{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "financial-datasets", "name": "Financial Datasets", "vendor": "Financial Datasets, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.financialdatasets.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "market-data", "summary": "Financial Datasets is a stock market data API built for AI agents, with financial statements, SEC filings, earnings, insider and institutional holdings, prices, news and macro series for 27,000 US tickers, through REST, x402 and a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-datasets", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-datasets.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-datasets.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/financial-datasets.json", "dns": "financial-datasets.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/financial-datasets", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.financialdatasets.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "financial-datasets" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key in the `X-API-KEY` header, minted in the dashboard or by `POST /agent/signup` with an email and agent name, shown once. Any documented GET data endpoint also accepts x402 payment with no key. The hosted MCP server uses OAuth 2 with PKCE, dynamic client registration, a revocation endpoint and one scope, `stock-market-data`, or an `X-API-KEY` header on its /api endpoint. Keys are revoked from the dashboard; no rotation or expiry documented.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Credits at $20 for 1,000 requests, one-off, personal licence, one year of price history. Personal $200 a month for 100,000 requests (overage $10 per 1,000, cap 1 million). Professional $2,000 a month for 2 million requests (overage $5 per 1,000, cap 10 million) with a commercial licence, redistribution, webhooks and uptime SLAs. Enterprise by contact. Premium endpoints count as 2, 4 or 8 requests by plan. Over x402, each GET data endpoint quotes its own USDC price in the 402 response; /earnings quoted $0.02 on 3 November 2026. No free tier found.", "priceSummary": "$0.02 / call", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "yes", "evidence": "Announced 23 October 2026. Every documented GET data endpoint (36 per the announcement) returns 402 with x402 version 2 terms in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header, scheme exact, USDC on Base (eip155:8453), payTo 0xC45E70793C01C6Ae4336dd5a5503baC958d32403, 300-second timeout. Error responses are not charged, payment settles only after a successful response, history is limited to the last 365 days and the licence is Non-Professional. Our unauthenticated GET /earnings?ticker=NVDA on 3 November 2026 returned 402 with amount 20000 base units, $0.02 (https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/x402.md).", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://api.financialdatasets.ai/earnings", "priceUsd": 0.02, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": 28, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.financialdatasets.ai/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "market.fundamentals", "market.filings", "market.prices", "market.history", "market.news", "market.indices", "data.markets", "data.company" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "x402", "usage", "prepaid", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "oauth", "webhooks", "no-status-page", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-26", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 598, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1520, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 75, "reliability": 43, "schema": 80, "security": 49, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Every documented GET data endpoint takes x402 with no key, failed calls uncharged, and an agent can open and fund an account by API. A public OpenAPI file, llms.txt and a 28-tool OAuth MCP server cover the same data. There is no status page or free tier, keyed rate limits aren't published, and x402 data stops at 365 days.", "bestFor": "An agent doing US company research from SEC-sourced statements, filings, insider and institutional data that wants to pay per call with no account, or a small team on credits.", "strengths": [ "x402 on every documented GET data endpoint (36), USDC on Base, no key or account, error responses not charged, with the price in each 402 response ($0.02 on /earnings on 3 November 2026)", "OpenAPI 3.0.1 with 68 operations and a description on each, llms.txt, and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "`POST /agent/signup` and `POST /agent/checkout-link` let an agent open and fund an account with the owner paying a Stripe link, minimum $20", "Hosted MCP server with 28 tools, OAuth 2 PKCE and dynamic client registration, or an X-API-KEY header on /api", "Privacy policy with retention periods and a dated subprocessor list, and terms that say inputs aren't used for training" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history or published uptime; the Professional plan's SLA terms aren't public", "No free tier. The cheapest route with a key is $20 for 1,000 credits, and data calls return 402 until an account is funded", "Rate limits for keyed plans aren't published; only x402 states 10,000 requests a minute per wallet", "x402 requests return only the last 365 days and are licensed for Non-Professional use; Credits and Personal plans carry the same limit", "No API version or changelog; the news page carries four posts in 2026, and the Python package on PyPI dates from May 2024" ], "agentNotes": [ "Without a key, read the price from the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header of the 402 and pay with x402 on Base; each page of `next_page_url` is a separate paid request", "Keep `limit` small and ask for one `period` at a time; premium endpoints count as 2, 4 or 8 requests on keyed plans", "Send the key only to api.financialdatasets.ai in the `X-API-KEY` header; on 401 ask the owner for a new key rather than signing up again", "Treat a 402 on a keyed account as an empty balance and mint a checkout link for the owner; don't retry the call", "Check the plan's licence before showing the data to anyone else; redistribution needs Professional or Enterprise" ], "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": 61.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 75, "reliability": 43, "schema": 80, "security": 49, "transparency": 60 }, "provenanceScore": 65, "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 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install financial-datasets", "http": "curl -H \"X-API-KEY: $FINANCIAL_DATASETS_KEY\" \"https://api.financialdatasets.ai/financials/income-statements?ticker=AAPL\u0026period=annual\u0026limit=4\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http financial-datasets https://mcp.financialdatasets.ai/", "config": { "mcpServers": { "financial-datasets": { "url": "https://mcp.financialdatasets.ai/" } } }, "x402": "curl -i \"https://api.financialdatasets.ai/earnings?ticker=NVDA\u0026limit=4\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/market.fundamentals", "tool": "https://letme.dev/financial-datasets" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Earnings, over x402", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.02, "note": "read from the 402 response on 3 November 2026; other endpoints quote their own price" }, { "item": "Credits pack", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 20, "note": "one-off, personal licence, one year of price history" }, { "item": "Personal plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 200, "note": "100,000 requests, overage $10 per 1,000" }, { "item": "Professional plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 2000, "note": "2 million requests, overage $5 per 1,000, commercial licence" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Financial Datasets, Inc.", "domain": "financialdatasets.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.financialdatasets.ai/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://www.financialdatasets.