Tiingo

What Tiingo does

Tiingo is a New York-based, privately held financial data provider founded in 2014 by Rishi Singh, operating with a team of 1-10 employees. The company's core product is a single-purpose stock market data API delivering clean stock and ETF price history, positioned as a specialized alternative to broader financial data platforms such as Alpha Vantage, Xignite, EOD Historical Data, Intrinio, and Bloomberg API.

The technical offering centers on an API-first architecture that distributes structured historical and real-time price data for programmatic integration. Tiingo has added MCP (Model Context Protocol) server support, making its data layer compatible with LLM-based agents and AI-driven finance applications — a deliberate adaptation to the emerging agent economy in financial services. The product surface is deliberately narrow: clean stock and ETF price history rather than full-spectrum market data, with the value proposition grounded in data quality and format consistency for downstream developers.

Go-to-market is product-led and self-serve, with no disclosed enterprise sales motion, partnerships, or named customer logos. Revenue is generated through subscription-based, recurring API access primarily to developers, fintech applications, and algorithmic trading systems on a horizontal basis. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, consistent with tiered plans aimed at SMBs, individuals, and long-tail developer adoption. The company has operated for over a decade without disclosed external funding, suggesting a bootstrapped, sustainably profitable or breakeven operating model.

Name

Tiingo

Website

https://tiingo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Tiingo is a New York-based, founder-led stock market data API provider offering clean stock and ETF price history to developers, fintech applications, and algorithmic trading systems. It operates an API-first, self-serve subscription model and supports AI-driven finance workflows via MCP server infrastructure.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Market Data API

akta.pro primary industry

Pricing & Valuation Services (Fixed Income, OTC, Derivatives) (FSAFAIAF)

Keywords

• Stock market data
• Financial data API
• ETF price history
• Historical price data
• Real-time market data

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Data API Services: Tiingo generates revenue through providing clean stock and ETF price history data via API. As a data-as-a-service provider, revenue is derived from licensing access to financial market data for developers, applications, and businesses requiring stock market data integration.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Tiingo provides a stock market data API that delivers clean, well-structured stock and ETF price history along with real-time and historical market data coverage. The service is API-first and developer-focused, with AI-ready infrastructure through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers designed for integration into fintech applications, algorithmic trading systems, and data-driven finance products.

Product overview

Tiingo is a single-product stock market data API provider focused on delivering clean, reliable stock and ETF price history. The offering consists of a dedicated API service that provides historical pricing data for stocks and ETFs, differentiated by its emphasis on data quality and clean price history.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tiingo Stock Market Data API A stock market data API service providing clean stock and ETF price history, real-time data availability, and historical data coverage, designed for software developers, fintech applications, algorithmic trading systems, and data-focused businesses that require high-quality financial market data integration.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Bloomberg: Global financial data and terminal incumbent with the Bloomberg API as a developer-tier surface. Competes with Tiingo at the high end of market data quality and coverage, while anchoring customer expectations on reliability.
• LSEG (Refinitiv): Diversified financial market infrastructure and data provider offering broad stock, reference, and pricing datasets. Represents the enterprise incumbent benchmark that Tiingo must differentiate against on developer experience and price.

Direct peers

• Finnhub: Real-time stock, forex, and crypto data API for developers and fintechs. Competes with Tiingo in the same developer/API-first market data category with a freemium onboarding model.
• Intrinio: Financial data API platform offering stocks, fundamentals, and market data to fintechs and developers. Directly comparable product surface to Tiingo, with similar horizontal segmentation approach and subscription pricing.
• Xignite: Cloud-based market data APIs for stocks, ETFs, FX, and reference data, frequently cited in stock-API comparisons alongside Tiingo. Targets fintechs and wealth platforms with similar integration-led distribution.
• IEX Cloud: Cloud-based financial data platform built on IEX exchange data, offering stocks, ETFs, and reference data through APIs. Highly comparable product positioning to Tiingo, also targeting fintech builders.
• Quandl (Nasdaq): Market and alternative financial data platform acquired by Nasdaq, offering APIs for historical and reference data including stock prices. Overlaps with Tiingo's developer-facing stock data delivery model.
• Alpha Vantage: API-first provider of stock, FX, and crypto market data widely used by developers and fintech apps. Named alongside Tiingo as a leading stock API, with overlapping customer base and freemium positioning that creates direct pricing pressure.
• Polygon.io: Real-time and historical US stock and options market data delivered via REST and WebSocket APIs. Targets the same developer and fintech segment as Tiingo, with a broader asset-class footprint and aggressive developer-tier pricing.
• EOD Historical Data: Provider of end-of-day and intraday historical price data for global stocks, ETFs, and other instruments via API. Overlaps directly with Tiingo's core use case of clean historical price history.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tiingofinance
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tiingo

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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