LSEG Workspace — the product formerly known as Refinitiv Eikon, retired 30 June 2025 — is the analyst desktop with Reuters News, StarMine, and the RNS regulatory feed. FinancialReports is the filings API built for builders — self-serve, AI-ready Markdown, webhooks, MCP, free for the web, across 48 markets.
LSEG solves the analyst desktop and cross-asset data. FinancialReports solves the AI-era filings pipeline. The overlap is one corner of each product.
Every annual, quarterly, interim, and ad-hoc filing — indexed, parsed, normalized to Markdown. Free for the web, paid for the API and bulk delivery.
LSEG Workspace combines Reuters News, StarMine analytics, MarketPsych sentiment, the RNS regulatory feed, and 40M+ filings going back decades. The successor to Refinitiv Eikon.
A non-exhaustive grid of what each tool does and how well. Where the lines blur, we say so.
Concrete numbers, sourced from each vendor's public materials and third-party data vendors.
Median time from regulator publication to a queryable record. LSEG's RNS feed is WebSocket-fast; the broader Filings API runs on a batch cadence .
Measured against 13,400 filings across DE · FR · UK · NL · SE · US, Jan–Apr 2026. Time = regulator publication → API availability. Webhooks fire < 90 s for paid clients.
A few real workflows and where each tool shines. There's no single answer — many firms run both.
Workspace is the analyst's daily driver — Reuters news flow, StarMine ratings, codebooks. FinancialReports has no equivalent desktop UI.
Self-serve API key, AI-ready Markdown, webhook on every new filing across 48 markets, and a free MCP server. No Copilot Studio dependency.
Cross-asset is LSEG's moat. Complement with FinancialReports for the AI-ready filings layer underneath.
LSEG stays for the analyst desktop and cross-asset overlay. FinancialReports takes the AI-era filings backend. Here's how to do it in a week.
Workspace, Reuters News, StarMine, RNS, Eikon Data API. Note which the AI/dev team depends on vs the analyst seat.
Point the filing.published webhook at your AI/dev pipeline. Markdown lands within 60 s. Keep LSEG for the analyst desktop.
Route raw filings via FinancialReports; LSEG stays for news, analytics, and the cross-asset overlay.
LSEG Workspace is sales-quoted with no public price list; third-party estimates put it at $1,500–$3,000/user/month base, plus add-ons, with typical mid-market ACVs of $150,000–$400,000 . FinancialReports is $0 for the web, $69/mo for Pro, and $499/mo for Business, all with self-serve checkout.
Typically no — Filings API access requires an LSEG / Refinitiv entitlement and a sales conversation. FinancialReports gives any developer an API key without sales.
Not in the standard Workspace or Filings API surface — filings are delivered as PDF, HTML, or structured fields . FinancialReports delivers every filing as AI-ready Markdown natively.
LSEG's MCP integration ships through Microsoft Copilot Studio with an LSEG entitlement . FinancialReports' MCP server is public, free, and works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and custom agents — no gating, no Copilot dependency.
Mid-market ACVs typically start in the high five figures — out of reach for most small fintechs. FinancialReports is built for builders: $69/mo gets the same primary-source filings universe across 48 markets, in Markdown, with webhooks.
Stop waiting on sales to evaluate a filings feed. Get an API key in two minutes.