What it does
Quiver Quantitative organizes congressional trades, insider activity, institutional holdings and other alternative market datasets. Public dashboards support searches by company or political figure. Premium adds alerts, screening and backtesting, while a separately priced programming interface supports custom data analysis.
Quiver’s Congress Trading dashboard offers two useful starting points: enter a politician’s name or a stock ticker. The results distinguish the transaction date from the filing date. That gap matters because a newly visible disclosure can describe an older trade; it should not be treated as a live order.
The wider dataset catalogue includes government contracts, lobbying, company insiders and institutional holdings. Keep the dataset category with a comparison, since a disclosed holding, a contract award and a recent share purchase describe different events. Backtested strategy figures are hypothetical and omit some real execution effects.
| Access route | Published price | Main scope |
|---|---|---|
| Visitor dashboard | Free | Public alternative-data views |
| Premium website | $300 per year, billed annually | Alerts, screeners, strategy tools and exportable samples |
| Hobbyist API | $30 monthly or $300 yearly | Selected datasets through a programming interface; no commercial rights |
New Premium accounts have a seven-day trial on monthly billing or a 30-day trial on annual billing, followed by the selected charge unless cancelled. The API has its own dataset and licensing tiers; a website subscription and a data licence are separate choices.
Public research pages can be explored before registration. For account features, choose Join Quiver and create a username, email and password, or use Google sign-in.
Strengths
- Searches congressional activity by politician or stock
- Keeps filing and transaction dates visible for interpretation
- Offers both browser research and programmatic dataset access
Watch out for
- Disclosures can describe transactions that occurred well before publication
- Hobbyist API access excludes commercial use
Best for
- Researchers comparing public trading disclosures and company-related events
- Developers integrating alternative datasets into private analysis
Sources
- Quiver dataset catalogue and website pricing section (Oct 27, 2026)
- Quiver Congress search controls, dates and backtest limitations (Oct 27, 2026)
- Quiver registration fields and Google signup (Oct 27, 2026)
- Quiver API dataset delivery (Oct 27, 2026)
- Quiver API Hobbyist price and commercial-use restriction (Oct 27, 2026)
- Quiver public dashboard purpose (Oct 27, 2026)