Developer API pricing

Pay for the requests you actually make.

Programmatic access to the same market data that powers the monitor. Start on prepaid credit with no card, or take a monthly plan when your volume settles. The API, the paths and the response shapes are identical either way.

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No free tier, no trial $2.50 of credit on signup Prepaid — hard stop at $0

tickatlas.com / v1 / quote 200 OK

GET /v1/quote?symbol=EURUSD

X-RateLimit-Limit 120 Calls per minute your plan allows

X-RateLimit-Remaining 119 Calls left in the current minute

X-RateLimit-Reset 47 Seconds until the window resets

X-Usage-Daily 318 Requests counted against today’s quota

X-Usage-Monthly 6412 Requests counted this month

X-Request-ID 9f2c41ab… Correlation id, echoed if you send one

Every /v1 response carries your rate-limit window and your running request counts, so an application can see how much of its plan it has used without calling a billing endpoint.

$2.50Credit on signup

$0.005Entry rate per unit

1×–5×Endpoint weights

$1Minimum top-up

Plans

Four tiers. One API contract.

Quotas and rate limits are read from the same configuration the API enforces, so what is printed here is what your key gets.

Pay-as-you-go is the tier every new account starts on. Monthly plans raise the daily quota and the rate limit; they do not unlock endpoints.

Monthly Annual save 20%

Pay as you go

$0 to start 200 requests/day · 30/min until you top up

$2.50 of credit included
Every REST endpoint except raw ticks
No card required, no overage
10 API keys

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Starter

$29/mo 10,000 requests · 120/min

$23/mo $278/year, billed annually

Every REST endpoint except raw ticks
WebSocket streaming, 5 symbols
Released calendar actuals
Email support
3 API keys

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What your plan does not change.

Most of the API is not tiered at all. Knowing which four things are constant makes the comparison table much shorter to read.

Almost every endpoint, from the first request

Pay-as-you-go counts as a paid plan, so quotes, candles, indicators and their history, the screener, the heatmap, the calendar and market summaries all answer a pay-as-you-go key from the first request. Three things do depend on plan: raw tick data (/v1/ticks) is Pro and Enterprise only, and WebSocket streaming and released calendar actual values start at Starter.

Ticks: Pro and Enterprise only
WebSocket and calendar actuals: Starter and up

The same history on every plan

History depth is a property of the timeframe, not of your plan. An M1 series and an H1 series are retained for different windows, and that window is identical whether you pay nothing or $349 a month.

No per-plan retention tier
Depth varies by timeframe only

One header for authentication

Send X-API-Key on every call. There is no token exchange, no session and no per-endpoint credential, so the integration is the same on day one and at a million requests a month.

X-API-Key on every request
Same contract on every plan

Spending cannot surprise you

A pay-as-you-go balance is prepaid and stops at zero rather than generating a bill. Overage is an administrator-only setting; no self-serve account can switch itself into debt.

Hard stop at $0, never an invoice
Prepaid, not post-paid

Prepaid credit

The rate falls as your own volume rises.

There are no credit packages to choose between. You add any amount you like and each call draws the balance down at the rate for the band your month has reached. The bands reset with the calendar month.

Pay-as-you-go rate per weighted unit by monthly volume
Monthly volume band	Rate per weighted unit	When it applies
First 10,000 units	$0.005	Where every account starts each month
Next 90,000 units	$0.003	Reached at 10,000 units
Next 900,000 units	$0.001	Reached at 100,000 units
Above 1,000,000 units	$0.0005	Highest-volume band

Top up in any amount from $1 to $5,000 The $2.50 you start with covers 500 calls to a 1× endpoint. Credit has no expiry date, and because the balance is prepaid it stops at zero instead of producing an invoice.

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Endpoint weights

Every endpoint, and exactly what it costs.

Weights exist because the work behind the endpoints is not equal — a tick history and a single quote cannot sensibly cost the same. This is the complete map, not a sample: anything not listed is charged at 1×.

1×

1 weighted unit per call

Single-symbol lookups and one computed value. The cheapest way to poll.

