# LiveVol

Cboe's browser options platform - scanners, skew, earnings moves, option tape to 2011.

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

## Facts

### At a glance

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cboe |
| Category | Stock Market Data APIs |
| Job | options |
| Website | https://www.livevol.com |
| Pricing model | subscription |
| Free tier | false |
| Open source | false |
| Licence | none |
| Self-hosted | false |
| Tested hands-on | false |
| Last updated | 2026-09-26 |

### Pricing

| Tier | USD | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| LiveVol Core | 105 USD | month |
| LiveVol Pro | 420 USD | month |
| LiveVol Excel Premium | 300 USD | month |

### Coverage

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Asset classes | stocks, etf, options, indices, futures |
| Markets | us |
| Works outside the US | false |
| Data latency | realtime |
| Platforms | web |
| AI features | none |

### Interfaces

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

### Capabilities

Yes: charting, screening, scanning, alerts, news, options_analysis

No: backtesting, automation, live_trading, paper_trading, portfolio_tracking, broker_import, tax_reporting

*Verified: pricing 2026-09-26; capabilities 2026-09-26; coverage 2026-09-26.*

## What it is

LiveVol is Cboe's options analytics platform: a browser application of dockable windows — option
montage, live and historical skew, volatility studies, a trade tape, earnings and dividend
analysis, and a scanner with more than 60 pre-configured underlying scans plus option strategy and
custom scans that refresh every 60 seconds. It is bought to watch and research the US options
market from a screen, not to feed a program. Cboe sells the subscription through the
[Cboe DataShop](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/cboe-datashop) cart, which is otherwise a separate per-file storefront for
the same exchange's historical data.

What sets Pro apart is option time and sales. For any trading day back to January 2011 you can
replay one underlying's option prints in trades-only mode, or with the quoting around them at
three depths: every top-of-book update from each exchange, only the updates that touch the
[NBBO](https://stockmarketstack.com/glossary/nbbo), or only NBBO changes. That is the tool for asking what the market looked
like when a particular trade printed. Core has the scanners, charts and equity time and sales, but
no option tape.

## Pricing

Core is $105 a month or $1,050 a year. Pro is $420 a month per user month-to-month, or $350 on a
one-year term, for one to four users; the per-user rate steps down with headcount to $170, or $140
on a term, from 126 users. These took effect on 13 February 2025. The DataShop page's own prose
still quotes Pro at $380 a month; its fee table, its cart and livevol.com all say $420.

The platform fee is not the bill. The cart adds $14.95 a month in Cboe index fees for live data
($4.85 delayed) and a market data surcharge of $9 on Core or $20 on Pro. A
[professional subscriber](https://stockmarketstack.com/glossary/professional-subscriber) — the cart decides with an
eleven-question quiz — also pays $24 of UTP fees, and DataShop's SIP fee page estimates
[OPRA](https://stockmarketstack.com/glossary/opra) at $31.50 and US stocks at $66–92 a month per professional, against $1.25
and $3.00 for a non-professional, billed through the SIPs. CME futures data is $130.10 a month,
Pro only.

Monthly fees are not prorated. Cancel an annual plan billed monthly and the remaining months' base
cost is charged at once.

## Data & coverage

US stocks, ETFs, index options and single-name options, plus real-time CFE futures including VIX
and, for a fee, CME futures. End-of-day charts and historical snapshots run from January 2011;
intraday charts cover the last 30 days.

LiveVol Excel is the add-in for pulling this into a spreadsheet: real-time option bids, asks,
[implied volatility](https://stockmarketstack.com/glossary/implied-volatility) and [greeks](https://stockmarketstack.com/glossary/greeks), fixed-maturity
IV blends from 30 to 360 days, and history. The Basic tier caps live data at 100 option underlyings
and 550 stock quotes with six months of historical option quotes; Premium lifts that to 250 and
1,550 with two years; Unlimited to every option underlying and 4,000 stocks.

## Integrations

No REST API and no webhooks on the platform. Time and sales exports the rows on screen to the
clipboard or CSV, or emails them as a PDF, and a row can be copied as a URL carrying symbol, date
and view. Alerts on stock or option fields fire inside the platform. LiveVol Excel works through
real-time data formulas, needs Windows and administrator rights to install, and only updates while
you are signed in to the web platform.

## Limitations

- Option time and sales, the reason to buy Pro, is missing from Core at any price.
- Excel is Windows only — not compatible with Excel for Mac — and runs only beside a signed-in
  browser session.
- An export is what the window shows: one underlying on one trading day. Bulk history is a
  DataShop purchase, not a LiveVol one.
- One named person per account. The Pro and Core subscription agreement on livevol.com (version
  v1017) treats a shared login as a material breach, and has the data deleted when the
  subscription ends.
- US-listed markets only.

## Alternatives

[Market Chameleon](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/market-chameleon) covers the same earnings and scanner ground in a
browser for $99 a month, 15 minutes delayed and with option trade detail sixty trading days deep.
For option data you compute against yourself, [ORATS](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/orats) and
[iVolatility](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/ivolatility-api) sell it over REST, and [Cboe DataShop](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/cboe-datashop)
sells the same exchange's options history as files.

## FAQ

### What does LiveVol actually cost once exchange fees are added?

Priced in the Cboe DataShop cart on 26 September 2026, a live Core seat for a non-professional is $128.95 a month - $105 for the platform, $14.95 in Cboe index fees and a $9 market data surcharge. Live Pro is $454.95 for a non-professional and $478.95 for a professional, whose bill adds $24 of UTP fees, and the cart warns that further SIP fees may apply.

### What is the difference between LiveVol Core and LiveVol Pro?

Option time and sales. Pro can replay every option trade and quote on any trading day back to January 2011; Core has equity time and sales only. Pro also includes the Basic Excel add-in, is the only tier that can take the Premium and Unlimited Excel add-ins and the CME futures package, and is billed per user with volume discounts. Cboe describes Core as its non-professional version.

### Does LiveVol have an API?

Not the platform itself. The programmatic route is LiveVol Excel, a Windows-only add-in of real-time data functions that is not compatible with Excel for Mac. Cboe sells its REST API separately, through the same DataShop storefront.

### Is there a free trial of LiveVol?

Yes, 15 days for Core or Pro. A card is authorised for verification and not charged, and the trial expires without enrolling you in a subscription. New accounts become active after an overnight cycle, so the trial does not start the minute you order it.

## Also from Cboe

- [Cboe DataShop](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/cboe-datashop.md)

## Also worth comparing

- [IVolatility API](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/ivolatility-api.md) — Options chains with raw IV, greeks and IVX surfaces over REST, US history to 2005.
- [Market Chameleon](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/market-chameleon.md) — Earnings-move statistics and option strategy screeners in a browser. No API.
- [Option Samurai](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/option-samurai.md) — US options strategy scanner you configure, with an Excel and Sheets add-in. No API.
- [OptionStrat](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/optionstrat.md) — Option P&L visualizer, target-price optimizer and unusual-flow feed. No API.
- [ORATS](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/orats.md) — Smoothed options greeks and IV surfaces over REST, end-of-day back to 2007.
- [Quant Data](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/quant-data.md) — US options flow, dealer exposure and dark pool prints over REST and a hosted MCP server.