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Pricing depends on product, and unfortunately you'll also need to consider your application use-case. Problem is, the first few lines of creating a session object and connecting to the end point will fail unless you have a Bloomberg product. So, bottom line, the API library is available and you can develop against it. However, maybe your organisation has bought an Enterprise B-PIPE product, in which case you don't need a Bloomberg Terminal, and the delivery point will sit on at least two servers (IPs), again on port 8194. No Bloomberg Terminal, no localhost delivery point. The Bloomberg Terminal's delivery point is localhost:8194. For the Bloomberg (Professional) Terminal, you have something called Desktop API (DAPI), they have something called the Server (SAPI), they have something called B-PIPE, another is EMSX. There are several flavours of delivery points depending on what Bloomberg products you buy.
The API pattern requires setting up a session where you 'target'/connect to a delivery point.
The API supports a number of languages including Python, Perl, C++. They have microservices for streaming marketdata (//blp/mktdata), requesting static reference (//blp/refdata), contributing OTC pricing (//firm/c-gdco), submitting orders (//blp/emsx), etc etc. Bloomberg has a number of products, which support the real-time API known as the BLP API.
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