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: '2026-05-23'
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 [email protected]. 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
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: [email protected]
- name: Kensho Technologies (S&P Global)
  email: [email protected]
  url: https://kensho.com
- name: S&P Global Market Intelligence
  email: [email protected]
  url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence