Data Provider reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 139 Reddit reviews across 26 subreddits and 35 posts to rank the best Data Provider brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/algotrading, r/eSIMs, r/AskAnAmerican, r/quant, r/Liverpool. Top-rated brands include Polygon (4.3/5), Verizon (3.7/5), PrimeTracers (4.8/5).
Stats
Reviews139
Subreddits26
Posts35
Brands81
Products37
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#1
Polygon
4.3
(7)
"Can’t fault polygon for stocks"
"Try https://www.coinapi.io/ & https://polygon.io/ they also offer trading APIs"
"Popular choice for real-time updates."
"Offers competitive pricing for market data access."
"Https://polygon.io/"
"I also vouch for polygon.io for their 1min and 5min data."
"I use polygon.io for backtesting data on 1 minute intervals."
#2
Verizon
3.7
(6)
"I have Verizon and I have never had a problem EVER."
"Verizon has hands down the best coverage of the Plains."
"Verizon has the best coverage imo."
"Had a pretty good connection for most of the route."
"I know Verizon does not work the entire way from San Antonio to Lubbock, but I don't know about their connection while in the city."
"Be warned though that no matter who you choose there'll be some large gaps in service."
#3
PrimeTracers
4.8
(4)
"Do NOT use Propstream use - PrimeTracers"
"Guarantee you will see a lift in accuracy and fill rate using it. Pay-As-You-Go at affordable per match rate, Free sign up and Free access to unlimited off market property data and list building."
"They’re a data company that provides unlimited list Pulling and very consistent and accurate tracing data."
"Prime tracers is better or batch or propstream"
#4
EE
4.8
(4)
"EE is the only one I've not experienced shoddy service with."
"Fast 5G"
"EE is without doubt the best for Brighton."
"EE for mobile"
#5
Mint
4.5
(4)
"Mint is a good solution."
"Get Mint, it has an esim too so you can activate right before you fly out."
"Mint has 3 month minimum I think. Still only $45 for that if you only need 4 GB."
"I’ve heard good things about Mint and Google Fi from people."
#6
Interactive Brokers
4.5
(4)
"I have never ran into any throttling and often run multiple streams of historical and live data feeds."
"IB has a lot of historical data surfaced via simple API."
"Interactive Brokers offers a tiered pricing structure and a powerful API."
"Interactive Brokers also provides a free API, though real-time data may incur fees."
#7
Alpha Vantage
4.3
(4)
"Alphavantage.co is fun to use."
"Offers various pricing plans for premium access to financial data."
"Https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/"
"Free/Premium -> Quandl, Alpha Vantage, World Trading Data and/or EOD Historical data."
#8
Holafly
4.7
(3)
"Purchased the unlimited Holafly esim for 30 days in Italy, Netherlands, France and Germany. Ended up only using 20 gigs but no issues."
"Holafly no issues"
"Just download Holafly before you go and get a multi country eSIM."
#9
T-Mobile
4.7
(3)
"T-Mobile was super clutch while backpacking."
"T-Mobile has a good international plan"
"T-Mobile offers relatively cheap tablet data plans, making it a good option for mobile data."
#10
Airalo
4.3
(3)
"I've used Airalo and found them to be reliable. You can use my referral code to save $3 on any eSIM."
"We used Airalo in Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. It was great."
"I'm going to give www.airalo.com a try on my next trip."
#11
TD Ameritrade
4.0
(3)
"TDA has a streaming API that can stream 3000 symbols with 750 ms updates."
"TDA will let you stream 3000 symbols simultaneously with 750 ms updates."
"TD Ameritrade offers a free API, making it accessible for traders."
#12
Tiingo
4.0
(3)
"Provides flexible pricing options based on usage."
"Https://api.tiingo.com/about/pricing"
"The free tier is pretty good, and the $10/month option is even better."
#13
Ocean.io
5.0
(2)
"Free demo, 25 free leads, excellent value for money, a lookalike search, and numerous filters."
"High-quality leads, free demo, and great value for the money."
#14
Binance
5.0
(2)
"Binance is my go to"
"Chek out Binance API documentation and some wrappers for it on Github."
#15
Meteor
5.0
(2)
"Meteor offers a great Unlimited plan with free calls, texts, and ample data."
