Xignite
Financial data APIs
Financial services software
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- Ease of management
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What is Xignite
Xignite is a cloud-based market data platform that provides financial data APIs for equities, funds, forex, indices, and reference data. It is used by fintechs, brokerages, wealth management platforms, and enterprises to embed real-time and historical market data into applications, websites, and analytics workflows. The product focuses on API delivery, data normalization, and managed data operations so customers can integrate multiple market data sources through a consistent interface.
Broad market data coverage
Xignite offers APIs across multiple asset classes and data types, including real-time quotes, historical prices, corporate actions, and reference data. This breadth supports common fintech and wealth use cases such as portfolio views, charting, screening, and market monitoring. A single vendor relationship can reduce the need to contract separately for each dataset.
API-first integration model
The platform is designed to be consumed programmatically via web APIs, which fits modern product teams building data-driven financial applications. Standardized endpoints and normalized fields can reduce integration effort compared with working directly with multiple raw data feeds. This model also supports embedding market data into customer-facing apps without running market data infrastructure in-house.
Managed data operations
Xignite handles data ingestion, normalization, and delivery as a managed service. This can reduce operational burden related to feed handling, format changes, and uptime monitoring. It is particularly relevant for teams that want market data access without building internal market data engineering and vendor management processes.
Not a payments or banking stack
Despite being used in financial services, Xignite primarily provides market data APIs rather than money movement, account funding, or open-banking connectivity. Buyers looking for end-to-end financial services capabilities (e.g., payouts, KYC, bank account linking) typically need additional vendors. This can increase overall integration scope for fintech platforms that require both data and transaction rails.
Licensing complexity and constraints
Market data products often involve exchange licensing, redistribution rules, and usage-based reporting requirements. Xignite customers may still need to manage entitlement logic, display rules, and contractual constraints depending on datasets and end-user distribution. These factors can add legal and compliance overhead compared with simpler developer-focused API products.
Cost sensitivity at scale
High-frequency usage, real-time data, and broad redistribution can become expensive as an application scales. Pricing can vary by dataset, latency, and permitted use, which makes forecasting harder for rapidly growing products. Organizations may need to optimize caching, throttling, and data scope to control spend.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Custom per-asset-class subscription (contact sales for quote) Notes: All Xignite web services include unlimited usage; pricing is unique by asset class (stock quotes, FX, futures, fundamentals, etc.), and is based on data type, frequency, and region. Xignite states: "Contact us for a price quote."
Startup program: Xignite offers a Fintech Startup Program that (for qualifying startups) waives usage fees for the first 60 days, offers significant discounts for the first year, and waives the setup fee (qualification required).
Free trial: Xignite offers a 7-day free trial (trial license and trial API calls — FAQ notes 250 API calls for the trial).
Seller details
Xignite, Inc.
San Mateo, California, United States
2006
Private
https://www.xignite.com/
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