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Team members can be given per-member permissions. The vendor revokes keys it finds published. No query-string option.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Historical data is metered per GB of uncompressed binary data at rates per dataset in the portal catalogue, with no subscription; batch jobs are billed once and streams per byte sent. New users get $125 of credits valid six months, one set per team, for historical data or the first month of a plan. Live data needs a plan, Standard at $199 a month (no licence fees), Plus $1,750 and Unlimited $4,500 a month in licence fees on annual contracts by sales. Metadata, symbology and account calls are free.", "priceSummary": "$199 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt, pricing page or release notes (checked 2026-11-03).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 309, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://databento.com/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://databento.com/docs/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "market.prices", "market.history", "market.indices", "data.markets" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "usage", "usage-priced", "free-tier", "llms-txt", "status-page", "pre-1.0", "python", "rust", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 578, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 22, "reliability": 50, "schema": 75, "security": 61, "transparency": 49 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "breakdown": [ { "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "effectiveWeight": 20, "score": 50, "points": 10, "reason": "Graded as a hosted service. Atlassian Statuspage at status.databento.com with ten components, Portal, Historical, FTP and seven live feeds (20). The incident feed for the 90 days to 3 November 2026 lists a critical outage of the portal and Historical API on 6 August lasting about eight hours, critical live authentication timeouts in NY4 on 28 August for about seven hours, major batch job delays of about two days each opened on 6 and 12 October, a six-hour GLBX.MDP3 delay in the Historical API on 6 October, and a Frankfurt outage affecting XEUR and XEEE opened on 2 November and still in monitoring. Several majors (0 of 30). Per-IP limits are published with numbers (15). 429 with a Retry-After header and a code to sleep on it; streams cut off aren't billed for unsent data, batch jobs are billed once (15). No SLA found; the pricing page names none and the terms were unreadable (0). The HTTP API is at major version 0 and the docs say it is not considered stable (0 of 10). Total 50.", "checked": "2026-11-03" }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes." }, { "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 75, "points": 12.19, "reason": "No OpenAPI document was found. The contract is the per-endpoint reference with typed parameters, the DBN schemas with field tables and enums, and a .http.md variant of every page (8 of 25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every page with language variants (10). Endpoint pages say what each call returns and the basics pages say when to use streaming against batch (15 of 20). Typed parameters with enums for schema, encoding, symbology type and split duration (13 of 15). Code in Python, C++, Rust and curl on every page, and an error table with codes, named error identifiers and a docs link in each body (14 of 15). Semantic versioning with dated release notes per component, breaking changes and deprecations called out (15). Total 75.", "checked": "2026-11-03" }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 80, "points": 13, "reason": "`limit`, time ranges to the nanosecond, schema choice from trades to daily bars, encoding choice and `metadata.get_cost` to size a request before paying (20 of 25). Symbol, date and schema filters, batch jobs listed and fetched by id, no cursor pagination because ranges are split by time (16 of 20). Errors carry an HTTP code, a named identifier, a message and a docs link, with 206 for partially resolved symbols (17 of 20). Reads only on the historical and reference APIs; a duplicate streaming request is charged twice, batch is billed once, and the portal can cap monthly spend (12 of 20). Few required parameters, and official clients in Python, C++ and Rust (15). Total 80.", "checked": "2026-11-03" }, { "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "effectiveWeight": 17.5, "score": 61, "points": 10.68, "reason": "Named API keys, up to 100 per account, rotated or deleted in the portal, with per-member permissions, sent only as the Basic auth username; no scopes per key and no expiry (25 of 30). Every API call is a read, and a monthly historical limit caps what a leaked key can spend; live usage is not capped (14 of 20). The API returns market