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: '2026-05-23' 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 - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/kensho-llm-ready-api.yaml - 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 - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/kensho-extract-api.yaml - 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 - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/kensho-nerd-api.yaml - 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 - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/kensho-scribe-api.yaml - 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