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OHLC vs Alpha Vantage:
licensed for business, built for batches.

Alpha Vantage's terms grant personal, non-commercial use unless you sign something else with its sales team. OHLC publishes the price of business use: $149 a month for your team, $899 to show data to customers. And a 100-symbol refresh is one request, not a hundred.

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Business use, priced up front

OHLC Pro covers internal use at $149; Commercial adds display at $899. Alpha Vantage's business terms are agreed with its sales team.

100 symbols, one request

/v1/eod takes up to 100 symbols and pages with a cursor, so a portfolio refresh is one call instead of one per ticker.

Full history on the free key

OHLC Free returns 5 years of daily bars, statements and filings for its seven tickers. Alpha Vantage's free daily series stop at the latest 100 points.

What a business pays

Published prices and terms as of October 3, 2026.
Your projectOHLCAlpha Vantage
Internal research or tools for a team$149/mo (Pro)Written agreement through sales
Prices shown to customers in your product$899/mo (Commercial), self-serveWritten agreement through sales
Daily bars for a 100-stock portfolio1 request100 requests (one symbol per time-series call)

OHLC vs Alpha Vantage, side by side

Competitor details from alphavantage.co as of October 3, 2026.
OHLCAlpha Vantage
Business and display rightsPublished and self-serve. Pro covers internal business use for your team at $149/mo. Commercial adds display and redistribution to customers at $899/mo. Free and Developer are personal use.Terms grant personal, non-commercial use unless agreed otherwise in writing. Business use goes through their sales team.
BatchingUp to 100 symbols per request, cursor pagination, and a whole-market day in one call.Daily time series take one symbol per request.
FundamentalsIncluded on every plan, even Free. Financial statements, metrics, dividends, splits, earnings and SEC filings; as-reported XBRL facts carry their filing's accession number.Fundamentals and technical indicators by function, within the request limits of your tier.
Free tier12,500 credits/day and 30 requests/min on AAPL, NVDA, JNJ, PEP, MSFT, SPY and QQQ: 5 years of daily bars, fundamentals and SEC filings. Personal use, no card.25 requests/day on most endpoints. Daily series return the latest 100 points; the full series needs a premium key.
Pricing modelHard cap, no overages. Daily credits (5 per symbol for daily bars). At the limit, requests return 429 until 00:00 UTC; the bill never changes.Premium plans are priced by requests per minute with no daily limit.
Paid plansDeveloper $49, Pro $149, Commercial $899, Scale $1,499 per month. Pay annually and get two months free.Premium plans by request rate: 75/min $49.99, 150/min $99.99, 300/min $149.99, 600/min $199.99, 1,200/min $249.99 per month. Annual $499 to $2,499.
CoverageEvery U.S.-listed stock and ETF, plus mutual funds and U.S. corporate bonds on Commercial and Scale, and crypto and forex pairs, index levels and seven exchanges in Canada, the UK, France, the Netherlands and Australia on Pro and above.Global equities (stocks, ETFs, mutual funds), indices, options, forex, crypto, commodities, economic indicators, fundamentals, technical indicators and news.
History5 years (Free, Developer), 15 years (Pro), full history (Commercial, Scale).25+ years of daily history; intraday by month back to January 2000.
LatencyEnd-of-day bars and quotes delayed at least 15 minutes; 5-minute and hourly bars for about the last 30 days on Pro and above.Realtime and 15-minute delayed U.S. data for personal use with a premium plan, enabled through their entitlement process.
DeliveryREST (JSON or CSV), delayed-quote WebSocket (Pro and above), nightly flat files (Pro and above), bulk exports (Commercial and above), S3 delivery (Scale).REST query API (JSON or CSV) and spreadsheet add-ons for Excel and Google Sheets.
AI and MCPHosted MCP server at https://api.ohlc.io/mcp with OAuth sign-in or an API key, on Developer and above.Official MCP server, documented at mcp.alphavantage.co.

