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Aladdin Studio (aladdin-studio)

Aladdin Studio is BlackRock's developer platform enabling institutional investors, asset managers, and wealth managers to build custom solutions on top of the Aladdin investment operating system. APIs provide access to portfolio data, risk analytics, trading, investment research, and the Aladdin Data Cloud, supporting approximately $25 trillion in assets managed on the platform.

URL: https://www.blackrock.com/aladdin/products/apis

Run: Capabilities Using Naftiko

Tags:

  • Financial, Investment Management, Portfolio Analytics, Risk Management, Asset Management, BlackRock, Data Cloud

Timestamps

  • Created: 2024-03-05
  • Modified: 2026-04-19

APIs

Aladdin Graph API

The Aladdin Graph API provides RESTful access to portfolio data, securities, positions, risk analytics, and other Aladdin platform capabilities. Powers the AladdinSDK Python client with OAuth and Basic Auth authentication.

Human URL: https://www.blackrock.com/aladdin/products/apis

Tags:

  • Portfolio Data, Investment Management, REST

Properties

Aladdin Data Cloud API

The Aladdin Data Cloud API provides access to Snowflake-based analytics data warehousing with OAuth and JWT authentication. Enables large-scale portfolio analytics and data science workflows using Snowflake connectors and Snowpark.

Human URL: https://www.blackrock.com/aladdin/products/apis

Tags:

  • Data Cloud, Snowflake, Analytics

Properties

Aladdin Trading API

The Aladdin Trading API enables order management and trading workflow integration. Available as the asdk_plugin_trading Python package built on the AladdinSDK framework.

Human URL: https://www.blackrock.com/aladdin/products/apis

Tags:

  • Trading, Order Management, Financial

Properties

Aladdin Investment Research API

The Aladdin Investment Research API provides access to research data, analyst insights, and quantitative analytics built on Aladdin's data infrastructure. Available as the asdk_plugin_investment_research Python package.

Human URL: https://www.blackrock.com/aladdin/products/apis

Tags:

  • Investment Research, Analytics, Portfolio

Properties

Common Properties

Features

Name Description
Portfolio Data Access Retrieve comprehensive portfolio data including positions, holdings, securities, and performance metrics across asset classes.
Risk Analytics Access Aladdin's institutional-grade risk analytics including factor exposures, VaR, scenario analysis, and stress testing across public and private markets.
Aladdin Data Cloud Snowflake-based data warehousing providing access to large-scale portfolio analytics with OAuth and JWT authentication supporting both Snowflake connectors and Snowpark.
Trading Integration Order management and trading workflow APIs enabling integration with Aladdin's trading platform for order creation, tracking, and execution.
Investment Research Access APIs for accessing investment research data, analyst insights, and quantitative analytics built on Aladdin's data infrastructure.
Long-Running Operations Support for long-running operation (LRO) patterns with configurable polling, enabling asynchronous processing of computationally intensive analytics requests.
Batch Processing Batch API support with sequential and parallel execution capabilities for processing large volumes of portfolio data operations efficiently.
Multi-Auth Support Flexible authentication supporting Basic Auth with API tokens, OAuth client credentials flow, OAuth refresh token flow, and Snowflake JWT for Data Cloud access.
Plugin Architecture Extensible SDK plugin architecture enabling domain-specific packages (trading, investment research) built on top of the core AladdinSDK.
Jupyter Notebook Integration Downloadable Python Jupyter Notebooks and code samples in multiple languages for rapid solution development and prototyping.

Use Cases

Name Description
Custom Portfolio Analytics Build bespoke portfolio analysis tools using Aladdin's risk and performance data to generate custom insights for investment teams.
Automated Risk Reporting Automate generation of risk reports, factor exposure summaries, and stress test results using Aladdin's risk analytics APIs.
Trading Workflow Automation Integrate Aladdin trading data into proprietary order management systems and automate trading workflow processes.
Investment Research Integration Connect internal research platforms to Aladdin's investment research data for unified analyst workflow tooling.
Data Science and Quantitative Research Access Aladdin Data Cloud from Snowflake-based data science environments for quantitative model development and backtesting.
Client Reporting Automation Build automated client reporting solutions pulling portfolio performance, risk, and holdings data from Aladdin APIs.
Multi-Asset Class Analytics Analyze portfolios across public equities, fixed income, alternatives, and private markets using Aladdin's unified data platform.

Integrations

Name Description
Snowflake Native Aladdin Data Cloud integration with Snowflake for large-scale analytics, supporting both standard connectors and Snowpark for Python-based data science workflows.
Amazon Web Services Aladdin available on AWS infrastructure (general availability expected second half of 2026) complementing existing Azure deployment.
Microsoft Azure Primary cloud infrastructure for Aladdin platform, supporting enterprise deployments across institutional clients.
Preqin Private markets data integrated into Aladdin ecosystem following BlackRock's acquisition for alternatives and private market analytics.
Python Ecosystem First-class Python support via AladdinSDK on PyPI, with Jupyter Notebook examples and plugin architecture for domain extensions.
RepRisk ESG risk data integrated into Aladdin portfolio management for reputational and environmental risk analysis.

Artifacts

Machine-readable API specifications organized by format.

OpenAPI

JSON Schema

JSON Structure

JSON-LD

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Capabilities

Naftiko capabilities organized as shared per-API definitions composed into customer-facing workflows.

Shared Per-API Definitions

Workflow Capabilities

Workflow APIs Combined Tools Persona
Portfolio Analytics aladdin-graph, aladdin-data-cloud 7 Portfolio Manager, Risk Analyst, Quantitative Researcher

Vocabulary

  • Aladdin Studio Vocabulary — Unified taxonomy mapping 10 resources, 4 actions, 1 workflow, and 3 personas across operational (OpenAPI) and capability (Naftiko) dimensions

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Maintainers

FN: Kin Lane

Email: kin@apievangelist.com

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