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Real-time options Greeks & exposure analytics via REST API.
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Plans below are licensed for personal / single-team use. For redistribution, embedding, white-label or business use, see commercial pricing.
Free plan
Starter
$0
No credit card required
Evaluators, hobbyists, single-name equity GEX checks. Upgrade when you need indexes, 0DTE, vol analytics, full-chain, or higher quotas.
- 5 requests/day
- 15-minute data freshness
- GEX by strike (docs) - single expiry
- Call wall, put wall, gamma flip levels (docs)
- BSM Greeks & IV calculator (docs)
- Stock quotes & vol surface (docs)
- Community support
Basic
/mo
$79
SPY/QQQ/SPX swing traders and OPEX pin watchers. Daily gamma flip + walls + max-pain workflows on indexes and ETFs.
- Everything in Free
- 100 requests/day
- 15-second freshness - near-live data
- ETFs & index symbols (SPY, QQQ, IWM, SPX, VIX, RUT...)
- DEX, VEX, CHEX (docs) - delta, vanna, charm exposure
- Max pain analysis (docs) - pain curve, pin probability, dealer alignment
- Market Overview - daily multi-section dealer positioning, vol & skew analysis
- Email support
- Official SDKs (Python, JS, C#, Go, Java)
Most Popular
Growth
/mo
$299
Active 0DTE traders, premium sellers, intraday bots, vol-aware discretionary, multi-symbol scanners. The default tier for serious daily users.
- Everything in Basic
- 2,500 requests/day
- 15-second freshness - near-live data
- Full-chain GEX (docs) - all expirations aggregated
- 0DTE analytics (docs) - pin risk, expected move, gamma regime
- Flow Analytics (docs) - simulation-aware GEX/DEX/levels/pin-risk/dealer-risk recomputed on intraday effective OI
- Options chain (docs) with full Greeks & IV
- Volatility analytics (docs) - realized vol, skew, term structure
- AI narrative (docs) - verbal exposure analysis
- Kelly criterion position sizing
- Extended Market Overview - full-chain exposure, VRP, term structure, advanced vol sections
- Live Screener (docs) - 20-symbol Tier 1 universe, filter trees, cascading expiry/strike/contract filters
- Priority email support
Alpha
/mo
$1,499
Quants, vol desks, systematic researchers, SaaS/API builders, commercial users. Uncached, unlimited, with full historical replay since 2018.
- Everything in Growth
- Unlimited requests - no daily cap
- Live Screener (full) (docs) - ~250 symbols, formulas, strategy scores (harvest, dealer-flow-risk, iron-condor)
- Historical API (docs) - replay GEX, VRP, dealer regime, max pain at any minute since 2018
- VRP analytics (docs) - z-score, regime, strategy scores, directional decomposition
- SVI vol surfaces (docs) - calibrated parameters, arbitrage detection, variance swaps
- Higher-order Greeks (docs) - vanna, charm, volga, speed surfaces
- No cache - real-time data, fresh on every request
- SVI-smoothed IV on every option quote (
svi_vol) - OI simulator state + Flow bundle (docs) - unclamped simulated OI, effective OI per contract, one-call
/v1/flow/live - Raw Flow Data tape (docs) - per-symbol option/stock trades, blocks, minute history, cross-symbol leaderboards & outliers
- 99.9% uptime SLA
Which plan fits you
Find your tier by trading style
Most users land on Basic for SPY/SPX wall watching or Growth for active 0DTE and volatility work. Pick the persona that fits.
