Quiver Quantitative Alternatives in 2026: Unbundling Congress, Insiders and WSB

Quiver is a bundle, not a tool

Quiver Quantitative is a bundle of alternative datasets, not a single product. Its navigation listed these datasets on 26 July 2026: Politician Search, Congress Trading, 2026 Midterm Elections, Donald Trump Stock Trades, Election Fundraising, Insider Trading, Government Contracts, Corporate Lobbying, Legislation Search, Government Spending, Congress Live Net Worth, Behind The Curtain, DC Insider Score, Patents, Corporate Election Contributions, Analyst Ratings, CNBC Stock Picks, App Ratings, Jim Cramer Tracker, Google Trends, Executive Compensation, Revenue Breakdowns, Institutional Holdings, Risk Factors, Whale Moves, Stock Splits and ETF Holdings.

If you are checking that against a roundup that says 29, the gap is in the markup. Several nav entries exist only inside HTML comments, so a browser never renders them: Kalshi Macro Market Odds and an ESG Screener are two. The ESG Screener path returns a 404 if you follow it anyway, which leaves the set a visitor can actually click.

The usual comparison format fails on a bundle like that. Congressional disclosures, federal contract awards, lobbying filings, Form 4 insider filings and Reddit chatter come from five unrelated worlds with five unrelated substitutes, so a list that crowns one competitor is answering a question nobody asked. The workable question is narrower: which of them are you there for?

Two products, two price lists

Quiver sells the website subscription and the API as two different products. Conflating them is the single most repeated error about the company. The website tier is Premium at $25.00 a month billed monthly. Choosing annual billing gives you billed $300 yearly. Twelve months at $25.00 is $300, so there is no annual discount on the website tier.

The trial is seven days on monthly billing and thirty days on annual. Quiver's own /pricing/ URL 302-redirects to its register page, so the homepage block is the canonical public statement of website pricing.

The API is separate and priced separately: Hobbyist $30.00 a month, Trader $75.00 a month, Commercial by quote. A website Premium subscription does not include API access. There is no free API tier. Third-party directories that describe Quiver's API tiers as Free, Professional and Enterprise are describing tiers that do not exist. Full price table and the commercial-use restrictions are in what Quiver costs.

The WallStreetBets data stopped in February 2025

Quiver Quantitative's published WallStreetBets series has not added a data point since 21 February 2025. We rechecked on 31 July 2026. We ran five checks, in this order.

• The last timestamp. The time series embedded in the WallStreetBets page runs from 2025-01-22T14:00:00 to 2025-02-21T14:57:00, published with no timezone marker. That is a rolling window of about a month, not a deep archive. Nothing follows the last value.
• The site itself is current. On the same day, the congress trading page on the same domain carried dates through 2026-07-29. This is not a site-wide outage: the stale datasets are the social ones.
• Almost every percentage renders as inf%. The % Change column returned inf% 596 times in a single page load, across a table of 597 rows. That shows the comparison calculation is not producing usable percentages; the page does not expose enough information to establish the denominator.
• Quiver's Fear and Greed page shows the same cutoff. Latest data point 21 February 2025, matching the WallStreetBets page.
• No WallStreetBets endpoint exists in the API. The live OpenAPI schema at api.quiverquant.com/docs/schema.json publishes 51 paths. A search for wallstreetbets returns zero hits. A search for sentiment returns zero hits. The one Reddit-derived path is /beta/coins, described as coins data from Reddit, tagged internal and hidden from the docs. The only other wsb traces are boilerplate on two SEC 13F endpoints plus a bare wsbMentionsWeekly count field on /beta/tickerdata, also internal.

A visitor gets no visual cue that any of this is the case, which is why it is worth checking for yourself. The page still renders a populated table: SPY at 417 mentions, V at 279, NVDA at 194, HIMS at 139, CELH at 126 and PLTR at 124. Nothing in the layout marks those numbers as historical. The per-ticker URL we spot-checked, /sources/wallstreetbets/SPY, serves the same frozen page, so this is not a landing-page artifact.

What this section claims and what it does not

The claim here is only the observation: the series stops on 21 February 2025. We do not know why it stopped. We have not asked, we have no inside knowledge and we are not going to speculate about intent.

A vendor can restore a dataset at any time, so a page that was frozen when we looked may well be current by the time you read this. Before you make any purchase decision on the strength of this section, open the WallStreetBets page and check the newest date for yourself.

