# S&P Global

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sp-global/  
**Website:** https://developer.spglobal.com  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 64.2 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 64.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 70.0 |
| Governance | 56.8 |
| Contract Governance | 56.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 67.1 |
| Access Clarity | 67.1 |

## Agent readiness — 62.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | verified |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **S&P Global LLM-Ready API (kFinance)** — 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...
- **Kensho Extract API** — Transforms unstructured PDF and image documents into machine-readable JSON, identifying titles, subtitles, paragraphs, tables, and footers in natural reading order. Optional OCR...
- **Kensho NERD API** — 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...
- **Kensho Scribe Batch API v2** — 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...
- **Kensho Scribe Real Time API** — 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...
- **Kensho Scribe Batch API v1** — 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...
- **Kensho Grounding Agent (Alpha)** — 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...
- **S&P Capital IQ Pro** — Flagship desktop and API platform for S&P Global Market Intelligence — company fundamentals, ownership, transactions, estimates, news, screening, charting, and Office plug-ins. ...
- **S&P Global Marketplace** — Data and analytics catalog spanning S&P Global business units (Market Intelligence, Ratings, Commodity Insights/Platts, Mobility, Sustainable1, Indices, Dow Jones) plus third-pa...

## MCP servers (2)

- **kFinance MCP server (stdio, SSE, streamable-http transports)**
- **Hosted kFinance MCP server manifest (https://kfinance.kensho.com/integrations/mcp)** — 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...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Sp Global Agentic Access** — 79 operations · 17 acting

## Security (2)

- **Sp Global Authentication** — http/oauth2/openIdConnect · 1 scheme
- **Sp Global Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Sp Global Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (7)

- **AI Equity Research** — 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.

## 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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/sp-global/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.