"Meteor's Super Deluxe plan is really good value. Meteor's 4G network is fast and reliable."
#16
AT&T
3.0
(3)
"I use AT&T and it works good everywhere in Lubbock so far. They also work the entire drive from San Antonio to Lubbock."
"I was surprised how much coverage AT&T had outside of towns."
"AT&T is almost completely useless between Kansas City and Denver."
#17
Vodafone
3.0
(3)
"I've been on Vodafone for over 10 years, never had a problem."
"You can just get Vodafone prepaid card on gas station or in any tobacco shop. Their support and apps are in English as well and it's without contract."
"I'd strongly advise against vodafone. Their staff is incredibly incompetent and rude most of the time, especially when you're a foreigner."
#18
First Rate Data
4.5
(2)
"I recently found this provider if you are looking for just the data."
"Comprehensive source with historical data down to 1 minute."
#19
4.5
(2)
"There are tons of options for data-only SIM cards available."
"If you are from Europe, you should be able to use your own provider, google "Europe roam like home"."
#20
Orange
4.5
(2)
"I would go with a local provider to avoid roaming being too far from Europe, especially if you need to work."
"Orange travel eSIM with phone number."
#21
Yahoo Finance
4.0
(2)
"Free -> Yahoo Finance"
"You can extract basic data from Yahoo Finance into an excel spreadsheet."
#22
iSportsAPI
4.0
(2)
"We provide NBA API. ONLY $99/per month."
"There's also NBA API"
#23
EOD Historical Data
4.0
(2)
"Https://eodhistoricaldata.com/pricing"
"Free/Premium -> Quandl, Alpha Vantage, World Trading Data and/or EOD Historical data."
#24
Stock Data
4.0
(2)
"Various pricing tiers available for different needs."
"Https://www.stockdata.org/pricing"
#25
MarketStack
4.0
(2)
"Affordable pricing for stock market data."
"Https://marketstack.com/product"
#26
FMP Cloud
4.0
(2)
"Offers a range of pricing plans for different data access levels."
"Https://fmpcloud.io/"
#27
O2
2.3
(3)
"O2"
"O2 technically but it really depends exactly where"
"O2 are shite around town from my experience."
#28
Dialog
3.5
(2)
"Dialog has the best coverage, rest of the carriers does not work well in all the areas like dialog does."
"You’re options are either Dialog or SLT."
#29
Sierra Chart
3.0
(2)
"What's wrong with the data packages they provide?"
"Outside of Sierra's own data packages you're looking at a pretty limited list of sources for forex."
#30
Costar
3.0
(2)
"Costar or if it is retail you could do a google places scraper"
"Costar is far from perfect and expensive but industry standard for this type of stuff."
#31
Three
3.0
(2)
"The coverage in central Brighton is great, and the Wi-Fi service is better at a cheaper rate than other providers."
"Generally okay but with noticeable gaps and erratic behavior."
#32
Viettel
5.0
(1)
"Viettel."
#33
VinaPhone
5.0
(1)
"VinaPhone."
#34
CoinAPI
5.0
(1)
"Try https://www.coinapi.io/ & https://polygon.io/ they also offer trading APIs"
#35
Fyers
5.0
(1)
"Fyers and ICICI Direct provide free data with their accounts."
#36
ICICI Direct
5.0
(1)
"Icici direct provide free data through their API provided you open a demat account there."
#37
Unknown Pre-Paid SIM Card
5.0
(1)
"I always just buy a pre-paid Sim card and pop it in my iPhone when I travel. Worked great in Europe and Iceland."
#39
Nanex
5.0
(1)
"Contact Nanex. They gladly sell you historical tapes. Also they have the best real time feed in the industry - sadly they are like many "best" - you pay."
#40
iVolatility
5.0
(1)
"Ivolatility.com and their offerings. You can subscribe to which ever suits ur needs."
#41
Nomad
5.0
(1)
"I did Nomad European regional pack at around 20$ for 10GB worked well."
#42
Tesco
5.0
(1)
"I'm with Tesco cheapest and never had a problem with it."
#43
Google Fi
5.0
(1)
"Google FI is your best bet, you can pick up a sim at any best buy."
#44
3
5.0
(1)
"3 is unlimited data for €20."