If you are evaluating Quiver for congressional trading rather than social data, none of this applies to you. That dataset was current to 29 July 2026 when we rechecked. It is also the one Quiver's own pages put first: Congress Trading sits in the "Most Popular" group at the top of the site nav and heads the dataset list on the Hobbyist plan.

Every figure in this section was rechecked on 31 July 2026 against the live pages and the live OpenAPI schema.

Which dataset are you actually here for?

Nine dataset groups cover the questions Quiver Quantitative's own product pages lead with, each with a different best answer. For one group we found no like-for-like substitute.

What was left out, so you can check the arithmetic: the nine groups below are the ones carrying a substantive substitute question. Quiver's nav also holds attention and opinion trackers, Analyst Ratings, CNBC Stock Picks, the Jim Cramer Tracker and Google Trends among them, plus screeners, leaderboards and backtesters built on feeds already in the table. Each of those is a thin layer over a single public source, so none gets its own row.

Two rows below are not nav entries at all. Off-Exchange Trading is sold on the Hobbyist API plan without a nav listing. WallStreetBets has its own page with no live nav entry.

The table splits along one line. Where Quiver repackages a public filing, the free official source exists and what you pay for is the parsing, the ticker join and the uptime. Where Quiver derives its own score, there is nothing to switch to at any price.

The guidance, one dataset at a time

Congressional and government trading

The cheapest congress-trading API we could find with documented public pricing is Quiver's own Hobbyist plan at $30 a month. We went looking for a cheaper one with the same access shape and came back empty. If congressional disclosure is your primary reason for being here, the correct recommendation on this page is to stay with Quiver.

Two properties of congressional trading data hold no matter which vendor you buy from.

• The disclosure arrives late by statute. A member files a periodic transaction report by the earlier of 30 days after being made aware of the trade or 45 days after the trade itself, so the freshest row in any of these feeds describes something that already happened weeks ago.
• The report gives a value band, not a share count and not an execution price. The lowest band on a House filing is $1,001 to $15,000 and the bands widen from there, so position sizing has to be inferred.

No vendor can improve on either property, because neither is a vendor problem.

The free routes are real but each carries a caveat you should know before you commit engineering time. Capitol Trades, run by 2iQ Research, is a genuinely good free web tool showing 36,880 trades across 205 politicians at last check. It has no API, no CSV export and no download of any kind.

Capitol Trades also states that "the historical data available on our website is restricted to the past 3 years". Its terms are a generic template with no commercial-use clause and no scraping clause, which makes them silent rather than permissive. Do not read silence as permission.

The House Clerk publishes free yearly bulk files at disclosures-clerk.house.gov, one YYYYFD.ZIP per year from 2008 through 2026. We downloaded the 2025 file: 98,535 bytes, containing XML plus a tab-delimited TXT, 2,672 Member records and 515 Periodic Transaction Reports. The catch is that it is an index. You get a name, a filing type, a date and a DocID. The actual transaction detail lives in a PDF per DocID that you have to fetch and parse.

Senate eFD is free too, but it sits behind a mandatory click-through and is openly hostile to automation. It also carries a real statutory restriction: "It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain or use a report ... for any commercial purpose, other than by news and communications media for dissemination to the general public".

Benzinga offers a Government Trades API with history from 2003 covering the Wilshire 5000 plus 1000 additional US equities, in XML and JSON. Its API pricing is quote-only, so plan for a sales conversation. Benzinga Pro, the terminal product, is a different thing entirely and should not be conflated with the API.

Two things to avoid. House Stock Watcher and Senate Stock Watcher are dead: both domains fail DNS resolution, the S3 JSON endpoints that acted as their de-facto API now return AccessDenied and the GitHub data repo was last pushed on 16 March 2021 with no license.

Autopilot is a copy-trading service rather than a data vendor. It publishes tier names, Autopilot Premium, Autopilot+ and Basic, but its pricing page returns a 404, so we are not going to quote a number for it. There is no API, trades "can be delayed up to 15 minutes", there are no shorts, no crypto and no options. Quiver itself is a Pilot on the platform.

Some of this has no substitute at all. Politician net worth, congressional holdings as opposed to trades and the backtesters are effectively locked. Quiver's /beta/live/congressholdings is enterprise-tagged. Capitol Trades has no holdings view, no API and a three-year wall.

Insider activity

SEC EDGAR is the free official source for insider activity. It is also the same primary source the paid vendors build on. The SEC states plainly that "these APIs do not require any authentication or API keys to access". The limits are 10 requests per second maximum with a declared user agent.

