Fee Structure
Select Your User Type:
You are affiliated with an organization regulated by FINRA and will obtain access to the FINRA API Platform via your firm's designated Super Account Adminstrator (SAA).
You are affiliated with an organization not regulated by FINRA and will obtain access to the FINRA API Platform via your organization's designated certification representative (AA).
You plan to access the API Platform as an individual, regardless of your affiliation with a firm or other organization, by creating an Individual API account.
Available API Credential Types
Firm | Organization | Public | |
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Starts at $2750per credential per month |
Starts at $3750per credential per month |
$0per credential per month |
Query API | |||
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Blocks Summary | |||
Equity Short Interest | |||
Equity Short Interest Standardized | |||
Monthly Summary | |||
OTC Block Summary | |||
Reg SHO Daily Short Sale Volume | |||
Threshold List | |||
Weekly Summary | |||
FINRA Rulebook | |||
4530 Customer Complaints | |||
Agency Debt Market Breadth | |||
Agency Debt Market Sentiment | |||
Corporate 144A Debt Market Breadth | |||
Corporate 144A Debt Market Sentiment | |||
Corporate And Agency Capped Volume | |||
Corporate Debt Market Breadth | |||
Corporate Debt Market Sentiment | |||
Securitized Product Capped Volume | |||
Treasury Weekly Aggregates | |||
Limited | |||
Branch Associated Individuals | |||
Branch Office | |||
Branch Office Associated Individuals | |||
Branch Office Details | |||
Branch Office Financial Activities | |||
Branch Office Locations | |||
Branch Office Registrations | |||
Continuing Education | |||
Deficiencies | |||
Disclosure | |||
Disclosure Filings | |||
Employments | |||
FingerPrint | |||
Firm Disclosures | |||
Firm Profile | |||
Firm Registration Status History | |||
Firm Registrations | |||
Inactive Individual | |||
Inactive Individual Branch Office Locations | |||
Inactive Individual Employments | |||
Inactive Individual Registration Status History | |||
Inactive Individual Registrations | |||
Individual Pre-Registration Search | |||
Individual Registration Validation | |||
Professional Designations | |||
Qualification Exams | |||
Registered Individuals | |||
Registration Status History | |||
Registrations | |||
Residential Locations |
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What is the API Fee Structure?
The fee charged for access to the FINRA API platform is made up of two components:
- A monthly API Credential fee for each credential provisioned by an organization or individual (based on the type of credential provisioned)
- A monthly data overage fee when the data usage associated with an API Credential exceeds 10 GB in a month.
There are three (3) production API Credential Types available:
- Public
- Firm
- Organization
Only the Firm and the Organization API Credentials incur the credential and data overage fees.
The Public Credential does not incur fees but the data usage for these credentials is limited to 10 GB per month. The credential will become inactive once the 10 GB usage limit is reached until the beginning of the next calendar month.
What is the Data Overage Fee?
Each Firm and Organization API Credential provisioned with the API Console has a 10GB data usage allocation per month. When this 10GB allocation is exceeded a data overage fee of $250 per additional 10GB used during the month will be charged.
Public and Test API Credentials are also limited to 10GB of data usage per month. However, when this limit is exceeded for these Credential Types, the credential is made inactive until the first day of the following month.
If your use of a Public API Credential requires more than 10GB of data usage per month on a regular basis, you may upgrade the credential to either a Firm or Organization Credential based on your API User Type.
Are API Fees Prorated for Partial Months?
All fees for API Credentials are incurred on a monthly basis. The monthly fee is prorated when an API Credential is created on other than the first day of a month. So for example, if an API Credential was created on 1/18/2022 the fee will include 13 days (through and including 1/31/2022) or 43% of the full monthly fee for the credential.
The API Credential fee is not prorated or refunded when a credential is deleted or inactivated. Any fees due for the current month are charged in full but are not incurred in subsequent months.The credential will continue to be available until the end of the current billing month.
The 10GB monthly data usage quota for each API Credential is not prorated or reduced for partial months.
NOTES:
- The monthly fee is also prorated if an API Credential type is upgraded during a month (e.g. a Public credential is upgraded to a Firm or Organization credential).
- The credential type or credential status may only be changed once during a billing month. For example, if you change the status of a credential to inactive, you will not be able to change the status or the type of that credential until the first day of the next month.
How are API Credentials Provisioned?
All API Credentials are provisioned using the API Console.
The API Console is a FINRA Gateway hosted app that provides a fully automated, self-service API credential management capability to FINRA’s API customers.
The process for accessing the API Console depends on whether you are affililated with an organization regulated by FINRA, affiliated with another financial services organization (e.g. vendor, service provider, insurance company), or an individual just interested in learning about the API Platform and testing it out, or using the platform for your own non-commercial purpose.
It is important to review the API Console documentation because there are preliminary steps that your firm/organization may have to complete in order to onboard to the API Platform.
How are API Fees Invoiced and Paid?
All API fees are invoiced using FINRA's E-Bill service. E-Bill is accessed via FINRA Gateway.
The Super Account Administrator (SAA) at each firm, or an AA at each organization, can assign entitlement to E-Bill for employees.
Contact your SAA or AA to request access to E-Bill.
We use WebEFT Credentials to access the APIs. What do we need to do?
Prior to 10/4/2021 a WebEFT subscription was required for firms to obtain production Registration API Credentials. These credentials remain valid to access the basic firm, branch, and individual Registration datasets, as well as the Equity and Fixed Income datasets.
This option is no longer available to access the API Service (after 10/4/2021). New API users must utilize the API Console to create API Credentials beginning 1/24/2022.
IMPORTANT: Firms that require access to the full capabilities of the Firm Credential Type shown in the table above will need to provision a new Firm Credential using the API Console.
Contact the API Team with any questions.