Ask HN: Alternatives to IEX Cloud API
IEX Cloud offered a very reasonably priced, credit-based API access to real-time US market data.
In particular, $19/mo got you an access to minute-resolution non-delayed data on a hundred or so stocks/ETFs.
Furthermore, they supported API call batching, so retrieving last-price for 50 symbols required a single API call.
They are killing this API in September [1] and suggest migrating to Intrinio, which is very funny because a comparable tier there is $500/mo [2].
Hence this post - anyone can suggest from their personal experience any good real-time US market data APIs for low-volume personal use?
Not looking to do HFT trading, nor do I need historical data, just real-time pricing on few dozen symbols with a minute resolution.
So far I found Finnhub, MarketStack, Alpaca, Polygon, TwelveData, Finazon. The first two appear to have required API, but at 2x the price and with no call batching. The rest is either way more expensive or the API is just not there. It's also possible to scrape YFinance, but I'd rather not go that way.
Thanks in advance!
[1] https://iexcloud.io/product-bulletin
[2] https://intrinio.com/pricing