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Alpha Vantage

Alpha Vantage Inc. · Market & fundamentals data

REST API for stock, ETF, options, forex, crypto, commodity and economic data plus fundamentals, news sentiment and technical indicators, with a free key tier and premium plans

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Crossref

Crossref · Research dissemination

Membership organization that registers DOIs for scholarly content and exposes the metadata through a free public REST API, content negotiation and the paid Metadata Plus service

ProprietaryFreePaidNov 2, 2026

Lean

Lean FRO · Mathematical & statistical computing

Open-source functional programming language and interactive theorem prover with dependent types, the Mathlib mathematics library and VS Code tooling, stewarded by the Lean FRO

Apache-2.0FreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

Databento

Databento, Inc. · Market & fundamentals data

In-depth entry

Usage-priced market data platform with normalized order-book (MBO/MBP), trades, OHLCV and reference schemas for futures, options and equities, delivered via historical, live and batch APIs in the DBN format

MixedUsage-basedPaidNov 2, 2026

FirstRate Data

FirstRate Data LLC · Market & fundamentals data

In-depth entry

Vendor of historical intraday market data (1-minute to daily bars, tick and options) for US stocks, ETFs, futures, indices, crypto and FX, delivered as zipped CSV bundles under a perpetual licence

ProprietaryPaidAcademicNov 2, 2026

Google Scholar

Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Literature discovery & review

Free scholarly search engine from Google that indexes articles, theses, books and court opinions with citation counts and author profiles

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Hugging Face Hub

Hugging Face · Training & fine-tuning

In-depth entry

Hosting platform for open models, datasets and Spaces demo apps built on git repositories and Xet storage, with Inference Providers, Endpoints, Jobs and an open-source Python client and CLI

MixedFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

JabRef

JabRef e.V. and contributors · Citation management

Open-source, BibTeX/biblatex-native reference manager for LaTeX users with online fetchers, groups, file linking and editor integration

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

OpenAlex

OurResearch · Literature discovery & review

In-depth entry

Open catalog of the global research system: works, authors, sources, institutions and topics under CC0, served by a REST API, web app and S3 snapshot

Open sourceFreeFreemiumBroken

OpenFIGI

Bloomberg L.P. (FIGI Registration Authority) · Market & fundamentals data

Free API and web tool from Bloomberg for mapping tickers, ISINs, CUSIPs and other identifiers to public-domain FIGI instrument identifiers, with search and filter endpoints

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Polars

Polars (Ritchie Vink and contributors) · DataFrames & array computing

In-depth entry

Rust-based DataFrame library with Python, Rust, Node and R bindings offering lazy query optimization, multithreading and Arrow-native memory

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Sphinx

Sphinx team · Documentation tooling

Python documentation generator using reStructuredText or MyST Markdown with cross-referencing, API autodoc and output to HTML, PDF via LaTeX, ePub and man pages

BSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania · Market & fundamentals data

In-depth entry

Institution-subscribed research data platform from Wharton hosting CRSP, Compustat, TAQ, OptionMetrics and dozens of other vendors' databases with web queries, SQL, SAS, Python and R access

ProprietaryEnterpriseAcademicNov 2, 2026

Zenodo

CERN (with OpenAIRE) · Research dissemination

In-depth entry

Free general-purpose research repository operated by CERN that assigns DOIs to datasets, software, papers and other outputs, with a REST API, OAI-PMH, GitHub release archiving and CC0 metadata

Open sourceFreeNov 2, 2026

EconML

PyWhy (originally Microsoft Research) · Econometrics & causal inference

Python library for heterogeneous treatment-effect estimation with machine learning: double ML, doubly robust learners, causal forests, meta-learners, IV and policy learning

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

Positron

Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing

Posit's multi-language data-science IDE built on Code OSS, with first-class R and Python consoles, variables and plots panes, under the Elastic License 2.0

Elastic-2.0FreeLocalNov 2, 2026

scikit-learn

scikit-learn developers · Mathematical & statistical computing

BSD-licensed Python machine-learning library for classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, preprocessing and model selection on NumPy and SciPy

BSD-3-ClauseFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

SymPy

SymPy Development Team · Mathematical & statistical computing

Pure-Python computer algebra system for symbolic algebra, calculus, equation solving, matrices, physics modules, code generation and LaTeX output

BSD-3-ClauseFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

arXiv

arXiv (independent non-profit, formerly hosted by Cornell University) · Research dissemination

Free, moderated open-access preprint server for physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, quantitative finance, economics and related fields, with an open API and bulk access

Open sourceFreeNov 2, 2026

DoWhy

PyWhy (originally Microsoft Research) · Econometrics & causal inference

Python causal-inference library organized around model, identify, estimate and refute steps, with graphical causal models for attribution, counterfactuals and root-cause analysis

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

linearmodels

Kevin Sheppard · Econometrics & causal inference

Python package by Kevin Sheppard adding panel data, instrumental-variable, system (SUR/3SLS) and asset-pricing estimators missing from statsmodels

NCSAFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

RePEc

RePEc volunteers · Research dissemination

Volunteer-run decentralized bibliographic database of economics research, fed by institutional archives and served through IDEAS, EconPapers, the Author Service, CitEc, NEP and MPRA

MixedFreeNov 2, 2026

TeX Live

TeX Users Group (TUG) · LaTeX & typesetting

In-depth entry

The comprehensive free TeX distribution for Linux, macOS and Windows, released yearly with the tlmgr package manager and all major engines, packages and fonts

Open sourceFreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Wolfram Mathematica

Wolfram Research · Mathematical & statistical computing

Wolfram Research's proprietary technical computing system built on the Wolfram Language, with notebooks, symbolic and numeric computation, visualization, machine learning and curated data

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 2, 2026