SEC API
Raw filings, sharpened.
SEC API turns SEC and public-market data into compact, provenance-first primitives with hybrid keyword and semantic search, powered by the #1 finance embedding model. Works cleanly in APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP tools, and downstream investor agents.
Why it exists
Public-market data should not arrive as a pile of HTML, XML, and crossed fingers.
SEC API ingests, normalizes, enriches, filters, and scores the material that investor agents and production data systems depend on. It is the grounding layer for source-backed market intelligence without rebuilding the same adapters.
- Pre-parsed XBRL facts refreshed through the automated pipeline with source provenance.
- Canonical entity resolution keeps tickers, filers, insiders, managers, and security identifiers from drifting apart.
- Filing and section workflows stay small enough for agents to use repeatedly.
- Freshness, provenance, and traceability stay visible on the public contract instead of hiding in private logs.
What it does
A better substrate for research and automation.
Canonical entity graph
Resolve issuers, filers, managers, insiders, funds, and aliases across ticker, CIK, FIGI, ISIN, and CUSIP without rebuilding identity logic in every client.
Filing search that fits agents
Search by ticker, form, accession, date range, and sort order with compact metadata and predictable pagination.
Section and item extraction
Pull the filing slices that matter instead of dragging an entire document through every workflow.
Statements and facts
Query pre-parsed XBRL facts from our own database instead of waiting on SEC EDGAR. Normalized statements, facts, bundles, segmented revenues, and share-float reads include provenance and source tracking.
Ownership and insider reads
Track 13F, insider, beneficial ownership, and ticker-holder workflows from a single data layer.
Fund and governance reads
Pull N-PORT holdings, board composition, and enforcement-event surfaces from the same public contract family.
Historical depth
Keep hot-path reads fast while holding a deeper historical corpus behind the same object model.
Freshness metadata
Every serious downstream system needs to know how fresh the answer is. SEC API makes that explicit.
Parser and provenance metadata
Materialization version, source URLs, accession references, request IDs, and trace references stay close to the payload.
Filing-page traceability
Go from a filing-derived number to the correct filing document and page instead of hand-hunting through PDFs.
Rights-safe market utilities
Market calendars, approved index rosters, and derived public-market utilities live alongside SEC data.
Company financials and ratios
Canonical income statements, balance sheets, cash flow, and computed financial ratios powered by a DB-first architecture that queries our own pre-parsed XBRL data before touching SEC EDGAR.
Live factor dashboard
Intraday factor snapshots, regime-conditioned rankings, portfolio attribution, stock loadings, and return decomposition in a single call.
Macro intelligence
High-signal macro packs, country regime classification, release calendars, and forecasts backed by official sources across 12 Tier-1 economies.
Structured footnote analysis
Investigate lease, tax, revenue recognition, debt covenant, and segment disclosures from SEC filings with structured topic matching.
Portfolio factor workflows
Model-portfolio factor views, portfolio stress tests, factor rotation strategies, and regime-aware optimization in one surface.
Semantic filing search
Hybrid keyword + vector search powered by Voyage AI embeddings (ranked #1 in finance). Find filings by concept, not just keywords. Discover similar filings across the corpus.
Hosted MCP
The same primitives are exposed to coding agents without forcing a custom wrapper first.
API, SDK, and CLI parity
The platform is built so the docs, reference, SDKs, and programmatic surfaces reinforce each other.
Proof
Smaller payloads. Faster answers. Better agent fit.
SEC API is built to win on the workflows investor agents actually run all day. It is also built to show its work instead of asking you to trust a black box, with benchmark claims kept scoped to the dated suite.
latency
Entity resolve p50 latency
Resolve a public issuer by ticker or identifier with canonical metadata and provenance.
| Provider | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| SEC API | 33.98 ms | — |
| sec-api.io | 231.46 ms | — |
latency
Filing search p50 latency
Search recent SEC filings with agent-ready metadata and a compact response contract.
| Provider | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| SEC API | 37.62 ms | — |
| sec-api.io | 265.23 ms | — |
latency
Structured facts p50 latency
Return normalized financial facts instead of a giant filing payload.
| Provider | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| SEC API | 34.45 ms | — |
| sec-api.io | 400.53 ms | — |
payload
Structured facts payload size
Average bytes returned for the structured-facts workflow in the dated benchmark suite.
| Provider | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| SEC API | 1,522 bytes | — |
| sec-api.io | 1,426,498 bytes | — |
Build
Give your agent a better place to start.
Use the docs to ship a workflow, the API reference to wire an endpoint, or the SDKs to get productive faster.