The access shape is the first problem. There is no dedicated insider-transaction JSON API. Form 4 is reached through the submissions history, through Archives XML, through the browse-edgar Atom feed or through full-text search. That is four awkward paths where a vendor hands you one clean one.

The nightly bulk ZIPs do not close the gap: submissions.zip is filing history and companyfacts.zip is XBRL financials, neither of which contains parsed insider transactions. The SEC's own extracted Insider Transactions Data Sets are published quarterly, so a daily pipeline still means parsing raw XML yourself.

The second problem is correctness. That is the one that costs money.

• Form 4 transaction codes are not interchangeable. P is an open-market purchase, S a sale, A an award or grant, M an option exercise, F shares withheld to cover tax, G a gift and C a conversion. An insider-buying signal that reads code A grants as conviction buying and code F withholding as selling is measuring the compensation calendar instead of the trade.
• Form 4/A amendments restate earlier filings, so an append-only loader ends up holding both versions of the same transaction.
• The 10b5-1 checkbox marks trades scheduled months in advance, which carry no timing information at all.

Quiver puts Insider Trading on its Trader plan at $75 a month, so the real trade is $75 a month against getting all of that right on day one and keeping it right through every filing-format change afterwards.

The same reasoning covers Institutional Holdings, Hedge Fund Activity, ETF Holdings and Top Shareholders, all of which sit on Trader. The underlying 13F data is free on EDGAR. The ranking, the deduplication and the ticker joining are the product.

Lobbying and government contracts

Quiver Quantitative's Government Contracts feed has a clean free substitute. Its Corporate Lobbying feed does not, at least not this month. USAspending runs a free v2 API and an unauthenticated call returned HTTP 200 when we tested it, which makes it a straight replacement for Quiver's Government Contracts feed provided you are willing to map awardees to tickers yourself. Its rate limits and license statement are not published, so treat heavy automated use as undocumented.

For off-exchange volume, FINRA publishes free OTC and ATS transparency data plus short-interest CSVs, with documented limits of 1,200 requests per minute per IP and 20 requests per minute per dataset per account. Note the license wording before you build on it: "FINRA Data provides non-commercial use of data".

Lobbying is the awkward one, because both obvious free routes have dates attached. The Senate's lda.senate.gov carries a banner reading "After 07/31/2026, this site will no longer be available ... start using LDA.gov today". And OpenSecrets, the other standard route, states that "as of April 15, 2025, our API offerings have been discontinued". One is retiring, one is already gone. Quiver's Corporate Lobbying dataset sits on Hobbyist at $30 a month, which for now is less a compromise than the path of least resistance.

Patents, App Ratings, Executive Compensation and Corporate Donors are a different problem. The raw sources are all public: USPTO for patents, SEC DEF 14A filings for executive compensation, FEC for political contributions. What Quiver sells is the ticker-level join across them. That join is the product. Budget a project for rebuilding it, not an afternoon.

WallStreetBets and Reddit sentiment

WallStreetBets sentiment is the one Quiver Quantitative dataset in that table which Adanos covers. Adanos has no congressional trading data, no insider filings, no lobbying, no government contracts, no patents and no executive compensation. If you came to this page for any of those, nothing here should point you at us.

Adanos takes a ticker and returns a current mention count and sentiment score for it, collected hourly from public Reddit posts and comments across 50+ subreddits and 35,000+ tracked tickers. Scoring is a finance-tuned RoBERTa and VADER ensemble weighted 60/40, producing a score from -1 to +1 per mention, with a finance lexicon, scored emoji and contextual phrase rules extending the base VADER lexicon.

BuzzScore is a 0 to 100 daily figure per stock built from five components: mention volume, sentiment, upvotes, subreddit spread and momentum. The method is documented in the BuzzScore whitepaper. You can check the live output without registering on the free Reddit Top 100 stocks page.

Whether you can ask for r/wallstreetbets on its own is the question that decides this row. Not as a request filter, you cannot. The API takes a ticker and returns an aggregate across the subreddits it covers, with no subreddit parameter anywhere in the schema.

What you get instead is attribution: the stock detail response carries a top_subreddits array with a mention count, a sentiment score and a buzz score per subreddit, so you can read the wallstreetbets share of a ticker's number and discard the rest. The filtering happens after the response, not in the query.

Pricing is $0 for 250 requests a month with 30 days of history, $29 a month or $290 a year for 250,000 requests with 90 days and $299 a month or $2,990 a year for 2,500,000 requests with up to 365 days of history. Adanos caps history at 365 days, which is a real limit on this row. If you need a multi-year Reddit backtest, Adanos will not give you one.

