Barchart APIs
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What is Barchart APIs
Barchart APIs are web APIs that provide market data and related financial information for use in applications, analytics, and data products. They are typically used by developers, data teams, and financial services organizations that need programmatic access to quotes, historical pricing, and market reference data. The offering focuses on exchange-traded markets and derivatives-oriented datasets, delivered via API endpoints for integration into internal systems and customer-facing tools.
Market data via API
Provides programmatic access to financial market datasets that can be embedded into applications and workflows. This supports common use cases such as pricing displays, charting, screening, and quantitative analysis. For teams that primarily need market data rather than general web crawling, the scope is more directly aligned to trading and investment workflows.
Developer-friendly integration model
API delivery enables integration into web, mobile, and backend services without building and maintaining a separate data collection pipeline. This can reduce engineering effort compared with assembling data from multiple public web sources. It also supports automation for scheduled pulls and downstream processing in data warehouses or analytics stacks.
Coverage oriented to tradable instruments
The product is oriented toward instruments such as equities and derivatives, which is useful for applications that require standardized symbols and market conventions. This specialization can simplify mapping and normalization compared with broad web data feeds. It is a better fit for financial data consumption than for general news or open-web entity extraction.
Not a general web dataset
The APIs focus on financial market data rather than broad web content extraction or crawling. Organizations seeking large-scale open-web collection, proxy networks, or web scraping tooling will likely need additional providers. It is less suitable for use cases centered on general news monitoring, brand intelligence, or web-scale knowledge graph creation.
Licensing and entitlement constraints
Market data products commonly involve usage restrictions, redistribution limits, and exchange-driven entitlements that can affect how data is stored and shared. These constraints can complicate external redistribution or embedding data in customer-facing products. Buyers typically need to validate permitted use, retention, and display rules for their specific scenario.
Fit varies by asset coverage
Coverage needs can vary significantly by asset class, venue, and depth (e.g., end-of-day vs. real-time, reference data vs. intraday). If a team requires specialized datasets outside the product’s supported markets, they may need supplementary sources. Evaluation usually requires confirming exact instruments, fields, latency, and historical depth available per endpoint.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (usage-based) Free tier/trial: Free trial available (limited requests; sign-up required) Example costs / public guidance (official site):
- Barchart OnDemand APIs – “start at $500/month” (official support article states OnDemand APIs start at $500/month).
- Exchange / sub-vendor fees (additional, published on Barchart’s Exchange Fees page):
- AMEX (Last Sale) – Indirect Access Fee (Real-Time): $750 (monthly).
- Cboe BZX Top (BATS) – Real-Time: $2,500 (monthly).
- NASDAQ – Real-Time: $1,000 (monthly); External Redistribution: $250/mo (delayed/redistribution rules apply).
- CME / CBOT / COMEX / NYMEX – Real-Time: $29,280 (annually) (examples of annual exchange surcharges).
- ICE U.S. / ICE Europe (Real-Time): $30,000/year (payable annually). Discounts / packaging: Not publicly itemized — Barchart states packages are tailored (contact sales for custom pricing, enterprise/volume discounts). Notes: Pricing for OnDemand is usage-based and custom-tailored; many data sets and real-time feeds carry additional exchange and redistribution fees that are published separately on Barchart’s Exchange Fees page. Contact Barchart sales/solutions for a quote and for trial access.
Seller details
Barchart.com, Inc.
Chicago, IL, USA
1995
Private
https://www.barchart.com/
https://x.com/barchart
https://www.linkedin.com/company/barchart/
