Data licensing

Every plan comes with a licence that sets how you may use the data. This page explains them in plain English. The binding text is section 5 of our Terms of Service; where the two differ, the Terms apply.

Personal licence

For your own research. The data is for you alone and may not be used for commercial purposes.

Plans: Free, Pro, Prime

Commercial licence

For internal business and commercial use within your organization, such as research and trading at a fund, prop desk or startup.

Plans: Prime Commercial, Prime + Raw

Institutional licence

A commercial licence on terms agreed in your order form: the entities, teams and uses it covers, alongside the SLA.

Plans: Institutional

What each licence allows

Use	Personal	Commercial	Institutional
Use the data for your own research and backtests	Allowed	Allowed	Allowed
Use it for commercial purposes	Not allowed	Allowed	Allowed
Let others in your organization use it	Not allowed	Allowed	As agreed
Build internal analyses, reports and models on it	Allowed	Allowed	Allowed
Redistribute, resell, publish or share it with third parties, in any form	Not allowed	Not allowed	Not allowed
Build a competing data product or service with it	Not allowed	Not allowed	Not allowed

Not allowed under any licence

Redistributing, reselling, sublicensing or publishing the data, in whole or in part, raw, modified or derived.
Sharing derived work from which someone else could reconstruct or replace the data.
Building a competing data product or service.
Sharing your account or API key with anyone your licence or team account does not cover.
Getting around the access controls that enforce these limits.

Raw data (trades, quotes and derivatives files) is licensed for your internal research and trading only, and may not be made available to anyone else, including in a form from which it could be rebuilt.

Free markets data

The markets dashboard and the public endpoints behind it are free and need no plan. What they show is for personal use:

Look at it, chart it and use it in your own research, without an account.
Share a chart or screenshot of it, with a link to aperiodic.io.
Not for commercial use, or for trading on behalf of others.
No collecting it in bulk, storing it to build up history, or republishing it, in whole or in part.
No building a product or service on it, and no getting around the rate limits.
It is delayed, provided as is, and may change or stop without notice.

For history, other intervals or use in a product, the data comes with a plan and its licence.

Need something these don't cover?

Use across several entities, or terms your compliance team needs, is agreed case by case under Institutional, which also comes with our SLA. Book a call or write to info@aperiodic.io.