Cboe Adds Retail Broker Discounts for Data Feeds
Published Date: 4/15/2026
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Summary
Cboe Exchange just created a new “Retail Broker” category to offer special pricing for its Complex Order Book data feed. This change helps retail brokers get better access to important market data while saving money. The new fees take effect immediately, so retail brokers should check out the updated prices now!
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Two-Year Retail Broker Fee Waiver
New qualifying Retail Brokers that enroll in the C1 COB Retail Broker Waiver Program receive waivers of the Enterprise Fee and the External Distributor Fee for two years from enrollment. To qualify they must meet the Retail Broker definition and must not have been an External Distributor of the C1 COB Data Feed within the past 18 months.
Option Data Enterprise Fee Tiers
If you distribute Cboe's C1 Complex Order Book (C1 COB) data, you can choose a flat Enterprise License instead of paying $1.00 per Non-Professional User per month. The Enterprise monthly tiers are $2,500 for up to 25,000 users, $5,000 for 25,001–100,000 users, and $7,500 for 100,001+ users; the Exchange gives the example that a 3,000-user distributor would pay $2,500 instead of $3,000.
Retail Broker Eligibility Rules
To be a "Retail Broker" a Distributor must (1) be a broker-dealer distributing data to Non-Professional Data Users with whom it has a brokerage relationship and (2) have at least 90% of its total subscriber population be Non-Professional Users (this includes subscribers to any Cboe equities or options real-time proprietary feeds). Distributors must attest to the percentage annually and are subject to audit.
Enterprise Fee Charged Per Entity
A Distributor that controls the display of the C1 COB Data Feed for multiple separate entities must pay a separate Enterprise Fee for each such entity. Distributors that buy an Enterprise Fee still must separately pay Professional User Fees and the applicable Distributor Fee.
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