A global stock market API needs prices for exchanges beyond the New York and Nasdaq listings most US-based tools cover. Market Data does not sell that: our stocks and options stop at the US border. We ranked 11 providers that do sell coverage outside the US, from cheap end-of-day history to real-time feeds priced per exchange.
That answer is not new. Every year from 2022 through 2026, in at least six separate support threads, we have told prospects the same thing: US markets only. A customer once told us our SHOT quote did not match GoogleFinance, which showed a price more than 10% off and timestamped 17:30 instead of the 4PM US close. It cost the customer about a month of back-and-forth, spread across several weeks, before we traced it to a second listing: “That is probably the ticker SHOT from a different exchange, not the SHOT that is quoting on Nasdaq,” and the customer confirmed it was Nasdaq Stockholm. That is the risk in international stock market data: a symbol that looks like a US ticker can be quoting a different company on a different exchange entirely.
One reader scored each provider below from 0 to 10 on five criteria that matter outside the US: how many non-US exchanges it reaches, whether that data is real-time, how far its non-US history goes, non-US fundamentals, and cost. Exchanges and cost count double; the other three count one and a half times each.
Which providers offer a global stock market API outside the US?
| Rank | Provider | Score | Best for | Paid plans from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EODHD | 7.5 | Cheap global end-of-day history and fundamentals | $16.58/mo |
| 2 | Twelve Data | 7.1 | Broadest raw exchange count, entry tier priced higher | $66/mo |
| 3 | Financial Modeling Prep | 5.6 | Global fundamentals on a $22/month entry tier | $22/mo |
| 3 | Yahoo Finance | 5.6 | Free delayed quotes across hundreds of exchanges | $9.95/mo |
| 5 | Wisesheets | 5.5 | Cheapest global fundamentals add-on | $5/mo |
| 6 | Alpha Vantage | 5.4 | Broad global symbol lookup on a budget | $41.58/mo |
| 7 | Marketstack | 4.9 | Cheap international EOD equities | $8.99/mo |
| 8 | Nasdaq Data Link | 4.3 | Quant researchers who accept login-gated international pricing | $9/mo |
| 9 | Tiingo | 4.2 | Low-cost EOD international research, no real-time need | $25/mo |
| 10 | Finnhub | 3.1 | US-first buyers who occasionally need EOD Europe/Canada/India | $49.99/mo |
| 11 | Barchart | 1.6 | US-centric buyers who occasionally need Canada | $8.25/mo |
EODHD ranks first, on 60-plus exchanges and more than 20 years of non-US history from a $16.58-a-month plan. Twelve Data ranks second, with the broadest raw count at 250-plus exchanges across 90-plus countries, though its entry tier for 20 or more markets runs $66 a month. The six highest-ranked providers, side by side:
| Feature | EODHD | Twelve Data | Financial Modeling Prep | Yahoo Finance | Wisesheets | Alpha Vantage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| International stocks | Excellent, 60+ exchanges 1 | Excellent, 250+ exchanges 2 | US-only to global, tier-gated 3 | Good, 15-30m delay by exchange 4 | Good, 50-60+ exchanges | Good, 100k+ symbols claimed 5 |
| Stock price history | 40+ yrs US; 20+ yrs intl 1 | ~1980 onward; intraday from 2022 6 | Up to 30yr, tier-gated 3 | 5yr free; 40+ yrs on Gold plan 7 | 15-30 yrs (figures disagree) | 20+ years claimed 5 |
| Fundamentals | Excellent, full financials 8 | Excellent, full financials 9 | Excellent: statements, ratios, DCF 10 | Good, 5yr free statements 7 | Excellent, statements + ratios | Good, full financial statements 11 |
| WebSocket streaming | Yes, ALL-IN-ONE+ only 8 | Yes, wss stream 12 | Yes, top tier only, 1 connection 13 | Unconfirmed | No | No 11 |
| Free tier | 20 calls/day, 1yr history 8 | 800 req/day, trial symbols only 2 | 250 calls/day, EOD only 3 | Yes, real-time US quotes, no card 7 | None for add-on; Stock API has one 14 | 25 req/day, EOD only, no real-time 15 |
| Cheapest paid plan | $16.58/mo (EOD, annual) 8 | $66/mo (Grow, annual) 2 | $22/mo (Starter, annual) 3 | $9.95/mo (Bronze) 7 | $5/mo (Pro, annual) | $41.58/mo (Premium 1, annual) 15 |
| Cost of 10+ years of daily history | $16.58/mo (annual) 8 | $66/mo (annual) 2 | $59/mo 3 | Not offered 7 | $15.01/mo 14 | $41.58/mo (annual) 11 |
Sources for this table, checked 2026-09-26
- eodhd.com/lp/historical-eod-api
- twelvedata.com/pricing
- site.financialmodelingprep.com/developer/docs/pricing
- help.yahoo.com/kb/exchanges-data-providers-yahoo-finance-sln2310.html
- alphavantage.co/
- twelvedata.com/docs
- help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-finance-plus/select-plans-sln36623.html
- eodhd.com/pricing
- twelvedata.com/fundamentals
- site.financialmodelingprep.com/
- alphavantage.co/documentation/
- twelvedata.com/
- site.financialmodelingprep.com/developer/docs/forex-websocket
- wisesheets.io/api
- alphavantage.co/premium/
Is stock data outside the US end-of-day or real-time?
Real-time is the exception outside the US, not the default. EODHD and Financial Modeling Prep both gate it behind their most expensive plans; Twelve Data limits it to US and EU markets and delays every other one it lists; Yahoo Finance keeps every non-US exchange 15 to 30 minutes behind, free, through an unofficial, scraped feed with no published API.
A daily close price is one number, and a provider can license it in bulk across dozens of exchanges at once, the way Marketstack bundles EOD history for 70-plus exchanges into the same $8.99 tier it uses for US stocks. A live quote is a continuous stream that has to be authorized by the exchange it comes from, one exchange at a time, which is the harder and costlier thing to sell. Twelve Data’s own pricing page shows that split directly: real-time on US and EU markets, delayed everywhere else, for the same monthly fee.
Why does real-time data cost more per exchange outside the US?
Every non-US exchange sets its own real-time data fee and its own agreement, so a provider needs one deal per exchange, not one deal for the world. EODHD prices that gap directly: real-time websockets need its $99.99 ALL-IN-ONE plan, well above the $16.58 tier that already covers 20-plus years of history.
The US works differently: consolidated plans combine every exchange, the CTA and UTP plans for stocks and OPRA for options, so a vendor reaches the whole market through a few agreements. Outside the US there is no such shortcut, so a provider adding Frankfurt or Tokyo starts a new licensing conversation with that exchange alone, and the price of the plan above it shows what that conversation costs.
Why doesn’t Market Data cover stocks outside the US?
We carry OPRA options data and an IEX-based stock feed, both limited to US exchanges, so we never built the billing, symbology or compliance a second country’s exchange would require. If Frankfurt or Tokyo matters to your product, use one of the providers ranked above instead of waiting on us.
Staying US-only is a choice we keep making on purpose, not an oversight: every additional country needs its own exchange agreement and its own compliance path, and we would rather serve the one market we know well than serve several of them partway. For the full picture across every data type, the financial data providers ranking scores all 19 competitors on the same rubric, and the best stock API ranking covers US coverage in more depth. Our own stock data stays put at the US border, priced from $12 a month as of September 2026.