/v1/quote 1× /v1/quotes 1× /v1/symbols 1× /v1/indicator 1× /v1/indicators 1× /v1/spread 1× /v1/sessions 1×

2×

2 weighted units per call

Aggregated or multi-symbol work — one call replaces a loop you would otherwise run yourself.

/v1/ohlc 2× /v1/multi 2× /v1/screener 2× /v1/heatmap 2× /v1/calendar 2×

3×

3 weighted units per call

Tick-level granularity. The largest payload on the API.

/v1/ticks 3×

5×

5 weighted units per call

Model-generated analysis and historical time series — the two heaviest operations.

/v1/summary 5× /v1/indicator/history 5×

One non-/v1 item completes the map: unlocking a market-insights card from the dashboard is charged at 2×, the same as the aggregated endpoints.

Quota and credit are different meters

One call. Two counters.

This is the detail that decides whether a cost estimate is right or wrong. The daily quota counts HTTP calls. The credit balance counts weighted units. They move at different speeds and are stored in different columns.

A summary call is 1 request of quota and 5 units of credit.
Weights never change your quota — only what a call costs in credit.
Both refusals are 429, distinguished by the error code.
Retry-After tells a client how long to wait — no guessing.

429 rate limitRetry-After: 47

# too many calls in the current minute
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
    "limit": 120,
    "remaining": 0,
    "reset_in_seconds": 47
  }
}

# the day's quota is gone — same status, different code
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "QUOTA_EXCEEDED",
    "reason": "daily_quota_exceeded"
  }
}

Estimate

Put your own volume in.

Move the slider to your expected daily call count. Prepaid cost is computed with the real volume bands over a 30-day month; the monthly plans are checked against the quota the API enforces.

Calls per day, at 1× endpoints

100 5,000 500,000

Pay as you go —

Starter $29/mo

Pro $79/mo

Enterprise $349/mo

A heavier endpoint mix multiplies the prepaid figure by its weight and leaves the plan quotas untouched. Open the full cost calculator for a breakdown by endpoint.

Full comparison

Every difference between the four tiers.

Rows that used to claim a gate we do not enforce are gone. What is left is what the code actually checks.

Developer API plan comparison
Capability	Pay as you go	Starter	Pro	Enterprise
Daily request quota	200/day until top-up	10,000/day	100,000/day	1,000,000/day
Rate limit	30/min	120/min	600/min	6000/min
API keys	10	3	10	100
All REST endpoints	All but ticks	All but ticks	✓	✓
Market summary	✓	✓	✓	✓
Market screener	✓	✓	✓	✓
Economic calendar	✓	✓	✓	✓
Currency heatmap	✓	✓	✓	✓
Tick data	—	—	✓	✓
Historical indicator series	✓	✓	✓	✓
History depth	Per timeframe	Per timeframe	Per timeframe	Per timeframe
WebSocket streaming	—	5 symbols	20 symbols	Unlimited
Priority support	—	—	✓	✓
Custom indicators	—	—	—	✓
SLA guarantee	—	—	—	99.9%
Dedicated account manager	—	—	—	✓
On-premise option	—	—	—	✓

Choosing between them

The shape of your traffic decides, not the feature list.

Apart from raw ticks (Pro and Enterprise) and WebSocket streaming (Starter and up), every tier reaches the same endpoints, so the main question is whether your volume is steady enough for a monthly quota to be cheaper than prepaid credit.

Agents and irregular automation

Traffic that spikes and then goes quiet fits the prepaid model better than a monthly quota, because you are not paying for a plateau you only touch occasionally.

pay as you goprepaidno commitment

A product with steady traffic

Once daily volume is predictable a monthly plan is usually the cheaper of the two, and it raises the rate limit at the same time as the quota.

StarterProfixed monthly cost

White-label and high volume

Custom indicators, an SLA, on-premise deployment and volumes past the published quota are handled as a conversation rather than a self-serve checkout.

EnterpriseSLAon-premise

Payment

Paid in crypto, through NOWPayments.

Subscriptions and credit top-ups are both settled in cryptocurrency — over 100 coins, including the majors below. Card billing through Stripe is not live yet, so crypto is the only route today.

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Commercial clarity

The awkward questions, answered before checkout.

Billing model, entry tier, metering and product boundaries should be obvious enough that you know exactly what you are buying.