Starter (Free)
Eval, single-name glance, calculator
- Kicking the tires before paying or pitching to a team
- Sporadic single-name GEX glance: NVDA, TSLA, AAPL, AMD
- BSM Greeks & IV calculator for personal pricer validation
- Educators / content creators citing GEX walls in posts
- Python notebook learners building first GEX charts
- Cross-checking a broker's Greeks display
Basic
SPX / SPY index wall watcher
- Daily check: SPX / SPY gamma flip, call wall, put wall
- OPEX week pin trader using max pain & pin probability
- Sells covered calls / cash-secured puts on SPY, QQQ, IWM
- Dealer-flow-aware swing trader (vanna / charm exposure)
- Reads Market Overview for daily institutional positioning
- LLM agent doing periodic index-symbol briefings
Most Popular
Growth
Active 0DTE & volatility trader
- 0DTE SPX / SPY: pin risk score, expected move, gamma regime
- Iron condor / butterfly desks sizing wings by pin probability
- Discretionary day trader using AI exposure narrative pre-open
- Vol relative-value: realized vol, IV-RV spread, skew, term structure
- Spread / calendar pricing across full chain Greeks & IV
- Tier 1 screener (20 symbols) for daily idea generation
- Kelly-sized covered-call writer or systematic operator
Alpha
Quant research, ML signals, systematic trading
- ML feature store: aggregate charm & vanna exposure as predictive features (FlashAlpha is the only public source for these aggregates - one customer reports 4 of their top 5 features come from us)
- Quant research backtests using Historical API (replay GEX, VRP, dealer regime, max pain at any minute since 2018)
- Cross-sectional model training: harvest GEX / DEX / VEX / CHEX / VRP across the full universe at regular cadence
- Vol arbitrage: SVI calibration, butterfly & calendar arb detection, variance swap fair values
- Systematic strategy selector via VRP z-score & GEX-conditioned regime
- Risk desk consuming higher-order Greek surfaces (vanna, charm, volga, speed)
- Real-time prop desk needing fresh data + 99.9% SLA
- Full universe screener (~250 names, custom formulas, strategy scores)
- Always-on dealer-positioning feed for high-frequency systematic operations
What customers say
Trusted by systematic traders & quant researchers
“FlashAlpha is essential infrastructure. It’s the only source for aggregate charm and vanna exposure, and that data feeds 4 of our top 5 predictive features.”
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Joel
Quant researcher
“The best options analytics service I’ve used. I code my own tools and dashboards using their API, and the price-to-benefit ratio is through the roof.”
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Will
Verified review
“First day live: 3 trades, 3 winners. More importantly, it blocked 30+ bad signals, including 5 institutional put trades that would have lost money.”
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Alonso
Independent trader
“Integrating FlashAlpha into our systematic 0DTE SPX iron condor regime scoring. GEX regime, dealer hedging estimates, and vol surface are exactly what we needed.”
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Dave
Systematic 0DTE desk
Building a product, polling hard, or licensing the data?
Pick the commercial tier that matches your job-to-be-done. Standard plans above (Free / Basic / Growth / Alpha) are licensed for personal or single-team internal use only.
Startup access
$599
/mo
Early-stage paid newsletter, SaaS, or trading room. Growth-equivalent quotas + redistribution up to caps, on shared infra.
Startups Plan →
Dedicated compute
$2,999
/mo
Quants, prop desks, systematic researchers polling at high rates. Dedicated server, single-team licence, no redistribution.
Quant Pro →
Redistribution
$3,999
/mo
Production SaaS, paid newsletters, brokerage white-labels. = Quant Pro + $1k/mo redistribution add-on.
Alpha Node →
Custom enterprise
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On-prem, multi-region, streaming (WebSocket / SSE), custom signals or feature engineering, custom SLA, white-label brokerage.
Enterprise →
Already on Alpha and need to scale further?
Existing customers can email sales directly for Quant Pro / Alpha Node / custom enterprise upgrade scoping.
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Data licensing & redistribution
License FlashAlpha data for redistribution, embedding, or white-label use
FlashAlpha is the data source of record for institutional-grade options exposure analytics - GEX, DEX, VEX, CHEX, max pain, SVI vol surfaces, VRP, dealer-positioning regimes - and the only public source for aggregate charm and vanna exposure. If you publish, embed, resell, white-label, or display FlashAlpha data inside your own product, newsletter, dashboard, trading room, or research note, you need a redistribution license. Standard subscription tiers (Free, Basic, Growth, Alpha) are licensed for personal / single-team use only.
Common redistribution use cases
- SaaS / dashboard products embedding GEX, DEX, VEX, CHEX charts
- Paid newsletters / Substacks publishing daily exposure levels
- Discord / Telegram / Slack trading rooms posting live levels
- Mobile / web trading apps surfacing dealer positioning
- Research firms publishing market commentary & charts
- Educational courses, paid research & institutional training
- White-label options analytics for brokerages & trading platforms
- Always-on data feed with dedicated compute & SLA
Three commercial tiers: Startups Plan from $599/mo (early-stage, redistribution up to caps), Quant Pro from $2,999/mo (dedicated compute, single team, no redistribution), Alpha Node from $3,999/mo (= Quant Pro + redistribution rights).
