Benchmark Minerals
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence is the world's leading market intelligence and price reporting agency for the lithium-ion battery supply chain and energy transition materials. The company provides mine-to-grid supply chain data, price assessments, forecasts, and databases covering lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, batteries, electric vehicles, rare earths, and permanent magnets. Benchmark's proprietary price assessment methodologies are assured to Type 2 IOSCO standards. API access is available to subscribers for programmatic integration of price data, supply chain data, and market intelligence into business systems and analytics platforms.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Benchmark Minerals the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Benchmark Minerals scores 23.8/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Benchmark Minerals
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Benchmark Minerals. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 1
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Benchmark Minerals API
The Benchmark Minerals API provides programmatic access to price data, supply chain data, and market intelligence for the lithium-ion battery and critical minerals supply chain....
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Benchmark Minerals Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 6
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Price Assessments
IOSCO Type 2 assured benchmark price assessments for lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, rare earths, permanent magnets, and battery cells, used as reference prices in supply con...
Supply Chain Data
Comprehensive mine-to-grid supply chain databases covering raw material mining, processing, cell manufacturing, and gigafactory capacity across lithium ion and sodium ion batter...
Market Forecasts
Long-term supply and demand forecasts for critical battery materials and electric vehicle adoption, tracking policy shifts, capacity expansions, and technology transitions.
Gigafactory Intelligence
Global tracking of battery gigafactory capacity, ownership, operating status, production volumes, and technology transitions for lithium ion and next-generation battery chemistr...
API Data Integration
Enterprise API access enables subscribers to integrate Benchmark price data and supply chain databases directly into business intelligence platforms, ERP systems, and procuremen...
Price Dashboard
Interactive price dashboard providing real-time access to benchmark prices, historical price charts, and data visualization for energy transition materials.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 4
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Supply Chain Procurement
Battery manufacturers and EV OEMs use Benchmark price data as reference benchmarks in raw material supply contracts and procurement negotiations for lithium, nickel, cobalt, and...
Investment and Financial Analysis
Investors, banks, and financial institutions use Benchmark forecasts and price data to evaluate mining projects, battery companies, and energy transition investment opportunities.
Strategic Planning
Corporate strategy teams and policy makers use Benchmark supply chain databases and forecasts to plan capacity investments and assess raw material availability for battery manuf...
Risk Management
Supply chain managers use Benchmark price data and market intelligence to identify supply risks, monitor market conditions, and develop hedging strategies for critical mineral e...
Integrations 2
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Business Intelligence Platforms
Benchmark API integrates with BI tools and data analytics platforms to embed price data and supply chain metrics in custom dashboards and reporting workflows.
ERP Systems
Enterprise API access enables integration of Benchmark benchmark prices into ERP and procurement systems for automated contract indexing and raw material cost tracking.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Benchmark Minerals — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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