Alpaca vs Direct Software

Alpaca is a registered securities broker with commission free stock trading specifically for developers and trading bots.

Alpaca offers a commission free stock trading API purpose built around automated investing. This allows developers to build algorithms and programs to trade stocks. Features include; real-time market data, a REST API and WebSocket stream, an algorithm management dashboard, paper trading features, Slack community, and more.

Direct Software is Europe's first email automation software which will use direct marketing to vastly increase sales whilst staying GDPR compliant.

Direct Software provides email marketing software with a built in GDPR compliance system. This is designed to drastically increase sales due to personalised automation of follow-up and prospecting. Currently Direct Software is the only application in the world which allows outbound marketing with GDPR compliance.