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.financialdatasets.ai/news", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "Financial Datasets, Inc. is named in the terms (as of 29 October 2026, New York law), the privacy policy (last updated 20 August 2026) and the subprocessor list (29 October 2026).", "Terms section 5 forbids accessing the Services by automated means outside the documented API; the public website has no separate automated-access clause. robots.txt on www.financialdatasets.ai allows all crawlers and names ClaudeBot, Claude-User and Claude-SearchBot as allowed; docs.financialdatasets.ai, api.financialdatasets.ai and mcp.financialdatasets.ai carry Content-Signal ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes.", "The docs, llms.txt and the 402 response carry instructions addressed to agents; none were acted on.", "RDAP for financialdatasets.ai was refused (403 from rdap.org), so the registration date is unchecked.", "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page found. The news page is the nearest thing to a changelog." ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-datasets.json", "live": { "slug": "financial-datasets", "probe": { "target": "https://api.financialdatasets.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-11T06:59:37.293702555Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 329, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 275, "p95ms24h": 374, "samples24h": 244, "samples30d": 1558, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 87, "ok": 87 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 243, "ok": 243 }, { "date": "2026-11-08", "probes": 243, "ok": 243 }, { "date": "2026-11-09", "probes": 243, "ok": 243 }, { "date": "2026-11-10", "probes": 244, "ok": 244 }, { "date": "2026-11-11", "probes": 72, "ok": 72 } ], "since": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "financial-datasets", "version": "0.1.18", "released": "2024-05-26", "seenAt": "2026-11-11T05:57:04.613895686Z" } ], "pypiWeekly": 13, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://financialdatasets.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:08:38.106574077Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T15:43:06.446999237Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "financialdatasets.ai", "registered": "2024-04-04", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/financialdatasets.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T14:50:53.724294114Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.financialdatasets.ai/news", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:39:42.241128074Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-10T16:39:42.241128074Z", "fingerprint": "f786de79c4f7" }, { "url": "https://www.financialdatasets.ai/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:39:44.446769244Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "cc3f7efacd52" }, { "url": "https://www.financialdatasets.ai/terms-of-use", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:39:46.459478338Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-10T16:39:46.459478338Z", "fingerprint": "9d2a386d6735" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.financialdatasets.ai/", "checkedAt": "2026-11-11T02:41:00.985424892Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:44:27.872374981Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-11T06:59:37.293702555Z" }, "streak": { "days": 7, "from": "2026-11-04", "sinceWatching": true, "best": 7 } }, "answer": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Financial Datasets's 61.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Financial Datasets leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "tickerlayer", "name": "TickerLayer", "vendor": "TickerLayer", "vendorUrl": "https://tickerlayer.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "market-data", "summary": "TickerLayer is a market data API for stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs, commodities, bond yields and perpetual futures, over REST and WebSocket with an API key, a hosted MCP server and pay-per-call x402 access in USDC on Base.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tickerlayer.json", "dns": "tickerlayer.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/tickerlayer/agent-plugin", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under the TickerLayer terms of use, user agreement and market data disclaimer (all effective 3 November 2026), which name no legal entity or governing law. Free and Individual plans are for internal use, Business adds use inside the customer's own product, and redistribution needs a written Enterprise agreement. The agent plugin (github.com/tickerlayer/agent-plugin) and the npm client are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "websocket" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "tickerlayer" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "tickerlayer" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST takes an API key in the `x-api-key` header. The OpenAPI file also defines `ApiKeyQuery`, an `apiKey` query parameter described as a 'compatibility fallback' that 'keeps the key in logged URLs', and the WebSocket at wss://stream.tickerlayer.com takes the key only in the URL as `apiKey`. A person creates the key in the dashboard after a browser signup. It is shown once and has no scopes, and regenerating it invalidates the previous key. The hosted MCP server takes the key as `x-api-key` or `Authorization: Bearer`, or OAuth 2.1 against https://api.tickerlayer.com (authorisation code with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, refresh tokens, a revocation endpoint and one scope, `market.read`). The x402 gateway at https://x402.tickerlayer.com needs no account or key (https://tickerlayer.com/llms.txt, https://tickerlayer.com/openapi.json, https://tickerlayer.com/docs/mcp, https://api.tickerlayer.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server, https://tickerlayer.com/terms-of-use, checked 2026-11-10).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan at 0 USD with no card, per llms.txt, covering crypto, forex and US stocks over REST, 3,000 calls every 30 days, 10 requests a second, no WebSocket, internal use only. Individual plans are priced per feed, 49 USD a month for crypto, commodities or indices, 59 USD for forex or ETFs and 59 to 99 USD per stock market (United States 99 USD), each with 250,000 REST calls a month, 1 WebSocket connection and 10 symbols. Business runs 449 to 999 USD per feed with 25 million calls and 100 requests a second, for use inside the customer's own product. Perpetuals 179 or 799 USD, Futures CFDs 219 or 849 USD, add-ons (overnight session, SignalPoint, Fundamentals, Bonds) 39 to 449 USD. Yearly billing is 20 per cent lower. Enterprise is custom, with redistribution and an SLA. Without an account, x402 charges 0.01 to 0.10 USDC a call on Base and settles only after a valid response (https://tickerlayer.com/pricing, https://tickerlayer.com/llms.txt, https://tickerlayer.com/ai/x402.md, checked 2026-11-10).", "priceSummary": "$0.01 / call", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "yes", "evidence": "Production gateway https://x402.tickerlayer.com on Base mainnet (`eip155:8453`) in USDC, with a sandbox at https://x402-testnet.tickerlayer.com on Base Sepolia. The catalogue lists 41 GET resources, scheme exact, protocol version 2, facilitator `coinbase-cdp-mainnet`, accountRequired false. Six routes each for stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs and commodities, plus bond yields and four market-calendar routes. Perpetuals, Futures CFDs, the add-ons and WebSocket are not covered. Settlement only after a valid response, and payment identifiers bound to the request (https://x402.tickerlayer.com/catalog, https://tickerlayer.com/ai/x402.md, checked 2026-11-10).", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/stocks/quote/{symbol}", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/crypto/snapshot/{symbol}", "priceUsd": 0.02, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/forex/agg/{symbol}/{multiplier}/{timespan}/{from}/{to}", "priceUsd": 0.03, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/bond/last/{symbol}", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/markets/status", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": 12, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-10" }, "docsUrl": "https://tickerlayer.com/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://tickerlayer.