# Financial Datasets vs Twelve Data (slim)

> Twelve Data scores 70 (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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Twelve Data scores 70 (BB) on agent readiness against Financial Datasets's 61.8 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Financial Datasets leads on payments & pricing. Both do market fundamentals. Financial Datasets accepts x402. Twelve Data doesn't.

- Financial Datasets: C 61.8, rank #492 of 1349 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-datasets.min.md
- Twelve Data: BB 70, rank #197 of 1349 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/twelve-data.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 Payments & pricing, 75 against 30. Also An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account.
- Twelve Data, good for Agents that need prices and time series across many exchanges and asset classes with one contract, CSV output, and a documented error table. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 43; Agent ergonomics, 84 against 73; Security & auth, 54 against 49; Maintenance & community, 82 against 56. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Financial Datasets | Twelve Data |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 84 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 49 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 75 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Financial Datasets | Twelve Data |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Financial Datasets, Inc. | Twelve Data Pte. Ltd. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.financialdatasets.ai` | `https://api.twelvedata.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio, websocket |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | yes, from $0.02/call | no |
| Tools exposed | 28 | 27 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-29 | 2026-01-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-20 | 2026-09-22 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 791 stars |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, Financial Datasets +45: 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.); Twelve Data 30 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public without login in pricing.md and on the pricing page, sold by credits a minute per month rather than per call (10). A free Basic plan at 800 credits a day with no card (20). The key comes from a browser signup and no key API was found; MCP needs an OAuth login by a person (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.)
- Reliability, Twelve Data +40: 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.); Twelve Data 83 (Read with the hosted lines. A public status page at twelvedata.isitup.cloud lists Price API, Fundamentals API, WebSocket and Website with uptime figures (20). Its history shows two incidents in the 90 days to 3 November 2026, 20 minutes of unavailability across the three APIs on 1 September and 16 minutes on the WebSocket on 14 October, minor only (20). Limits are published with numbers, credits a minute by plan from 8 to 10,946 and 800 a day on Basic (15). The docs document a 429 on the limit and the usage endpoint, with no Retry-After or backoff guidance; reads only (8 of 15). The terms sell a 99.9 per cent SLA with service credits, and the Enterprise plan carries 99.99 per cent (10). The REST API and MCP server are generally available (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 8 + 10 + 10 = 83.)
- Maintenance & community, Twelve Data +26: 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.); Twelve Data 82 (Read as a closed service. The newest dated change is the product update of 12 October 2026, with the MCP repository changed on 1 October and the world-model dataset repository on 31 October (30). Monthly updates dated 12 August, 12 September and 12 October 2026 (20). A monthly changelog, a support portal, a sales contact and a Telegram channel; replies on the MCP repository's issues were not read (10 of 15). Six official SDKs and a CLI, twelvedata-python at v1.4.0 of 27 April 2026 (15). The MCP server pins its dependencies with reasons and ships tests; the Python SDK's changelog stops at version 0.1 (7 of 10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 7 = 82.)
- Agent ergonomics, Twelve Data +11: 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.); Twelve Data 84 (The REST API is the surface graded. `outputsize` 1 to 5,000 with a default of 30, `format=CSV`, `dp`, date ranges and batch requests size responses, and the MCP server lists 27 tools (20 of 25). Date ranges, `outputsize` and exchange, country and type filters, with no cursor pagination (15 of 20). Error codes with meanings an agent can branch on, 403 for plan limits and 429 for credits (16 of 20). Every operation is a read, and the MCP source marks tools readOnlyHint (18 of 20). Few required parameters, a demo key, and official SDKs in Python, Node.js, Go, Java and R (15). 20 + 15 + 16 + 18 + 15 = 84.)
- Security & auth, Twelve Data +5: Financial Datasets 49 (A plain account key in the `X-API-KEY` header only, revoked from the dashboard, with no scopes, rotation or expiry; the MCP server adds OAuth 2 with PKCE (plain and S256), dynamic client registration, a revocation endpoint and one scope (20 of 30). Every data endpoint is a read; the x402 route and agent signup don't change the account beyond funding it (15 of 20). Filing text, filing items and news are third-party content, with no guidance on treating them as untrusted (5 of 15). The privacy policy says requests and responses are logged for up to three years; no per-call log is shown to the key holder (5 of 15). security.txt returns 404 and no bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 was found; the terms ask for prompt notice of a compromised key and a subprocessor list is published (4 of 20). Total 49.); Twelve Data 54 (The REST key is a plain per-account key with no scopes, accepted as a header or as `?apikey=` (20 less 10 for the query string). The hosted MCP server refuses keys and uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, a resource indicator, refresh tokens, revocation and one scope, which lifts the credential model for that surface (18 of 30). Every operation is a read (15 of 20). Company news is third-party text and no guidance was found (5 of 15). An `/api_usage` endpoint and dashboard usage give the key holder a view of consumption, not a per-call log (6 of 15). A trust centre on SafeBase lists SOC 2, GDPR and CCPA and ten policies; no security.txt, disclosure process or bug bounty was found (10 of 20). 18 + 15 + 5 + 6 + 10 = 54.)