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PIT vs Tiingo News
Tiingo sells thirty years of prices and fundamentals with a news endpoint beside them, for $30 a month. PIT sells an as-of cut of the public record: a read bounded to a past instant, with a coverage certificate recording every day it read. Tiingo’s news rows carry two timestamps, which puts them closer to a point-in-time product than most news APIs get.
Updated 2026-08-26. PIT figures read off a running server; vendor figures off each vendor’s own pages.
Clocks
Tiingo has a second news clock
Tiingo’s news records carry publishedDate from the source and
crawlDate, which their documentation describes as the UTC time
the story was added to Tiingo. Either one can be sorted on, and they
recommend crawlDate as the cursor for incremental sync. That
field does the job our committed_at does.
Two things sit outside it. There is no availability_basis
saying whether the timestamp rests on a receipt or on a schedule, and no
per-day record of whether the crawl reached that day. Those two are what
let you read an empty result.
Fit
Who each product is for
| Tiingo | PIT | |
|---|---|---|
| Buyer | An individual or an internal-commercial user who wants end-of-day prices, fundamentals and a news endpoint on one $30 bill. | The same shape of buyer, at the point where a news join must not carry today’s tickers or read an ingest gap as a quiet day. |
| News job | Query recent headlines tagged to tickers. Self-serve history runs about three months; a longer archive is a sales conversation. | as_of cuts — reads bounded to a chosen instant — and became_knowable(T0, T1) over certified partitions, one per source per day. The sample is public, the rest needs a key. |
| Fundamentals | Yes, including an asReported=true mode for figures as originally filed. | None. We hold filing index metadata, not the numbers inside the filings. |
| License | Both published tiers read internal use only; commercial terms are a contact path. | Self-serve covers you and your employer; a commercial license is priced by email. |
Clocks
The same instant, asked two ways
| Tiingo News | PIT | |
|---|---|---|
| Source time | publishedDate, from the publisher. | published_at, from the filer or the index. On SEC rows the daily index gives a date and no time, so we stamp the end of that day, 23:59:59Z. |
| Ingest time | crawlDate, when the story reached Tiingo. Sortable, and their recommended cursor for incremental sync. | committed_at, when the row reached us, selectable as a cut clock so you can ask what we held by T. |
| Evidenced availability | Not published as a separate field. | available_at, with availability_basis naming the evidence behind it. SEC publishes no dissemination clock, so a strict SEC cut comes back 409 with the day named rather than answered with a guess. |
| An empty answer | An empty history result, whether the window falls outside the plan or the store simply holds nothing for it. | HTTP 200 with count 0 when the day is certified and nothing matched; HTTP 409 with count as JSON null when the day was never ingested. |
| Identity | Their documentation says ticker tags reflect the symbol attached when the article was crawled, and calls it explicitly “not a durable permaTicker.” | Half-open ticker-to-CIK intervals. Ticker FB resolves to CIK 1326801 up to 2022-06-09, and META resolves to the same CIK from that date. A 2019 join therefore stays a Facebook join. |
Corpus
What each side holds
PIT’s SEC lane — the certified half of the corpus — holds 564,079 rows, with 204 days certified complete across ten months of backfill. Five of those months run without a gap, 2022-11-01 to 2023-03-31, and the live tape has been adding days since 2026-08-26.
| Tiingo | PIT | |
|---|---|---|
| Prices and fundamentals | Thirty-plus years of end-of-day history on the published plans. | None. |
| News depth | About three months queryable on self-serve, then going forward; they say up to fifteen years exists behind a sales path. | Everything ingested, on every plan, with the holes labeled rather than skipped. |
| Sources | A publisher feed, ticker-tagged. | SEC EDGAR daily indexes across 18 form types, plus Federal Register public inspection (21,931 rows, 2020-02-01 forward). |
| Point-in-time security master | Their own published gap list for August 2026 names a “Dedicated point-in-time Security Master API” among the things they do not offer. | Identity-as-of is the mapping endpoint. It holds nine tickers across sixteen intervals today rather than a full universe. |
| Publisher bodies | Whatever their licenses allow; we do not audit that here. | We keep no WSJ, Reuters or Bloomberg text. |
Payload
The rows carry no filing text yet
A PIT row holds form type, company name, accession, CIK, five clocks, a
content hash and the SEC URL. The filing text is not in there yet. Ask a
language model to reason over these rows and the detail comes from its own
memory of the period rather than from the payload. Filing text is being
ingested now. Until then, fetch the document from
source_locator and give the model that.
Price
Published list prices, August 2026
| Published band | |
|---|---|
| Tiingo | Two published tiers on their pricing page: Starter $0 and Power $30 a month, both marked internal use only. The page shows no annual figure and no separate commercial price. News history past the self-serve window goes through a contact form. |
| PIT | Researcher $29 and Power $79 a month, both reading the whole ingested history; the rate limit and the parquet files are what separate them. Plans and what the corpus covers. |
Limits
Where Tiingo is the better buy
- Tiingo bundles prices, fundamentals and news for $30. PIT sells one of those three, so it is the narrower product at a similar price.
- PIT holds no end-of-day price history and no fundamentals, as-reported or otherwise.
- Tiingo’s
crawlDateis a real second clock, so their product does carry point-in-time information. - Three months of Tiingo news and a coverage certificate answer different questions. Either can be the right buy.
- PIT’s certified backfill stops on 2023-03-31 and the tape resumes at 2026-08-26. Tiingo’s news endpoint is current throughout.
Check it
Where the two answers diverge
Ask both products for SVB filings as of 9 March 2023 at 20:00Z. PIT returns count 0 and names both sources as certified complete for that day. The zero therefore tells you nothing was filed, not that we missed the day.
No account needed. Responses carry sample: true.
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