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://tickerlayer.com/openapi.json", "registryName": "com.tickerlayer/market-data", "capabilities": [ "market.prices", "market.history", "market.crypto", "market.indices", "market.fundamentals", "data.markets" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "x402", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "mcp-registry", "oauth", "api-key", "websocket", "streaming", "status-page", "closed-source", "python", "typescript", "agent-skills", "pre-1.0", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.5, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 160, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1520, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 92, "reliability": 70, "schema": 88, "security": 49, "transparency": 38 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-10" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An agent can read quotes, bars and market hours across eight asset classes through a documented REST API, 12 MCP tools or 41 x402 resources with no account, and 429s carry Retry-After. The data is derived from unnamed non-exchange sources, no operator is named, and the status history couldn't be read.", "bestFor": "An agent that needs latest prices, bars and market hours across stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs, commodities, bond yields and perpetual futures from one schema, and wants to pay per call without an account.", "strengths": [ "x402 on its own gateway for 41 routes across six asset classes, bond yields and market hours, from 0.01 USDC, settled only after a valid response", "OpenAPI 3.1 with enums, examples and one error schema carrying `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt` and the missing product, plus `Retry-After` and `X-RateLimit-*` headers", "llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a Markdown twin of every docs page and a skill that says which MCP tool to use for which question", "A dated changelog of 50 entries from 8 September to 6 November 2026", "MCP server under OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, dynamic registration, revocation and one read scope, listed in the official registry as `com.tickerlayer/market-data`" ], "weaknesses": [ "The data is derived and indicative from unnamed non-exchange sources, and no page says it is licensed from an exchange", "No legal entity, address or governing law in the terms, user agreement or privacy policy", "The REST key can travel as an `apiKey` query parameter, and the WebSocket takes it only in the URL", "The privacy policy names no subprocessors and gives no period for request logs", "No security.txt, bug bounty or certification found, and the status page's history loads from a path robots.txt disallows" ], "agentNotes": [ "Write stocks as `COUNTRY:TICKER`, such as `US:KO`, and always pass `asset_class` to the data tools.", "If a 429 carries `REST_QUOTA_EXCEEDED`, stop and tell the user. Waiting doesn't reset the monthly quota.", "Present prices as indicative TickerLayer values, never as official exchange prices.", "Call `get_market_status` before you report a quiet symbol as missing data.", "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header, never as the `apiKey` query parameter." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 71.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 92, "reliability": 70, "schema": 88, "security": 49, "transparency": 30 }, "provenanceScore": 46, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-10", "maintenance": "2026-11-10", "payments": "2026-11-10", "reliability": "2026-11-10", "schema": "2026-11-10", "security": "2026-11-10", "transparency": "2026-11-10" }, "last": "2026-11-10", "oldest": "2026-11-10", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install tickerlayer", "http": "curl -H \"x-api-key: $TICKERLAYER_API_KEY\" \"https://api.tickerlayer.com/stocks/quote/US:KO\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http tickerlayer https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "tickerlayer": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp" } } }, "x402": "curl -i \"https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/stocks/quote/US:KO\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/market.prices", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tickerlayer" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "x402 quote, last trade or previous close", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "USDC on Base, no account, with snapshot and symbol lists at 0.02" }, { "item": "x402 historical bars, up to 100", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.03, "note": "0.05 for up to 500 bars and 0.10 for up to 1,000" }, { "item": "Individual crypto, commodities or indices feed", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "250,000 REST calls a month, 10 requests a second, internal use only" }, { "item": "Individual US stocks feed", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "other stock markets 59 to 99 USD each, internal use only" }, { "item": "Business crypto, commodities or indices feed", "unit": "month", "usd": 449, "note": "25 million REST calls a month, 100 requests a second, use inside the customer's own product" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "tickerlayer.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-04-29", "domainNote": "RDAP (Verisign) gives tickerlayer.com a registration date of 29 April 2026 through Cloudflare, last changed 5 October 2026. No page read names a company, registration number, address or country.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://tickerlayer.com/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://tickerlayer.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.tickerlayer.com", "changelog": "https://tickerlayer.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-10", "notes": [ "No legal entity is named anywhere read. The terms of use, the user agreement and the privacy policy (all effective 3 November 2026), the about page and the pricing footer name only 'TickerLayer' or 'the operator of TickerLayer', with no company, registration number, address, country or governing law. Their contact addresses are obfuscated and weren't read. The plugin README gives info@tickerlayer.com.", "The terms say the Services come 'AS IS', promise no uptime, cap liability at the greater of 12 months' fees or US$100, and allow MCP tools to change 'with reasonable notice where practical'. The user agreement makes payments non-refundable, refunds at TickerLayer's discretion. The terms ban scraping public pages at a volume that interferes with the Services. A handful of pages were read at a person's pace.", "The privacy policy keeps WebSocket connection records for 7 days and request and tool-call logs for 'a limited operational window', names subprocessor categories but no vendors, and says nothing on model training or transfer mechanisms.", "robots.txt on tickerlayer.com disallows ia_archiver and archive.org_bot entirely and, for `*`, /dashboard, /admin, /login, /signup, /auth, /oauth, /api, /billing, /profile, the market pages and /cdn-cgi/, with no Content-Signal. x402.tickerlayer.com disallows /v1/ and status.tickerlayer.com disallows /api/. robots.txt on mcp.tickerlayer.com and api.tickerlayer.com answered a client error, read as no rules. Only their OAuth metadata and one unauthenticated GET to /mcp (client error) were sent there.", "/.well-known/security.txt answered a client error.", "firstReleased is 2026-08-07, the first commit of tickerlayer/agent-plugin ('Release v0.1.0'), whose changelog names the hosted MCP server. The about page says the API opened in 'Early 2026' with no day. lastRelease is 2026-11-06, the newest changelog entry." ], "score": 46 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.json", "live": { "slug": "tickerlayer", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-11T07:00:06.406304915Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 160, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 150, "p95ms24h": 222, "samples24h": 43, "samples30d": 43, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-11", "probes": 43, "ok": 43 } ], "since": "2026-11-11T02:53:34.214194678Z" }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.tickerlayer.