# Massive vs other market data APIs

Canonical page: https://massive.com/compare

Massive sits in the exchange datacenters on direct fiber, with no third party in between. You get the whole US market in one API: stocks, options, and futures, plus forex and crypto. Each comparison shows where Massive leads and where the other vendor leads, with every claim linked to the vendor's own site.

## Comparisons

- [Massive vs Databento](https://massive.com/compare/massive-vs-databento.md): Databento is a market data provider that sells normalized data from direct exchange feeds, priced per GB for history or on monthly plans.
- [Massive vs Alpha Vantage](https://massive.com/compare/massive-vs-alpha-vantage.md): Alpha Vantage is a REST API for stock, forex, crypto, fundamentals, and economic data, with paid plans priced by requests per minute.
- [Massive vs Twelve Data](https://massive.com/compare/massive-vs-twelve-data.md): Twelve Data is a market data API for stocks, ETFs, funds, forex, crypto, and bonds across 50+ countries, with plans priced by API credits.
- [Massive vs Finnhub](https://massive.com/compare/massive-vs-finnhub.md): Finnhub is a financial data API with separately priced modules for US market data, forex, crypto, and fundamentals, plus alternative data such as ESG and congressional trading.
- [Massive vs Alpaca](https://massive.com/compare/massive-vs-alpaca.md): Alpaca is a brokerage API that also sells a market data API for US stocks, options, and crypto, with a free IEX feed and a $99/mo plan for all US exchanges.
- [Massive vs Tiingo](https://massive.com/compare/massive-vs-tiingo.md): Tiingo is a low-cost financial data API for end-of-day prices, fundamentals, news, IEX intraday data, forex, and crypto.
- [Massive vs Intrinio](https://massive.com/compare/massive-vs-intrinio.md): Intrinio is a financial data provider known for US fundamentals, with self-serve plans and Enterprise plans for real-time exchange feeds.
- [Massive vs EODHD](https://massive.com/compare/massive-vs-eodhd.md): EODHD is a financial data API covering 70 exchanges, with end-of-day prices, fundamentals, and delayed intraday data, in plans from $19.99/mo.
- [Massive vs yfinance](https://massive.com/compare/massive-vs-yfinance.md): yfinance is a free, open-source Python library that pulls market data from Yahoo Finance. Its README says it is not affiliated with, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, and is meant for research and education.

## Who covers what

| Vendor | US stocks | US options | Futures | Forex | Crypto | Non-US | Streaming | Bulk files | MCP server | AI agent skills |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Massive | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Databento | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not listed | Not listed |
| Alpha Vantage | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Not listed | Yes | Not listed |
| Twelve Data | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not listed | Yes | Not listed |
| Finnhub | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not listed |
| Alpaca | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Not listed | Yes | Yes |
| Tiingo | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Not listed | Not listed |
| Intrinio | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not listed |
| EODHD | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| yfinance | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Not listed | Not listed |

## Questions

### Which market data APIs have tick-level trades and quotes?

Massive has every US stock trade and NBBO quote back to 2003, with nanosecond timestamps. Databento, Finnhub, Alpaca, Intrinio, and EODHD also sell US tick data, with different history and plans. Alpha Vantage, Twelve Data, Tiingo, and yfinance sell bars and latest quotes.

### Which APIs stream real-time data from the whole US market?

Massive Stocks Advanced streams data from 100% of US stock volume. Alpaca and Databento also cover all US exchanges. Twelve Data and EODHD stream from a subset of venues, and Alpha Vantage does not stream.

### How much does real-time US stock data cost?

Massive Stocks Advanced costs $199/mo for 100% of US volume, with history back to 2003. If you only need real-time stocks and options, Alpaca can cost less, at $99/mo. Twelve Data and EODHD cost less again, but their real-time US feeds cover only part of the market.

### Which market data APIs have a free plan?

Massive (end-of-day data, 5 calls a minute), Alpha Vantage (25 requests a day), Twelve Data (800 credits a day), Finnhub (60 calls a minute), Alpaca (real-time IEX data), Tiingo (1,000 requests a day), and EODHD (20 calls a day). Databento gives $125 in credits, and Intrinio offers a free trial. yfinance is free for personal use, and unofficial.

### Which market data APIs cover US options?

Massive, Databento, Alpha Vantage, Alpaca, Intrinio, EODHD, and yfinance. Depth varies a lot: Massive sells real-time OPRA data, and some others sell only current chains or end-of-day prices. Each comparison page has the details.

### Which market data APIs have an official MCP server?

Massive, Alpha Vantage, Twelve Data, Finnhub, Alpaca, Intrinio, and EODHD. An MCP server lets an AI agent such as Claude Code call the API as a tool.

### Which APIs cover stocks, options, futures, forex, and crypto in one place?

Massive and yfinance. yfinance is unofficial and not licensed for commercial use.

Company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Massive is not affiliated with any company on this page. Details come from each company's public pages on the date shown on each comparison, and may have changed since.