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one plan, licensed for business.

Finnhub's listed plans are for personal use and cannot be used by a business, even internally, without written approval. Its prices and fundamentals are also sold as separate plans. OHLC puts daily bars, statements and SEC filings on one plan from $49, and publishes what business use costs.

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Your company can use it

OHLC Pro covers internal business use at $149; Commercial adds display at $899. Finnhub's business use goes through its Startups & Enterprise plan.

Prices + fundamentals for $49

One OHLC Developer plan. On Finnhub, U.S. market data and fundamentals are separate subscriptions.

Historical bars on the free key

OHLC Free returns 5 years of daily bars for its seven tickers. Finnhub's candles need a paid plan.

What it costs

Published monthly prices as of October 4, 2026.
Your projectOHLCFinnhub
Internal research or tools at a company$149/mo (Pro)Startups & Enterprise, priced by sales
Prices shown to customers in your product$899/mo (Commercial), self-serveStartups & Enterprise, priced by sales
U.S. daily history plus fundamentals, personal use$49/mo (Developer, 5 years of daily bars)$99.99/mo (Basic $49.99 + Fundamentals $50), with 10 years of daily bars and real-time quotes

OHLC vs Finnhub, side by side

Competitor details from finnhub.io as of October 4, 2026.
OHLCFinnhub
Business usePublished 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.Every listed plan is for personal use and cannot be used by a business, even internally, without written approval. Commercial use and redistribution come with the Startups & Enterprise plan, priced by sales.
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.Sold separately: $50 or $200 per month per market.
Free tier12,500 credits/day and 30 requests/min on AAPL, NVDA, JNJ, PEP, MSFT, SPY and QQQ, including 5 years of daily bars, fundamentals and SEC filings. Personal use, no card.60 calls/min across all symbols, personal use. Quotes, company profiles, basic financials, filings and news are free; historical candles need a paid plan.
AdjustmentRaw, split-adjusted or total-return daily bars from one endpoint.Daily candles are split-adjusted.
Paid plansDeveloper $49, Pro $149, Commercial $899, Scale $1,499 per month. Pay annually and get two months free.Priced per dataset. U.S. market data: Basic $49.99, Standard $129.99 (billed quarterly), Professional $199.99 (billed annually) per month. Fundamentals $50 or $200 per month per market; ETF data $500 or $1,000; All-In-One $3,500 per month, billed annually.
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.Calls per minute per plan, plus 30 calls/second on every plan; over the limit returns 429.
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.Real-time U.S. stocks; TSX, LSE, Euronext and Deutsche Börse market data; global fundamentals; forex, crypto, ETFs, mutual funds, indices, bonds and alternative data such as social sentiment, patents and lobbying.
History5 years (Free, Developer), 15 years (Pro), full history (Commercial, Scale).Daily bars: 10 years (Basic), 25 years (Standard), 40+ years (Professional). 1-minute bars 10 to 30+ years; tick data 5 to 30+ years.
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.Real-time U.S. quotes and a real-time trades WebSocket (50 symbols free, 250 on Basic, unlimited above). LSE is 15-minute delayed; other international markets are end of day.
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 (JSON), real-time WebSocket, bulk tick download on Professional, SDKs for Python, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, Kotlin and PHP; spreadsheets through a partner add-on.
AI and MCPHosted MCP server at https://api.ohlc.io/mcp with OAuth sign-in or an API key, on Developer and above.Hosted MCP server at mcp.finnhub.io with OAuth sign-in; access follows your plan.

Why teams pick OHLC over Finnhub

  • You are a business. Finnhub's terms say its listed plans cannot be used by a business, even internally, without written approval. OHLC's Pro plan covers internal business use at $149 a month, and Commercial adds display and redistribution at a published $899.
  • You want prices and company data on one bill. Finnhub sells market data, fundamentals, estimates and ETF data as separate plans, with fundamentals priced per market. OHLC includes daily bars, financial statements, dividends, splits, earnings and SEC filings on every plan.
  • You want to test historical bars before paying. Finnhub's /stock/candle needs a paid plan. OHLC's Free plan returns 5 years of daily bars for its seven tickers.
  • You want raw and adjusted daily bars. Finnhub's daily candles are split-adjusted only. OHLC returns as-traded prices by default, with adjustment=split or adjustment=total_return on the same endpoint.
  • 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.