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-11T05:35:55.448183455Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "tickerlayer", "version": "0.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-11T06:42:09.859295043Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "tickerlayer", "version": "0.1.0", "released": "2026-10-20", "seenAt": "2026-11-11T06:42:10.714909327Z" } ], "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": 6, "pypiWeekly": 5, "updatedAt": "2026-11-11T07:00:06.406304915Z" }, "streak": { "days": 0, "from": "2026-11-11", "sinceWatching": true, "best": 0 } }, "edges": [ { "by": 27, "category": "reliability", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Graded as a hosted service. No status page was found; status.financialdatasets.ai does not resolve and no page links one (0), so there is no incident history to read (5). The only published limit is 10,000 requests a minute per wallet over x402, with monthly request caps per plan and none per minute for keyed plans (8 of 15). The OpenAPI file declares 429 and the x402 page documents a 503 with Retry-After from the facilitator and a `duplicate_payment` check on replayed signatures (10 of 15). The Professional plan lists uptime SLAs, with no figure published (10). The API is generally available (10). Total 43.", "b": "Read with the hosted lines, on the REST API. status.tickerlayer.com is an UptimeRobot page linked from the site header (20). Its monitors and history load by script from /api/, which its robots.txt disallows, so no incident record was read, as for eodhd and apitemplate-io (5). Limits are published with numbers, 10 requests a second per account on Free and Individual, 100 on Business, and monthly call quotas per feed (15). The OpenAPI file's 429 carries `Retry-After` and a body with `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt` and a code that separates the per-second limit from the monthly quota, and every response has carried `X-RateLimit-Limit` and `X-RateLimit-Remaining` since 14 September 2026. Every data operation is a GET, and x402 retries with the same payment identifier return the stored response (15). An SLA is named only for Enterprise under a written agreement and as 'partially available' on Business, with no published terms or figure, and the terms of use promise no uptime. Financial-datasets took 10 for SLAs listed on a self-serve plan, so this is half (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the REST API, the MCP server or the x402 gateway (10). 20+5+15+15+5+10 = 70." }, "scores": { "a": 43, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 25, "category": "transparency", "leads": "financial-datasets", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "A closed service under terms dated 29 October 2026 that name Financial Datasets, Inc., set New York law, and state the licence per plan (15 of 30). The privacy policy of 20 August 2026 gives retention periods (accounts up to seven years after closure, API and MCP logs up to three years, backups 90 days), says inputs aren't used for training, and links a subprocessor list; no DPA text was found (24 of 30). No deprecation policy; the terms say the Services may be discontinued and material changes get reasonable notice (3 of 20). Subprocessors (AWS, Heroku, Stripe, Google sign-in, Vercel) and the United States as hosting location are disclosed (18 of 20). Total 60.", "b": "The editorial half. A closed service whose terms of use, user agreement and market data disclaimer (all effective 3 November 2026) set out internal, commercial and redistribution rights by plan and a liability cap. They name no legal entity, address or governing law, so the contracting party is unknown. The plugin and npm client are MIT. Soldfetch took 10 in the same position (10 of 30). The privacy policy keeps WebSocket connection records for 7 days but gives no period for request and tool-call logs or account data after closure, says nothing on model training, names no transfer mechanism and has no DPA (12 of 30). No deprecation policy. The terms allow MCP tools to change 'with reasonable notice where practical' and the user agreement promises notice before a plan is materially reduced, and the changelog records changes after the fact. Kite took 4 (4 of 20). Subprocessors are given only as categories (hosting, authentication, card and crypto payments, email, an AI model for support replies), with analytics vendors deferred to the cookie policy, no data locations, and no named data suppliers (4 of 20). 10+12+4+4 = 30. The provenance half is computed from the provenance block." }, "scores": { "a": 63, "b": 38 } }, { "by": 23, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "UK fundamentals went live on 26 October 2026, India on 23 October, with Japan and South Korea dated for November on the coverage page (30). Dated changes in the last 90 days are x402 on 23 October, UK fundamentals on 26 October, terms and subprocessor list on 29 October, privacy policy on 20 August, with no changelog as such (12 of 20). Contact is a form and the dashboard; no support email, Discord or forum was found, and the GitHub organisation's four repositories couldn't be read because the GitHub API rate limit was reached (6 of 15). The PyPI package is 0.1.18 of 26 May 2024 by the founder, and the docs point to the OpenAPI file and the MCP server rather than an SDK (5 of 15). Package health unknown, dependencies not checked (3 of 10). Total 56.", "b": "Read as a closed service. The newest changelog entry is 6 November 2026, a bond yield curve endpoint (30). 50 dated changelog entries from 8 September to 6 November 2026 (20). A public changelog, a consultation form, info@tickerlayer.com and a support chat, all untested, with no community channel and no issues on the plugin repository read. Massive and twelve-data took 10 (9 of 15). Official clients for JavaScript or TypeScript (npm) and Python (PyPI), both 0.1.0 from 20 October 2026, and an MCP registry entry under the verified namespace `com.tickerlayer` (15). The npm package has no dependencies or install hooks but no repository field, the clients' source isn't public and no CI is visible (5 of 10). 30+20+9+15+5 = 79." }, "scores": { "a": 56, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 17, "category": "payments", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "x402 on the vendor's own endpoints for every documented GET data endpoint, 36 of them, with the last 365 days only and a Non-Professional licence; full history, the market snapshot, filing items and the POST endpoints need a key (35 of 40). Plan prices and overage rates are public, and each x402 endpoint quotes its price in the 402 header, $0.02 on /earnings (20). No free tier or trial found; data calls return 402 until an account holds credits, from $20 (0). An agent can pay by x402 with no account, or open an account with `POST /agent/signup` and have the owner fund it (20). Total 75.", "b": "x402 on the vendor's own gateway, x402.tickerlayer.com, for 41 GET routes. That is six routes for each of stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs and commodities, plus bond yields and four market-calendar routes. Perpetuals, Futures CFDs, the add-ons, the symbol catalogue and WebSocket need a key. Between massive's 30 for US stock routes only and financial-datasets' 35 for every documented data endpoint (32 of 40). Per-call x402 prices from 0.01 to 0.10 USDC in the catalogue and docs, and plan prices per feed on the pricing page, all without a login (20). A Free plan of 3,000 REST calls every 30 days with 'no card', per llms.txt (20). An agent with a funded Base wallet pays per call with no account or key (20). 32+20+20+20 = 92." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 92 } }, { "by": 8, "category": "schema", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "OpenAPI 3.0.1 at financialdatasets.ai/openapi.json, 68 operations with 13 response codes and one security scheme, named the source of truth by the docs (25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every page (10). Every operation has a description, and the 402 terms carry a resource description that says when an agent should use the endpoint (17 of 20). 