Why teams pick OHLC over Alpha Vantage

  • You are building a business product. Alpha Vantage's terms grant personal, non-commercial use unless you agree otherwise in writing. OHLC's Pro plan covers internal use at $149 a month, and Commercial includes display and redistribution at a published $899, bought online.
  • You batch many symbols. /v1/eod takes up to 100 symbols per request and pages with a cursor, so a portfolio refresh is one call instead of one per ticker.
  • You want adjusted bars without a premium tier. Raw, split-adjusted and total-return daily bars come from the same endpoint on every OHLC plan.
  • Backtests that survive ticker changes. Every listing has a stable instrument_id, and as_of and symbol_at answer what was known, and which company held a ticker, on any past date. Renamed, merged and reused symbols stop silently corrupting your history.
  • Data that is checked before you see it. Prices and corporate actions are compared across licensed sources before they are published, and disagreements are reviewed, not averaged away.
  • You want one URL per dataset. Clean REST paths and one JSON envelope everywhere, instead of a single endpoint switched by a function parameter.

When Alpha Vantage is the better pick

Choose Alpha Vantage for global listings, commodities or long intraday history by month back to 2000, or for realtime U.S. prices on a personal premium plan. OHLC covers U.S. equities plus, on Pro and above, Canada, the UK, France, the Netherlands and Australia, with delayed quotes and about 30 days of intraday bars.

Switching from Alpha Vantage to OHLC

Alpha Vantage selects a dataset with a function query parameter on one URL. OHLC uses one path per dataset, with the same JSON envelope everywhere.

  • Daily bars. function=TIME_SERIES_DAILY&symbol=IBM maps to /v1/eod?symbols=XNYS:IBM (daily bars). For TIME_SERIES_DAILY_ADJUSTED, add adjustment=total_return (splits and dividends) or adjustment=split.
  • Intraday. TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY maps to /v1/intraday (intraday bars) with interval=5m or 1h, for about the last 30 days (Pro and above).
  • Quotes. The quote endpoint maps to /v1/quotes (quotes), which returns the last trade of a snapshot delayed at least 15 minutes.
  • Symbols. IBM becomes XNYS:IBM, AAPL becomes XNAS:AAPL. Bare tickers also resolve. See symbols.
  • Auth. Replace the apikey query parameter with an Authorization: Bearer $OHLC_API_KEY header. Spreadsheets may pass api_key= in the query. See authentication.
  • Ranges and pagination. Instead of outputsize=compact or full, pass from and to (YYYY-MM-DD) and up to limit=500 rows a page; follow meta.next_cursor as cursor until it is null. See pagination.
  • CSV. datatype=csv becomes format=csv.
TIME_SERIES_DAILY_ADJUSTED for two symbols, as one OHLC requestcURL
curl 'https://api.ohlc.io/v1/eod?symbols=XNYS:IBM,XNAS:AAPL&from=2025-01-02&to=2025-12-31&adjustment=total_return&limit=500' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OHLC_API_KEY"

OHLC counts credits per day rather than requests per minute, and daily bars cost 5 credits per symbol; /v1/usage shows what a workload spends. Create a free key to test before switching.

Details about Alpha Vantage on this page come from its public website as of October 3, 2026 and may change; their pricing page is the current word. OHLC details reflect our own pricing on the same date.

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Questions, answered.

Can I use OHLC data commercially?

Yes, on published plans. Pro allows internal business use at $149 a month, and Commercial and Scale include display and redistribution. Free and Developer are personal use.

Can I use Alpha Vantage in a business?

Alpha Vantage's terms grant personal, non-commercial use unless agreed otherwise in writing, so business use starts with its sales team.

Is OHLC's free tier bigger than Alpha Vantage's?

For depth, yes: OHLC's Free plan gives 12,500 credits a day with 5 years of daily bars, statements and filings, but only on AAPL, NVDA, JNJ, PEP, MSFT, SPY and QQQ. Alpha Vantage's free tier opens more symbols and endpoints at 25 requests a day, with daily series capped at the latest 100 points.

Does OHLC have realtime quotes?

No. OHLC quotes are delayed at least 15 minutes. Alpha Vantage offers realtime U.S. data to premium subscribers for personal use.

Does OHLC cover international stocks, forex or options?

International stocks, partly: Pro and above also cover Toronto, TSX Venture, Cboe Canada, London, Euronext Paris and Amsterdam, and the ASX. U.S. options and currency pairs are on Pro and above too.

Does OHLC work in Excel and Google Sheets?

Yes. Price endpoints such as /v1/eod return CSV with format=csv, and spreadsheets can pass the key as api_key=. See Excel and Google Sheets.

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