Open-source Bloomberg-style finance terminal built in C++20/Qt6 with embedded Python, AI agents, and 100+ data connectors.
What is Fincept Terminal?
Fincept Terminal is a native cross-platform desktop terminal for financial research, analytics, and trading. It ships as a single binary built in C++20 with a Qt6 user interface and an embedded Python 3.11 runtime for analytics — no Electron, no browser runtime, no Node.js dependency.
The free edition (this repository, AGPL-3.0) targets students, hobbyists and academic researchers. Fincept Corporation also sells a proprietary Enterprise edition on top of the same data core with deeper history, live broker routing, private datasets, SSO/SAML, RBAC and audit logs.
Features
- Analytics — DCF valuation, portfolio optimisation, VaR / Sharpe / Sortino, derivatives pricing, fixed-income tools, and an 18-module QuantLib suite.
- AI agents — 37 agents across trading, investing, economics and geopolitics. Bring your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, DeepSeek, OpenRouter and Ollama.
- Data — 100+ connectors including FRED, IMF, World Bank, DBnomics, AkShare, Polygon, Kraken, Yahoo Finance, and various government APIs.
- Trading — crypto and equity feeds, paper-trading engine, and 16 broker integrations.
- Automation — visual node editor, MCP tools, and an AI Quant Lab with ML, factor discovery and reinforcement learning.
- Global intelligence — maritime tracking, geopolitical analysis and relationship mapping.
Self-hosting
The project ships signed installers for Windows (x64), Linux (AppImage, .deb, .rpm) and macOS (Apple Silicon), plus a Dockerfile and setup.sh for building from source on Linux/macOS. The toolchain is pinned (CMake 3.27.7, Ninja 1.11.1, Qt 6.8.3, Python 3.11.9).
How it compares to Bloomberg Terminal
Bloomberg Terminal is the institutional standard but costs roughly $27,000 per user per year. Fincept Terminal covers the same workflow surface — equity research, portfolio analytics, news, charting, market data — on top of free public feeds and your own API keys. The open build is AGPL-3.0, which is strong copyleft and not appropriate for proprietary forks; Fincept sells a paid Enterprise edition for firms that need private data and live trading without copyleft obligations. For retail investors and academics who do not need point-in-time data, broker routing or SSO, Fincept Terminal is a credible free alternative to Bloomberg, LSEG Workspace, Koyfin and TradingView Premium.
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