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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

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

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

Bloomberg Terminal

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

ProprietaryPaidEnterpriseLocalNov 2, 2026

ClickHouse

ClickHouse, Inc. · Analytical engines & OLAP

In-depth entry

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

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

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

Elicit

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 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

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

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

IMF Data

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

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Interactive Brokers API

Interactive Brokers LLC · Financial analysis & investing

In-depth entry

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

ProprietaryUsage-basedPaidLocalRedirected

Kraken API

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

ProprietaryFreeUsage-basedNov 2, 2026

Massive (formerly Polygon.io)

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

ProprietaryPaidEnterpriseNov 2, 2026

Nasdaq Data Link

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 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

ORCID

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

Open sourceFreeEnterpriseNov 2, 2026

OSF (Open Science Framework)

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

Apache-2.0FreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

QuantConnect

QuantConnect Corporation · Financial analysis & investing

In-depth entry

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

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

scite

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

SEC EDGAR

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

In-depth entry

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

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