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SEC API vs World Bank Open Data

SEC API lands on Depends, and World Bank Open Data lands on Worth it.

SEC API

sec-api.io

Depends
Confidence: Medium

Buy it if you are a developer, quant, or fintech team building on SEC filings and want clean parsed data instead of wrangling raw EDGAR.

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SEC API versus World Bank Open Data
CompareSEC APIWorld Bank Open Data
VerdictDependsWorth it
Best forQuants and algo tradersAcademic researchers
Who it's not forCasual investors who just read filingsTraders needing real-time market data
PrivacyNo known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.⁵No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.
Support qualityNo support evidence in sourcesNo support evidence in sources.
Public sentimentReddit quants and traders actively discuss SEC-API for real-time and parsed EDGAR access, and the popular open-source edgartools project calls it the best-known SEC API.⁷Researchers and students treat it as the standard free source for development data, though no numeric ratings or full user quotes surfaced.
Biggest gotchaPlans exist but prices aren't public in sources . confirm costs before budgeting.²No security page or support SLA . it's a public portal, not a vendor product.

Pick SEC API when

  • Quants and algo traders
  • Fintech devs building on EDGAR data
  • AI agent builders via MCP
  • Equity and competitive research teams

When SEC API is not a fit

  • Casual investors who just read filings
  • Non-technical teams with no developer
  • One-off lookups . free EDGAR suffices
  • Buyers wanting curated analysis, not raw data

Pick World Bank Open Data when

  • Academic researchers
  • Economists and analysts
  • Policy and NGO teams
  • Developers needing macro APIs

When World Bank Open Data is not a fit

  • Traders needing real-time market data
  • Firm-level or credit research
  • Anyone expecting vendor support or SLAs
  • BI teams wanting built-in analytics tooling

Sources

  1. SEC-API.io homepagesec-api.io
    official
  2. Scalable Pricing Planssec-api.io
    official
  3. SEC EDGAR Filing Search API docssec-api.io
    official
  4. MCP Server for SEC EDGAR Datasec-api.io
    official
  5. Product security pagesec-api.io
    security
  6. NudgeSecurity security profilenudgesecurity.com
    security
  7. Reddit r/algotrading . API and websocket for SEC filingsreddit.com
    review
  8. Reddit r/SPACs . DIY Filing Alerts with SEC APIreddit.com
    review
  9. SEC-API.io TypeScript/JavaScript librarygithub.com
    review
  10. edgartools open-source comparisongithub.com
    review
  11. SEC Filings API use cases for hedge funds and fintechquantillium.com
    review
  12. data.sec.gov . free official EDGAR datadata.sec.gov
    official
  13. Verity case study on YEXTverityplatform.com
    news
  14. World Bank Open Datadata.worldbank.org
    official
  15. World Bank Open Data | Research Data Service - Librarylibrary.ed.ac.uk
    review
  16. Review of the World Development Indicatorsdiscuss-data.net
    review