data and reference records, not free text from third parties (10). A data usage page in the portal and a billing page per cycle, with no per-key call log documented (8 of 15). The vendor revokes keys it finds in public and documents key hygiene; security.txt returns 404 and no bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 was found on readable pages (4 of 20). Total 61.", "checked": "2026-11-03" }, { "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 12.5, "score": 22, "points": 2.75, "reason": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plans are public ($199, $1,750 and $4,500 a month) and historical data is metered per GB, but the per-dataset rates are in the portal catalogue behind a login and the pricing page's estimator shows only an example (12 of 20). $125 of credits for every new user, expiring after six months; whether a card is needed at signup was not found on the pricing, credits or billing pages (10 of 20). A person signs up in a browser and creates keys in the portal; no key API (0). Total 22.", "checked": "2026-11-03" }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored." }, { "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 84, "points": 7.35, "reason": "Python 0.89.0 on 28 October 2026 and data release notes dated 20 October (30). Python 0.85.0 (25 August), 0.86.0 (1 September), 0.87.0 (22 September), 0.88.0 (21 October) and 0.89.0, plus Rust 0.64.0 and C++ 0.69.0 on 27 October and four dated data notes since 8 August (20). A Slack community, Intercom chat, support@databento.com, a public roadmap and a public issue tracker linked from the release notes; GitHub issue replies were not read because the GitHub API rate limit was reached (12 of 15). Official clients in Python, C++ and Rust released the same week as each other (15). The Python client is Apache-2.0 with releases on GitHub and PyPI; CI and dependency pins were not checked (7 of 10). Total 84.", "checked": "2026-11-03" }, { "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 49, "points": 4.29, "note": "editorial 28, provenance 70", "reason": "A closed service whose terms could not be read, because databento.com/legal and its /terms and /privacy pages are drawn by script; the client libraries are Apache-2.0 (10 of 30). The privacy policy was unread for the same reason, and the docs say nothing about retention of account data (0 of 30, unchecked). Dated release notes carry deprecations, and the versioning policy keeps a prior major version for a year after the next (18 of 20). No subprocessor list or data location statement was found on readable pages; the architecture docs name the company's own data centres (0 of 20). Total 28.", "checked": "2026-11-03" } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-11-03", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "`limit`, time ranges to the nanosecond, schema choice from trades to daily bars, encoding choice and `metadata.get_cost` to size a request before paying (20 of 25). Symbol, date and schema filters, batch jobs listed and fetched by id, no cursor pagination because ranges are split by time (16 of 20). Errors carry an HTTP code, a named identifier, a message and a docs link, with 206 for partially resolved symbols (17 of 20). Reads only on the historical and reference APIs; a duplicate streaming request is charged twice, batch is billed once, and the portal can cap monthly spend (12 of 20). Few required parameters, and official clients in Python, C++ and Rust (15). Total 80.", "maintenance": "Python 0.89.0 on 28 October 2026 and data release notes dated 20 October (30). Python 0.85.0 (25 August), 0.86.0 (1 September), 0.87.0 (22 September), 0.88.0 (21 October) and 0.89.0, plus Rust 0.64.0 and C++ 0.69.0 on 27 October and four dated data notes since 8 August (20). A Slack community, Intercom chat, support@databento.com, a public roadmap and a public issue tracker linked from the release notes; GitHub issue replies were not read because the GitHub API rate limit was reached (12 of 15). Official clients in Python, C++ and Rust released the same week as each other (15). The Python client is Apache-2.0 with releases on GitHub and PyPI; CI and dependency pins were not checked (7 of 10). Total 84.", "payments": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plans are public ($199, $1,750 and $4,500 a month) and historical data is metered per GB, but the per-dataset rates are in the portal catalogue behind a login and the pricing page's estimator shows only an example (12 of 20). $125 of credits for every new user, expiring after six months; whether a card is needed at signup was not found on the pricing, credits or billing pages (10 of 20). A person signs up in a browser and creates keys in the portal; no key API (0). Total 22.", "reliability": "Graded as a hosted service. Atlassian Statuspage at status.databento.com with ten components, Portal, Historical, FTP and seven live feeds (20). The incident feed for the 90 days to 3 November 2026 lists a critical outage of the portal and Historical API on 6 August lasting about eight hours, critical live authentication timeouts in NY4 on 28 August for about seven hours, major batch job delays of about two days each opened on 6 and 12 October, a six-hour GLBX.MDP3 delay in the Historical API on 6 October, and a Frankfurt outage affecting XEUR and XEEE opened on 2 November and still in monitoring. Several majors (0 of 30). Per-IP limits are published with numbers (15). 