Built APIs for Aussie StartUps , trade contractor rates and PBS drug pricing (plus rental and subscription data)
Been working on this for a while and finally feel like it’s worth sharing.
If you’ve ever tried to get structured, up-to-date Australian data into an app rental prices, drug costs, trade pricing, you know how painful it is. Either you’re scraping PDFs, wrestling with government portals, or paying for enterprise data contracts you can’t afford as a small team.
So I built an API that covers four datasets I kept needing myself:
• Rental prices : median weekly rent by suburb, postcode, and bedroom count across Australia (quarterly data going back to 2000)
• PBS drug pricing: 14,000+ medications with patient copayment costs (what you actually pay at the chemist, not just the benefit price)
• Trade/contractor pricing : what plumbers, electricians, etc. charge across different states
• Subscription pricing: SaaS and streaming prices across AU, US, UK for comparison tools
Single API key, consistent response format across all four. Also ships with an MCP server so you can wire it straight into an AI agent without writing API calls.
Mostly aimed at fintech apps, healthtech, real estate tools, and anyone building something that needs this kind of reference data without standing up their own scraper.
Free tier available — you can register and start hitting endpoints in under a minute.
Docs + free key: https://api.aristocles.com.au/docs
More info: https://aristocles.com.au
Happy to answer questions about the data sources or coverage gaps.
Questions or want to talk enterprise access?
https://aristocles.com.au/contact