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BlackRock

BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager with over $10 trillion in assets under management. Through its Aladdin platform, BlackRock provides institutional investors, wealth managers, and financial services firms with risk analytics, portfolio management, and data capabilities via APIs. The Aladdin platform powers investment operations for many of the world's largest pension funds, insurers, and asset managers.

human only

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles BlackRock the way a machine reads it — 29 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 — BlackRock scores 42.5/100 (thin), 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 42.5/100 · thin
Contract Quality 8.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile BlackRock

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for BlackRock. 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.

BlackRock Aladdin API

The Aladdin Developer program provides APIs that enable clients to access BlackRock's Aladdin platform capabilities programmatically. Aladdin APIs support portfolio analytics, r...

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.

Blackrock Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

Aladdin Risk Analytics

Multi-asset risk measurement and attribution capabilities accessible via API, including VaR, factor exposures, stress testing, and scenario analysis.

Portfolio Management APIs

APIs for portfolio construction, optimization, rebalancing, and compliance monitoring integrated with the Aladdin operating system.

Data Access Layer

Structured access to market data, security reference data, and portfolio data via RESTful APIs with enterprise data governance.

Order Management System Integration

APIs for trade order management, execution, and settlement workflows integrating with OMS and EMS systems.

AladdinSDK

Open-source Python SDK providing programmatic access to Aladdin APIs with authentication, pagination, and data transformation utilities.

Workflow Automation

Event-driven workflow APIs enabling clients to automate investment operations processes and integrate with third-party systems.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Blackrock Context

13 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

BlackRock API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

BlackRock API Rules

5 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

BlackRock Aladdin Portfolio

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BlackRock Aladdin Risk Report

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Blackrock Portfolio Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Blackrock Risk Report Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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.

Blackrock Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Use Cases 5

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.

Institutional Risk Reporting

Institutional investors use Aladdin APIs to generate regulatory risk reports, UCITS compliance reports, and investor disclosures.

Portfolio Analytics Integration

Wealth managers and RIAs integrate Aladdin risk analytics into their own client-facing and advisor-facing platforms.

Fintech Data Integration

FinTech companies access structured investment data through Aladdin APIs to power analytics, research, and advisory products.

Automated Rebalancing

Portfolio managers automate rebalancing workflows using Aladdin APIs to trigger trades based on drift thresholds and target allocations.

Multi-Manager Aggregation

Family offices and fund-of-funds use Aladdin APIs to aggregate portfolio data across multiple managers into a single risk view.

Integrations 4

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Charles River Development

Aladdin integrates with Charles River IMS for order management and compliance workflow automation.

SimCorp Dimension

Integration between Aladdin risk analytics and SimCorp's portfolio management and accounting systems.

Bloomberg

Market data and analytics integrations with Bloomberg Data License and Bloomberg PORT for risk and performance.

Refinitiv

Security master data and market data integrations with Refinitiv Datascope and Eikon platforms.

Resources

Every other property we hold for BlackRock — 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.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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