BIS Data Portal vs Multpl comparison

BIS Data Portal focuses on Data APIs, Data Visualizations, and Calendar while Multpl specializes in Data Visualizations, Inflation Rates, and GDP. They overlap in 4 categories, so choose based on your preferred workflow and pricing.

Good news—both BIS Data Portal and Multpl offer free plans. You can try each platform without commitment and only pay when you need premium features.

Multpl is more beginner-friendly with an approachable interface. Both can work for intermediate users.

BIS Data Portal provides API access for programmatic data retrieval and custom integrations. Multpl doesn't currently offer an API, so you'll need to use their web interface.

Choose BIS Data Portal if you need Global BIS macro‑financial time series across topics such as international banking, debt securities, credit, global liquidity, derivatives, property prices, consumer prices, exchange rates, central bank statistics and payment statistics., and Search time series across all topics, refine with filters, and explore data sets by country/topic/key characteristics.. Go with Multpl if Clean charts + tabular views with ‘By month’ / ‘By year’ toggles for each series., and S&P 500 valuation dashboards: PE, Shiller CAPE (with FAQ), price‑to‑sales, price‑to‑book, earnings yield. better fits how you invest.

Both cover Bonds, and Other. BIS Data Portal also includes Currencies, Real Estate, Options, and Futures. Multpl adds coverage for Stocks.

Both platforms let you export data to spreadsheets (CSV, and JSON). This is useful for custom analysis or record-keeping.