Guidebook - Benzinga APIs

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2026

Benzinga

Who Is Benzinga?

Benzinga is a content engine and ecosystem, catering to individual, institutional, and active investors and consumers.

Benzinga is the largest voice in financial media for retail investors. Benzinga owns the conversation in financial markets, cryptocurrencies, and personal finance in a simple, straightforward, and accessible manner.

Our mission is to arm our audience of institutional and retail investors, day traders, and financial newcomers with the knowledge, information, and analysis they need to navigate today's investment landscape.

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Benzinga’s Mission

Democratize Financial Information for all

We turn complex market data into plain‑language insights so anyone can invest with confidence. From first‑time traders to seasoned pros, everyone deserves a fair shot at financial success.

Over the past 14 years, we have built a content ecosystem to bring breaking news, information and analysis to retail investors on our properties and partner platforms.

Benzinga.com

Over 100M Unique Visitors per month through our distribution channels

Benzinga Data

Brokerage Tools for User Engagement and Research

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Benzinga offers a full suite of News and Data to provide users with the confidence they need to execute trades.

Increase sign-ups

Improve retention

Boost Engagement Drive more trades!

Benzinga Content Difference

The Benzinga differentiator is distilling the essential information into simplified summaries, highlighting key takeaways, and providing actionable insights.

We break down the implications in a way that is easy to digest:

Benzinga news is a tool for investors to quickly grasp market trends and make informed decisions without getting bogged down by complexity.

What Happened

Why It Matters

What Happens Next

Client Case Study
TD Ameritrade

TD Ameritrade, recognized the need to enhance the user experience by providing timely financial news and insights directly within their trading platform.

In a strategic move to provide added value to their clients, TD Ameritrade integrated Benzinga's Financial News and Why is it Moving API into their trading interface. This seamless integration allowed users to access real-time news, updates, and in-depth analyses without ever having to leave their trading environment. Furthermore, TD Ameritrade utilized Benzinga's Why is it Moving feature to launch a marketing campaign, as well as a new engagement cadence via push and email notification.

Results of this integration:

The partnership with Benzinga allowed TD Ameritrade to differentiate itself in a competitive market by offering a more comprehensive service

Users no longer had to leave the TD Ameritrade platform to obtain mission critical information. The added value did not go unnoticed by the clients, who expressed appreciation for the accessible, insightful content that helped demystify complex market trends and news.

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Benzinga Newswire

Benzinga's editorial team cuts through the noise to provide unbiased content for your users' news-driven investment decisions.

Variety of ways to integrate data, including REST API, TCP streaming, and RSS feeds. Stock News APIs have never been easier to implement on your platform.

Multilingual news delivery is available across Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish, with additional regional market coverage available for India.

Stream news directly to your users to inform them

on potentially market-moving stories.

Why is it Moving?

“Why is it Moving?” (WIIM) is the one sentence reason a stock or crypto is trading higher or lower on any given day.

Never again will investors have to leave your platform to figure out why an asset they care about is moving. Investors constantly seek the why behind stock/crypto price movement in both bull and bear markets.

This “snackable” content is also a great engagement tool via push notifications or email to get customers back into your product – no other content is more actionable and easily targetable to truly add value. Coverage is based on asset price change and market cap.

Analyst Ratings Integrations

Analyst Ratings

Benzinga collects ratings and recommendations data from all major sell-side analysts, capturing 125-150 analyst actions per day.

Through years of network development, the Benzinga news desk has established direct partnerships with major sell-side banks to curate a database of the highest quality ratings data in the marketplace.

Analyst ratings are extremely helpful for novice investors – they stand as a point of reference by showing where professionals think a stock is headed.

To add color to the reason that an analyst upgrades or downgrades a stock, Benzinga has summarized each individual Analyst Ratings Report through our Analyst Report Insights Endpoint.

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Bulls Say / Bears Say

Empower users to “see both sides of the story” before investing. Our team utilizes research reports from sell side firms and simplifies analyst decisions by distilling them into qualitative insights.

This API provides summaries of analyst reports, presenting both bullish and bearish arguments for a stock. The “Bulls Say” summary highlights positive aspects, while the “Bears Say” summary points out potential risks.

This API is now available with Korean language translation support.

The quantitative data from Benzinga's Analyst Ratings endpoint pairs well in conjunction with this qualitative feed.

Earnings and
Earnings Estimates

Earnings & Earnings Estimates

Benzinga's Earnings Team has a stringent process - providing high quality earnings data to the largest retail brokerages in the US.

Benzinga follows a three-step method to ensure quality, accuracy, and speed.

Process:

Benzinga's median turnaround time for an earnings report is
1 minute and 30 seconds.

Use Benzinga's Earnings calendar to keep users informed on your platform
and through push notifications.

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Dividends
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Dividends

Dividends data is a critical factor when assessing the performance of a stock over time. Benzinga has a robust historical database of dividends and is a key player in predicting accurate future ex-dividend rates, record dates, and pay dates.

