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Futures
Options on futures
Equities
Equity options
CME
ICE Europe Commodities
ICE Europe Financials
ICE Endex
ICE Futures US

CME Globex MDP 3.0

Futures ⋅ Options on futures

See 650,000+ symbols

All futures and options on CME, CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX. Includes full book, stats, reference data, and more.

Since 2010

Historical from $0.50/GB
Liveincluded in paid plans
CME
ICE Europe Commodities
ICE Europe Financials
ICE Endex
ICE Futures US

CME Globex MDP 3.0

Futures ⋅ Options on futures

See 650,000+ symbols

All futures and options on CME, CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX. Includes full book, stats, reference data, and more.

Since 2010

Historical from $0.50/GB
Liveincluded in paid plans
CME
ICE Europe Commodities
ICE Europe Financials
ICE Endex
ICE Futures US

CME Globex MDP 3.0

Futures ⋅ Options on futures

See 650,000+ symbols

All futures and options on CME, CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX. Includes full book, stats, reference data, and more.

Since 2010

Historical from $0.50/GB
Liveincluded in paid plans
CME
ICE Europe Commodities
ICE Europe Financials
ICE Endex
ICE Futures US

CME Globex MDP 3.0

Futures ⋅ Options on futures

See 650,000+ symbols

All futures and options on CME, CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX. Includes full book, stats, reference data, and more.

Since 2010

Historical from $0.50/GB
Liveincluded in paid plans

Build your first application in 4 lines of code

Databento works with any language through our Raw API, which uses a binary protocol over TCP, and our HTTP API. We also provide client libraries for Python, C++ and Rust.

Client libraries:

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Python
Rust
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import databento as db client = db.Historical('YOUR_API_KEY') data = client.timeseries.get_range( dataset='GLBX.MDP3', schema='mbo', start='2023-01-09T00:00', end='2023-01-09T20:00', limit=100, ) data.replay(print)
Output

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All data is sourced directly from raw feeds at our NY4, FR2, and Aurora I colocation sites, with no third-party data providers in between.

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Schemas
Our datasets support multiple formats, such as order book, tick data, bar aggregates, and more. View all supported schemas ->
mbo

Market by order

Market by order, full order book, L3.
mbp-10

Market by price

Market by price, market depth, L2.
mbp-1

Market by price

Top of book, trades and quotes, L1.
trades

Trades

Tick-by-tick trades, last sale.
tbbo

Top of book

Top of book, sampled in trade space.
ohlcv-t

OHLCV (Bars)

Aggregates per second, minute, hour, or day.
statistics

Statistics

Intraday and end-of-day trading statistics.
definition

Definitions

Point-in-time instrument definitions.
imbalance

Imbalance

Auction imbalance, order imbalance.

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Nanosecond, PTP-synchronized timestampsThe only normalized market data solution to provide up to four timestamps for every event, with sub-microsecond accuracy across venues.
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Tick-by-tick with full order book depthAll buy and sell orders at every price level. Get each trade, every tick, and order queue composition.
Tick-by-tick with full order book depth
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