Benzinga MCP server

Connect Benzinga to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the Benzinga MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the get options activity tool in Benzinga
  • Use the get corporate logos tool in Benzinga
  • Use the get calendar events tool in Benzinga
  • Use the get company fundamentals tool in Benzinga
  • Use the get why is it moving tool in Benzinga
  • Use the get delayed quotes tool in Benzinga

Supported Tools

get_options_activity

Get Options Activity

Retrieve unusual options activity signals. Includes option type, strike price, expiration, volume, sentiment, and more. Useful for identifying potential market-moving trades.

get_corporate_logos

Get Corporate Logos

Search for corporate logos by ticker symbol, CIK, CUSIP, or ISIN. Returns logo images in light/dark variants, vector formats, and associated brand colors for publicly traded companies.

get_calendar_events

Get Calendar Events

Retrieve financial calendar events including earnings, dividends, analyst ratings, IPOs, guidance, splits, mergers & acquisitions, conference calls, FDA announcements, offerings, and economic events. Supports filtering by ticker, date range, and importance level.

get_company_fundamentals

Get Company Fundamentals

Retrieve company fundamentals data including company profiles, valuation ratios, financial statements, and earnings reports. Choose a specific data type or get the full fundamentals overview for one or more ticker symbols.

get_wiims

Get Why Is It Moving

Retrieve "Why Is It Moving" (WIIMs) data that provides short explanations for why a stock is moving on any given day. Useful for quickly understanding the catalyst behind price movements.

get_delayed_quotes

Get Delayed Quotes

Retrieve delayed stock quotes for one or more securities. Returns current price, change, volume, and 52-week range data.

search_news

Search News

Search and retrieve Benzinga news articles, headlines, and press releases. Filter by tickers, date range, channels, topics, or authors. Supports full article content or headline/abstract views. Covers the Wilshire 5000, TSX, and 1000+ popular tickers.

get_market_movers

Get Market Movers

Identify the top gaining, losing, and most active securities across exchanges. Supports filtering by market session (regular, pre-market, after-market) and screener criteria.

get_government_trades

Get Government Trades

Retrieve trades made by U.S. Congress members (House and Senate). Includes transaction details, filer information, amounts, and associated securities. Useful for tracking congressional stock trading activity.

get_insider_transactions

Get Insider Transactions

Retrieve SEC insider transaction filings (Form 4) for publicly traded companies. Includes transaction details, insider information, and filing data. Useful for monitoring corporate insider buying and selling activity.

get_historical_bars

Get Historical Bars

Retrieve historical OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) price bar data for securities. Supports multiple intervals from 5-minute to monthly candles.

get_short_interest

Get Short Interest

Retrieve short interest data for securities including total short interest, days to cover, short percent of float, and month-over-month changes. Useful for gauging bearish sentiment on a stock.

get_news_channels

Get News Channels

Discover available Benzinga news channel names and identifiers for the channels filter in search_news. Includes subchannels as individual entries.

get_consensus_ratings

Get Consensus Ratings

Retrieve aggregate analyst ratings, consensus price targets, rating distribution, and analyst counts for one ticker.

get_news_article

Get News Article

Retrieve a Benzinga article by the articleId returned by search_news. Unknown articles or articles outside the API key entitlement return an empty list.

Connect Benzinga to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable Benzinga in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Benzinga MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Benzinga tools.

Run Benzinga through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give Benzinga and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Benzinga tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

More integrations teams use with Benzinga

Linkedin

Authenticate LinkedIn members with OpenID Connect, fetch the authenticated member profile, and create self-serve LinkedIn shares with text, article links, and uploaded images. Organization and Community Management workflows should move to a separate slate because LinkedIn restricts combining those products in one app.

Discord

Send, edit, and delete messages in channels. Manage servers (guilds), channels, roles, members, invites, webhooks, threads, scheduled events, auto moderation rules, audit logs, application commands, and custom guild emojis.

Zoho

Manage Zoho CRM, Bigin, Books, Inventory, Invoice, Desk, Mail, People, and Projects from one connection. Discover organizations and accounts, manage records and financial documents, work with support tickets and email, and organize employee and project data.

Quickbooks

Manage business finances and accounting in QuickBooks Online. Create, send, and track invoices. Manage bills and accounts payable, record bill payments. Create and update customer and vendor records with contact details and hierarchies. Record payments against invoices and credit memos. Create estimates, sales receipts, and journal entries. Track expenses and categorize against the chart of accounts. Manage items, products, services, and inventory levels. Query entities using SQL-like syntax and sync incremental changes via Change Data Capture. Generate financial reports including profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow. Process credit card and bank account (ACH) payments via the Payments API. Manage the chart of accounts for tracking income, expenses, assets, and liabilities.

Square

Process payments, manage orders, and handle invoices for online, in-app, and in-person commerce. Create and manage customer profiles, catalog items, inventory counts, and locations. Issue refunds, manage disputes, and track payouts. Create bookings and appointments, manage team members and timecards, handle gift cards and loyalty programs, and manage subscriptions. Save cards on file, generate checkout links, connect and control Square Terminal devices, and manage vendor/supplier information. Extend Square objects with custom attributes. Receive webhook notifications for payments, orders, customers, inventory, invoices, bookings, disputes, team changes, and more.

Freeagent

Manage FreeAgent contacts, invoices, estimates, supplier bills, expenses, projects, tasks, and timeslips. Browse bank accounts and transactions, identify the connected user, download invoice PDFs, and retrieve financial reports.

Technical notes for Benzinga

Access financial news, market data, company fundamentals, and alternative datasets. Retrieve real-time headlines, full articles, and press releases filtered by ticker, channel, or date. Query financial calendars for earnings, dividends, IPOs, analyst ratings, FDA events, mergers & acquisitions, and stock splits. Get company profiles, financial statements, valuation ratios, and key statistics. Identify gaining and losing market movers. Access unusual options activity signals, delayed quotes, historical OHLCV price bars, short interest data, SEC filings, and government/insider trade records. Retrieve corporate logos with light/dark variants and brand colors. Discover news channels, retrieve individual articles, query analyst consensus, and rank trending tickers. Supports delta queries to efficiently fetch only recently updated records.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Benzinga to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Benzinga MCP server have?
    The Benzinga MCP server exposes 16 tools, including Get Options Activity, Get Corporate Logos, Get Calendar Events. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Benzinga exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Benzinga MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Benzinga and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Benzinga MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

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