S&P Global
S&P Global (NYSE SPGI) is the parent of S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices, S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts), S&P Global Mobility, and S&P Global Sustainable1. Its public developer surface is anchored by Kensho Technologies (a wholly-owned S&P Global AI subsidiary) which ships REST APIs for the S&P Global LLM-ready API (kFinance), Extract, NERD, Scribe, and the Grounding Agent, plus the S&P Capital IQ Pro and Marketplace data products distributed through the S&P Global Marketplace.
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API Evangelist profiles S&P Global the way a machine reads it — 146 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 — S&P Global scores 68.1/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 89/100 (agent native). 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 S&P Global
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for S&P Global. 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.
S&P Global LLM-Ready API (kFinance)
REST API and Model Context Protocol server exposing S&P Capital IQ Financials, Market Data, Business Relationships, Earnings Call Transcripts, Company Intelligence, M&A Transact...
Kensho Extract API
Transforms unstructured PDF and image documents into machine-readable JSON, identifying titles, subtitles, paragraphs, tables, and footers in natural reading order. Optional OCR...
Kensho NERD API
Named-Entity Recognition and Disambiguation REST service linking text mentions to S&P Capital IQ company identifiers and to Wikimedia entities (people, places, events). Supports...
Kensho Scribe Batch API v2
Asynchronous audio and video transcription REST API. POST a media file to start a transcription job, then poll the transcription ID for completion. Optimised for finance and bus...
Kensho Scribe Real Time API
Real-time streaming transcription over a WebSocket at wss://scribe.kensho.com/ws. Clients send an Authenticate message with a Kensho OIDC access token, then StartTranscription w...
Kensho Scribe Batch API v1
Legacy v1 batch transcription endpoint (POST /api/v1/transcription). Superseded by the v2 batch API which decouples submission from result retrieval. Documented here for custome...
Kensho Grounding Agent (Alpha)
Data retrieval service that translates natural-language queries into structured retrieval tasks across S&P Global AI-ready datasets. Returns answers with source citations linkin...
S&P Capital IQ Pro
Flagship desktop and API platform for S&P Global Market Intelligence — company fundamentals, ownership, transactions, estimates, news, screening, charting, and Office plug-ins. ...
S&P Global Marketplace
Data and analytics catalog spanning S&P Global business units (Market Intelligence, Ratings, Commodity Insights/Platts, Mobility, Sustainable1, Indices, Dow Jones) plus third-pa...
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Open Collections 5
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).
Kensho Extract API
OPEN COLLECTIONLLM-ready API
OPEN COLLECTIONNERD Service API
OPEN COLLECTIONScribe Batch API
OPEN COLLECTIONScribe Batch API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP Servers 2
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.
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.
Sp Global 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.
Sp Global Finops
FINOPSFeatures 10
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.
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Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Kensho Scribe Real Time API
Real-time streaming transcription WebSocket API from Kensho Technologies (a wholly-owned S&P Global subsidiary). Companion to the Kensho Scribe v2 batch REST API. Streams uncomp...
ASYNCAPISemantic 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.
Sp Global Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
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.
JSON Schema 9
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.
Kensho Extract Extraction
JSON SCHEMAKensho LLM-ready API Analyst Recommendation
JSON SCHEMAKensho LLM-ready API Auditor
JSON SCHEMAKensho LLM-ready API Company Info
JSON SCHEMAKensho LLM-ready API Cusip
JSON SCHEMAKensho LLM-ready API Earnings
JSON SCHEMAKensho LLM-ready API Estimate
JSON SCHEMAKensho NERD Annotation
JSON SCHEMAKensho Scribe Transcription
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JSON Structure 9
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.
Kensho Extract Extraction Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKensho Llmready Analyst Recommendation Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKensho Llmready Auditor Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKensho Llmready Company Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKensho Llmready Cusip Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKensho Llmready Earnings Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKensho Llmready Estimate Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKensho Nerd Annotation Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKensho Scribe Transcription Structure
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Examples 75
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.
Kensho Nerd Me Get Example
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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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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.
Use Cases 7
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.
AI Equity Research
Ground LLM-generated investment notes, tearsheets, and earnings previews in live S&P Capital IQ data via the LLM-ready API and the S&P Global Claude Cowork plugin.
M&A and Funding Intelligence
Pull merger, acquisition, advisor, and funding-round details for deal sourcing, target screening, and competitive intelligence.
Earnings and Estimates Workflows
Retrieve consensus, estimates, calendar dates, and transcripts for earnings preview generation and post-call analysis.
Document Intelligence
Convert PDF filings, decks, and research into structured JSON with Kensho Extract for downstream RAG and analytics pipelines.
Entity Linking for Financial Text
Use Kensho NERD to disambiguate company and security mentions in news, filings, and chat to canonical Capital IQ IDs.
Earnings Call Transcription
Transcribe finance and business audio with Kensho Scribe v2 batch and real-time APIs, including Human-in-the-Loop review for highest accuracy.
Grounded Conversational Analytics
Build chatbots and analyst assistants that return cited answers from S&P Global datasets via the Grounding Agent.
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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.
Claude (Anthropic)
First-class Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code MCP integrations including the S&P Global Plugin.
ChatGPT (OpenAI)
MCP connector documented under llmreadyapi/mcp/third-party/chatgpt; code-generation and function-calling notebooks for OpenAI models.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Documented MCP third-party integration path for enterprise Copilot deployments.
Amazon QuickSuite
Documented MCP integration for AWS-hosted GenAI workflows.
Databricks
MCP integration plus Databricks marketplace shares for AI-ready data distribution.
Mistral (Beta)
MCP integration in beta for Mistral-hosted agents.
LangChain
Function-calling notebooks under llm-ready-api-examples wrap kFinance tools as LangChain tools across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini providers.
Snowflake Marketplace
Distribution channel for S&P Global Marketplace datasets via Snowflake data sharing.
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Resources
Every other property we hold for S&P Global — 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 4
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 11
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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