330 parameters, 36 with enums, 32 required, no free-form blobs (12 of 15). Code samples in Python, JavaScript and curl, x402 error values documented, but response examples on only six operations in the spec (11 of 15). No API version and no changelog; the news page has four dated posts in 2026 (5 of 15). Total 80.", "b": "OpenAPI 3.1 at tickerlayer.com/openapi.json (TickerLayer Market Data API 1.0.0, about 386,000 characters), read in its first 100,000 and last 96,000 characters, with summaries, descriptions, tags and examples on the operations read and shared 400, 401, 403, 404, 429 and 503 responses. The WebSocket is described in prose only and the hosted MCP tool schemas weren't read (23 of 25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page (10). Operation descriptions state purpose and plan gating, and the vendor's skill says which MCP tool to use for each question and when not to, such as `get_quote` not being the tool for a price. Financial-datasets took 17 (17 of 20). Enums on `interval`, `multiplier`, `timespan` and `sort`, `format: date` on dates, bounded `limit`, required path parameters, as for massive (13 of 15). Examples on most parameters and responses, one Error schema with ten fields and documented codes, but the codes appear only as example values with no enum or table (13 of 15). A dated changelog of the last 50 changes, 8 September to 6 November 2026, but no version in the REST paths ('no /v1/') and the spec at 1.0.0. Above twelve-data's 10 for monthly updates and below massive's 15 for versioned paths (12 of 15). 23+10+17+13+13+12 = 88." }, "scores": { "a": 80, "b": 88 } }, { "by": 6, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "`limit` and `period` on the data endpoints, `as_reported` flags and snapshot variants, with no field selection (15 of 25). `next_page_url` cursors and ticker, CIK, market and date filters (18 of 20). A 402 body says what to do next, x402 errors carry named values, and the spec lists 400, 401, 403, 404, 409, 422, 429, 502 and 503 (16 of 20). Data calls are GETs, payment settles only after a successful response, and a replayed x402 signature is refused; no readOnlyHint found for the MCP tools and no idempotency key for the POST endpoints (14 of 20). Few required parameters, 28 compact MCP tools, but the only package, financial-datasets on PyPI, is at 0.1.18 from 26 May 2024 (10 of 15). Total 73.", "b": "Read on the REST API, with the MCP server where a line covers it. Responses are sized by `limit` (bars up to 5,000, catalogue up to 1,000), `sort`, date ranges and batch calls for futures quotes and market status, with no field selection. The MCP server has 12 tools, 11 shown to the model. Massive and financial-datasets took 15 (15 of 25). `limit`, `offset` and `next_offset`, cursors on fundamentals and economic events, `total_count` on bars, `search` on symbols and `updated_since` on signals (18 of 20). Errors carry `statusCode`, `message`, a code, `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt`, `limitRps`, `plansUrl` and the missing `product` or `market`, and the skill gives an action per status. Above financial-datasets' 16 (17 of 20). Every data call is a GET, and x402 settles only after a valid response with payment identifiers bound to the request, but no readOnlyHint or other annotation was found for the MCP tools. Financial-datasets took 14 without annotations (15 of 20). Data tools need only `asset_class` and `symbol`, with defaults for limit and sort, and official clients exist for JavaScript or TypeScript and Python, both at 0.1.0 from 20 October 2026. Stocks need the `COUNTRY:TICKER` form (14 of 15). 15+18+17+15+14 = 79." }, "scores": { "a": 73, "b": 79 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Financial Datasets, Inc.", "b": "TickerLayer", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.financialdatasets.ai", "b": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "yes, from $0.02/call", "b": "yes, from $0.01/call", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under the TickerLayer terms of use, user agreement and market data disclaimer (all effective 3 November 2026), which name no legal entity or governing law. Free and Individual plans are for internal use, Business adds use inside the customer's own product, and redistribution needs a written Enterprise agreement. The agent plugin (github.com/tickerlayer/agent-plugin) and the npm client are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "28", "b": "12", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "com.tickerlayer/market-data", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-26", "b": "2026-11-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-10-29", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-08-20", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Financial Datasets's 61.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Financial Datasets leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Financial Datasets or TickerLayer?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay Financial Datasets per call over x402, with no account. An agent can also pay TickerLayer per call over x402, with no account.", "question": "Do Financial Datasets and TickerLayer need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Financial Datasets has a hosted endpoint at https://api.financialdatasets.ai and TickerLayer at https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Financial Datasets and TickerLayer without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 38" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent doing US company research from SEC-sourced statements, filings, insider and institutional data that wants to pay per call with no account, or a small team on credits.", "slug": "financial-datasets", "watchFor": "No status page, incident history or published uptime; the Professional plan's SLA terms aren't public" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 70 against 43", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 80", "Agent ergonomics, 79 against 73", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 92 against 75", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 56" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "An agent that needs latest prices, bars and market hours across stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs, commodities, bond yields and perpetual futures from one schema, and wants to pay per call without an account.", "slug": "tickerlayer", "watchFor": "The data is derived and indicative from unnamed non-exchange sources, and no page says it is licensed from an exchange" } ], "history": null, "job": { "capability": "market.fundamentals", "name": "Market fundamentals" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-financial-datasets.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs Financial Datasets", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-financial-datasets" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Benzinga vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-financial-datasets.json", "title": "Databento vs Financial Datasets", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-financial-datasets" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Databento vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-massive.json", "title": "Financial Datasets vs Massive (formerly Polygon.io)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-massive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Finnhub vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Intrinio vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massive-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Massive (formerly Polygon.io) vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massive-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-tiingo.json", "title": "TickerLayer vs Tiingo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-tiingo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-twelve-data.json", "title": "TickerLayer vs Twelve Data", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-twelve-data" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-financial-datasets.json", "title": "Eulerpool Financial Data API vs Financial Datasets", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-financial-datasets" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Eulerpool