OpenFIGI vs Portfolio Optimizer

OpenFIGI is Bloomberg's free public API for the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) standard, mapping third-party symbology (tickers, ISINs, CUSIPs, SEDOLs) to FIGIs across equities, options, futures, and indices, plus full-text search and a bulk spreadsheet-upload tool. A live test of the mapping endpoint returned real data with zero API key supplied, capped at 25 requests per 60 seconds — the entry's stored `API Key` auth is corrected to `None`, since registering for a free key only raises that throughput ceiling rather than gating access. A live Origin-header probe (an OPTIONS preflight and a real POST) found no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header on either response, correcting the stored `cors: yes` to `no`.

Portfolio Optimizer is a free, no-signup Web API implementing modern-portfolio-theory algorithms — mean-variance and minimum-variance optimization, risk and performance analytics, backtesting, and factor-model tools — over JSON, so it can be called from Python, Excel, Google Sheets, or any HTTP client without an SDK. The homepage explicitly advertises free access with no registration required, and a live test against a real optimization endpoint (api.portfoliooptimizer.io) returned `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` on both a route-not-found and a malformed-payload response, confirming CORS is enabled; the same responses carry a `WWW-Authenticate: Key` header hinting at an optional key for higher throughput, though the observed default rate limit is a modest 1 request/second.