Alpha Vantage

About Alpha Vantage

Alpha Vantage provides realtime and historical financial market data through APIs, MCP servers, and spreadsheets. Coverage includes stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, market indices, foreign exchange rates, cryptocurrency, commodities, and options data, along with over 60 technical and economic indicators, fundamental data, and market news and sentiment analysis.

The service is aimed at investors, quantitative researchers, software developers, students, and educators. It offers MCP server support for integration with AI agents, alongside its data API endpoints and documentation. Alpha Vantage is licensed as an official US market data provider partnered with NASDAQ, and offers a free API key to access its data.

The company also runs the Alpha Academy, an educational resource covering quantitative investing, machine learning, software development, and blockchain technologies. Alpha Vantage Inc. is backed by Y Combinator and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Key features

• Realtime and historical stock market data APIs
• Options, indices, forex, and commodities data
• 60+ technical and economic indicators
• Market news API with sentiment analysis
• MCP server support for AI agents
• Data delivered via cloud-based APIs and spreadsheets

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