Tickerbot vs Databento

Databento sells the raw pipe — exchange-grade L1–L3 feeds, nanosecond timestamps, priced by usage or subscription; if you’re building a matching engine, buy it. 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.

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

	Tickerbot	Databento
Market data	One computed table, every ticker	Raw exchange feeds (L0–L3)
Signal compute	411+ named signals, precomputed	Build it yourself
Query interface	SQL across the whole market	Dataset downloads + client libs, per schema
History	Replayable — any past moment (as-of)	Raw history, depth varies by plan
Push delivery	Webhook when your condition matches	Raw live stream — every event, you filter
Free tier	60 req/min · 10K calls/mo, forever	$125 one-time credits (expire in 6 months)

the honest version

Where Databento fits — and where it costs you.

What Databento does well

The real thing for market microstructure — full order-book depth, nanosecond timestamps, survivorship-bias-free history.
Transparent usage-based pricing for historical data; you pay for exactly the slices you pull.
Excellent documentation and clean, well-typed client libraries.

What’s left on your plate

You’re buying plumbing. Everything above the feed — indicators, screens, signal state, alerting — is your pipeline to build, run, and pay compute for.
Live US equities data requires the $199/mo Standard plan minimum; the serious tiers are $1,750–$4,500/mo on annual contracts.
Costs scale with usage — broad historical pulls across the whole market add up fast, and there is no free tier, just one-time credits.
Overkill for app and bot builders: if the question is “which tickers are oversold right now,” you don’t need L3 depth — you need the answer.

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 →

	Tickerbot	Databento
Free tier	Free — $0 · 60 req/min · 10K calls/mo	$125 one-time credits · historical only
Entry paid	Hobby — $29/mo · 600 req/min · 10 webhooks	Usage-based — historical pay-as-you-go
Mid tier	Pro — $79/mo · 6,000 req/min · 100 webhooks	Standard — $199/mo · live + capped history
Top self-serve	Scale — $199/mo · 60,000 req/min · 1,000 webhooks	Plus / Unlimited — $1,750–$4,500/mo · annual contract

get started

Get a key. Run a scan.

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