Alternatives
Fifteen honest comparisons. We name what the incumbent does well, then show where ausdata.io is the better fit. No straw men. No fake claims.
Financial data
Bloomberg Terminal
Bloomberg Terminal is the global standard for buy-side analysts and traders. It ships every market data feed, news wire, and analytics engine in one product, and the support team picks up at 3am. It costs about USD 32,000 per seat per year.
Refinitiv Eikon
Refinitiv Eikon (now LSEG Workspace) is the main Bloomberg alternative for institutional desks. It covers global market data, news, and analytics with an Excel add-in many analysts prefer over Bloomberg's BQL.
Macro data
ABS Data API
The ABS Data API is the official feed for every Australian Bureau of Statistics release. It is free, public, and authoritative. It speaks SDMX 2.1, a schema designed for statistical agencies, not application developers.
RBA Statistical Tables
The Reserve Bank of Australia publishes its statistical tables as CSV and XLS downloads, refreshed manually after each release. Every Australian macro analyst has a Python script that scrapes them.
Trading Economics
Trading Economics offers a paid API for global macro indicators, including Australia. It is widely used by economists for cross-country comparisons.
FRED API
FRED, run by the St. Louis Fed, is the canonical free macro data API. It is excellent for US data and includes a small set of Australian series mirrored from the OECD.
Company data
ASIC Connect
ASIC Connect is the official search portal for the Australian company register, the AFS licensee register, and the banned and disqualified persons register. It is free and authoritative. It is a search UI, not an API.
ABR Lookup
The Australian Business Register is the official ABN lookup service. It is free, authoritative, and offers a SOAP and a JSON API after registration.
Open data catalogue
data.gov.au
data.gov.au is the federal open data catalogue. Every agency publishes datasets there, usually as CSV or XLSX. It is free, exhaustive, and CKAN-based.
Kaggle Datasets
Kaggle hosts thousands of public datasets, some Australian, contributed by users. It is free and the search is decent for one-off analysis.