Alternatives

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 (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.

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.

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 offers a paid API for global macro indicators, including Australia. It is widely used by economists for cross-country comparisons.

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.

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.

The Australian Business Register is the official ABN lookup service. It is free, authoritative, and offers a SOAP and a JSON API after registration.

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 hosts thousands of public datasets, some Australian, contributed by users. It is free and the search is decent for one-off analysis.

ABS TableBuilder is the ABS web tool for building custom Census cross-tabulations. It is free for guest use and the only way to query the full Census detail.

NEMweb is AEMO's public file server for the National Electricity Market. It publishes 5-minute dispatch, demand, and FCAS data as ZIP files. It is free and authoritative.

Open-Meteo is a free weather API that aggregates official sources, including Bureau of Meteorology for Australian observations. It is open source, free for non-commercial use, and well documented.

Stripe Data Pipeline ships your Stripe payment data into Snowflake or Redshift on a schedule. It is excellent for revenue analytics inside a data warehouse.

Snowflake Marketplace lets you subscribe to third-party datasets directly inside your Snowflake account. It is the de-facto warehouse-native data exchange.