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Bloomberg APIs

Collection of Bloomberg's financial data and news APIs for accessing market data, news content, data licensing, and enterprise connectivity.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Bloomberg APIs the way a machine reads it — 20 machine-readable artifacts across 12 APIs, 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 — Bloomberg APIs scores 47.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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 — 47.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.5 / 10
Regulatory · Securities & Market Data 8.5 / 15
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 Bloomberg APIs

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bloomberg APIs. 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 12

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.

Bloomberg Market Data Feed

Real-time and historical market data for equities, fixed income, commodities, and currencies.

Bloomberg News API

Access to Bloomberg's global news content, including articles, videos, and multimedia.

Bloomberg Data License API

Bulk data delivery service for historical and reference data.

Bloomberg APIs apiauth API

API Authorization Service — entitlements and identity

Bloomberg APIs apiflds API

API Field Information Service — discover and search Bloomberg fields

Bloomberg APIs instruments API

Instruments Service — security/curve/government lookups

Bloomberg APIs mktbar API

Market Bar Subscription Service — streaming subscription

Bloomberg APIs mktdata API

Market Data Service — streaming subscription paradigm

Bloomberg APIs mktvwap API

Custom VWAP Service — streaming subscription

Bloomberg APIs pagedata API

Page Data Service — GPGX page subscription

Bloomberg APIs refdata API

Reference Data Service operations — request/response paradigm

Bloomberg APIs tasvc API

Technical Analysis Service — historical, intraday, and real-time studies

Scroll within the panel for all 12 ·

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Bloomberg API (BLPAPI)

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Bloomberg Apis Rate Limits

5 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.

Security Posture 3

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.

Bloomberg Apis Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Bloomberg Apis Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Bloomberg Apis Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Bloomberg Apis Agentic Access

22 operations · 22 acting

22 operations · 22 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Bloomberg APIs — 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 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg-apis · machine-readable index on apis.io