Open Data Platform by OpenBB (ODP) is an open-source toolset for data engineers that integrates proprietary, licensed, and public financial data sources into downstream applications such as AI copilots and research dashboards. It works as a "connect once, consume everywhere" layer: a data source is integrated once and then exposed to several surfaces at the same time.
Those surfaces are Python environments for quants, OpenBB Workspace and Excel for analysts, MCP servers for AI agents, and REST APIs for other applications. In Python, a single call such as a historical equity price query returns data that converts to a dataframe, and a separate CLI reaches the same data from the command line.
ODP also runs as a self-hosted FastAPI backend that connects to OpenBB Workspace, the company's UI where analysts build dashboards and work with AI agents on the same data. Separate open-source repositories show how to add custom data backends and AI agents to the Workspace.
Features
- Data integration: proprietary, licensed, and public data sources behind one interface
- Python library: query market and financial data and convert results to dataframes
- MCP servers: expose integrated data to AI agents
- REST API: a FastAPI backend that serves the same data to other applications
- OpenBB Workspace backend: connects as a data backend for the Workspace dashboard UI
- Excel access: analysts consume the same data in Excel
- CLI: access the platform from the command line
