Tickerbot vs Polygon (Massive)

Polygon — now rebranded Massive — sells the raw feed: institutional-grade ticks, aggregates, and a websocket that pushes every trade; what you do with it is your build. 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.

Polygon (Massive) 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	Polygon (Massive)
Market data	One computed table, every ticker	Raw trades, quotes, aggregates
Signal compute	411+ named signals, precomputed	Build it yourself
Query interface	SQL across the whole market	REST, per ticker
History	Replayable — any past moment (as-of)	Raw history, 2–20+ yrs by plan
Push delivery	Webhook when your condition matches	Raw stream — every tick, you filter
Free tier	60 req/min · 10K calls/mo · real-time	5 calls/min · end-of-day only

the honest version

Where Polygon (Massive) fits — and where it costs you.

What Polygon (Massive) does well

Institutional-grade raw data — full trade and quote feeds, clean aggregates, deep history on the top plan.
Flat pricing with unlimited API calls on every paid tier.
Websocket streaming included from the $29 tier up; solid docs and official SDKs.

What’s left on your plate

Real-time data starts at $199/mo — the $29 and $79 tiers are 15-minute delayed. Tickerbot’s free tier is live to the minute.
It’s a feed, not answers. Indicators, screens, and “which tickers just crossed X” mean your own pipeline: ingest, compute, store, repeat per signal.
The websocket pushes every tick for subscribed symbols — watching for a condition across the market is infrastructure you build and run.
The free tier (5 calls/min, end-of-day) is too small to prototype against in earnest.

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	Polygon (Massive)
Free tier	Free — $0 · 60 req/min · 10K calls/mo	Stocks Basic — $0 · 5 calls/min · end-of-day
Entry paid	Hobby — $29/mo · 600 req/min · 10 webhooks	Starter — $29/mo · unlimited calls · 15-min delayed
Mid tier	Pro — $79/mo · 6,000 req/min · 100 webhooks	Developer — $79/mo · unlimited calls · 15-min delayed
Top self-serve	Scale — $199/mo · 60,000 req/min · 1,000 webhooks	Advanced — $199/mo · unlimited calls · real-time

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