Features
Everything in the platform.
The full inventory, grouped by what you are trying to do. If you would rather see how a piece fits together in practice, each group links to its product page.
Ask
Put a question to the catalog and get an answer you can check.
In the comparison table below this group is listed as “Explore”.
AI chat with citations
Ask in plain language and get an answer with the source behind every figure. If the data is not there, it says so and leaves the gap visible.
Free and above
Chart and dashboard engine
The answer arrives as the right visualization — a trend, a comparison, a table or a whole dashboard — not just as text.
Free and above
Curated catalog
6,000+ datasets covering activity, prices, labour, fiscal, monetary, external sector and markets, with depth in Latin America.
Free and above
API Explorer
Direct connections to hundreds of public APIs — central banks, statistical agencies, market data. Not a copy: you query them live from the AI, use them as inputs to a pipeline, or reach them through MCP.
Free and above
Unstructured data too
The AI does not only read series. It works over documents — reports, notes and PDFs — so a question can be answered from your written research and a number at the same time.
Workspace
Alphacast dashboards
Ready-made dashboards you can read on any plan, and clone into your own workspace from Professional.
View on Free · clone from Professional
Keep
Everything you build stays current on its own.
In the comparison table below this group is listed as “Save & collaborate”.
Private and shared workspaces
A persistent space for your work instead of a session that disappears when you close the tab.
Professional and above
Creator and viewer roles
Creators build; viewers consult what others made. Viewers do not need a creator licence.
Team and above
Pipelines
Transformations that re-run as the underlying data updates — filters, joins, frequency changes, seasonal adjustment, custom Python steps.
Professional and above
Insights editor
Reports in markdown with live charts and tables embedded, so the narrative and the numbers update together.
Professional and above
Your own data
Excel, CSV and your own API from Professional; shared team data on Team; SharePoint, OneDrive and PDF knowledge bases on Workspace. Your own data never counts toward download limits.
Professional and above
Connect
Take the data into the tools you already use.
Excel through Power Query
Point Excel at the API once and the series land as a table. From then on it is Refresh, not re-download.
Explorer and above
REST API
Pull series and metadata by ticker, with the source and last-updated stamp attached to the response.
Professional and above
MCP · 27 tools
Expose catalog search, series retrieval, charts and pipelines to your own AI agents, so they answer from real data.
Professional and above
Python SDK
Read and write from scripts and notebooks in a couple of lines.
Professional and above
Download quotas
Explorer includes 20 monthly downloads from the Starter catalog; Professional includes about 200. Team unlocks the full catalog with about 1,000 monthly downloads.
Explorer and above
Data Feed
Maintained connections plus a support SLA, for when a production system depends on the data. Priced by connections and support, never by volume.
Add-on · any plan
Build
Deploy data and agents to your own audience.
Public and private data portals
An open portal anyone can use, or a private one behind your own login for clients or staff. Same backend either way — what changes is who you let in.
Workspace
Embedded charts, dashboards and agents
Mounted inside your own site, portal or intranet rather than behind a link to ours.
Workspace
Custom agents
Assistants scoped to your data and your criteria — for your own use from Professional, for an audience on Workspace.
Professional and above
Users, permissions and access
Decide who reaches which dashboard and what the agent is allowed to answer over. Internal viewers, external viewers, or a public audience — user management and access rules are handled by Alphacast, not by you.
Workspace
Themes and branding
Your colours, your fonts and your logo on everything you publish — and on Workspace, your own domain with no Alphacast branding at all.
Professional and above · white-label on Workspace
It updates when the data does
A published figure refreshes the moment the source releases it. Nobody has to remember to update the portal, and your audience never reads last month’s number.
Workspace
Usage analytics
See what your audience actually asks and which dashboards they open.
Workspace
Delegate
Hand the data work to engineers and economists.
Custom datasets
A series nobody has connected yet — a provincial agency, a chamber, a PDF release — sourced, harmonised and then maintained.
Add-on · from $500/mo
Custom API connections
An API that is not in the Explorer yet — a private provider, a paywalled feed, one of your internal systems. We build the connector, plug it into the same catalog, and keep it alive when the provider changes it.
Add-on · from $500/mo
Integrations
Into your Excel, your BI and the workflows you already run, rather than as one more export.
