Market Data API

The Market Data API is read-only and can be used with a full partner key or a restricted data key. It covers exchange catalogues, stock and ETF prices, historical candles, charts, company profiles, news, market status, and curated market intelligence. The commercial pricing policy is: sandbox prices are delayed by 15 minutes; paid licenses provide real-time prices.

Price tiers and event delivery

The product owner confirmed this policy on 3 October 2026:

Quote delivery is separate from account and order notifications. Webhooks and SSE carry state-change events, not price ticks or a streaming order book. Event arrival does not establish quote freshness; inspect asOf, stale and the response's data-quality metadata.

Implementation status: the shared quote path currently reports delayMinutes: 15 and refreshIntervalSeconds: 900 without a license-specific distinction. That path has not yet been reconciled with the commercial policy above. Do not relabel a delayed or stale response as real-time based only on the license tier. The detailed quote examples describe that existing path, not verified delivery of the new tier policy.

Every listed African equity has EOD price history for a line chart. Reported OHLCV is available only where the source series contains it, so use recommendedChartType and the quality metadata before rendering candlesticks or volume. SSE and webhooks deliver state-change events; they are not tick-by-tick price feeds. See Data Licensing.