Quiver API vs SecFeed API: Government Contracts and SEC Data Compared
Quiver Quantitative's API covers congressional trades, lobbying and government contracts by ticker. SecFeed covers SEC filings plus federal contracts with the matched records shown. Plans, commercial rights and when each one fits.
Quiver Quantitative built its API around alternative data on public companies: what politicians trade, what companies spend on lobbying, which ones win government contracts. SecFeed is an SEC filings API that added federal contract data next to the filings. They overlap on one thing, government contracts by ticker, and differ on almost everything else.
The short answer
- Choose Quiver if you want congressional trades, lobbying, politician net worth or app ratings, or a low priced personal plan that bundles them with government contracts.
- Choose SecFeed if you need SEC filings in depth, or federal contracts you can audit: the USAspending records behind each ticker, subsidiaries rolled up, open SAM.gov opportunities and contracts ending soon.
At a glance
| Quiver API | SecFeed API | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Alternative data on listed companies | SEC filings, plus federal contracts |
| Government contracts by ticker | Yes: ticker, date, description, agency, amount per award | Yes: every USAspending award row, with the parent and subsidiary records matched |
| How a ticker was matched | Not shown in the response | Every matched recipient record, with current or former SEC name |
| Subsidiaries and joint ventures | Not described on its dataset page | Rolled up through USAspending's parent records |
| SAM.gov opportunities | No | Open notices, daily, with webhooks |
| Contracts ending soon | No | Recompete radar on Developer plans and up |
| Congressional trades, lobbying | Yes | No |
| SEC filings, insider trades, 13F | Insider trades and fund activity among its datasets | Full EDGAR index, Forms 3/4/5, 13F, 8-K items, 10-K sections and more |
| Lowest paid plan | $30 a month, no commercial rights | $19 a month |
| Commercial use | From $250 a month (companies under $1M revenue) | $79 Startup plan |
| Free start | No free API plan on its pricing page | 25 calls with no card, 125 with a card |
| MCP server | Yes: 10 of 18 tools on Hobbyist and Trader, all 18 on commercial plans | Yes, 40 tools; the recompete tools need a paid plan |
Quiver facts are from its API pages, checked 2026-10-29.
Where Quiver is better
- Political data. Congressional trades and holdings, politician net worth, lobbying, revolving door lobbyists and corporate donors in one key. SecFeed has none of these.
- Bundle price for personal use. $30 a month covers its Hobbyist datasets, government contracts included.
- Unusual datasets. App ratings, patents, off exchange trading and a newsfeed.
Where SecFeed is better
- Contracts you can check. A ticker lookup returns which USAspending parent records were used and whether each matched the current or a former SEC name, so a wrong or missing link is visible instead of silent. See the government contracts ranking for the result on 60 listed contractors.
- What comes next, not only what was awarded. Open SAM.gov opportunities in the company's industries, and the Recompete Radar API for contracts ending in the next 24 months with the SAM.gov notices that name them.
- SEC data in depth. Every EDGAR filing since 1993, 8-K items, 10-K and 10-Q sections, executive pay, Form D, 13D/13G and fund filings next to the contract data.
- Commercial use at $79. Quiver's commercial plan is $250 a month.
When SecFeed is the wrong choice
If the question is what members of Congress trade or what a company spends on lobbying, use Quiver. If you only want a feed of new contract awards by ticker for a personal dashboard, Quiver's Hobbyist plan bundles that with its other datasets.
Example
Lockheed Martin's federal awards, with the matched parent records:
curl -s "https://secfeedapi.com/v1/companies/federal-awards?ticker=LMT&startDate=2025-10-01&size=5" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"More: Government Contracts by Ticker API and SAM.gov API vs SecFeed API.
Facts about Quiver Quantitative were taken from its public website and docs on 2026-10-29. Plans and prices change, so check their site before you decide. Quiver Quantitative is a trademark of its owner; SecFeed is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by it. Spotted something wrong or out of date? Email support@secfeedapi.com and we will fix it.