# Novig's free daily CSVs vs a Novig data API

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Canonical: https://novigapi.com/answers/novig-csv-vs-api
Updated: 2026-11-15

Novig's free daily CSVs hold every trade since 3 Aug 2026 and one row per market per day, published around 5 a.m. ET, with market IDs but no player or team names. An API such as novigapi.com adds names, intraday prices, the live book, fair prices and alerts (checked 15 Nov 2026). (Source: [Novig docs: Exchange Data](https://docs.novig.com/public-data/overview.md))

If you research daily and can join IDs yourself, the CSVs may be all you need: they are free, authoritative and complete for trades. They stop short in three places: they are a day late, they say nothing about the book between trades, and a market is an ID plus a product family such as `MLB-SPREAD`.

novigapi.com loads the same files, joins 3,615 players and 1,749 teams to them, and adds its own snapshots of the live book: about 65 million price ticks and 844,413 line moves recorded since 12 Nov 2026 (read 15 Nov 2026).

## How the options compare

Novig CSVs and APIs, checked 15 Nov 2026

| Source | What you need | Depth per market | History | Paid plans |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Novig daily CSVs | Nothing; join market IDs to names yourself (no player or team names) | Daily OHLC, volume and open interest; no intraday book | Trades from 3 Aug 2026, markets from 4 Aug 2026 | Free |
| novigapi.com | A novigapi key (email or agent approval code); no Novig account | Full resting book, trades, OHLC, fair price, line moves | Daily from 4 Aug 2026 (Novig's CSVs with names joined); intraday ticks since 12 Nov 2026 | Developer $49, Production $149, Scale $499 a month; $9 for 1,000 credits that never expire |
| Novig official API | Novig account, KYC, signed requests (Ed25519 or P-256) and a location check; AZ, MI and NV excluded | Full book and every execution over its WebSocket | Your own fills and settled markets | Free to use; trading fees apply to fills |


## Where novigapi.com falls short

> The CSVs are free and cost nothing to store; we charge credits for the same daily rows (3 credits per 100 rows on /ohlc/daily). If a day-late file with no names is enough, download the CSVs directly.

## Try it

```bash
curl -s "https://novigapi.com/api/v1/ohlc/daily?date=2026-11-13&limit=100" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOVIGAPI_KEY"
```

Read the [endpoint reference](https://novigapi.com/docs/endpoints), compare [plans and credits](https://novigapi.com/pricing), or send a request from the [playground](https://novigapi.com/playground).

## Questions

### Do Novig's CSVs include player names?

No. Rows carry a market ID and a reportTicker product family such as MLB-SPREAD, with no player or team names (checked 15 Nov 2026).

### When are Novig's CSVs published?

Once a day, around 5 a.m. ET, covering midnight to midnight Eastern for the previous day.

## Sources

- [Novig docs: Exchange Data](https://docs.novig.com/public-data/overview.md)
- [Novig docs: API overview](https://docs.novig.com/index.md)
- [data.novig.com manifest (index.json)](https://data.novig.com/reporting/trade-data/index.json)
- [novigapi.com endpoint reference](https://novigapi.com/docs/endpoints)

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