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Benzinga Review, Pricing, and Features
Benzinga
Benzinga is a real-time market-news and trading-data service for active traders, investors, developers, and data buyers. It covers alerts, scanners, calendars, squawk, options activity, analyst actions, filings, transcripts, and APIs. Real-time tools require a paid plan or add-on, and Benzinga does not provide portfolio accounting.
Best for
- Active traders looking for real-time market news, alerts, scanner and screener workflows, squawk, and calendars.
- Developers and data buyers needing Benzinga news, calendar, transcripts, government trades, SEC filings, or short-interest feeds through API/WebSocket/webhooks.
- Buyers comparing trading terminals where alerts and event feeds matter more than long-form fundamental modeling.
Watch out
- Benzinga Pro is sold as a paid terminal with a 14-day trial. API/data licensing is separate.
- Scanner, Calendar Suite, Signals, Benzinga AI, unusual options activity, and High Beta Squawk require higher tiers or add-ons.
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Pricing
From $37/mo · 14-day trial · Enterprise · 6 plans
Basic
Entry Benzinga Pro plan (monthly billing; annual discount option).
Streamlined
Mid-tier Benzinga Pro plan adding Advanced Newsfeed filtering and Audio Squawk (monthly billing; annual discount option).
Essential
Top Benzinga Pro plan including Real-Time Scanner, Calendar, Signals, and Benzinga AI (pricing page notes AI is exclusive to Essential).
Unusual Options Activity Add-on
Paid data upgrade for Unusual Options Activity; required for Option Activity signals.
High Beta Squawk Add-on
Optional High Beta Squawk add-on.
APIs & Licensing
Benzinga data licensing for news, market, and company data via REST APIs, WebSocket streams, and webhooks.
Deals
Key features
- Benzinga Pro for a fast newsfeed with filters, notifications, price sentiment, and Why Is It Moving explanations.
- Create alerts across news, signals, watchlists, and market events with browser, desktop, sound, and email delivery.
- Tracking event calendars for earnings, dividends, guidance, IPOs, M&A, SEC filings, secondary offerings, and stock splits.
- Signals for real-time price and volume events such as spikes, block trades, halt/resume, gaps, highs, and lows.
- Support for adding unusual options activity data when option-flow alerts and option-activity signals matter to the trading workflow.
- Screening and scanning stocks with fundamental, technical, float, margin, moving-average, volume, and mover presets.
- Watchlists with real-time updates, custom columns, alerts, and optional email summaries.
- Audio Squawk, High Beta Squawk, Benzinga AI, Calendar Suite, Scanner, and Signals only after checking which plan or add-on adds them.
- License data through REST APIs, WebSocket streams, webhooks, and SDKs for news, WIIM, calendars, transcripts, government trades, SEC filings, short interest, quotes, and analyst actions.
- Separate commercial terms: Benzinga Pro subscriptions, data APIs, premium datasets, exchange data, and add-ons can be priced separately.
- Benzinga is an active-trading news, alert, scanner, and data-feed product, not a broker, valuation platform, tax-lot tracker, or deep fundamental modeling terminal.
FAQ
Is Benzinga free?
No. Benzinga does not offer a free plan. Expect subscription and other pricing when you onboard. Check the vendor site for the most recent offers. A 14-day free trial is available on select plans. Enterprise quotes are handled directly with the vendor.
Who is Benzinga best for?
Benzinga is built for Retail Traders, Pro Retail, Day Traders, Swing Traders, Long-term Investors, Quants/Developers + 1 more. It suits beginner, intermediate, and advanced users.
What platforms and connections does Benzinga support?
You can use Benzinga on Web and Mobile. Benzinga offers an API (REST and WebSocket) with APIKey authentication.
Which markets does Benzinga cover?
It tracks Stocks, Options, Futures, and Cryptos. Identifiers include Ticker, ISIN, and CIK.
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