12 ms
Median order acknowledgement
Smart order routing
Orders are sliced against displayed depth on fourteen lit venues, with a resting share sent to four dark pools. Routing logic is published, and every fill carries the venue that printed it.
Platform
The stack under
every fill
Routing, streaming quotes, charting and strategy replay are one system with one release train, which is why the parts behave the same on a Tuesday and on a print day.
- Median ack
- 12 ms
- Availability
- 99.98%
- Chart studies
- 41
The platform
Built by people who have been stopped out by their own software
Vanta is one stack: matching-adjacent order routing, a streaming quote layer and a chart surface that renders locally. No third-party terminal bolted on at the edges.
60 fps
Sustained with 120 streams
Local chart surface
Charts render in the browser against a local tick buffer, so pan and zoom never wait on a round trip. Forty-one studies ship with the platform, including volume profile and anchored VWAP.
9 types
Order types on every venue
Bracket and conditional orders
Attach a stop and a target at entry, or build a chain that arms only when a second instrument trades through a level. Conditions evaluate server side so they survive a closed laptop.
8 yrs
Tick history for replay
Strategy sandbox
Write a strategy in TypeScript or Python, replay it against eight years of consolidated tape, then promote it to paper and to live from the same file. Backtests declare their slippage model.
<1 s
Alert to delivery, p95
Alerts that reach you
Price, spread, volume and news alerts fire to push, email and webhook. A webhook alert carries a signed payload, so a downstream system can trust it without polling.
3 APIs
REST, WebSocket and FIX
Documented API
REST for account and position state, WebSocket for the quote and fill stream, FIX 4.4 for institutional flow. Sandbox keys are issued instantly and rate limits are published per endpoint.
Operations
What the desk holds itself to
- 99.98%
- Platform availability during market hours, trailing twelve months
- 12 ms
- Median order acknowledgement, measured at the gateway
- 31 ms
- Ninety-ninth percentile acknowledgement on the same path
- 0
- Trading halts caused by Vanta infrastructure since 2022
Coverage
Where the orders go
Lit venues
Fourteen, across the United States, London and Frankfurt
Dark pools
Four, with minimum acceptable quantity set per order
Clearing
Self-cleared in the US, agency clearing through a Tier 1 bank in Europe
Market data
Consolidated tape plus direct feeds on the three largest venues
About Vanta
Started by four people who spent a decade fixing other firms’ routers
Vanta was built in 2019 by a routing team that had spent ten years inside two agency brokers, watching good orders get worse on the way to the venue. Slippage was blamed on the market when it was usually the path.
So the path is the product. Vanta publishes its routing logic, prints the venue on every fill, and reports acknowledgement latency at the median and the ninety-ninth percentile rather than as one flattering average.
- Client assets held in segregated custody, reconciled daily
- Routing logic published, venue printed on every fill
- One fee schedule for everyone on a plan, with no negotiated spreads