Investors use this data to develop investment strategies that incorporate dividend-paying stocks, or to screen for companies that have a history of consistent dividend payments. This can be particularly useful for investors seeking long-term, income-generating investments.

A company’s future dividend date is predicted through our proprietary algorithm, and cross-referenced by our data analysts. As the ex-dividend date approaches, our team of analysts work to ensure any company announcements are reflected in the dataset.

Unusual Options Activity

The Unusual Options API alerts users of market activity typically representative of a large institutional trader or hedge fund taking a position.

This activity often precedes a move in the underlying stock and thus is an important source of information, even for non-options traders.

Protect your users from unknowingly swimming with the whales—help them navigate deep waters.

Alert your users of market activity typically representative of a large institutional trader or hedge fund taking a position.

Block Trades

Surface unusually large trades as they hit the market.

Benzinga’s Block Trades API highlights institutional-scale trading activity often associated with hedging, portfolio repositioning, or directional conviction. Monitor large transactions in real time with key trade details including ticker, size, price, exchange, bid/ask data, and execution time.

Help traders identify unusual flow, monitor potential catalysts, and track institutional market activity directly within your platform.

Delivered via API for real-time alerts, dashboards, scanners, and analytics integrations.

IPO Calendar

Keep your investors in the know by providing upcoming IPO information in an easy to consume format.

Benzinga’s IPO Calendar API includes all the relevant details of the offering, including anticipated open dates, offer size, pricing and projected ranges. We track offerings from rumor, to initial S-1 filing, and through the start of trading — adding new, relevant details along the way. Gain insight into the IPO market, track upcoming IPOs and evaluate potential investment opportunities.

Many partners display this data within their platform in calendar form and use it as an email trigger or push notification when big IPOs are announced. Enable your users to be a first mover on the next Apple, Amazon or Tesla!

Press Releases

Press releases are the primary way that companies first announce market moving updates. Receive insights directly from the company, about the company.

Benzinga has partnered with the highest quality press release companies to capture and deliver all pertinent PRs in full text.

Benzinga Ticker Trends

Benzinga.com has 15M monthly active visitors, primarily from North America.

Help your users understand which stocks are gaining interest by adding Top 10 US Tickers to your homepage.

Live Conference Call Transcripts

Hear the most important conversations shaping the market.

Companies provide actionable insight and forward-looking context during earnings calls, investor events, and corporate presentations.

Benzinga’s Conference Call Transcripts API delivers live and historical transcripts in real time, helping traders, investors, and platforms quickly access management commentary, guidance updates, and market-moving statements as calls unfold.

Use this feed to power research tools, alerts, earnings experiences, and investor engagement directly within your platform.

Conference Call Calendar

Know when and where the most important conversations will happen.

There is no replacement for hearing senior executives directly convey their company's financial results.

The emotion and tone of the call, which can affect the stock price, cannot be conveyed in a transcript.

Tune in through a variety of ways—Benzinga provides the number to call for both national/international stockholders, access codes, and a link to the webcast so users can access the call from anywhere.

Movers

Ride the momentum of the market.

Easily segment the biggest gainers and losers, filterable by volume, to show in list form on your brokerage or platform.

Increase brand engagement by inserting this data into a newsletter, email, or push notification related to user holdings/watchlist.

Percentage moved pairs well with Benzinga's Why is it Moving dataset, the one sentence summary of why a stock is moving outside of its normal intraday range.

Economic Calendar

Every economic announcement from all major countries.

Provide your users both real-time and historical economic data to better inform trading decisions.

This API delivers information on key economic events, such as releases of economic indicators, government reports, and other events that can impact financial markets internationally.

Brokerages can integrate this data into their platforms, applications, or trading systems to keep users informed about important economic developments from all major countries.

The API includes details such as event descriptions, dates, times, consensus forecasts, actual results, and historical data.

Corporate Logos

Render company, fund, and crypto logos directly within your platform.

The Company Logos API helps brokerages, banks, fintechs, and trading platforms enhance watchlists, quote pages, trading interfaces, market dashboards, and mobile applications with high-quality logo assets tied to securities and cryptocurrencies.

Logo formats include SVG, PNG, transparent backgrounds, grayscale variations, and company marks optimized for light and dark themes.

Coverage includes major US exchanges, top 200 cryptocurrencies, major OTC listings, major fund families, and international equities across the UK, Australia, India, UAE, and select Japanese listings.

Insider Trades

Notify users if employees are loading up on, or dumping, company shares.

Provide insight to your users by allowing them to get a feel for company sentiment and help solidify their investment decisions.

SEC Form 4 filings make it easy to see into the minds of corporate insiders and significant shareholders. These key players may be trading based on information or perspectives not yet widely reflected in the market.

Many traders prefer to see what the high-level insiders are doing with their stocks, rather than scour press releases and make interpretations.

Use Benzinga Insider Trading API to supplement your users' due diligence.

Guidance

Follow forecasts coming directly from company executives.