There is no free tier and no trial

Signing up mints a pay-as-you-go account with $2.50 of prepaid credit and no card. That is the entry point — not a time-limited trial that expires on you.

Two meters, and they are not the same

Your daily quota counts HTTP calls. Your credit balance counts weighted units. A 5× endpoint costs five units of credit and exactly one request of quota.

The API does not change when the plan does

Paths, parameters, response shapes and authentication are identical on every tier. Upgrading changes the price model and the limits, not the API. The exceptions are raw tick data (Pro and Enterprise) and WebSocket streaming and released calendar actuals (both from Starter).

Monitor and API are separate products

A Monitor Pro subscription is not developer API access and a developer plan does not include Monitor Pro. Neither one includes the other.

Frequently asked questions

Know what you are paying for.

Metering, quotas, the entry tier, payment and what happens at the limits — the questions that actually decide an integration.

How do I start with the developer API?

Create an account to get an API key and $2.50 in credit. Every REST endpoint except raw tick data (Pro and Enterprise) is available from the first request, at 200 requests per day until you top up; add credit or move to a monthly plan as you scale.

Is there a free tier or a trial?

No. There is no free tier and no trial. Self-serve signup mints pay-as-you-go with $2.50 of prepaid credit and no card — enough for 500 standard requests at the entry rate. Until you top up, keys are capped at 200 requests a day at 30 per minute; topping up removes the daily cap.

How does Pay-As-You-Go pricing work?

You add prepaid credit in any amount from $1 to $5,000, and each call draws the balance down by its weighted units at the volume rate: $0.005 per unit for the first 10,000 units in a month, $0.003 up to 100,000, $0.001 up to 1,000,000 and $0.0005 above that. There are no fixed packages and no per-package discount — the rate falls with your own monthly volume. The balance is prepaid, so it stops at zero instead of billing you.

What counts as one API request?

Two meters run at once and they count different things. Your daily quota counts HTTP calls, one per call, whatever the endpoint. Your credit balance is drawn down in weighted units, where a call costs 1, 2, 3 or 5 depending on the endpoint. So a summary call is one request against the quota and five units against the balance.

What happens if I exceed my rate limit?

You get HTTP 429 with error code RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED, a Retry-After header and the seconds remaining in the window, so a client can back off without guessing. Exhausting the daily quota returns 429 as well, with code QUOTA_EXCEEDED. Overage billing is an administrator-only setting and cannot be self-enabled, so a pay-as-you-go balance stops at zero rather than going negative.

How much history do I get on each plan?

The same on all of them. Retention is a property of the timeframe you request, not of your plan — the function that resolves it takes a timeframe and nothing else. A shorter timeframe is retained for a shorter window on every tier, including pay-as-you-go.

Can I switch plans at any time?

Yes, from your dashboard. A move to the same tier or a higher one applies as soon as the payment lands. A move to a lower tier takes effect when the period you have already paid for ends, so you keep what you bought.

Do you offer annual discounts?

Yes — about 20% off twelve months of monthly billing. Annual is $278 for Starter, $758 for Pro and $3,350 for Enterprise. Use the annual switch in the plan table to see the monthly equivalent.

What payment methods do you accept?

Over 100 cryptocurrencies through NOWPayments, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, BNB and SOL. Card billing through Stripe is not live yet.

Can I use the API for commercial products?

Yes. Paid plans allow commercial use, and responses carry no TickAtlas branding, which makes them suitable for white-label products. Enterprise adds the contractual terms that larger deployments usually need.

What is the refund policy?

Fees are non-refundable unless otherwise stated — see the Terms of Service for the exact wording. Prepaid credit is the flexible option instead: it has no expiry date, so an unused balance stays yours until you spend it.

Is there an enterprise or custom plan?

Yes. High volume, custom indicators, an SLA, dedicated infrastructure or on-premise deployment are handled through a sales conversation rather than a self-serve tier.

Start on the $2.50 you are given

The cheapest way to evaluate the API is to call it.

Create an account, take the key, and spend the starting credit on your own symbols before you decide between prepaid and a monthly plan. Nothing about the integration changes when you do.

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