MSCI
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, publishing indexes, ESG and climate ratings, risk analytics, and real estate and private asset data. The MSCI Developer Community at developer.msci.com catalogs thirty-plus REST APIs spanning index performance and constituents, ESG data and reports, sustainability and climate on-demand data, risk and instrument analytics, portfolio optimization, real estate performance, and private capital metrics, alongside an official Python SDK and the MSCI Connector, a Model Context Protocol server listed in the Claude connector directory.
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 MSCI the way a machine reads it — 13 machine-readable artifacts across 10 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 — MSCI scores 27.7/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 25/100 (agent aware). 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 MSCI
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for MSCI. 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 10
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.
MSCI Index API
REST APIs for MSCI index data including index levels and performance, constituents, security master, dividends, and corporate events for MSCI indexes across supported variants a...
MSCI Real Time Index API
Real-time index and factor data API delivering intraday index levels for MSCI indexes.
MSCI ESG Data API
Retrieve current day and historical ESG data for entitled issuers, providing access to thousands of ESG data points including MSCI ESG Ratings and underlying raw data.
MSCI ESG Report API
Access ESG documents and reports for companies, funds, and industries as PDF and HTML documents.
MSCI Sustainability and Climate On-Demand API
On-demand access to MSCI sustainability and climate datasets, including climate metrics for portfolio and issuer analysis.
MSCI Risk Analytics API
RiskMetrics RiskManager-based analytics APIs for risk measurement, stress testing, and exposure analysis across portfolios.
MSCI Instrument Analytics API
Instrument-level analytics API for pricing and risk measures across asset classes using MSCI models.
MSCI Optimization Service API
Portfolio optimization service from MSCI Quantitative Investment Solutions supporting portfolio and tax-lot upload in JSON and tax-aware optimizations; accessible through the of...
MSCI Real Estate Performance and Risk Data API
Real estate index and market data API covering property fund and asset performance and risk data across global markets.
MSCI Private Asset and Deal Metrics API
Private capital data API providing asset and deal-level metrics for private asset funds and portfolios.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
msci-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERSecurity 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for MSCI — 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
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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