Who better to provide expectations of key performance indicators such as EPS and revenue than the company executives themselves?

Company earnings guidance is a major factor that affects market sentiment and analyst ratings, and of course, the price of a company's securities.

Staying on top of this data is a crucial part of any investment or risk assessment.

Stock Splits

Make sure your users see the split before it happens.

Inform your users of announced splits and associated critical terms while keeping them updated as they prepare.

Stock splits are important to consider when assessing the performance of an individual stock over both the short and long term.

Benzinga's stock split dataset is updated throughout the day and features the stock split ratio, announcement date, and distribution date.

FDA Calendar

Capitalize on the volatility that is typical of trading biotech stocks.

Biotech stocks are often at the mercy of several catalysts - most of which are make-or-break events.

FDA events are important for both long term and short term investors.

Announcements can be displayed in calendar form, listed within company detail pages and/or used as push notifications for user engagement.

Government Trades

Follow and understand how US Politicians envision the future.

Historically, members of the US Government have extremely successful portfolios of stocks.

Give your users an edge by helping them understand which stocks Government officials are buying and selling.

Short Interest

Understand potential future movement based on market short activity.

Benzinga’s Short Interest dataset tracks bearish market sentiment with daily updates on short interest volume, ratio, and days to cover.

Sourced from FINRA and exchanges, it helps identify short squeezes and investor positioning. Delivered via API or flat file, it’s ideal for platforms, traders, and analysts seeking actionable insights.

M&A Deals

Hear the rumors moving through the market.

Track important merger and acquisition activity from rumor through completion.

The M&A Deals Calendar displays all the necessary details, including the deal status, payment type, expected dates, deal type, and deal size.

Keep your users up to date by adding M&A to your platform.

Delayed Stock Quotes

Keep a pulse on the market.

This no-frills solution provides platform display, website display, and internal access to 15-minute delayed price quotes across all US listed stocks.

Unlike real-time quotes, there are no per user fees from the exchange to navigate delayed quotes.

With easy integration, this low cost solution will have stock market pricing on your platform with very little technical overhead.

Historical Bars

Historical prices for lists and charting.

Allow your users to do their own research on historical price trends by providing historical bars.

Whether for use in a list or chart format, historical bars provides the Open, High, Low, Close and Volume back to the year 2000.

Prediction Markets Newswire

Track how prediction markets are influencing investor sentiment and market expectations.

Prediction markets are becoming an increasingly important source of insight around elections, economic policy, interest rates, regulation, and company-related events. These markets continuously adjust probabilities as new information emerges.

Benzinga’s Prediction Markets Newswire delivers timely coverage, key market context, and actionable updates designed for traders, brokerages, fintech platforms, and financial applications.

Use this feed to power news experiences, event pages, alerts, push notifications, and engagement tools directly within your platform.

Private Markets Newswire

Track developments shaping the rapidly growing private markets landscape.

Benzinga’s Private Markets Newswire delivers timely coverage and market context surrounding private company transactions, secondary liquidity, funding rounds, corporate developments, and IPO-adjacent activity.

Provide traders, investors, and platform users with differentiated private markets coverage designed for pre-IPO discovery, investor education, research tools, and client engagement.

Delivered via API for full text integration across brokerage platforms, alternative asset platforms, alerts, watchlists, and market intelligence tools.

Benzinga Ticker Clickstream

Monitor retail investor attention in real time.

The Benzinga Ticker Clickstream dataset captures aggregated ticker engagement activity across Benzinga.com, helping platforms and quantitative teams identify changing retail interest and potential market-moving attention shifts.

Track ticker-level engagement trends across equities, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies through structured, time-series data optimized for signal generation, behavioral modeling, analytics, and market research.

Available via API, flat file delivery, FTP, and cloud distribution integrations.

AI & LLM Training Datasets

Power financial AI applications, LLMs, and RAG systems with real-time market intelligence.

Benzinga APIs provides AI-ready, fully licensed financial datasets optimized for AI training, fine-tuning, and production applications.

Access structured real-time and historical financial news, earnings data, SEC filings, analyst insights, corporate actions, transcripts, and market data—designed to improve accuracy and context in financial AI outputs.

Supports LLM training, semantic search, summarization, and AI-powered financial applications.

Built for fintech platforms, enterprise AI teams, and developers.

Available via API, flat file delivery, FTP, cloud distribution, and enterprise licensing.

Institutional Portfolio Intelligence API

Uncover signals hidden within hedge fund and institutional portfolios.

Through Benzinga APIs, clients access institutional-grade trading and portfolio intelligence covering 8,000+ hedge funds and institutional managers representing more than $50 trillion in assets under management.

Track portfolio analytics, outlier trades, capital flows, consensus fund bets, and ticker-level holding trends across 11,000+ U.S. equities and ETFs - with historical coverage back to 2013. Structured, real-time data integration-ready for brokerages, fintech platforms, quantitative research, and investor applications.

Available via API, WebSockets, and flat file delivery.