# Financial Modeling Prep vs Finnhub (slim)

> Financial Modeling Prep scores 48.7 (D) to Finnhub's 45.1 (E) for market fundamentals. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Financial Modeling Prep scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Finnhub's 45.1 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do market fundamentals.

- Financial Modeling Prep: D 48.7, rank #1020 of 1349 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-modeling-prep.min.md
- Finnhub: E 45.1, rank #1127 of 1349 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/finnhub.min.md
- Financial Modeling Prep, good for Agents doing company research on statements, ratios, DCF, filings, transcripts and calendars with one key, and US coverage on cheap plans. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 57 against 27.
- Finnhub, good for Agents that need one key across quotes, fundamentals, estimates, filings and transcripts with official libraries, and a free key for prototypes.

| Category | Financial Modeling Prep | Finnhub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 61 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 59 | 56 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 30 | 32 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 27 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Financial Modeling Prep | Finnhub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Financial Modeling Prep | Finnhub |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://financialmodelingprep.com/stable` | `https://finnhub.io/api/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for market fundamentals | not published | $50 per month (plan) |
| Tools exposed | none | 70 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Popularity | none | 1.1k stars |

Why the edge:
- Transparency & trust, Financial Modeling Prep +30: Financial Modeling Prep 57 (A closed service under terms that are clear on personal and commercial use and on display licensing, last updated 1 August 2023, but that name no legal entity, address or governing law (12 of 30). The privacy policy is undated, keeps data for as long as necessary with no periods, says no third parties receive data while naming Google AdSense and Analytics, and no DPA was found (8 of 30). The docs keep a Legacy section and api-docs.md says /v3 and /v4 are discontinued, with no notice period stated; behaviour changes such as the Economics Indicators default window appear in the dated changelog (8 of 20). Google services are the only processors named and no data location is given (5 of 20). 12 + 8 + 8 + 5 = 33.); Finnhub 27 (A closed service whose terms exist at a page that robots.txt disallows, so they were not read; the pricing page says every self-serve plan is personal use, and no legal entity or governing law was found (8 of 30). No privacy policy was found, /privacy redirecting to the home page (0 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (0 of 20). Stripe and Braintree scripts load on the site, but no processor list or data location is disclosed (0 of 20). 8 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 8.)