429 with a Retry-After header and a code to sleep on it; streams cut off aren't billed for unsent data, batch jobs are billed once (15). No SLA found; the pricing page names none and the terms were unreadable (0). The HTTP API is at major version 0 and the docs say it is not considered stable (0 of 10). Total 50.", "schema": "No OpenAPI document was found. The contract is the per-endpoint reference with typed parameters, the DBN schemas with field tables and enums, and a .http.md variant of every page (8 of 25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every page with language variants (10). Endpoint pages say what each call returns and the basics pages say when to use streaming against batch (15 of 20). Typed parameters with enums for schema, encoding, symbology type and split duration (13 of 15). Code in Python, C++, Rust and curl on every page, and an error table with codes, named error identifiers and a docs link in each body (14 of 15). Semantic versioning with dated release notes per component, breaking changes and deprecations called out (15). Total 75.", "security": "Named API keys, up to 100 per account, rotated or deleted in the portal, with per-member permissions, sent only as the Basic auth username; no scopes per key and no expiry (25 of 30). Every API call is a read, and a monthly historical limit caps what a leaked key can spend; live usage is not capped (14 of 20). The API returns market data and reference records, not free text from third parties (10). A data usage page in the portal and a billing page per cycle, with no per-key call log documented (8 of 15). The vendor revokes keys it finds in public and documents key hygiene; security.txt returns 404 and no bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 was found on readable pages (4 of 20). Total 61.", "transparency": "A closed service whose terms could not be read, because databento.com/legal and its /terms and /privacy pages are drawn by script; the client libraries are Apache-2.0 (10 of 30). The privacy policy was unread for the same reason, and the docs say nothing about retention of account data (0 of 30, unchecked). Dated release notes carry deprecations, and the versioning policy keeps a prior major version for a year after the next (18 of 20). No subprocessor list or data location statement was found on readable pages; the architecture docs name the company's own data centres (0 of 20). Total 28." }, "sources": [ { "what": "docs home", "url": "https://databento.com/docs/", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "llms.txt", "url": "https://databento.com/docs/llms.txt", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "Historical API basics (auth, limits, errors, versioning)", "url": "https://databento.com/docs/api-historical/basics.md", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "Historical API basics, HTTP variant (base URL)", "url": "https://databento.com/docs/api-historical/basics.http.md", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "Reference API basics", "url": "https://databento.com/docs/api-reference-data/basics.md", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "HTTP API release notes", "url": "https://databento.com/docs/release-notes/release-notes-http.md", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "data release notes", "url": "https://databento.com/docs/release-notes/release-notes-data.md", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "API keys guide", "url": "https://databento.com/docs/portal/api-keys.md", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "billing guide", "url": "https://databento.com/docs/portal/billing.md", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "usage pricing and credits FAQ", "url": "https://databento.com/docs/faqs/usage-pricing-and-data-credits.md", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "pricing", "url": "https://databento.com/pricing", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "status incidents feed", "url": "https://status.databento.com/api/v2/incidents.json", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "status components", "url": "https://status.databento.com/api/v2/components.json", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "about page", "url": "https://databento.com/about", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "support