Alternatives
Tiingo News alternative
Tiingo bundles thirty years of prices, fundamentals and a news endpoint for $30 a month, and for most personal projects that bundle is the right buy. PIT is worth looking at when an empty result has to come with a reason attached, and when ticker identity has to be valid at the instant you are querying. Every read is an as-of query: bounded to a past instant, and returned with a coverage certificate recording what we read on each day it touched.
Updated 2026-08-26. PIT figures read off a running server; vendor figures off each vendor’s own pages.
Why people search this
What the self-serve window covers
Tiingo’s published pricing page lists two tiers, Starter $0 and Power $30 a month, both marked internal use only, with commercial terms as a contact path (checked August 2026). Self-serve news history runs about three months and then goes forward; they say up to fifteen years exists behind a sales conversation. That is a good deal for prices. It is a thin base for a study that bounds each read to a past instant across several years, which is the gap people hit.
Their news rows carry two timestamps, publishedDate from the
source and crawlDate for when the story reached Tiingo, and you
can sort on either. The clock is not missing. What is missing is a statement
of whether the crawl covered a given day, which is what turns an empty
answer into information.
Fit
Jobs, and where each one lands
| The job | Keep Tiingo | Add PIT |
|---|---|---|
| End-of-day prices, fundamentals, a recent headline stream | Yes. | No. We sell none of the three. |
| Fifteen years of publisher news in one file | Ask them; that is their archive. | No. We do not hold publisher news. |
| SEC and Federal Register rows as of an instant, with a certificate per day | Not the product. | Yes. |
| A news join that must not carry today’s tickers | Their documentation says ticker tags reflect the symbol attached at crawl time, and calls it explicitly “not a durable permaTicker.” | Ticker-to-CIK intervals valid at the query instant. See identity mapping. |
| A ticker-to-company table that answers as of a past date | Their own published gap list for August 2026 names this among the things they do not offer. | Nine curated tickers: AAPL, FB, GME, GOOG, GOOGL, META, SIVB, TSLA, TWTR. |
The difference in one row
An empty answer, two ways
Filter Tiingo News to 9 March 2023 and an empty list can mean the self-serve window does not reach 2023, or that their store holds nothing for that day. Both cases look identical from the client.
PIT’s sample for the same instant returns count 0 alongside
coverage.touched naming sec.edgar/2023-03-09 and
us.federal_register.pi/2023-03-09, both certified complete, so the
zero is SVB’s filing count at that instant. Where we hold no coverage, the
same call returns HTTP 409 with count as JSON null, and the day
is listed in coverage.missing. A client can therefore tell the
two outcomes apart. See
coverage certificate.
Payload
The rows carry no filing text yet
A PIT row holds form type, company name, accession, CIK, five clocks, a
content hash and the SEC URL. The filing text is not on it, so anything a
language model writes about a cut comes from its own memory of the period
rather than from the payload. Filing text is being ingested now; until it
lands, fetch the document from source_locator yourself.
Limits
Five limits
- A PIT row is filing-index metadata, so it does not drop into code written against a Tiingo news payload.
- Their $30 covers prices, fundamentals and a news endpoint. PIT at $29 sells none of those three; it sells SEC and Federal Register rows as of an instant.
- Tiingo’s
crawlDateis a real ingest clock: it records when they crawled the story, which is a different measurement from a filing clock. - PIT’s certified backfill ends 2023-03-31 and the tape resumes 2026-08-26, while their news endpoint is current throughout.
- Researcher $29 and Power $79 both read the whole ingested history. Plans and what the corpus covers.
Check it
The empty answer with a reason attached
Ask for SVB as of 9 March 2023 at 20:00Z and read what comes back next to the zero: both sources certified complete for that day.
No account needed. The longer comparison is PIT vs Tiingo News.
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