Morningstar API alternatives for developers (2026)

This page is published by FundFacts API, one of the alternatives listed. Facts on the other vendors are taken from their own websites on 6 October 2026 (see Sources); "not stated" means the pages we read did not say. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.

What Morningstar is the reference for

Morningstar Direct Web Services offers Investment Details, Screener, Portfolio Analysis and X-Ray, Portfolio Optimizer, Time Series and AI Insights APIs, to search, sort and analyse over 300,000 investments. Its MCP server, listed in Claude's connector directory, adds fund holdings (top 10 to 100), X-Ray, screening and analyst research tools to Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, with a licensed Morningstar account.

There is no public price, no free tier and no self-serve sign-up: the product page offers a meeting or a call back. That is the gap the alternatives below fill, each for part of the job.

How we compared

Price of the cheapest plan with fund data, ISIN input, European fund coverage, holdings depth, PRIIPs KID costs and the SRI, ratings and research, commercial use and an MCP server. Every product here except OpenFIGI returns an expense ratio or TER.

Alternatives by need

• The factsheet facts of European UCITS funds by ISIN, self-serve: FundFacts API. Fees, KID costs, the 1–7 SRI, top holdings with sector and country weights, returns and the as-of date, read from each fund house's documents. Free gives 15 lookups a month for personal use, Starter is $9.99 a month for 500 requests, and commercial use starts on Pro at $49 (VAT included). Portfolio look-through and overlap come with Pro, Scale and Enterprise; client PDF factsheets from the same data. No prices and no ratings.
• Global ETFs with prices and full holdings, on a budget: [EODHD](https://eodhd.com). ISIN search, an ongoing-charge field and an MCP server for €59.99 a month, on a personal-use plan; commercial internal use starts at €399 a month.
• Enterprise ETF data with European coverage: [Intrinio](https://intrinio.com) or [Finnhub](https://finnhub.io). Intrinio's Enterprise tier (from $1,250 a month) lists 12,000+ European ETFs with a UCITS flag; Finnhub takes ISINs on every fund endpoint and returns EU EET data, with global coverage on enterprise pricing.
• Prices first, fund data as an extra: [FMP](https://site.financialmodelingprep.com) or [Twelve Data](https://twelvedata.com). FMP has fund profiles from $29 and holdings from $139 a month, and requires a licence agreement to display data. Twelve Data adds real-time prices and its own fund ratings, with fund endpoints on the $999 Ultra tier and ISIN as a paid add-on.
• Mapping ISINs to tickers and FIGIs: [OpenFIGI](https://www.openfigi.com). Free and rate-limited, with no fund data; it pairs with any of the above.

When to stay with Morningstar

• Ratings and analyst research are part of what you show or sell. No API here licenses Morningstar's ratings; Twelve Data's fund ratings are its own.
• You need portfolio X-Ray and the Portfolio Optimizer across funds, ETFs and stocks under one licence.
• You need one global universe, 300,000+ investments, rather than a European or US subset.
• You already hold a licence: its MCP server brings the same data to Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot.

Many teams keep both: the licence for ratings and research, and a cheaper API for the factual fields on fund pages, screeners and client reports. The FundFacts API vs Morningstar comparison goes field by field, and the short answer says what FundFacts API does and does not replace.