# Bigdata.com

RavenPack's self-serve retrieval API over premium news and filings, billed per token.

*https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/bigdata-com · Stock Market Data APIs*

## Facts

### At a glance

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | RavenPack |
| Category | Stock Market Data APIs |
| Job | news |
| Website | https://bigdata.com |
| Pricing model | usage |
| Free tier | true |
| Open source | false |
| Licence | none |
| Self-hosted | false |
| Tested hands-on | false |
| Last updated | 2026-09-19 |

### Pricing

| Tier | USD | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pay-as-you-go | on request | — |
| Enterprise | on request | — |

### Coverage

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Asset classes | stocks, etf |
| Markets | global |
| Works outside the US | true |
| Data latency | none |
| Platforms | web, library |
| AI features | research |

### Interfaces

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| API | true |
| Webhooks | false |
| Scripting | none |
| Python | true |
| Spreadsheet add-in | false |
| MCP server | true |
| Export | json |

### Capabilities

Yes: news

No: charting, screening, scanning, backtesting, automation, live_trading, paper_trading, portfolio_tracking, broker_import, tax_reporting, alerts, options_analysis

*Verified: pricing 2026-09-19; capabilities 2026-09-19; coverage 2026-09-19.*

## What it is

The platform RavenPack launched in October 2024 and now sells alongside its licensed datasets. It
is a retrieval layer, not a feed — you send a query and get back the passages that answer it, with
citations, rather than a stream to index yourself.

Four services sit behind one API. **Search** is retrieval only, returning ranked chunks with no
synthesis. The **Research Agent** is a conversational RAG endpoint that reasons over the same
index. The **Workflows API** runs parameterised templates for reproducible, batched research. A
**Monitors API** that turns a saved search into a recurring event feed is documented and marked
coming soon, which is worth reading as "not yet" rather than as a capability.

Retrieval is chunk-level. Each returned chunk carries a relevance score, a sentiment score from
-1.00 to 1.00 and entity detections with character offsets, and documents are pre-chunked so a
story mentioning four companies can be sliced per company. Entities are knowledge-graph objects
with their own identifiers — companies, ETFs, organisations, people, places, products, topics and
sources — which is how you pin a query to a company rather than to a name.

## Pricing

Per token, with two shapes and no seats. Individuals self-sign up, get free credits (the amount is
not stated publicly), and top up a wallet afterwards. Enterprises commit an annual spend and draw
it down at a discount.

The per-token rate is the number that is not published. The docs point at the Usage page inside an
account for content-tier and model prices, so there is no way to price a workload before you have
a key. What the pricing page does publish is an estimator with worked runs — seven example agent
workflows between $0.57 and $1.82 each — and one of them broken down by content type, from premium
news at $0.46 down to regulatory filings at $0.01. A content set you lean on heavily can be
switched to a flat subscription that drops its per-token content charge; that price is not
published either.

## Data & coverage

The store lists nine sets and dates most of them: public web news at over 10 million new documents
a month on a rolling five years of history; premium news from 200-plus licensed sources including
Benzinga, the Financial Times, MT Newswires and Risk.net, with content since 2000; filings across
90,000 companies in more than 50 countries since 2010; and fundamentals with 30-plus years. Press
releases from 25,000 companies, analyst research from 100-plus providers, 200-plus expert
interviews a year, 4,400-plus podcast shows and ten-or-more alternative datasets covering jobs, ESG
and supply chain fill out the rest.

Documents are pre-processed in over 13 languages and translated into English for search. Indexing
is real-time. There is no quote or bar data here at any latency.

## Integrations

REST at `api.bigdata.com/v1`, a Python SDK (`bigdata-client`, published by the Bigdata Team,
2.21.0 in May 2026), and first-party MCP connectors for Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot —
which is the intended path, not an afterthought. A developer platform hosts playgrounds for the
endpoints. You can also upload your own files and have them indexed alongside, priced as storage.

