Benzinga
Market newswire plus ratings and earnings events over REST and WebSocket
Founded: 2010 | Detroit, Michigan, USA | Team: Not publicly disclosed
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What is Benzinga?
Benzinga, founded in Detroit in 2010 by Jason Raznick and majority-owned by private-equity firm Beringer Capital since late 2021, licenses its own market newswire to brokerages and trading platforms. The APIs pair that news with analyst ratings, earnings and other corporate events, over REST and WebSocket. For a developer, the free entry is a basic headlines-and-teasers API on AWS Marketplace. The full real-time feed is sold by quote, though Benzinga advertises six months of low-cost production access in place of a short trial. Coverage stays on markets and listed companies.
Typical uses: Financial services, News & content apps. What sets it apart: Original market headlines with ratings and earnings events in one feed.
What does the Benzinga API include?
REST APIJSONWebSocketPython SDK
| Capability |
|---|
| Full article text |
| Financial news |
| Streaming/webhooks |
Benzinga pricing
Short answer: the pricing model is custom quote; six-month low-cost start. There is no public entry price, so expect to request a quote.
| Access model | What it means |
|---|---|
| Free tier | Permanent free allowance, usually with request, history or commercial-use limits |
| Enterprise contract | Negotiated licence covering volume, rights and SLA |
API prices and quotas change often. Check Benzinga's own pricing page before you commit, and confirm that your use is covered by the licence.
Benzinga pros and cons
| Advantages | Things to consider |
|---|---|
| +Its own reporting focused on market-moving news | -The full feed has no public price |
| +Ratings and earnings data in the same API | -Market and company news only |
| +WebSocket streaming for real-time delivery | -Private-equity ownership since 2021 may shift terms |
| +A six-month production start instead of a long contract |
Benzinga vs alternatives
How Benzinga compares to the other top News APIs.
| API | Best for | Key difference | Rating | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NewsCatcher | Developers who want clean, deduplicated news without writing... | Summaries, story clusters, entities and geotags arrive in the response, so the processing code you would otherwise write is already done | 4.7 | Full comparison |
| NewsData.io | Developers who want a working news call within... | A free allowance that refills daily, with country and language filters on every plan | 4.6 | Full comparison |
| Perigon | Indie developers and startups wanting enriched data at... | Entity, topic and cluster data from the $25 plan up, with all tiers priced publicly | 4.5 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) | Developers building multilingual event or research tools. | Event records that join coverage of one story across languages | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| GNews | Small commercial apps needing a cheap, simple news... | Commercial rights and full article content for under €50 a month | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| Webz.io | Data engineers backfilling years of news for datasets. | History back to 2008 and the widest claimed source count here | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| Exa | RAG and agent developers needing semantic news retrieval. | Search by meaning with page text returned in the same request | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| Tavily | Agent builders adding a news tool in a... | Built-in LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations that return prompt-ready text | 4.1 | Full comparison |
| World News API | Location-aware apps on a small budget. | Latitude, longitude and radius filters from the $39 plan, plus a URL text extractor | 4.1 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.org | Learning projects and prototypes that follow existing tutorials. | The largest pile of tutorials, wrappers and answered questions of any news API | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| SerpApi Google News | Developers who need exactly what Google News ranks. | Google News rankings and story groupings as structured JSON | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| GDELT Project | Zero-budget data projects and research prototypes. | No key, no fee and global coverage refreshed every 15 minutes | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Brave Search API | Developers replacing Bing News Search with an independent... | Results from its own crawler, independent of Google and Bing | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Serper Google News | Agent prototypes needing cheap Google News lookups. | About $1 per 1,000 Google queries on the entry pack, by third-party figures | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Marketaux | Fintech developers needing ticker-tagged news cheaply. | Entity-level sentiment on every article, free plan included | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment | Hobby quants wanting news sentiment beside price data. | Ticker and topic sentiment scores from the same key as market data | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Massive (ex-Polygon.io) News | Trading-app developers already using Polygon or Massive data. | Per-ticker sentiment with a written reason, included in stock data plans | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Mediastack | Low-traffic sites needing a cheap commercial headline feed. | Commercial use and historical news from $24.99 a month | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Guardian Open Platform | Students and researchers needing free full-text articles. | Free full article bodies from a major newspaper, with editorial tags | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Diffbot | Developers collecting news from a fixed list of... | Parser-free extraction from any article URL, linked to a Knowledge Graph | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| Finnhub | Personal fintech projects needing news and prices from... | A 60-calls-a-minute free key covering company news and market data | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| DataForSEO Google News | High-volume Google News rank tracking on a budget. | About $0.60 per 1,000 Google News result pages in the Standard queue | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| TheNewsAPI | Personal dashboards needing a cheap general feed. | Possibly the lowest paid entry price here, if third-party pricing is current | 3.6 | Full comparison |
| NYT Developer APIs | Students and historians working with Times metadata. | Searchable headlines and abstracts for every Times issue since 1851 | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| Quantexa News API (Aylien) | Teams maintaining an existing Aylien integration. | Aylien's fine-grained entity and category tagging | 3.4 | Full comparison |
| APITube | Developers comparing coverage in a side-by-side trial. | Sentiment and entity filters offered on lower tiers | 3.4 | Full comparison |
| Currents API | Coursework and hackathons needing a free feed. | A free tier that tutorials and roundups often recommend | 3.3 | Full comparison |
Benzinga FAQ
What is Benzinga?
Market newswire plus ratings and earnings events over REST and WebSocket
How much does Benzinga charge?
Pricing model: custom quote; six-month low-cost start. No public entry price is listed, so pricing comes through a quote. Free access: yes, with limits.
Which formats and SDKs does Benzinga support?
Benzinga offers REST API, JSON, WebSocket, Python SDK.
Is Benzinga right for enterprise?
Yes, Benzinga sells enterprise contracts. Main caveat: The full feed has no public price.
What are the best Benzinga alternatives?
The best alternatives to Benzinga depend on your use case. Top options are:
- NewsCatcher: summaries, story clusters, entities and geotags arrive in the response, so the processing code you would otherwise write is already done
- NewsData.io: a free allowance that refills daily, with country and language filters on every plan
- Perigon: entity, topic and cluster data from the $25 plan up, with all tiers priced publicly
Compare Benzinga with other News APIs
Benzinga vs NewsCatcher Benzinga vs NewsData.io Benzinga vs Perigon Benzinga vs NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) Benzinga vs GNews Benzinga vs Webz.io Benzinga vs Exa Benzinga vs Tavily Benzinga vs World News API Benzinga vs NewsAPI.org Benzinga vs SerpApi Google News Benzinga vs GDELT Project Benzinga vs Brave Search API Benzinga vs Serper Google News Benzinga vs Marketaux Benzinga vs Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment Benzinga vs Massive (ex-Polygon.io) News Benzinga vs Mediastack Benzinga vs Guardian Open Platform Benzinga vs Diffbot Benzinga vs Finnhub Benzinga vs DataForSEO Google News Benzinga vs TheNewsAPI Benzinga vs NYT Developer APIs Benzinga vs Quantexa News API (Aylien) Benzinga vs APITube Benzinga vs Currents API
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