MCP server URL:

https://api.sec-api.io/mcp?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY

Get an API key at sec-api.io.

Quarterly earnings	Institutional holdings	Executive pay
Form 8-K Item 2.02 and 10-Q risk factors	Form 13F holdings	Executive compensation

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Quick start

Add this to your client's MCP configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sec-api": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.sec-api.io/mcp?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
}

Restart the client. It should report 49 tools.

Your client does not use JSON config? See the setup guides for per-client instructions.

What you get

Coverage	Detail
20M+ EDGAR filings, 100M+ exhibits	From license agreements, investor presentations and other Reg FD disclosures, over insider trading, credit and bond agreements, bylaws, IPOs, secondaries and shelf offerings, M&A terms, government contracts, audit reports, SEC enforcement actions, AAERs and executive employment agreements, to board composition, subsidiaries, public float and cybersecurity incidents.
1.1M+ entities, survivorship-bias free	Every SEC-regulated filer that ever reported, including delisted companies, dissolved funds, terminated advisers and entities no longer reporting. Insiders, public and private companies, financial advisers, ETFs, mutual funds, hedge funds, money-market funds, institutional investors, foreign private issuers, BDCs, REITs, shell companies, brokers, dealers, asset-backed securities issuers and SROs.
All 500+ EDGAR form types	Annual and quarterly reports (10-K, 10-Q, 20-F, 40-F), proxy statements (DEF 14A, PRE 14A) and proxy voting records, registration statements and prospectuses, and everything in between, including form types no longer in use.
Full historical range, 1993 to present	Updated in real time as EDGAR ingests new filings.

All of it reaches your agent through the 49 tools below. Documents come back as raw source, PDF or a single extracted section. Structured data comes back as JSON.

Examples

Questions and AI-generated answers. Click to expand.

Find the link to NVIDIA's latest 8-K.

NVIDIA's most recent 8-K was filed on 2 July 2026, reporting under Item 5.02, departure or appointment of directors and officers.

• Document: nvda-20250628.htm
• Filing index: 0001045810-26-000060-index.htm
• Accession number: 0001045810-26-000060

Want the full text of Item 5.02?

Summarize the differences between the risk factors from Lam Research's two most recent 10-K filings.

Comparing the FY2026 10-K and the FY2025 10-K, risk disclosure grew by about 20 percent. Three changes stand out.

New legal exposure. Lam now warns that law enforcement may investigate or charge the company or its employees over improper receipt or misuse of designated technology or third-party confidential information under national and economic-security measures, with civil or criminal liability.

Cybersecurity risk doubled in length. The 2026 filing names specific threats for the first time: prompt injection, ransomware, and state-sponsored intrusion.

A compliance admission. The regulatory factor now concedes "there have been, and may continue to be, instances of our compliance policies and procedures not being effective."

...

Summarize the debt covenants in Boeing's most recent credit agreement.

Boeing's most recent facility is a $3.0 billion 364-day credit agreement signed in August 2025, with Citibank and JPMorgan Chase as syndication agents.

Covenant	Term
Leverage ratio	Maximum consolidated debt to total capital
Minimum liquidity	Floor on unrestricted cash and equivalents
Negative pledge	Restricts liens on principal properties
Cross-default	Triggers on other indebtedness above a threshold
ERISA liability	Capped at a stated amount
...	...

What are the terms of Plug Power's latest shelf offering?

Plug Power filed a Form S-3ASR in May 2025 covering a $1 billion at-the-market common stock offering, later updated by a 424B5.

• Initial sales agent: B. Riley Securities
• Later sales agent: Yorkville Securities
• Commission: 3.0 to 5.0 percent of gross proceeds
• ...

Summarize the latest earnings from the technology sector.

212 Item 2.02 earnings filings from technology companies between 1 and 12 August 2026.

• AMD: Q2 revenue of $11.536 billion, up 50 percent year over year.
• Arista Networks: first $3 billion quarter.
• Palantir: the outlier, with 93 percent revenue growth.
• ...

Which companies disclosed a cybersecurity incident this quarter?

Seven Form 8-K Item 1.05 filings between July and August 2026. Three are new disclosures.

Company	Incident	Filing
Amgen	Cloud data exfiltration	0000318154-26-000119
Navient	Ransomware attack	0001140361-26-027441
AdaptHealth	Social engineering compromise	0001104659-26-080297
...	...	...

More worked examples, with the tool calls behind them, in use cases.

