Tickerbot vs Alpha Vantage

Alpha Vantage sells raw endpoints — quotes here, fundamentals there, one symbol per call, 25 free requests a day. Tickerbot serves the whole market as one computed table of every ticker × every signal — scan it live, replay any past moment, or subscribe to state changes.

Free plan. Every ticker, every signal, real-time data, all-time history.

head to head

The raw feed vs the computed table.

Alpha Vantage hands you the raw feed; everything above it is your job. Tickerbot serves the whole market as one computed table — SQL in, answers out.

TickerbotAlpha Vantage
Market dataOne computed table, every tickerRaw / series data, per endpoint
Signal compute411+ named signals, precomputedIndicator endpoints, one symbol per call
Query interfaceSQL across the whole marketREST, one symbol per call
HistoryReplayable — any past moment (as-of)Raw history series
Push deliveryWebhook on match + raw stream—
Free tier60 req/min · 10K calls/mo25 requests/day

the honest version

Where Alpha Vantage fits — and where it costs you.

What Alpha Vantage does well

  • The classic first stock API — a free key in seconds and a huge catalog of endpoints: quotes, fundamentals, forex, crypto, 50+ technical indicators.
  • Broad global symbol coverage across equity markets, currencies, and commodities.
  • Spreadsheet-friendly — official Excel and Google Sheets add-ons.

What’s left on your plate

  • Everything is one-symbol-per-call REST. “Every stock where RSI is oversold” means thousands of calls plus your own compute — on Tickerbot it’s one SQL query, because the signal is already a column.
  • 25 free requests a day runs out during your first experiment; sustained use starts at $49.99/mo for 75 req/min of raw data.
  • No push of any kind — no webhooks, no streaming. Polling is your job, and so is the infrastructure that watches for state changes.
  • Indicators are computed per request, not historized — “which tickers crossed above their 200-day SMA last March” is a data project, not a query.

pricing

Pricing, side by side.

Every Tickerbot plan gets the full universe, every signal, and all-time history — paid tiers buy rate and webhooks, not data. Full pricing →

TickerbotAlpha Vantage
Free tierFree — $0 · 60 req/min · 10K calls/moFree — $0 · 25 requests/day
Entry paidHobby — $29/mo · 600 req/min · 10 webhooksPremium — $49.99/mo · 75 req/min
Mid tierPro — $79/mo · 6,000 req/min · 100 webhooksPremium — $99.99–$149.99/mo · 150–300 req/min
Top self-serveScale — $199/mo · 60,000 req/min · 1,000 webhooksPremium — $199.99–$249.99/mo · 600–1,200 req/min

get started

Get a key. Run a scan.

Free plan. Every ticker, every signal, real-time data, all-time history.