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FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis · Market & fundamentals data

In-depth entry

Free economic database from the St. Louis Fed aggregating hundreds of thousands of US and international time series, with graphs, vintages (ALFRED), an Excel add-in and a keyed JSON/XML API

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

GeoPandas

GeoPandas developers (NumFOCUS affiliated) · GIS & mapping

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Python library extending pandas with geometry columns, spatial operations, reprojection, spatial joins and file I/O for vector geodata

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Interactive Brokers API

Interactive Brokers LLC · Financial analysis & investing

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Programmatic trading and market-data access to Interactive Brokers accounts through the TWS API, the REST-based Web API and FIX

ProprietaryUsage-basedPaidLocalRedirected

PostGIS

PostGIS Project Steering Committee (OSGeo) · GIS & mapping

In-depth entry

Spatial extension for PostgreSQL adding geometry, geography and raster types with indexing and hundreds of SQL functions

GPL-2.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

QGIS

QGIS.org association · GIS & mapping

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Open-source desktop GIS for viewing, editing, analysing and publishing vector and raster geodata, extensible with Python plugins

GPL-2.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeLocalBroken

QuantConnect

QuantConnect Corporation · Financial analysis & investing

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Algorithmic trading platform built on the open-source LEAN engine, with cloud backtesting, research notebooks and brokerage-connected live trading

Apache-2.0FreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

QuantLib

QuantLib project (Luigi Ballabio and contributors) · Financial analysis & investing

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Open-source C++ library for quantitative finance covering instruments, term structures, pricing engines and calendars, with Python and other bindings

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

SEC EDGAR

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · SEC/EDGAR & corporate filings

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The SEC's free public filing system: company and full-text search, bulk index and feed archives, and data.sec.gov JSON APIs for submissions and XBRL financial facts, subject to a fair-access rate policy

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (Government of Canada) · Open & public data

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Canada's national statistical agency publishing census, economic and social data tables with open licensing and programmatic access via Web Data Service

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap Foundation · GIS & mapping

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Collaboratively edited world map database released under the ODbL, with planet files, an editing API and derived tiles and extracts

ODbL-1.0FreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

RSMeans Data

Gordian · Construction estimating & quantity surveying

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Gordian's construction cost database of unit prices, assemblies and square-foot models with location factors, sold online and in annual books

ProprietaryPaidEnterpriseNov 2, 2026

Rôle d'évaluation foncière (Québec)

Gouvernement du Québec — Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation · Real estate valuation & property data

In-depth entry

Québec's municipal property assessment rolls: per-unit values and building attributes published by municipalities and as open data by the MAMH

CC-BY-4.0FreeNov 2, 2026

H3

Uber Technologies (open-source project) · GIS & mapping

Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system from Uber with a C core and bindings for Python, JavaScript, Java and SQL engines

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Common Crawl

Common Crawl Foundation · Web archiving

Nonprofit open repository of petabyte-scale web crawl data since 2008, published as WARC, WAT and WET files on AWS Open Data with URL and columnar indexes

MixedFreeNov 2, 2026

Geocodio

Dotsquare LLC (Geocodio) · GIS & mapping

Geocoding API and spreadsheet service for the US and Canada with batch processing and data appends such as census, districts and time zones

ProprietaryFreemiumUsage-basedNov 2, 2026

MapLibre

MapLibre Organization · GIS & mapping

Open-source vector-tile map renderers for web (GL JS) and native platforms, forked from Mapbox GL and governed by a community organisation

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Odoo

Odoo S.A. · CRM & business operations

Modular open-source business suite (CRM, invoicing, accounting, inventory, website, HR) with an LGPL community edition and a hosted or licensed enterprise edition

LGPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreemiumSelf-hostedBroken

Alpaca

Alpaca (AlpacaDB, Inc.) · Financial analysis & investing

API-first US brokerage offering a Trading API, Market Data API and Broker API for stocks, ETFs, options and crypto, with paper trading

Apache-2.0FreemiumUsage-basedNov 2, 2026

Eurostat

European Commission — Eurostat · Open & public data

Statistical office of the European Union publishing harmonised EU and member-state data through the Data Browser, bulk downloads and SDMX/JSON APIs

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Leaflet

Volodymyr Agafonkin and contributors · GIS & mapping

Lightweight open-source JavaScript library for interactive tile-based web maps with markers, vector layers and a large plugin ecosystem

BSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Overpass API

Roland Olbricht and the OpenStreetMap community · GIS & mapping

Read-only query service for OpenStreetMap data using the Overpass QL language, available on public instances or self-hosted

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

World Bank Open Data

World Bank Group · Open & public data

Free access to World Bank development indicators by country and year through a web portal, bulk downloads and a public REST API

ProprietaryFreeBroken

Centris.ca

Centris Corporation inc. · Real estate valuation & property data

Québec's broker-fed real estate listings portal operated by Centris, with for-sale and rental listings, price statistics and a broker directory

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Etherscan

Etherscan · Open & public data

Ethereum block explorer and multichain REST API exposing balances, transactions, token transfers, verified contract source, logs and gas data

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026