page", "url": "https://databento.com/support", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "Series B post", "url": "https://databento.com/blog/series-b", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "legal page (script only)", "url": "https://databento.com/legal", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "PyPI, databento", "url": "https://pypi.org/pypi/databento/json", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "Python client releases", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/databento/databento-python/releases", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "robots.txt", "url": "https://databento.com/robots.txt", "seen": "2026-11-03" }, { "what": "security.txt (404)", "url": "https://databento.com/.well-known/security.txt", "seen": "2026-11-03" } ], "openQuestions": [ "unchecked: the terms and privacy policy at databento.com/legal/terms and /legal/privacy, which are drawn by script and returned no text, so the entity details, retention, subprocessors and any automated-access clause are unread", "Whether a card is needed at signup to use the $125 of credits", "The per-GB rates per dataset, which sit in the portal catalogue behind a login", "Whether an SLA exists for Plus or Unlimited customers, which the readable pages don't say", "unchecked: GitHub issue responsiveness and CI on databento-python, since the GitHub API rate limit was reached", "unchecked: the domain registration date, because rdap.org answered 403" ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Exchange-level tick and order book data metered per GB, with published per-IP rate limits, Retry-After on 429, dated release notes and clients in three languages. The HTTP API is still at major version 0, the status page lists two critical and several major incidents in 90 days, there is no OpenAPI document, and the legal pages were unreadable.", "bestFor": "An agent that needs exchange-level trades, quotes, order book and bar data for US and European futures, options and equities, or corporate actions and a security master, and can budget per GB.", "strengths": [ "Per-IP rate limits published with numbers, 429 with Retry-After, and a documented error format with a code, a message and a docs link", "`metadata.get_cost` quotes a request before it is billed, batch jobs are billed once with 30 days of re-download, and a monthly historical spending limit can be set in the portal", "Dated release notes per component with breaking changes and deprecations called out, and Python 0.85.0 to 0.89.0 released between 25 August and 28 October 2026", "Up to 100 named API keys per account with rotation, per-member permissions, and keys found in public revoked by the vendor", "$125 of credits at signup and metered historical pricing with no subscription; metadata and symbology calls are free" ], "weaknesses": [ "Two critical and several major incidents on the status page in the 90 days to 3 November 2026, mostly Historical API outages and batch job delays", "The HTTP API is at major version 0 and the docs say it is not considered stable", "No OpenAPI document; per-GB rates sit in the portal catalogue behind a login, and the pricing page shows plans only", "The terms and privacy policy are drawn by script and could not be read, and no security.txt, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 was found", "Live data and the Plus and Unlimited plans need a subscription on an annual contract by sales, and signup is in a browser" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `metadata.get_cost` before `timeseries.get_range`, and set a monthly historical limit in the portal; a duplicate streaming request is charged twice", "Send the key as the Basic auth username (`-u $DATABENTO_API_KEY:`) to hist.databento.com/v0; never put it in the URL or source code", "On 429 wait for the Retry-After header; keep under 100 time series requests a second and 20 batch submissions a minute per IP", "Check status.databento.com before retrying a slow or 504 Historical request, since several incidents since August were API outages or batch delays", "Use batch download for requests over 5 GB, split by time range or `limit`, and read `schema` and `stype_in` from the dataset page before querying" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 22, "reliability": 50, "schema": 75, "security": 61, "transparency": 28 }, "provenanceScore": 70, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-03", "maintenance": "2026-11-03", "payments": "2026-11-03", "reliability": "2026-11-03", "schema": "2026-11-03", "security": "2026-11-03", "transparency": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 }, "scoreHistory": [ { "date": "2026-11-03", "grade": "C", "kind": "listed", "method": "0.7", "score": 60.3 } ] }, "connect": { "install": "pip install databento", "http": "curl -G 