Financial Data API vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-financial-modeling-prep.json", "title": "Financial Datasets vs Financial Modeling Prep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-financial-modeling-prep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-finnhub.json", "title": "Financial Datasets vs Finnhub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-finnhub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-intrinio.json", "title": "Financial Datasets vs Intrinio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-intrinio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tiingo.json", "title": "Financial Datasets vs Tiingo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tiingo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-twelve-data.json", "title": "Financial Datasets vs Twelve Data", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-twelve-data" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-modeling-prep-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Financial Modeling Prep vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-modeling-prep-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-financial-datasets.json", "title": "EODHD vs Financial Datasets", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-financial-datasets" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "EODHD vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-financial-datasets.json", "title": "Benzinga vs Financial Datasets", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-financial-datasets" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 27, "edge": "tickerlayer", "financial-datasets": 43, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "tickerlayer": 70, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "tickerlayer", "financial-datasets": 80, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "tickerlayer": 88, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "tickerlayer", "financial-datasets": 73, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "tickerlayer": 79, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "financial-datasets": 49, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "tickerlayer": 49, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "tickerlayer", "financial-datasets": 75, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "tickerlayer": 92, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 23, "edge": "tickerlayer", "financial-datasets": 56, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "tickerlayer": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "financial-datasets", "financial-datasets": 63, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "tickerlayer": 38, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Financial Datasets's 61.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Financial Datasets leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do market fundamentals.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "financial-datasets": "Every documented GET data endpoint takes x402 with no key, failed calls uncharged, and an agent can open and fund an account by API. A public OpenAPI file, llms.txt and a 28-tool OAuth MCP server cover the same data. There is no status page or free tier, keyed rate limits aren't published, and x402 data stops at 365 days.", "tickerlayer": "An agent can read quotes, bars and market hours across eight asset classes through a documented REST API, 12 MCP tools or 41 x402 resources with no account, and 429s carry Retry-After. The data is derived from unnamed non-exchange sources, no operator is named, and the status history couldn't be read." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tickerlayer", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tickerlayer.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tickerlayer.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tickerlayer.min.md" }, "markdown": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Financial Datasets's 61.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Financial Datasets leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do market fundamentals.\n\n- Financial Datasets: grade C, 61.8/100, rank #598 of 1520. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-datasets.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/financial-datasets.json\n- TickerLayer: grade BB, 71.5/100, rank #160 of 1520. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tickerlayer.json\n- Best financial market data APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/market-data/index.md\n- All 78 markets comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/market-data/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Financial Datasets (C)\n\nGood for: An agent doing US company research from SEC-sourced statements, filings, insider and institutional data that wants to pay per call with no account, or a small team on credits.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 38\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history or published uptime; the Professional plan's SLA terms aren't public\n\n### TickerLayer (BB)\n\nGood for: An agent that needs latest prices, bars and market hours across stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs, commodities, bond yields and perpetual futures from one schema, and wants to pay per call without an account.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 43\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 80\n- Agent ergonomics, 79 against 73\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 92 against 75\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The data is derived and indicative from unnamed non-exchange sources, and no page says it is licensed from an exchange\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: TickerLayer +27\n\n- Financial Datasets (43): Graded as a hosted service. No status page was found; status.financialdatasets.ai does not resolve and no page links one (0), so there is no incident history to read (5). The only published limit is 10,000 requests a minute per wallet over x402, with monthly request caps per plan and none per minute for keyed plans (8 of 15). The OpenAPI file declares 429 and the x402 page documents a 503 with Retry-After from the facilitator and a `duplicate_payment` check on replayed signatures (10 of 15). The Professional plan lists uptime SLAs, with no figure published (10). The API is generally available (10). Total 43.\n- TickerLayer (70): Read with the hosted lines, on the REST API. status.tickerlayer.com is an UptimeRobot page linked from the site header (20). Its monitors and history load by script from /api/, which its robots.txt disallows, so no incident record was read, as for eodhd and apitemplate-io (5). Limits are published with numbers, 10 requests a second per account on Free and Individual, 100 on Business, and monthly call quotas per feed (15). The OpenAPI file's 429 carries `Retry-After` and a body with `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt` and a code that separates the per-second limit from the monthly quota, and every response has carried `X-RateLimit-Limit` and `X-RateLimit-Remaining` since 14 September 2026. Every data operation is a GET, and x402 retries with the same payment identifier return the stored response (15). An SLA is named only for Enterprise under a written agreement and as 'partially available' on Business, with no published terms or figure, and the terms of use promise no uptime. Financial-datasets took 10 for SLAs listed on a self-serve plan, so this is half (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the REST API, the MCP server or the x402 gateway (10). 20+5+15+15+5+10 = 70.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Financial Datasets +25\n\n- Financial Datasets (63): A closed service under terms dated 29 October 2026 that name Financial Datasets, Inc., set New York law, and state the licence per plan (15 of 30). The privacy policy of 20 August 2026 gives retention periods (accounts up to seven years after closure, API and MCP logs up to three years, backups 90 days), says inputs aren't used for training, and links a subprocessor list; no DPA text was found (24 of 30). No deprecation policy; the terms say the Services may be discontinued and material changes get reasonable notice (3 of 20). Subprocessors (AWS, Heroku, Stripe, Google sign-in, Vercel) and the United States as hosting location are disclosed (18 of 20). Total 60.