# Introduction

The Benchmark Minerals Intelligence API provides structured access to trusted pricing and supply chain datasets across the global energy transition.

Our API is organised into two core services:

## Benchmark Prices

The definitive pricing service for the new energy economy

Bringing together over 2,500 price assessments, covering a broad range of energy transition raw materials and chemistries, across China, Asia, North America and Europe.

Designed to support:

- Contract pricing
- Risk management
- Settlement of exchange-traded derivatives
- Transparent index-linked agreements


## Supply Chain Data

The world’s most comprehensive mine-to-grid supply chain dataset.
Access structured forecasts and databases across:

- Supply (asset-level)
- Demand
- Capacity assessments
- Cost curves
- Price forecasts
- EV sales & production
- Battery demand across the supply chain