What to use instead of Investing.com

The product

Investing.com is a free financial portal published by Fusion Media Limited, the seller named on its App Store listing. One search box covers stocks, indices, currencies, commodities, bonds and crypto, and every instrument has a quote page, a chart, news and a Historical Data tab. Beside the quotes sits an economic calendar. On 9 October 2026 the economic calendar needed no sign-in. It filters by country, category and a one-to-three-star importance rating, and prints Actual, Forecast and Previous for each release. Apple's Historical Data tab showed a daily table of price, open, high, low, volume and change with a Download button.

The download. Investing.com publishes nothing we could find about the limits on that button. Portfolio Performance's manual, which tells its users how to import Investing.com files, reports that a free registration is needed to download or change the period, and that one download is capped at 20 years. That is the third-party account, not Investing.com's.

The paid tier. InvestingPro sells a stock screener on 167 metrics, financial history ("72,000+ stocks worldwide with 10 years historical data" on its own pitch page), fair-value estimates, an AI assistant and ProPicks, a set of AI-chosen stock lists. Investing.com's App Store listing, read on 9 October 2026, prices Pro at 18.95 dollars a month or 229 a year and Pro+ at 46.95 a month or 559.99 a year. The web pricing page was running a countdown sale and did not show us plan prices. ProPicks and the fair values are views on what to buy, and nothing below was chosen to replace them.

Why people leave. Not for the website, which is free and keeps working. They leave because of what they built on it. There is no documented public API, and the scraping libraries broke. investpy, the Python package most people used, has an issue titled "ConnectionError: ERR#0015: error 403, try again later.", opened on 15 September 2022 and still open, and its README now begins with a warning that it is not working because of changes to Investing.com's APIs. The author's stopgap, investiny, says the site's main endpoints are "Cloudflare V2 protected". On 9 October 2026 a plain scripted request to Investing.com got HTTP 403 from us too.

What to use instead

Investing.com is two products on one domain: a price-history site and a macro calendar. Each has a different replacement.

Price history in a browser. Stooq is the closest thing to the Download button: a CSV per symbol from the browser and no account. Apple's daily series there starts in 1984, and bulk files cover the US, UK, Japan, Hong Kong, Poland and Hungary. Its licence is personal use only, and since mid-2026 scripted downloads fail — a browser works, a script does not.

Price history in a script. yfinance is the swap most investpy users make, because it is one pip install and needs no key. Be clear about what it is: another unofficial reader of another site's undocumented endpoints, which breaks whenever Yahoo changes something. For a script that has to keep working, use a vendor with a contract. Twelve Data covers global stocks, FX and crypto over REST and WebSocket. Its free plan gives 800 requests a day on US stocks, FX and crypto, for internal non-display use. EODHD is the breadth play: end-of-day for 60-plus exchanges behind one ticker format, from 19.99 a month. Its free key carries only the last year and 20 calls a day. Replacing yfinance in a script and downloading historical prices in Python cover the code.

The calendar's numbers. The Actual column on the calendar is a government release, and the releases are free at the source. FRED carries US series and their release dates with a free key, with vintages that show what was known on a given day. DBnomics aggregates 93 statistics offices and central banks behind one open API with no key. Pulling an economic data series shows both.

The calendar as a calendar. A schedule of upcoming releases is harder to get as data. FXMacroData has a forward release calendar for 22 currencies, timestamps each release and flags which times are derived. Its free tier is the last 90 days of US data, held back 15 minutes; everything else is 50 dollars a month. Trading Economics is the nearest whole replacement for Investing.com's macro pages, with indicators, a calendar and forecasts for 196 countries. It has no free tier, the website-only plan is 29.99 a month, and the calendar API is sold on Enterprise only.

What you give up

The consensus column. Investing.com's calendar prints a Forecast beside every release. Nothing here gives you that free as data. Trading Economics' forecasts come from its own model, not a survey of economists, according to its documentation. FXMacroData says many releases have no official consensus and fills the gap with its own model. FRED and DBnomics have actuals only.

Everything in one free tab. Quotes on six asset classes, a calendar, news and downloads, with no key and no bill. The replacements split that across two or three tools. The ones with a contract — Twelve Data, EODHD, Trading Economics — are the ones that charge as soon as you need more than a sample.

Non-US history at no cost. Investing.com's tables cover listings worldwide. Stooq's bulk files cover the US, UK, Japan, Hong Kong, Poland and Hungary. EODHD's 60-plus exchanges cost from 19.99 a month, because its free key stops at one year.

Migration notes

Your old numbers may not match an exchange's. Investing.com's own disclaimer says its prices "are indicative and not appropriate for trading purposes" and may come from market makers rather than an exchange. Expect gaps against a vendor that takes exchange data, especially on indices and futures-style instruments. Check adjustment too: why adjusted close differs explains why two daily series can disagree after a split or a dividend.

Rebuild the symbol map. Investing.com addresses instruments by its own page names and internal IDs, and every replacement has its own convention for telling one exchange's listing from another's. A list of tickers will not carry across unchanged, least of all for non-US listings and indices. CUSIP, ISIN and FIGI explains why there is no shared identifier to translate through.

Read the licence before you publish anything. Investing.com's footer forbids redistributing its data without permission, and most free replacements are no looser. Stooq is personal use only, Twelve Data's free plan is internal non-display use, and yfinance's README calls Yahoo's data personal use. Redistribution and non-display use define the two terms that decide it.

Calendar times are not release times. A calendar row says when a number was due; FXMacroData stamps when it actually appeared and marks the rows where it had to infer the time. If you are testing what the market knew and when, that difference matters more than the vendor.