\n- TickerLayer (38): The editorial half. A closed service whose terms of use, user agreement and market data disclaimer (all effective 3 November 2026) set out internal, commercial and redistribution rights by plan and a liability cap. They name no legal entity, address or governing law, so the contracting party is unknown. The plugin and npm client are MIT. Soldfetch took 10 in the same position (10 of 30). The privacy policy keeps WebSocket connection records for 7 days but gives no period for request and tool-call logs or account data after closure, says nothing on model training, names no transfer mechanism and has no DPA (12 of 30). No deprecation policy. The terms allow MCP tools to change 'with reasonable notice where practical' and the user agreement promises notice before a plan is materially reduced, and the changelog records changes after the fact. Kite took 4 (4 of 20). Subprocessors are given only as categories (hosting, authentication, card and crypto payments, email, an AI model for support replies), with analytics vendors deferred to the cookie policy, no data locations, and no named data suppliers (4 of 20). 10+12+4+4 = 30. The provenance half is computed from the provenance block.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: TickerLayer +23\n\n- Financial Datasets (56): UK fundamentals went live on 26 October 2026, India on 23 October, with Japan and South Korea dated for November on the coverage page (30). Dated changes in the last 90 days are x402 on 23 October, UK fundamentals on 26 October, terms and subprocessor list on 29 October, privacy policy on 20 August, with no changelog as such (12 of 20). Contact is a form and the dashboard; no support email, Discord or forum was found, and the GitHub organisation's four repositories couldn't be read because the GitHub API rate limit was reached (6 of 15). The PyPI package is 0.1.18 of 26 May 2024 by the founder, and the docs point to the OpenAPI file and the MCP server rather than an SDK (5 of 15). Package health unknown, dependencies not checked (3 of 10). Total 56.\n- TickerLayer (79): Read as a closed service. The newest changelog entry is 6 November 2026, a bond yield curve endpoint (30). 50 dated changelog entries from 8 September to 6 November 2026 (20). A public changelog, a consultation form, info@tickerlayer.com and a support chat, all untested, with no community channel and no issues on the plugin repository read. Massive and twelve-data took 10 (9 of 15). Official clients for JavaScript or TypeScript (npm) and Python (PyPI), both 0.1.0 from 20 October 2026, and an MCP registry entry under the verified namespace `com.tickerlayer` (15). The npm package has no dependencies or install hooks but no repository field, the clients' source isn't public and no CI is visible (5 of 10). 30+20+9+15+5 = 79.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: TickerLayer +17\n\n- Financial Datasets (75): x402 on the vendor's own endpoints for every documented GET data endpoint, 36 of them, with the last 365 days only and a Non-Professional licence; full history, the market snapshot, filing items and the POST endpoints need a key (35 of 40). Plan prices and overage rates are public, and each x402 endpoint quotes its price in the 402 header, $0.02 on /earnings (20). No free tier or trial found; data calls return 402 until an account holds credits, from $20 (0). An agent can pay by x402 with no account, or open an account with `POST /agent/signup` and have the owner fund it (20). Total 75.\n- TickerLayer (92): x402 on the vendor's own gateway, x402.tickerlayer.com, for 41 GET routes. That is six routes for each of stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs and commodities, plus bond yields and four market-calendar routes. Perpetuals, Futures CFDs, the add-ons, the symbol catalogue and WebSocket need a key. Between massive's 30 for US stock routes only and financial-datasets' 35 for every documented data endpoint (32 of 40). Per-call x402 prices from 0.01 to 0.10 USDC in the catalogue and docs, and plan prices per feed on the pricing page, all without a login (20). A Free plan of 3,000 REST calls every 30 days with 'no card', per llms.txt (20). An agent with a funded Base wallet pays per call with no account or key (20). 32+20+20+20 = 92.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: TickerLayer +8\n\n- Financial Datasets (80): OpenAPI 3.0.1 at financialdatasets.ai/openapi.json, 68 operations with 13 response codes and one security scheme, named the source of truth by the docs (25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every page (10). Every operation has a description, and the 402 terms carry a resource description that says when an agent should use the endpoint (17 of 20). 330 parameters, 36 with enums, 32 required, no free-form blobs (12 of 15). Code samples in Python, JavaScript and curl, x402 error values documented, but response examples on only six operations in the spec (11 of 15). No API version and no changelog; the news page has four dated posts in 2026 (5 of 15). Total 80.\n- TickerLayer (88): OpenAPI 3.1 at tickerlayer.com/openapi.json (TickerLayer Market Data API 1.0.0, about 386,000 characters), read in its first 100,000 and last 96,000 characters, with summaries, descriptions, tags and examples on the operations read and shared 400, 401, 403, 404, 429 and 503 responses. The WebSocket is described in prose only and the hosted MCP tool schemas weren't read (23 of 25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page (10). Operation descriptions state purpose and plan gating, and the vendor's skill says which MCP tool to use for each question and when not to, such as `get_quote` not being the tool for a price. Financial-datasets took 17 (17 of 20). Enums on `interval`, `multiplier`, `timespan` and `sort`, `format: date` on dates, bounded `limit`, required path parameters, as for massive (13 of 15). Examples on most parameters and responses, one Error schema with ten fields and documented codes, but the codes appear only as example values with no enum or table (13 of 15). A dated changelog of the last 50 changes, 8 September to 6 November 2026, but no version in the REST paths ('no /v1/') and the spec at 1.0.0. Above twelve-data's 10 for monthly updates and below massive's 15 for versioned paths (12 of 15). 23+10+17+13+13+12 = 88.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: TickerLayer +6\n\n- Financial Datasets (73): `limit` and `period` on the data endpoints, `as_reported` flags and snapshot variants, with no field selection (15 of 25). `next_page_url` cursors and ticker, CIK, market and date filters (18 of 20). A 402 body says what to do next, x402 errors carry named values, and the spec lists 400, 401, 403, 404, 409, 422, 429, 502 and 503 (16 of 20). Data calls are GETs, payment settles only after a successful response, and a replayed x402 signature is refused; no readOnlyHint found for the MCP tools and no idempotency key for the POST endpoints (14 of 20). Few required parameters, 28 compact MCP tools, but the only package, financial-datasets on PyPI, is at 0.1.18 from 26 May 2024 (10 of 15). Total 73.\n- TickerLayer (79): Read on the REST API, with the MCP server where a line covers it. Responses are sized by `limit` (bars up to 5,000, catalogue up to 1,000), `sort`, date ranges and batch calls for futures quotes and market status, with no field selection. The MCP server has 12 tools, 11 shown to the model. Massive and financial-datasets took 15 (15 of 25). `limit`, `offset` and `next_offset`, cursors on fundamentals and economic events, `total_count` on bars, `search` on symbols and `updated_since` on signals (18 of 20). Errors carry `statusCode`, `message`, a code, `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt`, `limitRps`, `plansUrl` and the missing `product` or `market`, and the skill gives an action per status. Above financial-datasets' 16 (17 of 20). Every data call is a GET, and x402 settles only after a valid response with payment identifiers bound to the request, but no readOnlyHint or other annotation was found for the MCP tools. Financial-datasets took 14 without annotations (15 of 20). Data tools need only `asset_class` and `symbol`, with defaults for limit and sort, and official clients exist for JavaScript or TypeScript and Python, both at 0.1.0 from 20 October 2026. Stocks need the `COUNTRY:TICKER` form (14 of 15). 