Barchart Hosted Feed Solutions
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What is Barchart Hosted Feed Solutions
Barchart Hosted Feed Solutions is a managed market data feed service that delivers financial data (such as real-time and delayed quotes and related reference data) to client applications via hosted infrastructure. It targets brokerages, fintechs, exchanges, and enterprises that need to integrate market data into websites, trading tools, dashboards, or internal systems without operating their own feed plant. The offering emphasizes vendor-managed connectivity, normalization, and distribution of market data to reduce implementation and operational overhead compared with building direct exchange integrations.
Managed market data delivery
The service offloads feed handling, hosting, and operational monitoring to the vendor, which can reduce the need for clients to run and maintain their own market-data infrastructure. This is useful for teams that want to embed quotes and related data into products without building a full ingestion and distribution stack. It fits organizations that prioritize time-to-integration and operational simplicity over deep control of the feed plant.
Integration-oriented feed access
Hosted feeds are designed to be consumed by downstream applications, supporting common use cases like powering web quote pages, portfolio views, and internal analytics. Compared with research workstations, the value is in data delivery for custom applications rather than end-user research interfaces. This makes it relevant for engineering teams building financial products that require reliable data access.
Broad market-data use cases
A hosted feed approach can support multiple asset-class and venue needs depending on licensed sources, enabling reuse across products and teams. It can serve both external customer-facing experiences and internal systems that need consistent market data. This positions it as infrastructure for financial services workflows rather than a standalone research platform.
Not a full research platform
Hosted feed solutions focus on delivering data, not providing a complete research workstation experience with deep screening, document search, or narrative insights. Organizations looking for out-of-the-box analyst workflows may need additional tools on top of the feed. As a result, business users often still depend on separate applications for discovery and research tasks.
Data licensing and entitlements
Market data redistribution typically requires exchange/vendor licensing, entitlement management, and compliance controls that can add cost and administrative effort. Even with a hosted model, clients remain responsible for ensuring their usage and redistribution rights match their product requirements. These constraints can affect which datasets can be exposed to end users and in what form.
Customization requires engineering effort
Because the product is a feed service, clients generally need developers to integrate APIs, map fields, and build user-facing features. Implementation timelines and total effort depend on the complexity of the target application and required data transformations. Teams without engineering capacity may find packaged research tools easier to deploy for certain use cases.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (usage-based) Free tier/trial: No permanent free plan or explicit free trial for hosted/feed solutions is listed on the product pages; contact sales for custom quotes.
Example costs (from Barchart "Exchange Fees" page):
- ICE U.S. — Real-Time: $30,000/yr (payable annually).
- CME — Real-Time: $29,280 Annually.
- NASDAQ — Real-Time: $1,000 (additional notes on NASDAQ: $250/yr UTP admin fee (internal use only); $250/mo external redistribution; for real-time data feeds: $500/mo Indirect Access Fee).
- Website hosting/display fee example: Dow Jones Indices (Delayed): $650/mo.
- Subscriber fee example (per-user, real-time): NYSE (Pro) listed as $50/month (subscriber fees table shows per-user monthly fees; see Exchange Fees page for full table).
Notes & vendor guidance:
- Barchart OnDemand and Barchart Stream describe pricing as usage-based and state that packages are tailored across small-to-enterprise customers; both pages direct buyers to contact Barchart sales/solutions for customized quotes and onboarding. Exchange and vendor-specific fees (above) are published on Barchart's Exchange Fees page and apply in addition to Barchart service charges for hosted/redistributed feeds.
- Where the Exchange Fees page lists "Contact us" the vendor expects customers to contact sales for licensing and exact pricing (exchange or index providers sometimes require separate agreements).
Seller details
Barchart.com, Inc.
Chicago, IL, USA
1995
Private
https://www.barchart.com/
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