Alternatives

Is there a cheaper alternative to Bloomberg for fund and ETF reference data?

For fund factsheet fields (fees, holdings, exposures, returns, risk indicator, KID costs) by ISIN, a per-request API from $9.99 a month replaces a terminal seat or a B-PIPE feed. What it covers and what it does not.Published September 12, 2026 · Updated October 13, 2026 · by FundFacts API

Short answer

For fund reference data, yes: FundFacts API returns the factsheet of any UCITS fund or ETF by ISIN (fees, holdings, exposures, returns, risk indicator, KID costs) for $9.99 to $249 a month, self-serve, with a commercial licence from $49. It does not replace a terminal for market data, news, analytics or pricing; it replaces the fund-reference part that small teams often pay a seat or a feed for, and it is designed for code rather than for a screen.

Scope, honestly

NeedBloomberg (Terminal / B-PIPE)FundFacts API
Real-time and historical prices, news, analytics, messaging✓✗
Fund reference: fees, holdings, exposures, returns, risk indicator, KID costs✓✓ by ISIN, from the fund house's documents
Programmatic accessLicensed API, per-seat or per-feedREST + MCP, per-request plans
CoverageGlobalDocument-driven; UCITS and European fund houses deepest
CostSeat or feed pricingFree to $249 a month; $0.01 per request metered
SetupContract, entitlementsKey in a minute

The full comparison sets out where the terminal is irreplaceable.

What you get for the money

The Free plan gives 5 lookups a month without a card (2 PDF factsheets), enough to check a few of the funds you care about. Starter is $9.99 a month for 60 requests (30 PDF factsheets) with portfolio look-through, holdings overlap and batch calls of 10 ISINs and the AI companion kit. Pro is $49 for 1,000 requests (500 PDF factsheets), 50 ISINs per call, white-label factsheets, document extraction and a commercial licence. Scale is $249 for 10,000 requests, batches of 200, a change feed, webhooks and bulk export.

Who switches

Advisors, fintechs and small asset managers whose only use of a data feed was populating fund pages, reports and screeners with the published figures. The client reporting and wealth CRM enrichment use cases describe those builds.

Not a price feed

Prices, NAV ticks and intraday data are out of scope; the monthly series in the payload is for charts and statistics. Keep your market-data source for that.

Verify it yourself

The demo endpoint returns the live payload for a fund that is already in the store, without a key. Everything on this page can be checked against it.
bash
curl -s https://fundfactsapi.com/api/v1/demo/funds/IE00B4L5Y983 | jq '{name, asOf: .data.dataAsOf, ter: .data.headlineMetrics.ter, risk: .data.riskRating, top: .data.topHoldings[:3]}'

Reference

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need a credit card to try it?

No. The Free plan is 5 lookups per month with no card; sign up with an e-mail address or Google and the key is shown in the dashboard.

Which ISINs work?

Any share class of a UCITS fund, ETF, money-market fund or open-end fund whose management company publishes a product page, factsheet and KID. Each share class has its own ISIN and is looked up on its own. Stocks, bonds and indices are not funds and return 404 fund_not_found.

Try it on your own ISINs

One request returns key facts, holdings, risk and performance as JSON. Free plan, no card.
Get a free API keySee the live demo

Related questions

Alternatives

Is there a Morningstar API alternative for developers and small teams?

Morningstar's data is licensed through enterprise agreements. For a self-serve, per-request API that returns the factsheet of any UCITS fund or ETF by ISIN, with a free plan and a commercial licence from $49, here is what FundFacts API does and does not replace.
Getting started

What does a fund data API cost?

FundFacts API pricing in one place: Free (5 lookups), Starter $9.99 (60 requests), Pro $49 (1,000, commercial use), Scale $249 (10,000, change feed and webhooks), Enterprise metered at $0.01 a request.
Coverage & rules

Can I use the fund data commercially in my product?

Pro ($49), Scale and Enterprise include a commercial licence for using the data in your own products; Free and Starter are for personal and evaluation use. What the licence covers and how to attribute.
Alternatives

Does justETF have an API, and what can developers use instead?

justETF is an ETF comparison website without a public developer API; scraping it is governed by its terms. For the same figures as JSON by ISIN (TER, holdings, sectors, countries, NAV series, returns, risk indicator), use a fund data API, with a free plan and a keyless demo endpoint.