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Alpha Vantage

Alpha Vantage provides a single REST market-data API at https://www.alphavantage.co/query exposing 100+ functions across stocks (intraday/daily/weekly/monthly time series, global quote), fundamentals (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, earnings), forex, crypto, commodities, economic indicators, technical indicators (50+ TA functions), Alpha Intelligence (news, sentiment, insider transactions, top gainers/losers), and options data. Authentication is by apikey query parameter; output is JSON or CSV.

Alpha Vantage publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Stock Time Series API. Tagged areas include Fintech, Market Data, Stocks, FX, and Crypto.

The Alpha Vantage catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Alpha Vantage’s developer surface includes authentication, sandbox, developer portal, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, and 29 more developer resources.

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70.6/100 exemplar ▬ flat Agent 56/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
FintechMarket DataStocksFXCryptoCommoditiesEconomic IndicatorsTechnical IndicatorsFundamentalsNewsSentimentFree

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 70.6/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 15.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 15.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 9.6 / 12
Discoverability 8.7 / 10
Agent readiness — 56/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Alpha Vantage Stock Time Series API

Intraday, daily, weekly, and monthly stock price and volume data

Postman Collections 2

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Alpha Vantage API

POSTMAN

Alpha Vantage Stock Time Series API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Alpha Vantage API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

alpha-vantage-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Alpha Vantage Plans Pricing

7 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Alpha Vantage Rate Limits

7 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Alpha Vantage Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Alpha Vantage Context

0 classes · 35 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Alpha Vantage API Rules

4 rules · 3 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Alpha Vantage API Rules

20 rules · 8 errors 11 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 8

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

ApiResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CompanyOverview

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EconomicDataPoint

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExchangeRate

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GlobalQuote

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NewsArticle

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimeSeriesData

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 8

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Alpha Vantage Api_Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Alpha Vantage Company_Overview Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Alpha Vantage Economic_Data_Point Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Alpha Vantage Error_Response Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Alpha Vantage Exchange_Rate Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Alpha Vantage Global_Quote Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Alpha Vantage News_Article Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Alpha Vantage Time_Series_Data Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 8

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Alpha Vantage Api_Response Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Alpha Vantage Company_Overview Example

13 fields

EXAMPLE

Alpha Vantage Economic_Data_Point Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Alpha Vantage Error_Response Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Alpha Vantage Exchange_Rate Example

9 fields

EXAMPLE

Alpha Vantage Global_Quote Example

10 fields

EXAMPLE

Alpha Vantage News_Article Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Alpha Vantage Time_Series_Data Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Alpha Vantage Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Alpha Vantage Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Alpha Vantage Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Alpha Vantage Agentic Access

1 operation

1 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox
Sandbox
 Portal
Portal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conventions
Conventions
 DataModel
DataModel
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary

Build 7

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace
PostmanWorkspace
 ToolCrosswalk
ToolCrosswalk
 Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs
 Postman
Postman
 GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 GitHub
GitHub

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Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Pricing
Pricing
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 1

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: alpha-vantage
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alpha-vantage/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Alpha Vantage
kind: company
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/alpha-vantage.png
tags:
- Fintech
- Market Data
- Stocks
- FX
- Crypto
- Commodities
- Economic Indicators
- Technical Indicators
- Fundamentals
- News
- Sentiment
- Free
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-07-22'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
description: Alpha Vantage provides a single REST market-data API at https://www.alphavantage.co/query exposing 100+ functions
  across stocks (intraday/daily/weekly/monthly time series, global quote), fundamentals (income statement, balance sheet,
  cash flow, earnings), forex, crypto, commodities, economic indicators, technical indicators (50+ TA functions), Alpha Intelligence
  (news, sentiment, insider transactions, top gainers/losers), and options data. Authentication is by apikey query parameter;
  output is JSON or CSV.
apis:
- aid: alpha-vantage:alpha-vantage-stock-time-series-api
  name: Alpha Vantage Stock Time Series API
  description: Intraday, daily, weekly, and monthly stock price and volume data
  humanURL: https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/
  baseURL: https://www.alphavantage.co/query
  tags:
  - Stock Time Series
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/alpha-vantage-stock-time-series-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/alpha-vantage-plugin-openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/alpha-vantage-global_quote-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/alpha-vantage-time_series_data-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/alpha-vantage-company_overview-example.json
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/alpha-vantage/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/alpha-vantage-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/alpha-vantage-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/alpha-vantage-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/alpha-vantage-scopes.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/alpha-vantage-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/alpha-vantage-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/alpha-vantage-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/alpha-vantage-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/alpha-vantage-stock-time-series-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/alpha-vantage-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/alpha-vantage-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/alpha-vantage-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/alpha-vantage-conventions.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/alpha-vantage-sandbox.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/alpha-vantage-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/alpha-vantage-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/alpha-vantage-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/alpha-vantage-vocabulary.yaml
- type: Postman
  url: collections/alpha-vantage.postman_collection.json
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alpha-vantage-inc
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.alphavantage.co/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.alphavantage.co/support/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#support
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.alphavantage.co/terms_of_service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.alphavantage.co/privacy/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/alphavantage
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/RomelTorres/alpha_vantage
- type: Plans
  url: plans/alpha-vantage-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/alpha-vantage-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/alpha-vantage-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com