CompareHistorical options dataUpdated September 2026
ORATS vs Cboe DataShop
LiveVol
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ORATS sells institutional-grade daily history of every strike since 2007, with greeks and theoretical values included, for $599 once.
Best for ORATS
- Greeks, implied volatility, and theoretical values in every row
- The full daily archive since 2007 for $599
- Volatility forecasts, earnings analytics, and IV rank over the Data API
Cboe DataShop sells historical options data per order, with greeks as a paid add-on.
Feature comparison
Cboe DataShop details are from their public pages, read on September 29, 2026.
| Feature | ORATS | Cboe DataShop |
|---|---|---|
| Daily chains | ORATS Every strike, daily since 2007 | Cboe DataShop OPRA-wide since January 2012 on its order form (its FAQ chart says January 2010), two snapshots a day |
| Greeks and implied volatility | ORATS Included on every strike, from a smoothed surface | Cboe DataShop A paid add-on, from a documented binomial model |
| Price list | ORATS Published on orats.com for individual licenses; professional and enterprise by quote | Cboe DataShop None; the order form prices each selection, and theoretical-value products are quote only |
| Volatility forecasts | ORATS Volatility and skew forecasts, with history, on a Data API plan | Cboe DataShop No forecast dataset in the catalog |
| Earnings analytics | ORATS Implied earnings move and earnings effect, with history, on a Data API plan | Cboe DataShop No earnings dataset in the shop; earnings analysis in LiveVol and the API |
| IV rank and historical volatility | ORATS IV rank, IV percentile, and historical volatility, on a Data API plan | Cboe DataShop No IV rank or realized-volatility dataset in the catalog |
Pricing
For the whole market on an individual license, ORATS costs less for daily history with greeks. DataShop's calculator priced all symbols since January 2012, with greeks, at $8,500; ORATS sells every strike since 2007, greeks included, for $599 once.
Cboe DataShop prices as of September 29, 2026.
DataShop publishes no price list for historical data; the Option EOD Summary prices are what its order calculator returned on September 29, 2026, before sales tax, and the All Access API price is printed on its product page. ORATS professional and enterprise licenses are quoted on request.
ORATS
- Near end-of-day history, 2007 to today
- Every strike, about 500GB, downloaded from S3 within 14 days
- $599 once
- Near end-of-day, ongoing
- Each day's snapshot from 14 minutes before the close, delivered over FTP each night
- $99/mo
- One-minute history, August 2020 to today
- About 50TB over S3; S3 storage and transfer fees run $1,000 to $2,000
- $1,500 once
- One-minute, ongoing
- Every minute of the session, over S3
- $199/mo
Cboe DataShop
- Option EOD Summary, one symbol, one year
- With greeks; $145 without, or $35/mo as a subscription
- $240 once
- Option EOD Summary, all symbols, one year
- With greeks; $1,500 without, or $420/mo
- $2,100 once
- Option EOD Summary, all symbols, January 2012 to today
- With greeks
- $8,500 once
- All Access API
- Tier 3, 1.25M points a month; SIP fees extra
- $2,499/mo
Common questions
How much does Cboe DataShop cost?
It depends on the order: DataShop has no price list and prices each selection of product, symbols, dates, and add-ons. On September 29, 2026 its calculator returned $6 for one day of SPY daily chains without greeks, $240 for a year of SPY with greeks, $2,100 for a year of all symbols with greeks, and $8,500 for all symbols since January 2012 with greeks. ORATS charges $599 for every strike since 2007.
Does Cboe DataShop include greeks and implied volatility?
Not by default. Greeks and implied volatility are the paid Calcs add-on on the daily, interval, and trade products, computed with a documented binomial model from the NBBO mid, at the 15:45 ET snapshot on the daily product. On September 29, 2026 its calculator priced a year of SPY daily chains at $145 without them and $240 with them. ORATS includes greeks, implied volatility, and theoretical values on every strike in the base file.
Is ORATS an alternative to Cboe DataShop or LiveVol?
For historical chains with greeks, yes. ORATS sells the daily archive since 2007 with greeks included for $599. Compared with LiveVol Pro at $420 a user a month (its February 13, 2025 price table; an older paragraph on the same page says $380), ORATS Trading Tools at $99 a month covers scanning, backtesting, broker routing, and time and sales since September 2022.
Where do these facts come from?
Cboe DataShop details come from their public pages, read on September 29, 2026, and may have changed since. If something here is out of date, email support@orats.com and we will correct it. Cboe DataShop product names and trademarks belong to their owners.
- Cboe DataShop home
- Option EOD Summary
- DataShop FAQs
- DataShop product search (no forecast, IV rank, realized-volatility, or earnings dataset)
- Cboe All Access API
- All Access endpoint reference
- Cboe SIP fee estimates
- LiveVol Pro and Core on DataShop (February 13, 2025 price table)
- End-of-Day Theoretical Values (quote only)
- Option Quotes intervals (Calcs add-on)
- Option Trades (Calcs add-on)
- ORATS near end-of-day data and pricing
- ORATS one-minute data and pricing
- ORATS Data API pricing
- ORATS API documentation
