EDGAR is the US Securities and Exchange Commission's official filings system — free, public, authoritative. FinancialReports extends EDGAR with 47 non-US markets, AI-ready Markdown, webhook delivery, an MCP server, and entity resolution to ISIN / LEI / FIGI. Use both.
EDGAR is the US regulator's primary filings system. FinancialReports is the global unified layer on top, with AI-ready output and push delivery.
Every annual, quarterly, interim, and ad-hoc filing across 48 markets — including the US — indexed and delivered as Markdown via REST, S3 bulk, and webhooks.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission's official Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system. Free, public, authoritative. The system every US-listed issuer is legally required to file into (fully mandatory from May 1996).
EDGAR is the regulator. We extend it. There's no rivalry to manufacture here.
Concrete differences, not value judgements. EDGAR is great at what EDGAR is for.
EDGAR isn't slow — it just doesn't push. The shape of the delivery model is what differs.
Measured against 13,400 filings across DE · FR · UK · NL · SE · US, Jan–Apr 2026. EDGAR latency depends on your polling cadence and the SEC's rate limit.
A few real workflows and where each tool shines.
EDGAR is free, authoritative, and covers what you need. Use the bulk ZIPs and data.sec.gov JSON endpoints.
48 markets in one unified schema, AI-ready Markdown, webhook on every new filing, MCP for LLM clients.
Keep EDGAR as your US source of record; add FinancialReports to cover the rest of the world without rewriting your pipeline.
EDGAR is the US source of record. FinancialReports is the global layer on top. Here's how to add 47 markets in a week.
If you have a working EDGAR ingest using data.sec.gov and the bulk ZIPs, leave it alone. It's free and authoritative for US filings.
Point the filing.published webhook at your indexer. Filter by country if you want non-US only, or use both feeds side by side for the US.
Map EDGAR's CIK to ISIN / LEI / FIGI via FinancialReports' entity resolution. Now you have one Filing record shape across all 48 markets.
No. FinancialReports ingests directly from 66+ primary regulator sources globally — BaFin, AMF, FCA, JPX, SEBI, ADX, B3, TASE, KRX, and so on. For US filings we ingest from official SEC distribution channels alongside the rest. EDGAR is the authoritative US source; FinancialReports is the global unified layer on top of EDGAR and 47 other markets.
EDGAR is US-only, has no Markdown, no webhooks, no MCP, no SLA, and no entity resolution beyond CIK. FinancialReports adds 47 non-US markets, AI-ready Markdown, webhook push, an MCP server, ISIN / LEI / FIGI resolution, and an SLA. If you only need US filings as raw HTML/XBRL and can poll, EDGAR is the right tool.
No. EDGAR exposes RSS feeds and a JSON submissions API on data.sec.gov, both pull-based with a 10 requests/second per IP rate limit. FinancialReports pushes an HMAC-signed webhook within ~60 seconds of publication, in any of 48 markets.
EDGAR caps at 10 requests/second per IP with a required User-Agent header and no SLA. FinancialReports has tier-based rate limits and an SLA on the paid tiers.
No. EDGAR delivers HTML, raw text/SGML, XBRL/iXBRL, JSON metadata via data.sec.gov, and PDF scans for some older paper filings. No Markdown, no AI summaries, no LLM-grounding artifacts. FinancialReports delivers every filing as clean Markdown alongside the primary-source PDF.
EDGAR + 47 other markets. Markdown. Webhooks. MCP. Entity resolution. Use both — they don't compete.