Kensho
Natural-language and speech AI over verified S&P Global financial data
Overview
S&P Global's in-house AI engine. Its LLM-ready API lets you query S&P datasets (Capital IQ financials, transcripts, private-company data) in plain English through Claude or ChatGPT, and Kensho Scribe transcribes earnings calls and financial audio.
Pricing
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What you can produce with Kensho
- LLM-ready API over S&P Global datasets
- Natural-language querying via Claude / ChatGPT
- In-line source-document links on financials
- MCP server and S&P Global agent plugin
- Access to Capital IQ financials, estimates and private-company data
- Kensho Scribe financial audio transcription
- Earnings-call and document transcription
ASEAN Perspective
Kensho in Southeast Asia
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Kensho is best understood as a data-access layer, not a chatbot. The value is that answers are grounded in verified S&P Global datasets, Capital IQ financials, earnings-call transcripts, private-company financials, estimates, with in-line links back to source documents, so an LLM can retrieve numbers you'd normally dig for by hand. The LLM-ready API and its MCP server plug that data into whatever model you already use, which is the right design for agentic finance workflows. Scribe, the speech-to-text side, claims a roughly 30% error reduction over its prior model and is tuned for financial audio. The obvious limitation: it's sold enterprise-only through the S&P Global Marketplace, with no self-serve trial or public pricing, and it presupposes you already license the underlying S&P data. For institutional research desks inside that ecosystem it's compelling; for anyone outside it, there's no easy on-ramp.
What people say
Independent user reviews of Kensho are thin, in the vein of enterprise data infrastructure sold to institutions rather than a self-serve product, so most available signal comes from S&P Global's own materials, the S&P Global Marketplace listing and industry coverage rather than G2/Capterra-style crowd reviews.
Founded in 2013 and acquired by S&P Global in 2018 (a deal reported around $550M), Kensho has since operated as the parent's AI arm. Its current flagship, the LLM-ready API, is positioned as a bridge between large language models and S&P Global's structured datasets: customers connect a model such as Claude or ChatGPT and query Capital IQ Financials, transactions, earnings-call transcripts and, more recently, S&P Global Private Company Financials and Capital IQ Estimates using natural language. A frequently highlighted feature is in-line source-document links on public financials data, aimed at the auditability that finance teams require, plus an MCP server and S&P Global plugin for agentic setups.
Kensho Scribe, the transcription product, is cited for a roughly 30% reduction in errors versus the previous model, targeting earnings-call and meeting-note documentation where financial terminology trips up general-purpose speech engines.
What's consistently noted, rather than reviewed, is the go-to-market: everything is enterprise-sales-only via the S&P Global Marketplace, with a "Request More Information" flow instead of published pricing or a public trial. That makes it effectively inaccessible to individual developers and small firms, and it assumes an existing S&P Global data relationship.
Because crowd-review coverage is limited, buyers should weigh this as an institutional data-and-retrieval layer whose credibility rests on the quality and licensing of the underlying S&P Global data and on fit with existing workflows, not on a body of public user ratings. Its strongest use cases are inside capital-markets and investment-research teams already operating in the S&P ecosystem.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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