The all-new OpenBB Terminal — not to be confused with the previous CLI-based OpenBB Terminal that the startup sunsetted in March — is a full-fledged web app, though it strips out many of the premium features of Terminal Pro. It’s fully customizable, can run on any operating system or platform, and provides access to an AI-enabled OpenBB copilot. Like the previous OpenBB Terminal, the all-new web app is also free to use. OpenBB Terminal is perhaps something of a middle ground between the CLI centricity of the open source project and the bells-and-whistles feature set of the enterprise product.
The OpenBB Terminal serves as a single end point for accessing financial information from some 100 data sources, spanning equity, options, forex, the macro economy, and more. Users can also throw all their new data into the mix — the community has previously contributed financial datasets such as historical currency exchange rates and crypto pricing data. There are also a slew of extensions and toolkits to bring more functionality to OpenBB — such as an AI stock analysis agent. Users are free to incorporate their own AI systems and large language models (LLMs), which might be particularly important for security and compliance use cases. But with the OpenBB Copilot, categorized as a “compound AI system,” users can run natural-language queries about their data out of the box. While OpenBB has been likened to an “open-source Bloomberg,” TechCrunch notes that it’s not a direct competitor due to Bloomberg’s massive data resources and built-in chat functionality. OpenBB, however, offers flexibility with its open-source platform and customization options.
OpenBB filed for a trademark, but Bloomberg has requested an extension to potentially oppose it, despite the company asserting there’s no link between OpenBB and Bloomberg’s abbreviation “BBG”. Lopes says the name originates from BlackBerry stock, where the founders had lost money during the meme stock craze.
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