Databento

Databento is a financial data infrastructure company that provides a modern API platform for accessing real-time and historical market data. Founded by traders and engineers from leading quantitative firms, the company aims to make institutional-grade financial data accessible to everyone—from pre-product startups to major hedge funds and proprietary trading firms. Databento disrupts traditional data delivery by offering a self-service, "pay-as-you-go" pricing structure, allowing users to instantly pull direct-from-venue data (including equities, futures, options, and full order books) without expensive, rigid subscription contracts. Its platform delivers high-fidelity data with nanosecond-resolution timestamps via HTTP, raw TCP, and client libraries (such as Python, Rust, and C++), helping developers and quants build, test, and scale trading applications faster and more affordably.