About EDGAR Answers
EDGAR Answers is a hosted MCP server that turns SEC EDGAR filings into normalized financial data and parsed filing answers. It is designed for agents and analysts who need comparable XBRL statements, changes between 10-Ks, insider activity, sections, or full-text search.
Key features
- 01Normalized annual financial statements
- 02Paragraph-level diffs between recent filings
- 03Parsed Form 4 insider activity
- 04Clean text for filing sections
- 05Full-text filing search since 2001
Use cases
- 01Compare a company’s annual financials
- 02Identify changes in 10-K risk factors
- 03Review insider trades by type
- 04Search filings for a topic or phrase
MCP support
Hosted as a managed MCP server over Streamable HTTP. MCP clients connect with an Apify API token; stdio-only clients can use mcp-remote as a bridge.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://aion-org--edgar-answers-mcp.apify.actor/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http aion-autonomous-org-edgar-answers https://aion-org--edgar-answers-mcp.apify.actor/mcp{"mcpServers":{"aion-autonomous-org-edgar-answers":{"type":"http","url":"https://aion-org--edgar-answers-mcp.apify.actor/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"aion-autonomous-org-edgar-answers":{"type":"http","url":"https://aion-org--edgar-answers-mcp.apify.actor/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"aion-autonomous-org-edgar-answers":{"type":"http","url":"https://aion-org--edgar-answers-mcp.apify.actor/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"aion-autonomous-org-edgar-answers":{"serverUrl":"https://aion-org--edgar-answers-mcp.apify.actor/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
https://aion-org--edgar-answers-mcp.apify.actor/mcpAuth requiredTools
Details
From the project READMEEDGAR Answers — SEC filings for AI agents
Give your agent answers from SEC EDGAR, not raw API responses.
This repository holds the documentation and registry manifest for a hosted MCP server. There is nothing to install or run: connect to the endpoint below from any MCP client. The server itself is operated as a managed service.
Every US public company files its financials with the SEC, for free, in XBRL. The catch is that "free and public" is not the same as "usable": companies tag the same line item a dozen different ways, annual and quarterly figures live in the same stream, restatements silently overwrite history, and Form 4 insider filings arrive as raw XML. Existing EDGAR MCP servers hand your agent that mess and wish it luck.
This server does the parsing first. Your agent asks for revenue; it gets revenue.
Tools
get_financials — normalized annual statements
Multi-year income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow for any US-listed company, from a ticker or CIK.
get_financials(company: "AAPL", years: 4)
→ revenue, grossProfit, operatingIncome, netIncome, epsDiluted,
operatingCashFlow, capex, totalAssets, totalLiabilities,
stockholdersEquity, cashAndEquivalents, longTermDebt, sharesDiluted
— one clean row per fiscal year
Behind that: an ordered tag-fallback chain per line item (filers disagree on
which us-gaap tag means "revenue"), duration filtering so annual figures aren't
contaminated by quarterly cumulatives, and restatement resolution to the most
recently filed value. Unreported items come back null rather than guessed.
filing_diff — what changed year over year
filing_diff(company: "NVDA", section: "risk_factors")
→ paragraphs added and removed between the two most recent 10-Ks
The question an analyst actually asks — what did they start saying this year, and what did they quietly drop? — answered at paragraph level, with boilerplate that merely reflowed filtered out.
insider_activity — Form 4, parsed
insider_activity(company: "MSFT", filings: 10)
→ who, role, transaction type, shares, price, holdings after — tidy rows
Open-market buys separated from tax withholding and option exercises, so your agent doesn't mistake a scheduled vest for a conviction purchase.
filing_section — any section as clean text
filing_section(company: "TSLA", section: "risk_factors" | "mdna" | "business" | "1A")
Table-of-contents decoys are filtered out; you get the real section body.
search_filings — full-text search since 2001
search_filings(query: "\"supply chain disruption\"", forms: "10-K", startDate: "2025-01-01")
Connect
Streamable HTTP endpoint:
https://aion-org--edgar-answers-mcp.apify.actor/mcp
Authenticate with your Apify API token as a bearer token. In an MCP client config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"edgar-answers": {
"url": "https://aion-org--edgar-answers-mcp.apify.actor/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
}
}
}
For clients that only speak stdio, bridge with npx mcp-remote <url> --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN".
The server runs in standby mode: it scales to zero when idle and wakes on your first request, so the first call after a quiet period takes a few seconds.
Pricing
Pay per successful call — failed calls are not billed.
| Call | Price |
|---|---|
search_filings | $0.005 |
get_financials | $0.02 |
insider_activity | $0.02 |
filing_section | $0.03 |
filing_diff | $0.05 |
Data and compliance
Source data is SEC EDGAR — US government filings, public domain. Requests are made with a declared User-Agent and rate-limited well under the SEC's published ceiling, per their access guidelines. Nothing here is scraped from a site that prohibits it.
Limits, stated plainly
- US GAAP filers. Foreign private issuers reporting under IFRS return no
normalized financials;
get_financialssays so rather than guessing. - Coverage follows EDGAR. Full-text search reaches back to 2001; XBRL financials exist from roughly 2009 onward.
- Not investment advice. This is filing data, faithfully parsed. What you conclude from it is yours.
filing_diffcompares the two most recent filings of a form; arbitrary filing pairs aren't exposed yet.
Found a parsing bug or want a tool that isn't here? Open an issue here or on the Actor — specific reports about specific tickers get fixed.
Listed on the Apify Store. Documentation in this repository is © Aion; the service is proprietary.
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