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Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981 and headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for the Bloomberg Terminal, which delivers real-time market data, news, analytics, and trading tools to roughly 325,000 subscribers worldwide, and for Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg Television, and Bloomberg Industry Group (formerly Bloomberg BNA). On the developer side, Bloomberg exposes the BLPAPI (Bloomberg API) family across the Desktop API, Server API, B-PIPE, and Data License products via SDKs in C++, Java, Python and .NET, and operates OpenFIGI — the free, public Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) symbology API and the most openly accessible Bloomberg API surface for the general developer audience.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Bloomberg L.P. the way a machine reads it — 46 machine-readable artifacts across 9 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 L.P. scores 64.4/100 (strong), 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 — 64.4/100 · strong
Contract Quality 18.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Regulatory · Securities & Market Data 8.1 / 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 L.P.

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bloomberg L.P.. 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 9

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 BLPAPI (Desktop API)

BLPAPI is Bloomberg's core programming interface for the Bloomberg Terminal Desktop API, Server API (SAPI), B-PIPE, and Platform products. It exposes a unified asynchronous sess...

Bloomberg Server API (SAPI)

Server-side variant of BLPAPI that lets a single Bloomberg Terminal user serve real-time market data, historical data, reference data, and calculation-engine output to multiple ...

Bloomberg B-PIPE

Bloomberg's flagship enterprise market data feed, delivering normalized, consolidated, real-time and reference data across all asset classes with Bloomberg's entitlement and ide...

Bloomberg Data License (DL / BEAP)

Bulk reference, pricing, regulatory, and alternative-data delivery service covering over 50 million securities and 30,000+ fields. Accessed via REST API (HAPI / Bloomberg Enterp...

Bloomberg Terminal

Bloomberg's flagship subscription product — a desktop application delivering real-time market data, news, analytics, trading, messaging, and research to financial professionals ...

Bloomberg L.P. Filter API

Filtered, paginated search across the FIGI universe.

Bloomberg L.P. Mapping API

Map third-party identifiers to FIGIs.

Bloomberg L.P. Reference API

Enumerated values for request and response fields.

Bloomberg L.P. Search API

Keyword search across the FIGI universe.

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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).

OpenFIGI API

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 Lp Rate Limits

6 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.

Free FIGI Symbology

OpenFIGI maps tickers, ISINs, CUSIPs, SEDOLs, and other identifiers to FIGIs at no cost, with optional API key for higher throughput.

Multi-Language SDK Coverage

BLPAPI ships official SDKs in C++, Java, Python, and .NET, plus community/legacy wrappers in Node.js and Haskell.

Unified Programming Model

One BLPAPI session/event/subscription model spans Desktop API, Server API, B-PIPE, and Platform.

Real-Time and Historical Data

BLPAPI exposes reference data, historical data, intraday bar/tick data, and real-time market data subscriptions via //blp/refdata and //blp/mktdata.

Bulk Enterprise Delivery

Bloomberg Data License delivers 50M+ securities and 30,000+ fields over REST, SFTP, and cloud channels.

News and Editorial Content

Bloomberg News powers bloomberg.com, Bloomberg Television, and licensed enterprise news feeds (Event-Driven Feeds, Machine Readable News).

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.

Bloomberg Lp Context

26 classes · 3 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.

Bloomberg L.P. API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Bloomberg L.P. API Rules

8 rules · 3 errors · 4 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.

FIGI Record

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OpenFIGI Mapping Job

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

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.

Openfigi Figi Record Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 5

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 2

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 Lp Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Bloomberg Lp Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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 Lp Agentic Access

4 operations · 3 acting

4 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

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.

Cross-Provider Symbology

Use OpenFIGI to resolve broker, exchange, and vendor identifiers to a stable, permanent FIGI for downstream joins.

Quantitative Trading

Build algorithmic trading strategies using BLPAPI real-time and historical market data subscriptions.

Risk and Compliance Reporting

Pull reference, pricing, and regulatory data from Bloomberg Data License into risk and regulatory pipelines.

Research and Analytics

Combine Bloomberg historical data with news and event-driven feeds for sell-side, buy-side, and academic research.

Portfolio and Order Management

Embed Bloomberg market data and reference data into OMS/EMS and portfolio analytics platforms via the Server API.

Integrations 8

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

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Microsoft Excel

Bloomberg Excel Add-In for spreadsheet-based analysis on top of Terminal entitlements.

Python

blpapi Python SDK (3.26.x) for data science and quantitative finance workflows.

Java

BLPAPI Java SDK for enterprise JVM applications.

.NET

BLPAPI .NET SDK for C# and F# applications.

C++

BLPAPI C++ SDK for low-latency trading and market data applications.

MATLAB

Bloomberg Datafeed Toolbox connects MATLAB analytics to Bloomberg.

R

Community Rblpapi package binds R to BLPAPI.

AWS / Azure / GCP

Bloomberg Data License supports cloud delivery to all three major hyperscalers.

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Resources

Every other property we hold for Bloomberg L.P. — 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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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