Yes, Market Data has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes 100 Sheets formulas per day, 100 daily API credits, and 1 year of historical data. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $12/mo, and no credit card is required to sign up.
About
Market Data provides a REST API and Google Sheets add-on for U.S. market data, including stocks, options, ETFs, and mutual funds. The service exposes real-time and delayed quotes, historical candlesticks, option chains, Greeks, implied volatility, and spreadsheet formulas for pulling data into Sheets.
The free offering includes 100 Sheets formulas, 100 daily API credits, standard API endpoints, 1 year of historical data, 24-hour delayed stock data, and 24-hour delayed options data. The pricing page also states that the free plan is for internal use and that real-time stock and options data are reserved for paid plans.
- 100 Sheets formulas
- 100 daily API credits
- 1 year historical data
- 24-hour delayed stock data
- 24-hour delayed options data
- Standard API endpoints
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable but tightly capped: it includes a 30-day no-credit-card trial and then drops to a perpetual free plan with 100 formulas and 100 API credits per day, plus delayed market data and one year of history. Compared with the cheapest paid Starter plan at $12/month, it looks worth about one Starter month for a small user, but the low daily limits and delayed access keep it well below paid-plan parity.
What's included in the free tier
Last checked
- 100 Sheets formulas per day.
- 100 daily API credits.
- Standard API endpoints.
- 1 year of historical data.
- 24-hour delayed stock data.
- 24-hour delayed options data.
See Market Data pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Starter
- Sheets formulas
- 10,000
- Daily API credits
- 10,000
- Historical data
- 5 years
- Stock data
- Real-time
- Options data
- 15m delayed
- 10,000 Sheets formulas
- 10,000 daily API credits
- Premium API endpoints
- 5 years historical data
- Real-time stock data for qualifying non-professionals
- 15m delayed options data
Trader
- Sheets formulas
- 100,000
- Daily API credits
- 100,000
- Historical data
- No limit
- Stock data
- Real-time
- Options data
- Real-time
- 100,000 Sheets formulas
- 100,000 daily API credits
- Premium API endpoints
- No limit on historical data
- Real-time stock data for qualifying non-professionals
- Real-time options data for qualifying non-professionals
Quant
- API credits per minute
- 10,000
- Sheets formulas
- Unlimited
- Historical data
- No limit
- Stock data
- Real-time
- Unlimited Sheets formulas
- 10,000 API credits per minute
- Premium API endpoints
- Internal use
- No limit on historical data
- Real-time data for qualifying non-professionals
Prime
- API credits per minute
- 100,000
- Sheets formulas
- Unlimited
- Historical data
- No limit
- Stock data
- Real-time
- Unlimited Sheets formulas
- 100,000 API credits per minute
- Premium API endpoints
- Internal use
- No limit on historical data
- Real-time data for qualifying non-professionals
Commercial
- Rate limit
- Custom
- Historical data
- No limit
- Enterprise support
- Flexible rate limit
- Business API endpoints
- Redistribution permitted
- No limit on historical data
- Multiple data feeds
Pricing extracted from Market Data's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Market Data free forever?
Yes. Market Data has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
Does Market Data require a credit card?
No. You can start on Market Data's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Market Data's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Market Data's cheapest paid plan is Starter at $12 / month.
What is Market Data's free tier worth?
Market Data's free tier is worth about $12 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 59/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
