Bloomberg Plans Pricing
Bloomberg's flagship commercial offering is the Bloomberg Terminal seat subscription, which bundles desktop access plus the BLPAPI (Bloomberg Open API) for programmatic data access from Excel, Python, and other languages. Streaming and enterprise data products (B-PIPE, Data License, Bloomberg Anywhere, MarketAxess connectivity, etc.) are sold separately on negotiated enterprise contracts; all pricing outside the published Terminal seat fee is custom and requires sales contact.
Bloomberg Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Bloomberg on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering subscription and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Bloomberg Terminal (Seat License), Enterprise Data & Streaming (B-PIPE / Data License / EDF).
Tagged areas include Market Data, Financial Services, Enterprise, Data License, and News.
Plans
Annual per-user subscription to the Bloomberg Terminal. Includes BLPAPI access from the Terminal-connected workstation. Multi-year and multi-seat agreements receive negotiated discounts; the publicly cited list price is roughly USD 24,000-30,000 per user per year.
- Bloomberg Terminal desktop application
- BLPAPI (Bloomberg Open API) access
- Excel Add-in (=BDP, =BDH, =BDS)
- Python / C++ / Java / .NET BLPAPI SDKs
- Bloomberg news, messaging (IB), and analytics
- Bloomberg Anywhere mobile/web access
Real-time streaming market data (B-PIPE), end-of-day reference and pricing data (Data License / EDF), and other enterprise feeds delivered outside the Terminal. Pricing is contract-negotiated based on data fields, exchanges, redistribution rights, and number of consuming applications.
- B-PIPE managed streaming
- Per-Security Pricing (PCF) and EDF
- Data License Web Services (DLWS / HAPI / BQL)
- Bloomberg Vault and trade reconstruction
- Negotiated redistribution and display rights