# Benzinga vs TickerLayer (slim)

> TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) to Benzinga's 49.2 (D) for market prices. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Benzinga's 49.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Benzinga leads on transparency & trust. Both do market prices. TickerLayer accepts x402. Benzinga doesn't.

- Benzinga: D 49.2, rank #1110 of 1520 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/benzinga.min.md
- TickerLayer: BB 71.5, rank #160 of 1520 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.min.md
- Benzinga, good for A licensed firm's agent that needs Benzinga's own newswire, calendars, analyst ratings and transcripts as structured data with deltas. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 44 against 38.
- TickerLayer, good for An agent that needs latest prices, bars and market hours across stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs, commodities, bond yields and perpetual futures from one schema, and wants to pay per call without an account. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 60; Schema & documentation, 88 against 71; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 65; Security & auth, 49 against 36; Payments & pricing, 92 against 0; Maintenance & community, 79 against 56. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Benzinga | TickerLayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 71 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 36 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 92 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 38 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Benzinga | TickerLayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Benzinga | TickerLayer |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.benzinga.com` | `https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | yes, from $0.01/call |
| Licence | none | Proprietary hosted service under the TickerLayer terms of use, user agreement and market data disclaimer (all effective 3 November 2026), which name no legal entity or governing law. Free and Individual plans are for internal use, Business adds use inside the customer's own product, and redistribution needs a written Enterprise agreement. The agent plugin (github.com/tickerlayer/agent-plugin) and the npm client are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 12 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.tickerlayer/market-data` |
| Last release | 2026-11-03 | 2026-11-06 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Popularity | 34 stars | none |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, TickerLayer +92: Benzinga 0 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0).); TickerLayer 92 (x402 on the vendor's own gateway, x402.tickerlayer.com, for 41 GET routes.)
- Maintenance & community, TickerLayer +23: Benzinga 56 (The docs repository had commits on 2 and 3 November 2026 moving OpenAPI specs from GitLab, and the robots.txt is versioned 11 September 2026 (30).); TickerLayer 79 (Read as a closed service.)
- Schema & documentation, TickerLayer +17: Benzinga 71 (The docs are generated from 11 OpenAPI 3 specs in the public Benzinga/benzinga-docs repository, 80 operations, and the raw YAML is linked from the welcome page…); TickerLayer 88 (OpenAPI 3.1 at tickerlayer.com/openapi.json (TickerLayer Market Data API 1.0.0, about 386,000 characters), read in its first 100,000 and last 96,000 characters…)
- Agent ergonomics, TickerLayer +14: Benzinga 65 (`displayOutput` of headline, abstract or full sizes a news response, and `pageSize` runs to 100 (18 of 25).); TickerLayer 79 (Read on the REST API, with the MCP server where a line covers it.)
- Security & auth, TickerLayer +13: Benzinga 36 (One token per account with no scopes, sent only as the `token` query parameter, generated in the console; no rotation or expiry found (20 less 10 for the query…); TickerLayer 49 (A plain account key with no scopes, shown once and replaced by regenerating it in the dashboard (20).)
- Reliability, TickerLayer +10: Benzinga 60 (Graded as a hosted service.); TickerLayer 70 (Read with the hosted lines, on the REST API.)