Quiver Quantitative pricing and cost of Premium, Hobbyist, Trader and Startup plans

Quiver Quantitative is an alternative data service best known for congressional trading, insider filings, government contracts and lobbying data. It is sold in two forms that are billed separately, and the most common buying mistake is paying for the wrong one. We read the API pricing page and the company comparison of Premium and the API on November 4, 2026, and the figures below are quoted from them.

What each Quiver plan costs

The savings printed on the page imply the monthly-billing rates: $360 a year for Hobbyist against $300, and $900 a year for Trader against $750. That is our arithmetic from the two printed figures, so check it at checkout. The Trader plan costs 2.5 times Hobbyist, and the extra money buys the insider and fund datasets plus the other eight MCP tools.

Premium or the API, which one do you need

Quiver says plainly that these are two subscriptions, billed separately. Premium does not include an API key, and an API key does not unlock the website features such as strategies, the screener and the backtesters. Buy Premium if you want to look at filings and act on them without writing code. Buy the API if you want the raw records in a spreadsheet, a script or an AI assistant through the Quiver MCP server, which uses the same key and carries no extra charge.

The licence line that matters for professionals

Hobbyist and Trader are described as non-commercial. A financial advisor, a small fund or a newsletter publisher who builds client work on either one is outside the stated terms, and the Startup plan at about $2,500 a year before discount exists for exactly that case, limited to companies under $1 million in revenue. Larger organizations are routed to a quote. Premium has its own terms on the main site, so read them before using it for client material. If you run a firm, treat this as a licence question first and a price question second.

Strategies on Quiver carry a separate fee

Premium includes backtested Quiver Strategies, and the company offers investing in selected strategies through Quantbase, an SEC-registered investment adviser. A separate Quantbase fee applies, and Quiver discloses that it receives a share of the fees Quantbase charges on its strategies. That is disclosed on the comparison page, and it is a reason to read the strategy track record as marketing for the managed product as well as research.

Is Quiver Quantitative worth paying for

It is worth it if the data itself is your edge: you follow congressional disclosures, insider buying or contract awards and want them organized and timely. The $25 Premium plan or the Hobbyist API is a small cost against that. It is a weaker purchase if you expect the data to hand you a rule that works. A filing shows what someone did. It does not show whether trading after that kind of filing has paid across bull and bear markets, after costs.

What a data feed does not tell you

That second question has an answer in history, and you can get it before you build a workflow around a dataset. Describe the rule in plain English, for example buying after a cluster of insider purchases and selling after sixty days, and the backtesting software runs it across 20+ years of adjusted daily data with costs on every trade. It returns a verdict against buy and hold. Starter is $49 a month or $288 a year, and options rules run on options backtesting on the Analyst plan at $99 a month. We do not sell filings data, alerts or a screener. To compare other subscriptions in the same price band, see Unusual Whales pricing and Tradytics pricing, and for the full cost picture across the category read how much stock analysis software costs.