ApeWisdom is free and keyless across 15 subreddits, scanning "twice an hour", but it returns mentions and upvotes with no sentiment field at all. No terms of service exist for it, so commercial rights are unverified. We covered it in detail in our ApeWisdom alternatives guide.

AltIndex is the only alternative here with a real dated Reddit sentiment time series, a float from 0.0 to 1.0 with history beginning 2021-02-25. Starter is $29 a month or $199 a year and Pro is $99 a month or $499 a year. The API is on Pro only, at 500 requests a day and a 90-day window, licensed "for your own personal internal use".

StockGeist is degraded. A sitewide banner reads "StockGeist.ai dashboard is under maintenance" and docs.stockgeist.ai fails TLS. It sells credit top-ups rather than subscriptions: Starter $75 for 750,000 credits and Pro $1,000 for 12.5M credits at $0.0001 per credit. Dashboard tiers are listed at $0, $50 and $100 with no billing period stated anywhere on the page.

Stocktwits has closed developer registration, stating "we unfortunately won't be accepting new registrations". Its sentiment is user self-tagged rather than model-scored, which is a different measurement even where you can get at it.

One to avoid. Tradestie appears on most free-WSB-API lists and should not. Its documented host api.tradestie.com serves a TLS certificate that expired on 3 January 2026 and returns HTTP 502. The 502 was confirmed independently.

Separately, the date parameter does not return historical sentiment. Across six dates sampled from 10 December 2025 through 25 July 2026 plus the live call, each ticker returned the same sentiment_score every time, while comment counts on those same rows varied from 9 to 48.

The score tracks the present rather than the date requested, which we confirmed by watching SPY move from 0.503 to 0.331 between two rounds of checking on 26 July 2026, identical across all six dates on both occasions.

Quiver versus Unusual Whales, the comparison people search for

Quiver Quantitative and Unusual Whales are both alternative-data vendors that overlap on congressional trading and diverge almost everywhere else. Quiver's center of gravity is political and corporate disclosure. Unusual Whales' is options flow and dark pool activity. Neither is a superset of the other.

Both split the platform from the API, which is worth knowing before you compare headline prices. Unusual Whales platform tiers run Retail Basic $50 a month, Retail Pro $75, Retail Max $120 and Professional $200. Its API tiers run Basic $150 a month, Advanced $375 and Startup $625. The API is not bundled with a platform subscription.

On commercial terms both vendors close the same door: Unusual Whales states that "the standard, self-serve API is strictly for non-professional, personal use". Quiver labels both of its self-serve API plans "No Commercial Use Rights".

On sentiment, neither one helps. A search of the Unusual Whales documentation for sentiment, social, reddit and twitter returned nothing at all. Quiver's sentiment coverage is the dataset described above, which stops in February 2025.

No winner to declare here, only a fork. On what Congress bought, either vendor answers you and Quiver is cheaper at the API entry point, $30 against $150. On options positioning or dark pool prints, Unusual Whales is the specialist and Quiver has nothing. Neither one tells you what retail is saying right now.

What Quiver costs and when the bundle stops paying

Quiver Quantitative publishes two independent price lists, one for the website and one for the API. These are the exact published figures as of 26 July 2026.

What each Quiver API tier contains

Quiver's three API tiers split the datasets like this.

• Hobbyist covers Congress Trading, Politician Net Worth, Corporate Donors, Government Contracts, Corporate Lobbying, Off-Exchange Trading, Donald Trump Stock Trades and 10 of the 18 MCP tools.
• Trader adds Insider Trading, Hedge Fund Activity, ETF Holdings, Top Shareholders, Corporate Patents, Executive Compensation, App Ratings, the Quiver Newsfeed and all 18 MCP tools.
• Commercial adds commercial rights, priority support and higher rate limits.

Numeric API rate limits are not published anywhere: the only public statement is the phrase "higher rate limits", which does not say higher than what.

The New Constructs line in the table is an add-on, not a Quiver tier. It is a third-party fundamental-ratings feed sold on the same API pricing page, described there as ratings derived from SEC filings across 3,400+ stocks, 1,100+ ETFs and 6,150+ mutual funds, at $199 a month or $183 a month billed annually. It carries no commercial rights either. Nothing else on this page substitutes for it, since it sits in a different category entirely.

The break-even on Quiver's bundle, priced in engineer-hours

Quiver Quantitative's Hobbyist plan costs $360 a year at the monthly rate, so the break-even is measured in engineering hours, not in datasets. At any hourly rate a developer commands, $360 is roughly one hour of work a year.

