Alternatives
Benzinga News API alternative
Massive already resells Benzinga news as a $99-a-month personal dataset, with history on that endpoint back to 27 April 2009. If what you want is the same wire on a different bill, start there. PIT is a different product and belongs on this list only for one of the four jobs below.
Updated 2026-08-26. PIT figures read off a running server; vendor figures off each vendor’s own pages.
Fit
Match the job before the logo
Four jobs people are doing when they type this. Only the last two point here.
| The job | What to use | What will not substitute |
|---|---|---|
| Live authored headlines, earnings recaps, ratings, squawk | Benzinga cloud, Benzinga Pro, or the Benzinga dataset on Massive | PIT — it carries filing-index rows and has no live feed. |
| A tape next to the wire | Massive stocks plus the Benzinga partner dataset | PIT — the corpus holds no price data. |
| What was on EDGAR or Federal Register public inspection at an instant | PIT’s as_of cut — a read bounded to a chosen instant — on a named clock | A publication-time filter over a newswire archive. |
| A model run that must not see Friday’s 8-K on Thursday | PIT’s named clock, plus a coverage certificate recording what we read each day | Joining today’s wire archive onto a historical calendar. |
Clocks
The one substitution this page exists to stop
A newswire’s publication time records when the desk released the story. It is an editorial clock and it is accurate about editorial timing. Using it as the moment a filing became public on EDGAR measures a different event, and that mismatch is what sends most people to this page.
PIT names three clocks and lets you cut on any of them.
published_at is the filer or index clock.
available_at is the first public availability we hold evidence
for. It is null on all 563,594 SEC rows we hold. A strict cut therefore
returns HTTP 409, with those days listed in coverage.missing
rather than a shortened list. committed_at is when the row
reached us. The response repeats which one it used.
Side by side
On the filing job specifically
| A wire-shaped feed | PIT | |
|---|---|---|
| The object | An article, which may mention a filing. | The filing index row: form, accession, CIK, five clocks, a SHA-256 of the index bytes, and the SEC URL. |
| An empty answer | No matches. | count 0 on a certified day, count JSON null and HTTP 409 on a day we never ingested. |
| Identity | Ticker tags on the story. | Ticker-to-CIK intervals valid at the query instant. |
| Text we keep | Whatever their license covers. | None from WSJ, Reuters, Bloomberg or Benzinga. |
Payload
The rows carry no filing text yet
A PIT row holds form type, company name, accession, CIK, five clocks, a
content hash and the SEC URL. The filing text is not in there yet. A model
reading a cut therefore supplies the substance from its own memory of the
period, and the cut cannot close that leak. Filing text is being ingested
now. Until it lands, fetch the document from source_locator and
let the model read that.
Limits
Five limits
- Two of the four jobs in the table above point at Benzinga, not at PIT.
- There are no latency figures on this page. The corpus is historical, and the live tape runs on a 15-minute schedule rather than in real time.
- PIT holds filing-index rows and Benzinga originates authored stories, so the two are not the same purchase at different prices.
- The certified backfill stops on 2023-03-31, and the live tape picks up at 2026-08-26, so 2024 and 2025 are not covered.
- PIT is a monthly subscription to a historical filing corpus rather than a wire subscription, and plans start at $29. Plans and what the corpus covers.
Check it
If the filing clock is the problem
Try the demo twice, twenty-eight hours apart, and watch the receivership 8-K appear between them with its acceptance receipt attached.
No account needed. Responses carry sample: true. The longer comparison is PIT vs Benzinga.
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