About Tidore
Tidore is the cross-asset market-data API for developers building financial software. One API key spans ten asset-class verticals: commodities, macro, prediction markets, sports, FX, derivatives, crypto, equities, fixed income, and reference data. MCP-native for AI agents. Sub-Bloomberg pricing. The single API layer for the era when traders, quants, and hedge funds code their own tools with AI agents instead of buying terminals.
Why does Tidore exist?
Traders, quants, and hedge funds are increasingly coding their own tools with AI agents instead of buying Bloomberg ($24,000/year/seat) or stitching together four-to-ten separate REST APIs across market-data terminals, exchange feeds, and reference-data providers. Agents call APIs; agents do not navigate Bloomberg keyboards. Tidore is built for that shift.
What does Tidore ship?
Ten asset-class verticals under one auth surface. Each vertical exposes REST + WebSocket + MCP intent tools. Single API key spans the portfolio. Buy one vertical or all ten via All-Access Pro. Free tier on every vertical for evaluation. See pricing for the full ladder.
How is Tidore different from other developer-tier financial-data APIs?
Strengths and gaps below.
| Feature | Tidore | Massive | CoinGecko | CoinMarketCap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asset classes | 10 | 5+ | 1 (crypto) | 1 (crypto) |
| Commodities · prediction markets · sports · fixed income | Yes | No | No | No |
| MCP-native (intent-shaped) | 8 tools per vertical | 3 generic passthrough | 2 (docs + sandbox) | 12 (REST mirrors) |
| VWAP methodology published | Yes (sources, weights, exclusions) | n/a | Black box | Black box |
| Data quality flags (`is_stale`, `confidence`) | On every response | No | No | No |
| Redistribution allowed at paid tier | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (ToS-blocked all tiers) |
| Entry price (single asset class) | Request access | $29/mo | $129/mo Pro | $79/mo Startup |
| All-classes price | Request access | $799/mo | n/a | n/a |
What ships today, and what's next?
Pre-launch. Landing live at tidore.co. Ten-vertical design locked. Crypto vertical PRD locked (top-200 coins, hybrid REST + WebSocket access, stablecoin reconciliation, confidence indicators on every response). First paid vertical ships when the platform foundation passes its v1 gate. See changelog for the build log.
Who operates Tidore?
Nusantara Ventures LLC. Solo founder, Indonesia. Email hi@tidore.co.
Where does the name come from?
Named for Tidore — the Maluku spice-trading sultanate (1500s-1800s). Small actor outsmarting global colonial empires through better coverage of the trade routes.