When Finnhub is the better pick

Choose Finnhub for real-time U.S. trades and quotes, decades of 1-minute or tick history, exchanges beyond the seven OHLC covers, or alternative data such as social sentiment, patents and lobbying. OHLC is built for U.S. equities, plus Canada, the UK, France, the Netherlands and Australia on Pro and above, with delayed quotes.

Switching from Finnhub to OHLC

The main changes are dates, symbols and the response shape: Finnhub takes Unix timestamps and returns parallel arrays, while OHLC takes calendar dates and returns one object per row.

  • Daily bars. /stock/candle?symbol=AAPL&resolution=D&from=<unix>&to=<unix> maps to /v1/eod?symbols=XNAS:AAPL&from=YYYY-MM-DD&to=YYYY-MM-DD (daily bars), with up to 100 symbols per request.
  • Adjustment. Finnhub's daily candles are split-adjusted. Add adjustment=split to match, or adjustment=total_return to include dividends.
  • Response shape. Instead of c, h, l, o, t and v arrays with an s status, rows arrive in data with named fields (date, open, high, low, close, volume) as exact decimal strings. An empty range returns an empty data array, not no_data.
  • Intraday. resolution=5 and 60 map to /v1/intraday with interval=5m or 1h (intraday bars), for about the last 30 days on Pro and above.
  • Quotes. /quote?symbol=AAPL maps to /v1/quotes?symbols=XNAS:AAPL (quotes), which takes several symbols at once and is delayed at least 15 minutes. /v1/snapshot adds the change from the previous close.
  • Auth. Replace token= or the X-Finnhub-Token header with Authorization: Bearer $OHLC_API_KEY. See authentication.
  • Pagination. OHLC returns at most 500 rows per page. Pass meta.next_cursor back as cursor until it is null. See pagination.
Finnhub /stock/candle with resolution=D, as one OHLC request for two symbolscURL
curl 'https://api.ohlc.io/v1/eod?symbols=XNAS:AAPL,XNYS:IBM&from=2025-01-02&to=2025-06-30&adjustment=split' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OHLC_API_KEY"

Fundamentals move to financial statements and financial metrics, and filings to /v1/filings. Create a free key to test the request shapes first.

Details about Finnhub on this page come from its public website as of October 4, 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 a company use Finnhub's paid plans?

Finnhub's terms say its listed plans are for personal use and cannot be used by a business, even internally, without written approval. Business use goes through its Startups & Enterprise plan. On OHLC, Pro covers internal business use and Commercial covers display to customers.

Does OHLC's free plan include historical stock prices?

Yes, for seven tickers: AAPL, NVDA, JNJ, PEP, MSFT, SPY and QQQ, with 5 years of daily bars. Developer opens every U.S. stock and ETF for $49 a month.

Do I pay separately for fundamentals on OHLC?

No. Financial statements, metrics, dividends, splits, earnings and SEC filings are on every plan, including Free.

Does OHLC have real-time prices like Finnhub?

No. OHLC quotes are delayed at least 15 minutes, which covers most dashboards, research tools and backtests. Finnhub offers real-time U.S. data.

Does OHLC cover international stocks?

Partly. Besides U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs, Pro and above also cover Toronto, TSX Venture, Cboe Canada, London, Euronext Paris and Amsterdam, and the ASX.

Can I connect OHLC to Claude like Finnhub's MCP server?

Yes. OHLC's hosted MCP server at https://api.ohlc.io/mcp works with Claude and other MCP clients on Developer and above. See OHLC for Claude.

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