# Benzinga (slim)

> Benzinga is a financial news and data company whose licensed APIs serve news, earnings and ratings calendars, analyst insights, transcripts, SEC filings, fundamentals and options signals over REST, websockets and webhooks, for firms that hold a content licence.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/benzinga.md (~6,600 tokens) · this version ~1,730 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/benzinga.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/benzinga
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-04 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/benzinga#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/benzinga#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**D · 49.2/100 · rank #1043 of 1349 · #7 in Financial market data · not agent-ready · confidence low**


Assessment: Benzinga's news, calendar and transcript APIs are documented from 11 public OpenAPI specs with an llms.txt and a Statuspage. The token travels in the query string, no prices or rate limit numbers are published, the Python client was last released in February 2021, and the vendor's main site refused our reader, so its terms and privacy policy are unread.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Benzinga · category: Financial market data · legal entity: Benzinga · provenance 75/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.benzinga.com` (HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Paid · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: The REST APIs at api.benzinga.com, read from docs.benzinga.com (llms.txt, Markdown pages), the Benzinga/benzinga-docs OpenAPI specs cloned from GitHub, benzinga1.statuspage.io, PyPI and the Beringer Capital portfolio page on 3 November 2026. www.benzinga.com answered 403 on every page. No account was made
- APIs: News (/api/v2/news), Calendar (earnings, ratings, dividends, IPOs and other events, 28 operations), Delivery (transcripts and summaries), Data proxy (26 operations), Logos, Ticker Trends, Earnings Call Transcripts, NewsQuantified, Press Releases, Analyst Reports, Webhooks, plus websocket streams for news, calendars, analyst insights, transcripts and Bulls/Bears Say
- Pagination: `page` (0 to 100000) and `pageSize` (default 15, max 100) on news; result sets capped at 10,000 items on the News, Calendar and Signals APIs; sort by id, created or updated
- Response sizing: `displayOutput` of headline, abstract or full on news; JSON by default, XML where not deprecated
- Errors: News spec lists 200, 400, 499 and 500; examples show 401 `auth_failed`, 404 `no_data_found` and 500 bodies in an `errors` array with code, id and value
- Clients: Python `benzinga` 1.21 (PyPI, 8 February 2021, repository pushed 6 March 2026, MIT), JavaScript client last pushed 20 July 2023, Java client pushed 11 February 2025, Swagger Codegen suggested for others
- Status page: benzinga1.statuspage.io, components News API, Calendar API, Logos v2 API, SEC Filings API, Signals API (Unusual Options), Fundamentals v2.1 API, Movers API
- Ownership: Beringer Capital's portfolio page lists Benzinga as acquired in October 2021 under its Fund II, headquartered in Detroit, with Dave Maher as CEO

- Scores: Reliability 60, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 71, Agent ergonomics 65, Security & auth 36, Payments & pricing 0, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 56, Transparency & trust 44 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Graded as a hosted service. · Schema & documentation, The docs are generated from 11 OpenAPI 3 specs in the public Benzinga/benzinga-docs repository, 80 operations, and the raw YAML is linked fr… · Agent ergonomics, `displayOutput` of headline, abstract or full sizes a news response, and `pageSize` runs to 100 (18 of 25). · Security & auth, One token per account with no scopes, sent only as the `token` query parameter, generated in the console; no rotation or expiry found (20 le… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, 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… · Transparency & trust, A closed service whose terms could not be read, since www.benzinga.com answered 403; the docs footer links them (8 of 30).
- Sources: 18, open questions: 6, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: market.news, market.fundamentals, market.filings, market.prices, data.markets, data.company
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/benzinga.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/benzinga.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/benzinga from a page on benzinga.com or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/Benzinga/benzinga-docs, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.
- Support: licensing@benzinga.com; partners@benzinga.com; https://docs.benzinga.com/; https://benzinga1.statuspage.io; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

1. Keep the token out of logs; it can only travel as `?token=`, so strip query strings before recording request URLs
2. Page through news with `page` and `pageSize` (max 100) and narrow by `tickers`, `dateFrom` or `channels`; a query can't pass 10,000 items
3. Poll with `updatedSince` (news) or `parameters[updated]` (calendar, signals) rather than re-reading history
4. An unknown or unentitled news node ID returns 200 with an empty array, not 404; treat empty as not found
5. Don't plan on a free key; access starts with licensing@benzinga.com and a contract

## Connect

```bash
pip install benzinga
```

```bash
curl -H 'accept: application/json' "https://api.benzinga.com/api/v2/news?token=$BENZINGA_TOKEN&tickers=AAPL&pageSize=5"
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/benzinga

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