Tickerbot vs Yahoo Finance

The “Yahoo Finance API” isn’t a product — it’s libraries like yfinance scraping endpoints Yahoo never promised to keep stable; free until it breaks, blocked when it matters. Tickerbot is the supported version of the same idea: 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.

Yahoo Finance 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	Yahoo Finance
Market data	One computed table, every ticker	Scraped quotes and history
Signal compute	411+ named signals, precomputed	Build it yourself
Query interface	SQL across the whole market	Unofficial endpoints, one symbol at a time
History	Replayable — any past moment (as-of)	Raw history, while the scrape works
Push delivery	Webhook when your condition matches	—
Reliability	A supported API with a status page	No API contract — breaks without notice

the honest version

Where Yahoo Finance fits — and where it costs you.

What Yahoo Finance does well

Free and everywhere — yfinance is one import away, with decades of daily history for quick pulls.
Perfect for notebooks, coursework, and one-off analysis where a broken script costs you nothing.
Huge community — every scraping workaround has a Stack Overflow answer.

What’s left on your plate

There is no official API. The endpoints yfinance scrapes carry no contract, no SLA, no support — they change or rate-limit without notice, and your pipeline goes down with them.
Terms-of-service gray zone — fine for a notebook, a real problem underneath a product or a trading bot.
One symbol at a time, raw values only — screens, indicators, and market-wide state are all your compute.
No push of any kind: no webhooks, no streaming. Polling a scrape is the fragile version of infrastructure Tickerbot ships as a feature.

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	Yahoo Finance
Free tier	Free — $0 · 60 req/min · 10K calls/mo	yfinance — $0 · unofficial scrape, rate-limited
Entry paid	Hobby — $29/mo · 600 req/min · 10 webhooks	— no official API to buy
Mid tier	Pro — $79/mo · 6,000 req/min · 100 webhooks	—
Top self-serve	Scale — $199/mo · 60,000 req/min · 1,000 webhooks	—

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