Tiingo pricing and alternatives
What Tiingo costs, what each plan allows, and the alternatives.
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Tiingo at a glance
- Starter
- $0, 1,000 requests a day
- Power
- $30 a month or $300 a year
- Commercial
- $50 a month or $499 a year
- Redistribution
- quoted by sales
What Tiingo costs
Tiingo has a free Starter plan and two flat-rate paid plans, one for individuals and one for internal commercial use.
| Limit | Starter | Power | Commercial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who | Anyone, personal use | Individuals | Business, internal use, up to 2 developers |
| Requests an hour | 50 | 10,000 | 20,000 |
| Requests a day | 1,000 | 100,000 | 150,000 |
| Bandwidth a month | 1 GB | 40 GB | 100 GB |
| Symbols a month | 500 | All | All |
| News | Not included | Included, 3 months queryable | Included |
"There is no per-second or per-minute throttle." Realtime US prices (24x5), crypto and IEX are on every plan, free included. External display and white-label need "a specialized license".
When to use Tiingo
Choose it for flat-rate price data. Choose Finks when your agent needs the news, filings or earnings calls behind the numbers, each with its source.
- 01
Flat-rate commercial use
Internal commercial use at $50 a month.
- 02
Realtime on every plan
Realtime US prices on every plan, free included.
- 03
Long price history
30+ years of end-of-day prices.
Alternatives to Tiingo
Finks
Best for: AI agents that search in plain English and need the passage that answers, with its source.
Finks is a search API built for AI agents. Your agent searches in plain English and gets back the results that answer it, each linked to its source. Today that covers news, SEC filings and earnings call transcripts.
Filing results can carry the matching passage in the filing's own words, which your agent can quote and cite. The Finks MCP server adds the same search to Claude, Cursor or any MCP-compatible client.
Tiingo's news API needs a paid plan and filters by ticker and source. Finks searches by question.
What Finks does not do
Finks does not return stock prices, time series, technical indicators or financial statements. If your agent needs those, keep Tiingo or another market data API for them.
Get set up in minutes. Free tier, no card required. Paid plans start at $29 a month (Starter).
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POST /v1/search { "query": "What did Nvidia say about China export licenses?", "symbols": ["NVDA"], "types": ["filing"], "depth": "deep", "limit": 2 }Response
{ "type": "filing", "title": "NVIDIA CORP — 8-K Item 2.02, Results of Operations and Financial Condition", "published_at": "2026-08-26T20:21:19Z", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581026000073/q2fy27pr.htm", "passage": { "section_id": "8-k/ex-99.1", "text": "…Revenue is expected to be $108.0 billion, plus or minus 2%. NVIDIA is not assuming any Data Center compute revenue from China in its outlook…" }, "related": [ { "type": "brief", "title": "Nvidia Reports Record Q2 Revenue of $96.2 Billion; Q3 Guidance Exceeds Estimates", "url": "https://finks.ai/briefs/Zea2AiQofRok" } ] }Live response, 26 Oct 2026, test key (fewer fields than a production key)
Alpha Vantage
Best for: market data across asset classes, starting with a free key.
Alpha Vantage's free key allows 25 API requests a day. Premium plans run from $49.99 to $249.99 a month by requests per minute. Its market news and sentiment function needs a premium plan.
Polygon.io (now Massive)
Best for: US stock market data at a flat monthly price, starting free.
polygon.io now redirects to massive.com. The free Stocks Basic plan allows 5 API calls a minute with 2 years of end-of-day data. Paid stock plans have unlimited API calls, and Massive lists a remote MCP server.
Finnhub
Best for: a higher free rate limit for personal projects, with company news included.
Finnhub's free plan allows 60 API calls a minute for personal use. It includes company news with one year of history and real-time updates. Its All-In-One plan, with global coverage, is $3,500 a month billed annually.
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Questions about Tiingo pricing
Is Tiingo free?
Yes, with limits. The free Starter plan allows 1,000 requests a day and 50 an hour, for personal use.
How much is Tiingo for commercial use?
Internal commercial use is $50 a month or $499 a year, for up to 2 developers. External display needs a specialized license. Prices checked 20 Oct 2026.
Does Tiingo include news on the free plan?
No. News is included on the paid plans.
Does Finks replace Tiingo?
Not for market data. Finks returns the passages that answer a question, each with its source; today that covers news, SEC filings and earnings call transcripts. Use Tiingo for market data and Finks for the finance answers behind it.
Finks makes this page. We took every price and limit from each company's own website on 20 Oct 2026 and link to each source. Prices change, so check them before you buy.
Sources
- Tiingo: tiingo.com/about/pricing, checked 20 Oct 2026.
- Tiingo: tiingo.com/llms-full.txt, checked 20 Oct 2026.
- Alpha Vantage: alphavantage.co/premium, checked 20 Oct 2026.
- Polygon.io (now Massive): massive.com/pricing, checked 20 Oct 2026.
- Finnhub: finnhub.io/pricing, checked 20 Oct 2026.
Add sourced research to your market data
Finks returns news, SEC filings and earnings call passages, each with its source.