Open Payments (CMS) vs Visualping comparison

Open Payments (CMS) focuses on Data APIs, APIs & SDKs, and Data Visualizations while Visualping specializes in Alerts, Data APIs, and APIs & SDKs. They overlap in 3 categories, so choose based on your preferred workflow and pricing.

Good news—both Open Payments (CMS) and Visualping offer free plans. You can try each platform without commitment and only pay when you need premium features.

Open Payments (CMS) provides API access for programmatic data retrieval and custom integrations. Visualping doesn't currently offer an API, so you'll need to use their web interface.

Choose Open Payments (CMS) if you need Three core datasets each year: General Payments, Research Payments, and Ownership/Investment Interests., and Web search/explorer with filtering and charts; program year downloads available from the portal.. Go with Visualping if Monitor any website or selected area for visual, text or HTML/code changes, with AI that flags important changes and sends highlighted before/after screenshots in each alert., and Flexible scheduling and thresholds: run checks as often as every 5 minutes (or 2 minutes on paid plans) up to weekly, and tune change‑percentage thresholds and double‑check options to reduce false positives. better fits how you invest.

Visualping offers real-time data feeds, which is essential for active traders. Open Payments (CMS) uses delayed or end-of-day data, which works fine for longer-term investors who don't need up-to-the-second quotes.

Open Payments (CMS) supports data exports to CSV, and JSON. Visualping has more limited export options.