apiCommonsPlansVersion: '0.1'
providerId: sp-global
name: S&P Global / Kensho API Plans
description: |
  S&P Global's public APIs (LLM-ready API, Extract, NERD, Scribe, Grounding) are sold through enterprise channels via
  Kensho Technologies and S&P Global Market Intelligence. There is no published self-serve price card; trials and
  pricing are negotiated through commercial@kensho.com or market.intelligence@spglobal.com. The plan structure below
  reflects the publicly observable shape of access — trial, subscription, and enterprise — and is grounded in the
  Kensho/Marketplace documentation pages cited under each plan.
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
sources:
  - https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/solutions/kensho-llm-ready-api-%28a156fe9f-5564-4f60-a624-95d8645dc98f%29
  - https://github.com/kensho-technologies/kfinance
  - https://github.com/kensho-technologies/spglobal-agent-skills
  - https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/overview
  - https://kensho.com/grounding
  - https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/solutions/products/sp-capital-iq-pro

plans:
  - id: trial
    name: Free Trial
    description: Time-limited evaluation of the LLM-ready API and Kensho products. Obtained by emailing market.intelligence@spglobal.com.
    visibility: contact-sales
    audience: prospective-customer
    billing:
      model: free
      currency: USD
      amount: 0
    entitlements:
      - apis:
          - kensho-llm-ready-api
          - kensho-extract-api
          - kensho-nerd-api
          - kensho-scribe-batch-v2-api
        scope: read
        notes: Subset of dataset coverage and request volume; defined per trial agreement.
    rateLimits:
      reference: rate-limits/sp-global-rate-limits.yml
    contact:
      email: market.intelligence@spglobal.com
      url: https://kensho.com/contact
  - id: llm-ready-api-subscription
    name: LLM-Ready API Subscription
    description: Production subscription to the S&P Global LLM-ready API distributed via the S&P Global Marketplace listing.
    visibility: contact-sales
    audience: financial-services
    billing:
      model: subscription
      currency: USD
      cadence: annual
      pricingDisclosure: not-published
      notes: Pricing tier negotiated through S&P Global Marketplace and the customer success team.
    entitlements:
      - apis:
          - kensho-llm-ready-api
        scope: read
        includes:
          - REST endpoints (60 documented operations)
          - kensho-kfinance Python SDK on PyPI
          - MCP server (stdio, SSE, streamable-http)
          - Claude Cowork plugin (tearsheets, funding digests, earnings previews)
          - Capital IQ Financials, Estimates, Transcripts, Mergers, Funding Rounds
    contact:
      url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/solutions/kensho-llm-ready-api-%28a156fe9f-5564-4f60-a624-95d8645dc98f%29
  - id: kensho-extract-subscription
    name: Kensho Extract Subscription
    description: Subscription access to the Kensho Extract REST API for PDF/image to structured JSON conversion.
    visibility: contact-sales
    billing:
      model: subscription
      currency: USD
      cadence: annual
      pricingDisclosure: not-published
      notes: Volume-priced based on documents/pages processed; quoted per engagement.
    entitlements:
      - apis:
          - kensho-extract-api
        scope: read+write
        includes:
          - Asynchronous extraction jobs
          - OCR and Figure Extraction (FigEx) options
          - Presigned upload and download URLs
    contact:
      email: commercial@kensho.com
      url: https://kensho.com/extract
  - id: kensho-nerd-subscription
    name: Kensho NERD Subscription
    description: Subscription access to the NERD entity-linking API across Wikimedia and Capital IQ knowledge bases.
    visibility: contact-sales
    billing:
      model: subscription
      pricingDisclosure: not-published
    entitlements:
      - apis:
          - kensho-nerd-api
        scope: read+write
    contact:
      email: commercial@kensho.com
  - id: kensho-scribe-subscription
    name: Kensho Scribe Subscription
    description: Subscription access to the Scribe Batch (v1 and v2) and Real-Time transcription APIs.
    visibility: contact-sales
    billing:
      model: subscription
      pricingDisclosure: not-published
      notes: Typically priced per hour of audio processed; Human-in-the-Loop tier priced separately.
    entitlements:
      - apis:
          - kensho-scribe-batch-v2-api
          - kensho-scribe-batch-v1-api
        scope: read+write
    contact:
      email: commercial@kensho.com
  - id: grounding-agent-alpha
    name: Grounding Agent (Alpha)
    description: Alpha access programme for the Grounding Agent.
    visibility: invite-only
    billing:
      model: free
      notes: Alpha programme — billing model is not yet defined.
    entitlements:
      - apis:
          - kensho-grounding-agent
        scope: read
    contact:
      email: commercial@kensho.com
      url: https://kensho.com/grounding
  - id: capital-iq-pro-enterprise
    name: S&P Capital IQ Pro Enterprise
    description: Enterprise subscription bundling the Capital IQ Pro desktop, Office plug-ins, and API access. The LLM-ready API exposes a substantial subset of this dataset for AI-native consumption.
    visibility: contact-sales
    billing:
      model: subscription
      cadence: annual
      pricingDisclosure: not-published
      notes: Priced per named user / seat with bundled data modules.
    entitlements:
      - apis:
          - sp-capital-iq-pro
        scope: read
        includes:
          - Capital IQ Pro desktop and web
          - Office plug-ins (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
          - Enterprise data API access
    contact:
      url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/contact-us