Bloomberg gives you a locked room.
Linden hands you keys and a hammer.
Use Linden as-is for $400/yr — same quotes, chains, greeks, news. Or fork it in 20 minutes to match your trading style — add your own signals, your own panels, your own greeks. Bloomberg can't do the second one. That's the whole fight.
What you actually get
Feature-by-feature. No spin.
→ What $24,000/year actually buys you
| Component | Bloomberg cost | Linden cost |
|---|---|---|
| Quote stream (live equities) | included | $0.002/call |
| Options chain with Greeks | included | $0.005/call |
| News wire access | included | $0.001/call |
| Natural-language query | not available | $0.01/call |
| Portfolio P&L (brokerage-connected) | included | $0.003/call |
| Seat license · flat annual | $24,000/yr | $0 |
| TOTAL at 500 calls/day | $24,000/yr | ~$547/yr |
Per-call prices are illustrative midpoints across MeterCall's metered endpoints. Your actual cost depends on which endpoints you hit and how often. Move the sliders above to see your number.
"Bloomberg is a room you rent and live with. Linden is a room you use today and renovate tomorrow. Use it as-is for $400/yr, or fork it in 20 minutes to match how YOU trade. That second option is the whole new internet."
— the thesis, in one lineUse it, or build on top.
The fork is the actual unlock. Here's what "20 minutes" looks like.
So when does Bloomberg actually win?
Honest answer: at the extreme high end.
If you're running colocated HFT at 50k+ calls/day, you need tier-1 depth-of-book and sub-millisecond latency. Bloomberg or direct exchange feeds are the right call. Linden is built for the other 99% of the market.
Open Linden. Test it against your workflow.
Free to open. You only pay when you pull data. No card on file required to look around.