Free API live — no signup

Accurate backtesting
starts with honest data.

PtData delivers true point-in-time financials — exactly what was publicly known on any past date. No restated numbers. No survivorship bias. No lookahead.

Live Example
GE • FY2017 Revenue
as_of 2018-02-28
As known on as-of date
Original 10-K — Feb 2018
$122.09B
PIT Correct
What most vendors show today
Restated in 2019
$110.97B
-11.1B lookahead bias

Same fiscal year. The restated number did not exist for a backtest run in early 2018. PtData enforces this boundary at the data layer.

Public correctness suite
Falsifiable goldens you can run yourself
Open methodology
Bitemporal model with documented limits
Daily EDGAR updates
Incremental ingest on production
REST + MCP
Built for both humans and agents
The Problem

Most historical data quietly rewrites the past.

When companies restate earnings or get removed from indices, many data providers silently update history. Your backtests look excellent — until they fail in live trading.

01 — RESTATEMENTS

Silent overwrites

A restated earnings number replaces the original in many datasets. A 2018 backtest ends up using information that only became public in 2019.

02 — SURVIVORSHIP

Dead names disappear

Delisted and acquired companies vanish from historical index data. Your research only sees today's survivors.

03 — LOOKAHEAD

Future leaks into the past

Late filings, amendments, and index changes often bleed into historical data unless strict as-of logic is enforced.

How it works

Prove it free.
Scale when you’re ready.

Free access covers the full point-in-time corporate surface so you can evaluate quality before committing to commercial use or higher throughput.

  1. 1
    Use the free API

    No key required. 120/min · 200/day per IP. Same endpoints as paid tiers.

  2. 2
    Validate with the correctness suite

    Public goldens against api.ptdata.io or your own store.

    Run the suite on GitHub →
  3. 3
    Create an account for Pro

    Commercial license, API key, 1,200/min · 15,000/day when you need production volume.

    Register for Pro →
Coverage

Measured breadth. Documented limits.

Figures from the production store. Daily EDGAR incremental on the live API.

8,300+
Companies in store
~6,300 with fundamentals
2.5M+
Financial facts
XBRL + pre-XBRL with lineage
7M+
SEC filings indexed
10-K · 10-Q · 8-K · amendments
5
Survivorship-free indices
SP500 · DJIA · DJT · DJU · NDX
Pricing

Free to evaluate. Pro for production.

Free includes the same point-in-time data surface for evaluation. Pro adds commercial rights, an API key, and higher rate limits.

Same data on every tier. Free = no key, evaluation use. Pro = commercial use + API key + 10× free rate limits.
Free
$0

No account. No credit card. Evaluation under ToS.

  • Full PIT corporate API surface
  • 120/min · 200/day per IP
  • REST + MCP without an API key
  • Evaluation / non-commercial use
  • Public suite and methodology
Open free docs
Scale
$199 /mo

or $1,990/year 2 months free

Higher volume for heavy pipelines.

  • Everything in Pro
  • 5,000/min · 100,000/day
  • Same data surface — more throughput
  • Above Scale: contact sales
Create account · Scale Need higher volume? →

Annual = 10× monthly (2 months free). Rate limits are the same for monthly and yearly. Free is evaluation under ToS; Pro/Scale for commercial use of the PtData API/service.

Point-in-time data. Live today.

Start with the free API — no signup. Move to Pro when you need commercial rights or higher limits.