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Apache Parquet

Apache Software Foundation · Data catalogs & formats

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Open columnar file format for analytical data with compression, encodings and statistics, readable by nearly every data engine and library

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

ClickHouse

ClickHouse, Inc. · Analytical engines & OLAP

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Open-source columnar OLAP database server for fast aggregations over billions of rows, with MergeTree storage, SQL and a managed ClickHouse Cloud

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Databento

Databento, Inc. · Market & fundamentals data

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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

DuckDB

DuckDB Foundation / DuckDB Labs · Analytical engines & OLAP

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In-process analytical SQL database that queries Parquet, CSV and Arrow data directly from Python, R, Node or the CLI

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

FirstRate Data

FirstRate Data LLC · Market & fundamentals data

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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

fixest

Laurent Bergé · Econometrics & causal inference

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R package for fast estimation of OLS, GLM, Poisson, IV and difference-in-differences models with many fixed effects, clustered errors, multiple estimations and publication tables

GPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)

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

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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

Hugging Face Hub

Hugging Face · Training & fine-tuning

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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

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

OpenAlex

OurResearch · Literature discovery & review

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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

Overleaf

Overleaf (Digital Science) · LaTeX & typesetting

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Collaborative online LaTeX editor with real-time co-editing, templates and reference-manager sync, available as a hosted service and an AGPL self-hosted edition

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreemiumPaidSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

pandas

pandas development team (NumFOCUS) · DataFrames & array computing

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The standard Python DataFrame library for labeled tabular data, time series and I/O to CSV, Excel, SQL, Parquet and more

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Pandoc

John MacFarlane · LaTeX & typesetting

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Universal document converter that translates between Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, DOCX, EPUB, Typst, Jupyter and dozens of other formats, with citeproc and Lua filters

GPL-2.0-or-laterFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

Polars

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

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

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Project Jupyter

Project Jupyter (NumFOCUS) · Notebooks & interactive computing

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Open-source computational notebook ecosystem: the .ipynb format, kernels for Python, R and Julia, JupyterLab and Notebook interfaces and JupyterHub

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Python

Python Software Foundation · Programming languages & runtimes

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General-purpose, dynamically typed programming language with a large standard library and the dominant ecosystem for data science and machine learning

PSF-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

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

Quarto

Posit Software, PBC · Academic writing & publishing

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Open-source scientific publishing system from Posit that renders Markdown with executable Python, R, Julia or Observable code to HTML, PDF, Word, slides, websites and books via Pandoc

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 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

statsmodels

statsmodels developers (NumFOCUS) · Econometrics & causal inference

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Python library for estimating statistical and econometric models with R-style formulas, rich result summaries and tests: OLS, GLM, discrete choice, ARIMA, state space, VAR and more

BSD-3-ClauseFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

TeX Live

TeX Users Group (TUG) · LaTeX & typesetting

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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

Typst

Typst GmbH · LaTeX & typesetting

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Markup-based typesetting system with an Apache-2.0 compiler written in Rust and a collaborative web app, positioned as a faster, simpler alternative to LaTeX

Apache-2.0FreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

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