## Limitations

**The licence is the thing to read before you design anything.** Section 4.2 of the terms grants a
"Grounding Right" to use the content at inference time only. You may keep what your model wrote
from it; you may not store, cache, retain or archive the underlying content past the moment of
consumption, may not pass it to a third party, and may not use it to train, fine-tune or evaluate
any model. Each retrieval is a separate one-time right with no standing licence. That rules out
building your own index off the back of it, which is the usual reason to buy a news API. The same
terms make you warrant that any model you connect runs under zero data retention, and bar you from
configuring it to re-expose, proxy or resell the content onward — the constraint follows the
content into whatever you plug in at the other end.

**Public news ages out at five years**, so the depth advertised in the marketing copy belongs to
the premium sets, and what you can reach depends on which ones your account has.

**The vendor's own pages disagree on broker research.** The store lists analyst research from over
100 providers, "including tier-1 brokers"; the docs FAQ says Bigdata does not include broker
research because of entitlement complexity, and that you can upload your own where you are entitled
to it — which there is a connector for. The store is the page RavenPack has to keep current, but
settle it before you count on it.

**The sentiment model's training data stops in 2023**, per the docs.

## Alternatives

[AskNews](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/asknews) is the closest thing in shape — licensed news retrieval aimed at LLM
pipelines — and publishes its per-credit rates. For the same company's contracted analytics feed
rather than a retrieval endpoint, see [RavenPack News Analytics](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/ravenpack-news-analytics).
If what you actually want is filings and transcripts to read rather than to ground a model,
[AlphaSense](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/alphasense) and [Quartr](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/quartr) sell that directly.

Compare it against the rest of the [market data APIs](https://stockmarketstack.com/categories/market-data-apis).

## FAQ

### Is Bigdata.com the same thing as RavenPack?

Same company, different product. RavenPack sells Edge, a licensed analytics dataset delivered by file builder, web API or Snowflake and priced by contract — see [RavenPack News Analytics](/tools/ravenpack-news-analytics). Bigdata.com is the self-serve platform it launched in October 2024, billed per token, signed up for with a card. The terms name RavenPack International SLU as the owner, and RavenPack's own navigation links Bigdata.com out to its own site.

### Can I store or redistribute what the Bigdata.com API returns?

No. The terms grant a "Grounding Right" that covers using the content at inference time only. You may keep the derivative output your model produced, but you may not store, cache, retain or archive the underlying content beyond the moment of consumption, may not redistribute it to a third party, and may not use it to train, fine-tune or evaluate a model. Each retrieval is a fresh one-time right.

### How far back does Bigdata.com go?

It depends which content set you retrieve from, and the store states each one separately. Premium news runs from 2000, public web news is a rolling five-year window, regulatory filings start in 2010 and fundamentals carry 30-plus years. The marketing line about "25+ years of content" is the premium news figure, not a floor across the catalogue.

### What does a query actually cost?

No per-token rate appears on any public page — the docs send you to the Usage page inside an account. The pricing page publishes worked examples instead, at $0.57 to $1.82 for a single agent run, with one run broken out by content type as premium news $0.46, fund holdings $0.43, jobs $0.36, ESG scores $0.33, fundamentals $0.08, earnings transcripts $0.03 and regulatory filings $0.01.

## Also from RavenPack

- [RavenPack News Analytics](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/ravenpack-news-analytics.md)

## Also worth comparing

- [AskNews](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/asknews.md) — Licensed news retrieval for LLM pipelines — prompt-ready context, archive back to 2023.
- [Marketaux](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/marketaux.md) — Global financial news over REST, tagged to entities and scored for sentiment per entity.
- [Stock News API](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/stocknewsapi.md) — US stock news with a keyword sentiment label — headline and link, never the article text.
- [TickerTick](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/tickertick.md) — Free US stock news API with no key and a small and/or/diff query language.
- [Barchart OnDemand](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/barchart-ondemand.md) — Seventy-odd REST endpoints covering equities, options and physical commodities.
- [Benzinga News API](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/benzinga-news-api.md) — Licensed US stock newswire over REST, TCP, WebSocket or webhook, priced by contract.