AlgoseekFree tier
Options Data APIs
Institutional US options (OPRA) data: historical trades, NBBO quotes and minute bars from 2015, plus real-time and delayed feeds.
Paid plans from$1,000/mo
Databento
Usage-based market data API with tick-level OPRA options data, plus futures and equities, through one historical and live API.
Pricing: Pay as you go for historical data, billed per GB of uncompressed binary data (estimates in Databento's data catalog and batch download tool), or subscription plans priced per dataset with monthly or annual billing. No free plan.
Best for
Developers and quants who want tick-level options data and pay only for what they pull
Notable features
- Full OPRA options feed in the same API as futures and equities
- Same interfaces and schemas for historical replay and live data
- Trades, BBO and OHLCV bar schemas (second, minute, hour, day)
- CSV, JSON or binary (DBN) encoding; Python, C++ and Rust client libraries
- $125 in free credits for new users
Pricing notes
Pay as you go for historical data, billed per GB of uncompressed binary data (estimates in Databento's data catalog and batch download tool), or subscription plans priced per dataset with monthly or annual billing. The pricing page shows plan prices for one dataset at a time, and we couldn't confirm the plan price for the OPRA options dataset, so no price is shown. Live data adds pass-through exchange license fees.
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Databento FAQ
Is Databento free?
No. Databento does not offer a free plan. Trial: No free trial listed; new users get $125 in free credits.
How much does Databento cost?
Pay as you go for historical data, billed per GB of uncompressed binary data (estimates in Databento's data catalog and batch download tool), or subscription plans priced per dataset with monthly or annual billing. The pricing page shows plan prices for one dataset at a time, and we couldn't confirm the plan price for the OPRA options dataset, so no price is shown. Live data adds pass-through exchange license fees.
Does Databento have a free trial?
No free trial listed; new users get $125 in free credits.