One ingestion script against one government source does not come in under an hour a year to own, once you count the schema change that breaks it, the retry logic, the backfill after an outage and the alerting that tells you it stopped. The bundle wins at a single dataset for anyone whose time is billable. Each dataset added widens the margin.

The free route still wins in one real case. If you want exactly one feed, you already run a pipeline that talks to that source and you are happy to own its failure modes, then USAspending, FINRA and SEC EDGAR cost nothing and hand you the primary data instead of someone else's parse of it. That is a choice about owning a pipeline. The $30 barely enters into it.

Note one number in the table above. Quiver's API Hobbyist plan billed annually works out at $300 a year, the same annual outlay as website Premium at $300. Same money, two entirely different products: one is the API, the other is the website.

Commercial use is gated on both sides of this comparison

Both Quiver self-serve API plans are labeled "No Commercial Use Rights". The pricing footer states that "Hobbyist and Trader plans are for non-commercial use". The terms of service go further: "Quiver Data is licensed for your personal, non-commercial use only".

A second clause adds that "you may not redistribute, republish, resell, sublicense, broadcast ... or otherwise make Quiver Data available to any third party". If you are building a product on top of this data, the self-serve tiers are not the right door and you need the Commercial quote.

Adanos gates commercial use the same way, at the same price point. Our free tier and our $29 Hobby tier are non-commercial only. Commercial rights start on the $299 Professional tier. Our own definition reads "personal trading, academic research and hobby projects are non-commercial", almost word for word the carve-out Quiver publishes: "commercial purposes do not include personal securities trading activities".

A reader comparing Quiver Hobbyist at $30 a month with Adanos Hobby at $29 a month finds the identical restriction on both. Trading your own account is fine on either. What differs is the price of the door out: Quiver's Commercial tier is a quote and a sales conversation, ours is a published $299 a month on the pricing page.

Neither arrangement is a gotcha. Both are the shape of this market, which is why flagging only the competitor's version would have been misleading.

Four pricing claims about Quiver that its own pages disprove

• There is no annual discount on the website tier. Quiver's homepage says billed $300 yearly, which is twelve months at $25.00. Pages quoting Premium at $250 a year with a 17% discount are quoting a price Quiver does not publish.
• The API is a separate product with its own three tiers. Website Premium does not include API access, whatever the roundups say.
• The thirty-day free trial applies to annual billing only. Monthly billing gets seven days.
• The API tiers are Hobbyist, Trader and Commercial. There is no free API tier, so directory listings naming Free, Professional and Enterprise are describing tiers that do not exist.

Where Adanos fits and where it does not

Adanos builds one of the tools on this page. The boundary belongs in writing, not in inference. Adanos is a sentiment API company, so on a page about an alternative-data bundle whose main draw is congressional disclosure, we are relevant to one row of the table and irrelevant to the other eight.

This comparison is published on Adanos's own website, so treat our self-placement as an interested party's view. The recommendation to keep paying Quiver for congressional data is our honest reading of the evidence, not a rhetorical device. Verify every third-party figure against the primary sources linked below before you act on it.

FAQ

Sources

Pricing and feature notes captured July 2026 from each vendor. Tools change their plans, so verify current terms before you commit.

1. Quiver Quantitative, WallStreetBets dataset page, rechecked 31 July 2026
2. Quiver Quantitative, Congress Trading page, current to 29 July 2026 at recheck
3. Quiver Quantitative, Fear and Greed page
4. Quiver Quantitative, published API pricing and dataset split by tier
5. Quiver Quantitative, live OpenAPI schema, 51 paths
6. Quiver Quantitative, terms of service and the personal-trading carve-out
7. Quiver Quantitative, official Python client, last pushed 7 May 2026
8. Capitol Trades by 2iQ Research, free congressional trade tracker
9. US House Clerk, financial disclosure bulk files from 2008
10. US Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database and its retirement notice
11. Autopilot, copy-trading platform where Quiver is a Pilot
12. Adanos, full Reddit sentiment tracker roundup with methodology
13. Adanos, BuzzScore whitepaper and sentiment methodology
14. Adanos, API documentation for the five sentiment sources

SEC EDGAR, USAspending, FINRA, Senate eFD, OpenSecrets, Benzinga, Unusual Whales, AltIndex, ApeWisdom, StockGeist, Stocktwits and Tradestie are described from their own published documentation and live responses captured in July 2026. Quotations are reproduced verbatim from those sources.

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