Use Case
Trading & Market Data
Price feeds, execution, and quantitative research.
29 providers
262 APIs
19 declared variants
Consuming real-time and historical market data — quotes, order books, fundamentals, and economic series — and acting on it through programmatic order entry, execution algorithms, and backtesting.
29 API providers on the APIs.io network offer trading & market data. The highest-rated are Polygon, Factset, Bloomberg, Sportmonks, Currencylayer.
Providers
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
FactsetFactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professional...BloombergBloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories fro...SportmonksSportmonks is a Dutch sports data provider (Deventer, Netherlands) delivering developer-friendly REST APIs ...CurrencylayerCurrencylayer is a real-time and historical foreign exchange rate JSON API delivering bank-grade exchange r...FixerFixer is a lightweight JSON API for real-time and historical foreign exchange rates and currency conversion...
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
ExchangeRate-APIExchangeRate-API is a currency exchange rates API providing authoritative daily and intraday foreign exchan...Ally InvestAlly Invest is an online brokerage platform offering commission-free self-directed trading of US stocks, ET...Bloomberg AIMBloomberg's Asset and Investment Manager (AIM) is a comprehensive buy-side solution offering global, multi-...PeopleSoftCollection of Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise application APIs for Human Capital Management, Financial Managem...SumsubSumsub is a London-headquartered global verification platform offering an integrated full-cycle solution fo...Amazon FinSpaceAmazon FinSpace is a data management and analytics service built specifically for the financial services in...MEXCMEXC is a global cryptocurrency exchange providing REST and WebSocket APIs for spot trading, perpetual futu...LBankLBank is a global cryptocurrency exchange providing REST and WebSocket APIs for spot trading, ETF/leveraged...BinanceBinance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, providing APIs for spot trading, ...
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal federal statistical agency responsible for measu...SimCorp DimensionSimCorp Dimension is the investment management system at the core of SimCorp One, the front-to-back platfor...Bloomberg Professional ServiceBloomberg Professional Service is a comprehensive financial data, news, and analytics platform serving inve...Aladdin StudioAladdin Studio is BlackRock's developer platform enabling institutional investors, asset managers, and weal...Bloomberg IntelligenceBloomberg Intelligence provides research, data, and analytics on companies, industries, credit, government,...BBVABBVA is a multinational Spanish financial services group operating in over 30 countries. The BBVA API Marke...BitMartBitMart is a global cryptocurrency exchange providing REST and WebSocket APIs for spot trading, perpetual f...
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
API FootballAPI-Football is a RESTful API providing comprehensive football (soccer) data covering 1,200+ leagues and cu...TradewebTradeweb Markets is a leading global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities, and m...Bloomberg Query Language (BQL)Bloomberg Query Language (BQL) is a proprietary query language for accessing, filtering, aggregating, and c...API-SportsAPI-Sports is a leading provider of real-time sports data and statistics APIs for businesses and developers...Appalachian Regional CommissionThe Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is a federal-state partnership that invests in Appalachia's econo...
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
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Algorithmic TradingAlgorithmic Trading Order ManagementBacktestingBacktesting and AnalyticsCaliente Sports Betting (Mexico)Data Science and Quantitative ResearchEconomic ResearchFinancial Data AnalyticsFinancial Data ExchangeHistorical BacktestingInternal Quantitative ResearchQuantitative ResearchQuantitative analysts building and backtesting factor-based investment strategiesReal-time market data distributionReal-time market data streamingSports BettingSports Betting PlatformsTrading platform price feedsiGaming and Sports Betting
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