Finnhub
Market-data API with company and market news included
Founded: 2018 | New York, USA | Team: Not publicly disclosed
Headlines & metadataFinancial newsStreaming/webhooks
What is Finnhub?
Finnhub is a New York fintech founded in 2018, according to CB Insights, that sells stock, forex and crypto data over REST and WebSocket, with staff reported in New York, Mumbai, Sydney and Ho Chi Minh City. News is one feature among many. A free key returns a year of North American company news and general market headlines at up to 60 calls a minute, but it is meant for personal, non-commercial use, and low-latency news streaming is a premium feature. Commercial data bundles are priced on Finnhub's site, with the All-in-One plan listed at $1,000 a month.
Typical uses: Financial services, Research & academia. What sets it apart: Company news bundled with quotes, fundamentals and estimates.
What does the Finnhub API include?
REST APIJSONWebSocketPython SDKNode.js SDKGo SDK
| Capability |
|---|
| Headlines & metadata |
| Financial news |
| Streaming/webhooks |
Finnhub pricing
Short answer: the pricing model is free key; paid market-data bundles. There is no public entry price, so expect to request a quote.
| Access model | What it means |
|---|---|
| Free tier | Permanent free allowance, usually with request, history or commercial-use limits |
| Monthly plans | Self-serve subscription with published quotas |
API prices and quotas change often. Check Finnhub's own pricing page before you commit, and confirm that your use is covered by the licence.
Finnhub pros and cons
| Advantages | Things to consider |
|---|---|
| +A generous free rate limit of 60 calls a minute | -News is basic, with headlines and summaries but no full text |
| +One key for prices, fundamentals and news keeps fintech prototypes simple | -The free key is non-commercial |
| +Official SDKs in many languages | -The low-latency news stream is a premium add-on |
| +WebSocket support for streaming quotes |
Finnhub vs alternatives
How Finnhub compares to the other top News APIs.
| API | Best for | Key difference | Rating | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NewsCatcher | AI products and monitoring tools needing enriched, deduplicated... | Articles arrive already summarised, clustered and geotagged, so there is less post-processing on your side | 4.7 | Full comparison |
| Perigon | Startups wanting enriched news with transparent tiers. | Published plans from $25 with enrichment and saved-query monitors included | 4.5 | Full comparison |
| Webz.io | Data teams needing deep archives and broad source... | Largest claimed source count on this list and history going back to 2008 | 4.4 | Full comparison |
| Dow Jones Factiva | Enterprises needing licensed premium news for AI or... | Publisher-cleared rights to use paywalled premium content in generative-AI products | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| NewsData.io | Small teams wanting wide country coverage on a... | Daily free credits plus filters for 206 countries and 89 languages | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) | Multilingual event tracking for analysts and research teams. | Merges articles about the same real-world event across languages into one event record | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| LexisNexis Nexis Data+ | Legal, compliance and research teams needing licensed news... | Licensed news, legal filings, patents and sanctions data under one contract | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| Opoint | Monitoring platforms and AML teams needing non-English coverage. | Built as a wholesale feed with heavy non-English and local coverage | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| GNews | Indie developers needing affordable commercial news access. | Two simple endpoints with commercial rights from €49.99 a month | 4.1 | Full comparison |
| GDELT Project | Researchers and data scientists with no budget. | Free global coverage with 15-minute updates and BigQuery access | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| Exa | RAG and agent builders needing semantic news retrieval. | Meaning-based search finds relevant pages even when the keywords differ | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| Tavily | Agent developers wanting news results in one tool... | Prompt-ready extracted content, with integrations for LangChain and LlamaIndex | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.org | Developers who want the most documented, familiar news... | More tutorials and community libraries than any other news API, which shortens learning time | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| World News API | Small apps wanting sentiment and geo filters at... | Location-radius and sentiment filters from the $39 plan up | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| Quantexa News API (Aylien) | Existing Aylien users and Quantexa platform customers. | Mature entity, category and sentiment tagging inherited from Aylien's NLP work | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Brave Search API | Teams wanting an independent, non-Google news search index. | Its own crawler and index, independent of Google and Bing | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| AP Media API | Publishers and platforms licensing AP journalism. | Primary-source wire content with publishing rights from AP itself | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| RavenPack (Bigdata.com) | Quant funds and financial AI products. | Two decades of entity-level news sentiment built for trading signals | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| SerpApi Google News | Developers who specifically want Google News rankings. | Mirrors Google News results and story groupings as JSON | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Reuters Connect | Media companies licensing Reuters wire content. | Reuters' own global reporting with publishing rights | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Mediastack | Hobby projects and low-volume apps on a tight... | Paid plans from $24.99 with commercial use and historical data | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Guardian Open Platform | Students, researchers and non-commercial apps. | Free full article text with editorial tags from a major publisher | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Diffbot | Teams building custom news collection from chosen sites. | Turns any article URL into clean structured data linked to a Knowledge Graph | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Benzinga | Brokerages and trading apps needing fast market headlines. | Original market newswire plus ratings and earnings events in one feed | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| Marketaux | Fintech side projects needing ticker-tagged news cheaply. | Per-entity sentiment scores on every article, even on the free plan | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| TheNewsAPI | Personal projects that need a cheap general feed. | Possibly the cheapest paid tier among general news APIs, if third-party pricing is current | 3.6 | Full comparison |
| NYT Developer APIs | Historians and students researching Times coverage. | Searchable metadata for the full Times archive since 1851 | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| APITube | Developers willing to trial a newer, feature-rich API. | Entity and sentiment filters offered on lower tiers | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| Currents API | Students and hobbyists testing news features for free. | A free tier that developer roundups often single out as generous | 3.4 | Full comparison |
Finnhub FAQ
What is Finnhub?
Market-data API with company and market news included
How much does Finnhub charge?
Pricing model: free key; paid market-data bundles. No public entry price is listed, so pricing comes through a quote. Free access: yes, with limits.
Which formats and SDKs does Finnhub support?
Finnhub offers REST API, JSON, WebSocket, Python SDK, Node.js SDK, Go SDK.
Is Finnhub right for enterprise?
Finnhub lists no enterprise contract, so check SLA and support terms first. Main caveat: News is basic, with headlines and summaries but no full text.
What are the best Finnhub alternatives?
The best alternatives to Finnhub depend on your use case. Top options are:
- NewsCatcher: articles arrive already summarised, clustered and geotagged, so there is less post-processing on your side
- Perigon: published plans from $25 with enrichment and saved-query monitors included
- Webz.io: largest claimed source count on this list and history going back to 2008
Compare Finnhub with other News APIs
Finnhub vs NewsCatcher Finnhub vs Perigon Finnhub vs Webz.io Finnhub vs Dow Jones Factiva Finnhub vs NewsData.io Finnhub vs NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) Finnhub vs LexisNexis Nexis Data+ Finnhub vs Opoint Finnhub vs GNews Finnhub vs GDELT Project Finnhub vs Exa Finnhub vs Tavily Finnhub vs NewsAPI.org Finnhub vs World News API Finnhub vs Quantexa News API (Aylien) Finnhub vs Brave Search API Finnhub vs AP Media API Finnhub vs RavenPack (Bigdata.com) Finnhub vs SerpApi Google News Finnhub vs Reuters Connect Finnhub vs Mediastack Finnhub vs Guardian Open Platform Finnhub vs Diffbot Finnhub vs Benzinga Finnhub vs Marketaux Finnhub vs TheNewsAPI Finnhub vs NYT Developer APIs Finnhub vs APITube Finnhub vs Currents API
Verify all details directly with Finnhub before making a decision.