Best Analyst Ratings APIs in 2026: Six Compared on Free Tiers, Price Targets and Pricing

If you need analyst ratings and price targets from an API in 2026, the short answer: Benzinga is the licensed feed behind many brokerage terminals and prices by quote, Finnhub gives recommendation trends away free and puts price targets behind a $3,500 a month plan, TipRanks sells analyst track records through dashboards, an enterprise API and an MCP connector, EODHD and Alpha Vantage return a consensus snapshot inside their fundamentals payloads, and SentiSense (that's us) returns the target band, per-firm coverage, upgrades and downgrades and a daily consensus history on one key. MarketBeat and Zacks are web subscriptions with no API.

Full disclosure up front: SentiSense is our product, so grade our row accordingly. Every price below was read from the vendor's own pricing page on September 28, 2026; where a vendor publishes no price, we say so.

What does an analyst ratings API return?

Three shapes, and most vendors sell one. The consensus snapshot: mean target, analyst count and the buy/hold/sell split as of today. The action tape: each upgrade, downgrade and target change, with the firm behind it. The history: either of those over time, which a backtest needs.

Benzinga: best for a licensed, terminal-grade ratings feed

Benzinga's Analyst Ratings dataset is the feed many brokerage apps display: aggregated ratings and price targets plus each individual upgrade, downgrade, initiation and maintain action, with the firm and the target change. Pricing: not published. The API site issues a free key to start and routes licensing through a contact form.

Finnhub: best free recommendation trends

Finnhub's free plan ($0, 60 calls a minute, personal-use license) includes Recommendation Trends: the monthly count of strong buy, buy, hold, sell and strong sell for a US ticker. Price Target, Upgrade/Downgrade and EPS estimates are marked premium in the docs, and the plan that unlocks them is All-In-One at $3,500 a month billed annually. There is no middle tier.

TipRanks: best for analyst track records

TipRanks ranks the analysts themselves, so a price target arrives with the success rate of the person who set it. Consumer plans: Premium at $30 a month list (shown at $9 today under a 70% promotion) includes analyst forecasts and PDF export; Ultimate at $50 list ($15 today) adds research firm rankings and CSV export. Programmatic access is a separate track: the enterprise Analyst Ratings API (8,000+ analysts, 250+ sell-side firms, 15+ years of history) publishes no price and takes a contact form, and the MCP connector gives 10 tool calls a month on a free account, 100 to 200 on Premium or Ultimate, paid tiers above that. The limitation: consumer plans export files, they do not answer HTTP calls.

EODHD: best bundled with global fundamentals

EODHD's fundamentals payload carries an AnalystRatings block per ticker: a numeric rating, a target price and strong buy, buy, hold, sell and strong sell counts. Fundamentals need the Fundamentals Data Feed at $59.99 a month or All-In-One at $99.99; the free package allows 20 calls a day and excludes some data types. Limitation: a snapshot, with no per-firm actions in that block.

Alpha Vantage: best budget snapshot

Alpha Vantage's Company Overview returns AnalystTargetPrice and the five rating counts. Free is 25 requests a day; premium starts at $49.99 a month for 75 requests a minute and tops out at $249.99. Limitation: the same as EODHD, a snapshot with no history and no firm-level detail.

SentiSense: best for AI agents and individual builders

SentiSense returns nine analyst endpoints on one key: the consensus (target low, mean and high, analyst count, consensus label, buy/hold/sell counts), a daily consensus history, the upgrades and downgrades feed, forward EPS estimates with surprise history, coverage by firm and named analyst, and analyst profiles with note history. The same data is a tool in the MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT agents. A free key ($0, 1,000 requests a month) returns the full target band and analyst count with an as-of stamp, the three latest actions and one quarter of estimates; PRO at $15 a month or $144 a year unlocks the counts and the full feeds. The limits: coverage is the most-watched US stocks, not every listed name, and rows refresh daily rather than streaming intraday. The consensus-plus-sentiment pattern is written up in how to track analyst ratings with an API.

Which analyst ratings tools have no API?

MarketBeat All Access ($29.00 a month or $249.00 a year) is a strong web screener for daily ratings and exports six months of recommendations to CSV, but publishes no API. Zacks Premium is a web subscription built around the Zacks Rank; its product page publishes no price (see vendor pricing) and lists no API. Fine for a person reading a page, a dead end for a script.

Which one should you pick?

A brokerage that needs the licensed tape with firm names: Benzinga, or TipRanks enterprise if analyst accuracy matters. A script that only needs a monthly consensus: Finnhub free. A snapshot next to fundamentals you already buy: EODHD or Alpha Vantage. An agent or an individual builder who wants the band, the actions, the coverage book and the history on one key: us. For the wider landscape, see our best stock data APIs roundup. For upcoming report dates, see the best earnings calendar APIs in 2026.

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