#45
nolimitsonline.com
5.0
(1)
"A local European provider with 5G in all those countries including hotspot. Speeds up to 300mbps."
#46
Maya
5.0
(1)
"The Maya unlimited plan also functioned well, despite its 5mb/s limit."
#47
CCXT
5.0
(1)
"CCXT standardizes trading and data interfaces between different exchanges."
#48
Bouygues Telecom
5.0
(1)
"Superior to the Orange Holiday Esim with 30GB in Europe and UK, unlimited calls and SMS, and a French phone number."
#49
Crypto Archive
5.0
(1)
"Minute data available for free, with tick-data archives provided."
#50
Telstra
5.0
(1)
"Telstra Australia always provides excellent service."
#51
Cryptocompare
5.0
(1)
"Cryptocompare has the most exchanges and pairs under a single API."
#52
ettravelsim.com
5.0
(1)
"The etravelsim.com 50GB plan worked without issue in Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Belgium."
#53
Globe
5.0
(1)
"Malakas ang signal sa Mabalacat area."
#54
BNESIM
5.0
(1)
"BNESIM is great and cheap. I used them last week and no issues with the esim."
#55
Intrinio
5.0
(1)
"Intrinio was pretty complete. They use a REST api which makes them super simple to query. If you're a student, the plans become really cheap."
#56
Coinscious
5.0
(1)
"Coinscious has the highest quality crypto market data."
#57
Techsalerator
4.0
(1)
"You should try Techsalerator.com; the site has many affordable company data plans."
#58
OPRA
4.0
(1)
"Will disseminate quotes to different vendors."
#59
Orats
4.0
(1)
"Www.orats.com"
#60
Yardi
4.0
(1)
"Yardi Matrix maybe"
#61
Walmart
4.0
(1)
"I'd encourage you to consider coughing up the extra $30 a month or whatever and just going for that."
#62
Wyscout
4.0
(1)
"Wyscout has xG and xA per player and club, but only overall for the season I think."
#63
Fotmob
4.0
(1)
"Fotmob does the standard stats without xg and similar stats I like it and provides decent knowledge for players."
#64
IEX Cloud
4.0
(1)
"Depends what data you need, but IEX cloud is pretty reasonable for lots of stuff."
#65
Quandl
4.0
(1)
"Free/Premium -> Quandl, Alpha Vantage, World Trading Data and/or EOD Historical data."
#66
World Trading Data
4.0
(1)
"Free/Premium -> Quandl, Alpha Vantage, World Trading Data and/or EOD Historical data."
#67
Local SIM
4.0
(1)
"If you want the best of the best, stop at a kiosk somewhere and buy a local SIM card with data."
#68
Visible
4.0
(1)
"Visible will be on Verizon and cricket will run on at&t."
#69
MetroPCS
4.0
(1)
"Metro pcs offers prepaid plans. Very affordable."
#70
AlgoSeek
4.0
(1)
"AlgoSeek may be a good option too."
#71
3, Meteor, O2
4.0
(1)
"3, Meteor and O2, in that order, are the best for mobile and internet signal."
#72
Deez Mobile
4.0
(1)
"Deez mobile is good"
#73
Visible Mobile
4.0
(1)
"I've heard good things about Visible Mobile."
#74
MeteoGroup
4.0
(1)
"It's generally better at picking up random rain showers before they happen than the others I've tested."
#75
Virgin Media
4.0
(1)
"Great value for unlimited calls, texts, and data at €30 a month."
#76
Simba
4.0
(1)
"Simba offers a competitive plan with 130GB local and 10GB roaming to Australia."
#77
Orange France
4.0
(1)
"Provides a holiday eSim that works throughout the Eurozone for fairly low costs."
#78
Hola Fly
4.0
(1)
"The service worked well in Greece and Italy, providing decent 4G connectivity."
#79
yfinance
4.0
(1)
"Yfinance is a decent free provider for financial data."
#80
Tracfone
3.0
(1)
"Any "prepaid" month to month plan would do you fine - you can pick up a SIM from a prepaid provider like Tracfone, H2O, or Ultra Mobile."
#81
Twelvedata
1.0
(1)
"Twelvedata is pure fucking cancer and you should avoid them."
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