Add-on · from $500/mo
Joint curation
Your sources and your methodology, agreed with our team instead of imposed by a default.
Add-on · from $500/mo
Priority support
Dedicated, agreed response times — and with Data Feed, a support SLA behind them.
Add-on
Compare every plan.
The same matrix that drives the pricing page, so the two can never disagree.
| Free | Explorer | Professional | Team | Workspace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Explore | |||||
| AI accessThe data the assistant can read and answer from. This catalog can be broader than the data your plan lets you download. | Starter | Starter + Professional | Starter + Professional | Full | Full |
| Ask the AIMonthly questions included with the plan, sized for typical individual or team use. | ~20 / mo | ~200 / mo | ~500 / mo | Team pool | Custom budget |
| AI channelsWhere you can reach the assistant. Web is included on every plan; Workspace can embed it inside your own site or app. | Web | Web | Web | Web | Embedded |
| Alphacast dashboardsAlphacast’s ready-made dashboards. From Professional you can clone them into your workspace and adapt them. | View | View | View + clone | View + clone | View + clone |
| Connect | |||||
| Download accessWhich data you can take with you. Starter for Explorer and Professional; Starter + Professional for Team; custom catalog access for Workspace. | — | Starter | Starter | Starter + Professional | Full · via Feed |
| Download volumeHow many series you can export per month from the catalog included in your plan. | — | 20 / mo | ~200 / mo | ~1,000 / mo | via Feed |
| Programmatic (API/MCP)Personal, interactive pulls are included. Feeding a production system is the Data Feed add-on. | — | — | Within quota | Yes | via Feed |
| Feed another systemPipe Alphacast data into a production system on a schedule through the Data Feed add-on. | — | — | + Data Feed | + Data Feed | + Data Feed |
| Save & collaborate | |||||
| Own workspaceFree and Explorer are for exploring and asking. Move to Professional to save and organize your work in a persistent workspace. | Session only | Session only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create and save contentBuild and save your own charts, dashboards, and reports. Available from Professional. | — | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SharingWho you can share your work with, from private links to embedded, white-labeled experiences. | — | — | Private | Team | Embed + white-label |
| Your own dataBring your own data into Alphacast and combine it with the catalog. | — | — | Excel / CSV / API | + team data | + SharePoint / PDFs |
| API connectionsHow many external sources you can connect. | — | 1 | 3 | 10 | Custom |
| Creator seatsA creator makes content; a viewer consults it. Seats beyond the base are sales-assisted. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 · more via sales | Custom |
| Viewer seatsPeople who can view content but do not create it. | — | — | — | 10 | Internal & external |
| Themes / brandingApply your own colors and logo to your workspace and outputs. | — | — | Yes | Yes | White-label |
| Build | |||||
| Custom agentsBuild tailored AI agents on top of your data. | — | — | Own use | Yes | Yes |
| Embed charts / dashboards / agentsEmbed Alphacast charts, dashboards, and agents inside your own products. | — | — | — | — | Yes |
| Concierge requests / moAnalyst-assisted requests where our team builds or sources data for you. | — | — | — | Custom | Custom |
Works with what you already use.
Why the numbers hold up.
Every figure traces back
Answers carry citations, and any dataset, chart or dashboard can be followed to the original publication. A number you cannot source is a number you cannot defend.
Maintained, not scraped
Our team owns the connectors. Format changes, moved endpoints and revisions are handled upstream, before they reach your spreadsheet.
Questions
Do I need a paid plan to see the catalog?
No. You can browse the catalog and ask the AI about it on Free. Paid plans determine how much data you can take with you, whether you can save your work, and how you can publish it to an audience.
What is the difference between the AI catalog and the download catalog?
The assistant can read more than you can extract. Explorer can ask about the Pro catalog while downloading from Starter. You can ask across a broad catalog; your plan determines what you can take with you.
Does my own data count toward download limits?
No. Data you upload or connect yourself is always unlimited. Quotas apply only to the Alphacast catalog.
Are API and MCP access separate products?
No. They are access channels, not separate tiers. The same limits apply whether you pull through the web, the API or MCP. Data Feed is different: it is designed for systems that depend on the data in production and includes an SLA.
Can I change plans later?
Yes. Self-serve plans are billed monthly and you can change or cancel from billing settings; access lasts through the period you paid for.