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EdgarKit vs Intrinio

Intrinio is a broad financial data platform that includes SEC filings alongside market data, fundamentals, and alternative data. EdgarKit is a focused SEC EDGAR API. Here is when to pick each.

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Bottom line

Pick Intrinio if you need one vendor for market data, fundamentals, options, and SEC filings, and enterprise pricing is not a blocker.

Pick EdgarKit if you only need SEC filings, want sub-minute Form 4 latency, and are cost-sensitive.

Intrinio is a full financial data platform. EdgarKit is a specialized SEC filings API. Neither is strictly better, they solve different problems.

What Intrinio actually offers

Intrinio bundles:

  • US real-time and delayed stock prices
  • US options data
  • Company fundamentals (from XBRL)
  • SEC filings metadata and content
  • Insider transactions
  • Institutional holdings (13F)
  • ETF holdings
  • Cryptocurrency prices
  • Economic indicators
  • Alternative data (sentiment, ESG)

The SEC filings module is one product among many. It is competent but not the primary focus.

What EdgarKit offers

EdgarKit does one thing: every SEC EDGAR filing, parsed and accessible via JSON, in real time.

  • Form 4 (insider transactions)
  • 13F (institutional holdings)
  • 8-K (material events)
  • 10-K, 10-Q (financial reports)
  • S-1 (IPO filings)
  • All 100+ other EDGAR form types

Plus specific pattern detection and aggregation on /company pages.

Pricing comparison

Intrinio's pricing is quote-based and typically enterprise. Starter subscriptions for their US Fundamentals + SEC Filings bundle run around $500/month at minimum. Full-stack pricing (real-time market data + fundamentals + filings) is typically $2,000+ per month.

EdgarKit is transparent pricing:

  • Free: 10,000 requests per month
  • Basic: $19/month, 100,000 requests
  • Pro: $79/month, 1,000,000 requests
  • Enterprise: custom pricing for high-volume users

If your only need is SEC filings, EdgarKit is 10 to 100x cheaper. If you need market data alongside filings, Intrinio's bundle can be worth it despite the higher cost.

Latency comparison

Intrinio SEC filings ingestion runs on a schedule, typically minutes behind SEC acceptance. Fine for most use cases, not fine for insider trade alerting where the window closes fast.

EdgarKit polls EDGAR every 30 seconds and typically has parsed data within 30 to 45 seconds of SEC acceptance.

Data quality

Both parse XBRL correctly. Both handle Form 4 amendments. Both extract 13F holdings tables with CUSIP-to-ticker resolution.

EdgarKit exposes insider transaction footnotes as first-class fields (10b5-1 flag, dispositional details, cross-role cluster metadata). Intrinio's insider transactions endpoint is more of a basic feed without pattern-detection layer on top.

Intrinio has parsed financial statements as structured tables (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow). EdgarKit exposes the raw 10-K XBRL but does not yet parse financials into structured statements.

API design

Intrinio:

GET https://api-v2.intrinio.com/companies/{identifier}/filings
GET https://api-v2.intrinio.com/companies/{identifier}/insider-transactions
GET https://api-v2.intrinio.com/data-tags/{identifier}

Extensive, over 200 endpoints across all their data products. Learning the taxonomy takes time.

EdgarKit:

GET https://api.edgarkit.com/v1/filings
GET https://api.edgarkit.com/v1/insiders/transactions
GET https://api.edgarkit.com/v1/companies/{ticker}/insiders

Fewer endpoints (~15), focused on SEC filings only. Faster to integrate.

When to pick each

Pick Intrinio if you are:

  • A financial data team at a hedge fund or asset manager
  • Building a comprehensive fintech product needing many data types
  • Willing to pay $500+/month for one-vendor consolidation
  • Comfortable with a heavier onboarding process

Pick EdgarKit if you are:

  • An indie developer or startup
  • Building a specific SEC-focused product (insider tracker, cluster screener, filing alert bot)
  • Cost-sensitive
  • Prioritizing sub-minute Form 4 latency

Try EdgarKit for free

Signup at edgarkit.com/#signup. 10k requests/mo, no credit card required. Test it against your workload before committing.

For Intrinio pricing, contact their sales team through intrinio.com.