Tools

Full reference with input schemas, response shapes and examples: docs/tools/README.md

Tool	Purpose	Category
filing-search	Search SEC EDGAR filings from 1993 to present to retrieve metadata	Search and discovery
full-text-search	Full-text search over SEC EDGAR filings	Search and discovery
filing-to-pdf	Fetch any SEC EDGAR filing and exhibit as PDF	Filings and documents
get-edgar-file	Download any SEC EDGAR filing or exhibit in its original format	Filings and documents
extractor	Extract a section from a 10-K/10-Q/8-K filing	Filings and documents
xbrl-to-json	Convert XBRL financials to normalized JSON	Filings and documents
form-13f-holdings	Search Form 13F institutional holdings	Ownership and insiders
form-13f-cover-pages	Search Form 13F cover pages	Ownership and insiders
form-13d-13g	Search Schedule 13D/13G beneficial-ownership filings	Ownership and insiders
insider-trading	Search insider trading disclosures (Form 3/4/5)	Ownership and insiders
form-144	Search Form 144 intent-to-sell filings	Ownership and insiders
form-nport	Search Form N-PORT fund portfolio holdings	Funds
form-npx	Search Form N-PX proxy voting records	Funds
form-npx-file	Get a Form N-PX file by accession number	Funds
form-ncen	Search Form N-CEN investment company census	Funds
form-adv-firms	Search Form ADV firm registrations	Investment advisers
form-adv-individuals	Search Form ADV individual registrations	Investment advisers
form-adv-brochures	Get Form ADV Part 2 brochures for an adviser	Investment advisers
form-adv-schedule-a-direct-owners	Get Form ADV Schedule A, direct owners of an adviser	Investment advisers
form-adv-schedule-b-indirect-owners	Get Form ADV Schedule B, indirect owners of an adviser	Investment advisers
form-adv-schedule-d-1-b	Get Form ADV Schedule D-1-B, other business names	Investment advisers
form-adv-schedule-d-5-k	Get Form ADV Schedule D-5-K, separately managed accounts	Investment advisers
form-adv-schedule-d-7-a	Get Form ADV Schedule D-7-A, financial industry affiliations	Investment advisers
form-adv-schedule-d-7-b-1	Get Form ADV Schedule D-7-B-1, private funds advised	Investment advisers
form-s1-424b4	Search S-1 / 424B4 registration filings	Offerings and registrations
form-d	Search Form D private-placement filings	Offerings and registrations
form-c	Search Form C Regulation Crowdfunding offerings	Offerings and registrations
form-8k	Search structured 8-K material-event filings	Offerings and registrations
reg-a-search	Search Regulation A / A+ offerings	Offerings and registrations
reg-a-form-1a	Search structured Reg A Form 1-A filings	Offerings and registrations
reg-a-form-1k	Search structured Reg A Form 1-K filings	Offerings and registrations
reg-a-form-1z	Search structured Reg A Form 1-Z filings	Offerings and registrations
compensation	Search executive compensation data	Governance and compensation
compensation-by-key	Get executive compensation by CIK or ticker	Governance and compensation
audit-fees	Search auditor / audit-fee disclosures	Governance and compensation
directors-and-board-members	Search directors and board members	Governance and compensation
float	Fetch public float and share count	Company and entity
subsidiaries	Search Exhibit 21 subsidiary disclosures	Company and entity
edgar-entities	Search EDGAR entity master	Company and entity
mapping	Company identifier mapping (CIK/ticker/CUSIP/name)	Company and entity
sec-enforcement-actions	Search SEC enforcement actions	Enforcement
sec-litigation-releases	Search SEC litigation releases	Enforcement
sec-administrative-proceedings	Search SEC administrative proceedings	Enforcement
aaers	Search Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases (AAER)	Enforcement
aaer-file	Fetch an AAER document file	Enforcement
sro	Search SRO (self-regulatory organization) rule filings	Enforcement
form-x-17a-5	Search Form X-17A-5 (broker-dealer FOCUS reports)	Broker-dealers
edgar-ingestion-log	Get all SEC filings ingested at a date	Ingestion logs
api-key-usage	Get sec-api API key monthly bandwidth usage	Account

Documentation

Guide	What it covers
Getting started	Key, config, first query, in five minutes
Setup guides	Per-client configuration for every MCP client
Tool reference	All 49 tools, one page each
Query language	Lucene syntax and the field vocabulary
Authentication	Key handling and rotation
Transport	Streamable HTTP, and the stdio bridge
Response format	Envelopes, text blocks, raw documents
Limits and errors	Paging and error text

Transport

The server is remote and speaks Streamable HTTP. There is nothing to install and no stdio server to run.

Clients that only support stdio can bridge to it:

npx mcp-remote https://api.sec-api.io/mcp?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY

Verify the server from a terminal without any client:

curl -s https://api.sec-api.io/mcp?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list","params":{}}'

Limits

Some tools return large payloads. See limits and errors before wiring them into an agent loop.

Citation

@software{secapi_sec_edgar_mcp,
  author  = {{SEC-API.io}},
  title   = {{SEC EDGAR MCP: Model Context Protocol server for SEC EDGAR filings}},
  year    = {2026},
  version = {1.1.1},
  url     = {https://github.com/sec-api/sec-edgar-mcp}
}

See CITATION.cff.

License

MIT. Use of the MCP server is governed by the sec-api.io terms.

Need help?

Contact us at support@sec-api.io.