15+18+17+15+14 = 79.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Financial Datasets | TickerLayer | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 43 | 70 | TickerLayer +27 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 88 | TickerLayer +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 79 | TickerLayer +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 49 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 75 | 92 | TickerLayer +17 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 79 | TickerLayer +23 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 38 | Financial Datasets +25 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61.8 · C** | **71.5 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Financial Datasets | TickerLayer |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Financial Datasets, Inc. | TickerLayer |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.financialdatasets.ai` | `https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | yes, from $0.02/call | yes, from $0.01/call |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary hosted service under the TickerLayer terms of use, user agreement and market data disclaimer (all effective 3 November 2026), which name no legal entity or governing law. Free and Individual plans are for internal use, Business adds use inside the customer's own product, and redistribution needs a written Enterprise agreement. The agent plugin (github.com/tickerlayer/agent-plugin) and the npm client are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 28 | 12 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `com.tickerlayer/market-data` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-26 | 2026-11-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-29 | not read yet |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-20 | not read yet |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not read yet |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Financial Datasets.** Every documented GET data endpoint takes x402 with no key, failed calls uncharged, and an agent can open and fund an account by API. A public OpenAPI file, llms.txt and a 28-tool OAuth MCP server cover the same data. There is no status page or free tier, keyed rate limits aren't published, and x402 data stops at 365 days.\n\n**TickerLayer.** An agent can read quotes, bars and market hours across eight asset classes through a documented REST API, 12 MCP tools or 41 x402 resources with no account, and 429s carry Retry-After. The data is derived from unnamed non-exchange sources, no operator is named, and the status history couldn't be read.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Financial Datasets\n\n1. Without a key, read the price from the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header of the 402 and pay with x402 on Base; each page of `next_page_url` is a separate paid request\n2. Keep `limit` small and ask for one `period` at a time; premium endpoints count as 2, 4 or 8 requests on keyed plans\n3. Send the key only to api.financialdatasets.ai in the `X-API-KEY` header; on 401 ask the owner for a new key rather than signing up again\n4. Treat a 402 on a keyed account as an empty balance and mint a checkout link for the owner; don't retry the call\n5. Check the plan's licence before showing the data to anyone else; redistribution needs Professional or Enterprise\n\n### TickerLayer\n\n1. Write stocks as `COUNTRY:TICKER`, such as `US:KO`, and always pass `asset_class` to the data tools.\n2. If a 429 carries `REST_QUOTA_EXCEEDED`, stop and tell the user. Waiting doesn't reset the monthly quota.\n3. Present prices as indicative TickerLayer values, never as official exchange prices.\n4. Call `get_market_status` before you report a quiet symbol as missing data.\n5. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header, never as the `apiKey` query parameter.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Financial Datasets or TickerLayer?\n\nTickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Financial Datasets's 61.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Financial Datasets leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Financial Datasets and TickerLayer need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay Financial Datasets per call over x402, with no account. An agent can also pay TickerLayer per call over x402, with no account.\n\n### Can an agent call Financial Datasets and TickerLayer without installing anything?\n\nYes. Financial Datasets has a hosted endpoint at https://api.financialdatasets.ai and TickerLayer at https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tickerlayer.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tickerlayer.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"financial-datasets\", \"b\": \"tickerlayer\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare financial-datasets tickerlayer`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/financial-datasets.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tickerlayer.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Financial Datasets or TickerLayer\n\n- [Alpha Vantage vs Financial Datasets](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-financial-datasets.md)\n- [Alpha Vantage vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Benzinga vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Databento vs Financial Datasets](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-financial-datasets.md)\n- [Databento vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Financial Datasets vs Massive (formerly Polygon.io)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-massive.md)\n- [Finnhub vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Intrinio vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Massive (formerly Polygon.io) vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massive-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [TickerLayer vs Tiingo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-tiingo.md)\n- [TickerLayer vs Twelve Data](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-twelve-data.md)\n- [Eulerpool Financial Data API vs Financial Datasets](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-financial-datasets.md)\n- [Eulerpool Financial Data API vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Financial Datasets vs Financial Modeling Prep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-financial-modeling-prep.md)\n- [Financial Datasets vs Finnhub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-finnhub.md)\n- [Financial Datasets vs Intrinio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-intrinio.md)\n- [Financial Datasets vs Tiingo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tiingo.md)\n- [Financial Datasets vs Twelve Data](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-twelve-data.md)\n- [Financial Modeling Prep vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-modeling-prep-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [EODHD vs Financial Datasets](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-financial-datasets.md)\n- [EODHD vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Benzinga vs Financial Datasets](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-financial-datasets.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "attributionRequired": true, "credit": "CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link the page or API address you took it from (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-11-11", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.7", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "terms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Financial Datasets vs TickerLayer", "url": "" } ], "description": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) to Financial Datasets's 61.8 (C) for market fundamentals. 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