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Detailed feature breakdown across all tiers
| Free | Basic | Growth | Alpha | |
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| Limits & Access | ||||
| Daily API requests | 5 | 100 | 2,500 | Unlimited |
| Ticker coverage | 6,000+ individual equities | + ETFs & indexes | + ETFs & indexes | + ETFs & indexes |
| ETFs & indexes (SPY, QQQ, SPX, VIX...) | - | |||
| Data freshness?Every endpoint is served from an in-memory snapshot. Your plan's window is how stale that snapshot can get before we refresh upstream. Cache is shared: when anyone triggers a refresh, everyone benefits. A single-flight guard collapses concurrent requests into one upstream fetch - no thundering herd. | 15 min | 15s | 15s | No cache |
| Official SDKs (5 languages) | ||||
| Market Overview page | - | Extended | Extended | |
| Historical API (replay since 2018) | - | - | - | |
| Swagger playground | ||||
| Exposure Analytics | ||||
| GEX by strike (single expiry) | ||||
| GEX full chain (all expirations) | - | - | ||
| DEX / VEX / CHEX by strike | - | |||
| Key levels (gamma flip, walls, max pain) | ||||
| Exposure summary (net GEX/DEX/VEX/CHEX) | - | - | ||
| Exposure narrative (verbal analysis) | - | - | ||
| Dealer hedging estimates (+/-1%) | - | - | ||
| Max pain (pain curve, pin probability, dealer alignment) | - | |||
| 0DTE Analytics | ||||
| 0DTE gamma regime & flip | - | - | ||
| Pin risk scoring (0-100) | - | - | ||
| Expected move (full-day & remaining) | - | - | ||
| Theta decay & gamma acceleration | - | - | ||
| 0DTE dealer hedging (+/-0.5%, +/-1%) | - | - | ||
| 0DTE vol context (IV ratio, vanna) | - | - | ||
| Market Data | ||||
| Stock quotes (bid/ask/mid/last) | ||||
| Option quotes with BSM Greeks | - | - | ||
| SVI-smoothed IV on option quotes | - | - | - | |
| Stock summary (price, IV, exposure, macro) | ||||
| Pricing & Sizing | ||||
| BSM Greeks (1st, 2nd, 3rd order) | ||||
| IV solver (Newton-Raphson) | ||||
| Kelly criterion position sizing | - | - | ||
| Volatility Analytics | ||||
| IV surface grid (public, cached) | ||||
| Realized vol (5d/10d/20d/30d/60d) | - | - | ||
| IV-RV spreads & VRP assessment | - | - | ||
| Skew profiles (10d/25d put/call) | - | - | ||
| Term structure (contango/backwardation) | - | - | ||
| GEX by DTE & theta by DTE | - | - | ||
| Hedging scenarios (+/-1%, +/-2%, +/-5%) | - | - | ||
| Advanced Volatility Alpha | ||||
| Raw SVI parameters per expiry | - | - | - | |
| Total variance surface grid | - | - | - | |
| Butterfly & calendar arbitrage detection | - | - | - | |
| Variance swap fair values | - | - | - | |
| Greeks surfaces (vanna, charm, volga, speed) | - | - | - | |
| Implied forward prices | - | - | - | |
| VRP Analytics Alpha | ||||
| VRP spreads & z-score | - | - | - | |
| Directional VRP (call vs put) | - | - | - | |
| GEX-conditioned regime analysis | - | - | - | |
| Strategy suitability scores | - | - | - | |
| Dealer flow risk assessment | - | - | - | |
| Live Screener docs → | ||||
| POST /v1/screener | - | - | ||
| Universe size | - | - | 20 symbols | ~250 symbols |
| Max rows per request | - | - | 10 | 50 + offset |
| Cascading stock/expiry/strike/contract filters | - | - | ||
| Custom formulas (computed fields) | - | - | - | |
| Strategy scores (harvest, dealer-flow-risk, iron-condor, etc.) | - | - | - | |
| Support | ||||
| Email support | Priority | Priority | ||
| Dedicated Discord channel | - | - | - | |
| 99.9% uptime SLA | - | - | - | |
Endpoint tiers
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Core
Free+
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Exposure
Free+ · equities
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Greeks Exposure
Basic+ · ETFs & indexes
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Advanced
Growth+
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Alpha
Alpha only
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