncapi.yml
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/developer-guide
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/real-time-api-specification
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
      - type: JSONLD
        url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
  - aid: sp-global:kensho-scribe-batch-v1-api
    name: Kensho Scribe Batch API v1
    description: >-
      Legacy v1 batch transcription endpoint (POST /api/v1/transcription). Superseded by the v2 batch API which
      decouples submission from result retrieval. Documented here for customers on the v1 contract.
    humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v1/overview
    baseURL: https://scribe.kensho.com
    tags:
      - Speech to Text
      - Transcription
      - Audio
      - Legacy
    properties:
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/kensho-scribe-batch-v1-openapi.yml
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v1/overview
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v1/batch-api-specification
      - 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
    tags:
      - Grounding
      - Agents
      - Retrieval
      - Citations
      - Alpha
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/grounding/overview
      - type: GettingStarted
        url: https://docs.kensho.com/grounding/api-guide
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://kensho.com/grounding
  - 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
common:
  - 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: SDK
    url: https://pypi.org/project/kensho-kfinance/
    title: kensho-kfinance Python library
  - type: SDK
    url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/kfinance
    title: kFinance Python library source
  - type: SDK
    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: LLMsTxt
    url: https://developer.spglobal.com/llms.txt
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
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