- Type
- not stated
- Format
- Tabular — on-page tables and charts of dated inventory levels/deltas, exportable to Excel and available through SMM's JSON API product line.
- Volume
- Part of SMM's 70,000+ data points / 5,000+ price points / 7,000+ daily updates; the SHFE inventory module spans a few dozen registered copper warehouses × weekly/daily observations, i.e. low-hundreds of distinct dated series.
- Users
- Est. 10K–50K registered accounts on SMM's data platform (institutional seats + paid individuals) — inferred from SMM's stated 200,000+ page views/day and subscription seat model.
- History
- 10 years
- Update frequency
- not stated
- Growth
- Active — SMM is expanding internationally (India, Southeast Asia, UK) and continuing to add price assessments and benchmark compliance updates through 2025-26.
- Launched
- SMM platform ~1999; the structured futures/inventory data module est. 2015-2018, consistent with the trading-platform launch and 2018-dated API examples.
- Delivery
- not stated
- Entity mapping
- not stated
- Sample
- not stated
- Point-in-time
- not stated
- Licence
- not stated