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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
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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
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
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
Bloomberg L.P. (FIGI Registration Authority) · Market & fundamentals data
Bloomberg's subscription workstation for market data, news, analytics, messaging and execution, with Excel integration and the BLPAPI library for C++, Java, .NET and Python
Connected Papers · Literature discovery & review
Visual literature-exploration tool that builds a similarity graph of papers around a seed paper, with prior and derivative works lists
Consensus · Literature discovery & review
AI search engine over peer-reviewed literature that synthesizes answers, shows a Consensus Meter for yes/no questions and summarizes studies
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
Elicit · Literature discovery & review
AI research assistant that finds papers, extracts structured data from them into tables and runs systematic-review style workflows and reports
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
International Monetary Fund · Open & public data
The IMF's statistical portal for World Economic Outlook, fiscal, balance-of-payments, reserves and price datasets with SDMX 2.1 and 3.0 APIs
Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Training & fine-tuning
Python library for NumPy-style array computing with composable transformations (jit, grad, vmap, shard_map) compiled through XLA to CPU, GPU and TPU
Payward, Inc. (Kraken) · Financial analysis & investing
REST, WebSocket and FIX interfaces to the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange for market data, spot and derivatives trading and account management
Massive (Polygon.io, Inc.) · Market & fundamentals data
Market data platform (renamed from Polygon.io in October 2025) with REST and WebSocket APIs, flat files and SQL access for US stocks, options, indices, forex, crypto and futures
MathWorks · Mathematical & statistical computing
MathWorks' commercial numeric computing environment and language for engineers and scientists, with toolboxes, Simulink integration, apps and MATLAB Online
Elsevier · Citation management
Free reference manager from Elsevier with a desktop and web app, PDF annotation, a Web Importer, groups and bundled cloud storage
Nasdaq, Inc. · Market & fundamentals data
Nasdaq's marketplace for financial, economic and alternative datasets (formerly Quandl) with a REST API, time-series and table endpoints and Python, R and Excel clients
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
ORCID, Inc. · Research dissemination
Non-profit registry of persistent researcher identifiers (ORCID iDs) with user-controlled records, Public and Member APIs, OAuth sign-in and an annual CC0 public data file
Center for Open Science · Reproducibility & research software
Free, open-source research management platform from the Center for Open Science for projects, preregistrations, registries, preprint services and linking outputs across storage providers
Paperpile LLC · Citation management
Subscription reference manager that lives in the browser and Google Drive, with citation plugins for Google Docs and Word and mobile apps
PyTorch Foundation (Linux Foundation) · Training & fine-tuning
Open-source deep-learning framework with eager tensors, autograd, torch.compile and distributed training, governed by the PyTorch Foundation and the base of most LLM tooling
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
ResearchRabbit (Litmap Limited) · Literature discovery & review
Literature-discovery app that grows collections of papers through citation and author networks and recommends related work, with a free-forever tier
Scite LLC (Research Solutions) · Literature discovery & review
Citation-analysis platform whose Smart Citations show whether later papers support, contrast or merely mention a claim, with an AI assistant and reference checking
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