'https://hist.databento.com/v0/metadata.list_datasets' -u $DATABENTO_API_KEY:" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/market.prices", "tool": "https://letme.dev/databento" }, "notable": [ "Rate limits per IP are published for the Historical API, 100 concurrent connections, 100 time series and 100 symbology requests a second, 20 metadata and 20 batch list requests a second, 20 batch submissions a minute, with 429 and a Retry-After header (https://databento.com/docs/api-historical/basics.md)", "The HTTP API is at major version 0 under semantic versioning, which the docs say is not considered stable; after 1.0 a prior major version is supported for a year. Release notes per component carry breaking changes and deprecations (https://databento.com/docs/release-notes/release-notes-http.md)", "Statuspage at status.databento.com with ten components. The 90 days to 3 November 2026 hold two critical incidents (portal and Historical API down on 6 August, live authentication timeouts in NY4 on 28 August), several major ones (batch job delays of about two days on 6 and 12 October, a six-hour GLBX.MDP3 delay on 6 October) and a Frankfurt outage opened on 2 November still in monitoring (https://status.databento.com/api/v2/incidents.json)", "Python client 0.89.0 released 28 October 2026, with 0.85.0 to 0.88.0 between 25 August and 21 October; Rust 0.64.0 and C++ 0.69.0 on 27 October (https://pypi.org/pypi/databento/json)", "The terms and privacy policy at databento.com/legal/terms and /legal/privacy are drawn by script and returned no text to our reader, so they are unread (checked 2026-11-03)", "The about page lists the company's backers and a $97 million Series B of July 2026 led by New Enterprise Associates; the blog post names 12 participating funds (https://databento.com/blog/series-b)" ], "area": "domain-data", "details": [ { "label": "Surface listed", "value": "The Historical HTTP API at hist.databento.com/v0 and the Reference API, read from databento.com/docs (llms.txt and Markdown pages), the pricing, about, support, blog and legal pages, status.databento.com, PyPI and GitHub on 3 November 2026. The Live API (a raw TCP gateway) is noted. No account was made and no request was billed" }, { "label": "Plans", "value": "Usage-based (historical only, per GB). Standard $199 a month with live data and no licence fees. Plus $1,750 a month in licence fees, annual contract, external distribution and dedicated connectivity. Unlimited $4,500 a month in licence fees, annual contract, 16 or more years in all schemas. Licence fees passed through with no mark-up" }, { "label": "Free credits", "value": "$125 for new users, historical data or the first month of a plan, six-month expiry, one set per team. Whether a card is needed at signup was not found" }, { "label": "Rate limits", "value": "Per IP, 100 concurrent connections, 100 time series requests a second, 100 symbology requests a second, 20 metadata requests a second, 20 batch list requests a second, 20 batch submissions a minute, 100 corporate actions requests a second. 429 with Retry-After" }, { "label": "Errors", "value": "2xx success, 206 for partially resolved symbols, 4xx client errors and 5xx server errors with a code such as `auth_invalid_username_in_basic_auth`, a message and a docs link; 402 for payment, 422 for unprocessable requests" }, { "label": "Datasets", "value": "CME Globex, ICE Futures US and Europe, Eurex, EEX, OPRA, Nasdaq TotalView-ITCH and Basic, NYSE Integrated, Cboe, MEMX, MIAX Pearl, IEX, Blue Ocean, Databento US Equities, Databento Core Indices, plus corporate actions, adjustment factors and a security master" }, { "label": "Clients", "value": "Python 0.89.0 (28 October 2026), C++ 0.69.0 and Rust 0.64.0 (27 October 2026), Apache-2.0; HTTP API 0.36.0 (21 April 2026) with 0.37.0 pending; Raw API 0.9.3 (1 August 2026)" }, { "label": "Legal entity", "value": "Databento, Inc., per the about page footer and the GitHub organisation; the terms could not be read" } ], "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Standard plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "live data, no licence fees, monthly" }, { "item": "Plus plan licence fees", "unit": "month", "usd": 1750, "note": "annual contract, by sales" }, { "item": "Unlimited plan licence fees", "unit": "month", "usd": 4500, "note": "annual contract, by sales" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Databento, Inc.", "domain": "databento.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://databento.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://databento.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.databento.com", "changelog": "https://databento.com/docs/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "Databento, Inc. is named in the about page footer and as the GitHub organisation's name. 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