Three ways in. Pick the one that fits how you work.
These are not tiers stacked on top of each other. All three reach the same data. What differs is what you pay with: usage, a machine's uptime, or money.
Query through the MCP
Metered by rows scanned; paid past the quota
Every venue we sell is reachable. Nothing is held back for a higher tier: the only thing that changes as you use more is the meter.
- Nothing to provision or download: the question can be larger than your machine.
- Bars, returns, volatility, cross-venue volume come back already computed: your Python starts at the analysis.
- Same quota for everyone. The price past it is published here before the first paid call is taken.
Pick this if your question has an answer smaller than its data: a bar series, a statistic, a comparison.
How the MCP works →Run a node, keep what you record
No keys, no funds, no exchange account
Run the open-source node on the venues you care about and you get the data you record. The archive gets an independent witness for those same minutes, which is what makes the merged record trustworthy.
- Your node keeps what it records: the venues you chose, at the depth you chose.
- Records the archive did not have earn data credits, a discount on everything else we sell. Never cash, never transferable.
- Two independent nodes were never blind at the same minute in our own measurement; one alone was, for 1 to 4 minutes every 3 hours.
Pick this if you have a machine that stays up and a short list of venues you need deeply.
The node and the credit rules →Buy access you cannot mine
Or $3–4 per GB, no subscription
This tier exists for one reason: you need more than you can record yourself. No spare machine, venues you do not run, or history from before your node started.
- Bulk raw files by day, venue and data type, as presigned download links.
- History your node was not running for, across every sellable venue.
- Monthly GB included, or buy exactly the slices you need.
Pick this if you need the raw rows on your own machine, or more venues and history than you can run.
See the plans →Start by asking. Mine or subscribe when you need the rows.
Most readers should start with Ask: it is free, it reaches every venue, and within a week the meter tells you whether you need more. Then:
Stay with Ask
if what you need is a number, a series or a comparison. Bars, volatility, cross-venue volume: the answer is small even when the data is not, and it arrives already computed, from a laptop with nothing downloaded.
Move to Mine
if you need raw rows for a few venues and have a machine that stays up. You keep what you record, and your node makes the shared record harder to fault.
Move to Subscribe
if you need raw rows for more venues, or more history, than you can record yourself. That gap is exactly what the subscription is for.
An answer costs us CPU. A file costs us egress.
An aggregate is computed on a machine that already runs to record the data, and what it returns is a few kilobytes. Handing out raw files costs bandwidth and storage on the way out, gigabytes at a time. So asking is free up to a quota, and raw files are paid. That is the honest shape of the costs, not a loss-leader and not a trial that runs out.
The per-user quota and the price past it are published on this page before the first paid call is taken. Today's limits are here.
Plans, for data you cannot mine.
Raw parquet by venue, data type and day, delivered as presigned links: every row on your own machine, for the work that needs the tape itself.*
Build
$49 / month
One project or a small team.
- 5 GB/month of raw exports included
- All sellable venues and data types
- Email support
Pro
$199 / month
Active research and trading desks.
- 30 GB/month of raw exports included
- Priority access to new venues
- Priority support
Commercial
$499+ / month
Redistribution, products, or heavy usage. Custom terms available.
- Custom volume and redistribution terms
- SLA on new-venue turnaround
- Direct line to the team
Per-GB exports · $3–4/GB
Any exchange / data type / day slice, priced at $3-4/GB depending on volume, no subscription.
* Centralized exchanges are sold as derived data only (liquidations, funding, open interest): their raw ticks are licensed by the exchange, not ours to resell. Perp DEXs and prediction markets are sold in full. The same line is why the free MCP returns answers rather than rows; more on that.