# Financial Datasets vs TickerLayer (slim)

> TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) to Financial Datasets's 61.8 (C) for market fundamentals. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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 & trust. Both do market fundamentals.

- Financial Datasets: C 61.8, rank #598 of 1520 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-datasets.min.md
- TickerLayer: BB 71.5, rank #160 of 1520 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.min.md
- Financial Datasets, good 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. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 63 against 38.
- TickerLayer, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 43; Schema & documentation, 88 against 80; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 73; Payments & pricing, 92 against 75; Maintenance & community, 79 against 56. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Financial Datasets | TickerLayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 49 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 75 | 92 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 38 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Financial Datasets | TickerLayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Financial Datasets, Inc. | TickerLayer |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.financialdatasets.ai` | `https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | yes, from $0.02/call | yes, from $0.01/call |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 28 | 12 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.tickerlayer/market-data` |
| Last release | 2026-10-26 | 2026-11-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-29 | not read yet |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-20 | not read yet |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |

Why the edge:
- Reliability, TickerLayer +27: Financial Datasets 43 (Graded as a hosted service.); TickerLayer 70 (Read with the hosted lines, on the REST API.)
- Transparency & trust, Financial Datasets +25: 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).); TickerLayer 38 (The editorial half.)
- Maintenance & community, TickerLayer +23: 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).); TickerLayer 79 (Read as a closed service.)
- Payments & pricing, TickerLayer +17: 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…); TickerLayer 92 (x402 on the vendor's own gateway, x402.tickerlayer.com, for 41 GET routes.)
- Schema & documentation, TickerLayer +8: 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).); 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…)
- Agent ergonomics, TickerLayer +6: Financial Datasets 73 (`limit` and `period` on the data endpoints, `as_reported` flags and snapshot variants, with no field selection (15 of 25).); TickerLayer 79 (Read on the REST API, with the MCP server where a line covers it.)