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Cboe Global Markets

Cboe Global Markets is one of the world's largest exchange holding companies, operating options, futures, equities, and FX markets including the Cboe Options Exchange, home of the VIX Index and SPX options. Cboe offers market data programmatically through the Cboe DataShop platform and the LiveVol All Access API — a REST API suite covering real-time, delayed, and historical options and equities quotes and trades, Greeks and implied volatility analytics, earnings events, custom market scanners, and trade review — secured with OAuth 2.0 via the LiveVol identity service, plus free public delayed-quote JSON endpoints that back cboe.com quote pages.

Cboe Global Markets publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Market Data, Options, Equities, Derivatives, and Volatility.

Cboe Global Markets’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, support, engineering blog, and 20 more developer resources.

50.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 39/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessFreemiumSelf serveFree trial⚡ Free to try
2 APIs 1 MCP Servers
Market DataOptionsEquitiesDerivativesVolatilityFinancial MarketsExchangesTrading

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 50.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 2

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

Cboe LiveVol All Access API

The Cboe LiveVol All Access API is a REST API suite offering quote and trade details for equities and options via live, delayed, and historical endpoints. Endpoint groups cover ...

Cboe Delayed Quotes API

Public, unauthenticated JSON endpoints served from cdn.cboe.com that back the delayed-quote pages on cboe.com. Provide delayed quotes and full option chains for equities and Cbo...

MCP Servers 1

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

cboe-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cboe Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cboe Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

Cboe Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Cboe Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Cboe Scopes

42 scopes · clientCredentials/authorizationCode

42 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: cboe
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cboe/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cboe Global Markets
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium (free trial) · 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/cboe.png
description: Cboe Global Markets is one of the world's largest exchange holding companies, operating options, futures, equities,
  and FX markets including the Cboe Options Exchange, home of the VIX Index and SPX options. Cboe offers market data programmatically
  through the Cboe DataShop platform and the LiveVol All Access API — a REST API suite covering real-time, delayed, and historical
  options and equities quotes and trades, Greeks and implied volatility analytics, earnings events, custom market scanners,
  and trade review — secured with OAuth 2.0 via the LiveVol identity service, plus free public delayed-quote JSON endpoints
  that back cboe.com quote pages.
created: '2026-05-05'
modified: '2026-07-22'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Market Data
- Options
- Equities
- Derivatives
- Volatility
- Financial Markets
- Exchanges
- Trading
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  email: info@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cboe
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cboe.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://datashop.cboe.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.livevol.com/v1/docs/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.livevol.com/v1/docs/Help
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://api.livevol.com/v1/docs/Home/Authentication
- type: Pricing
  url: https://datashop.cboe.com/cboe-all-access-api
- type: SignUp
  url: https://datashop.cboe.com/register
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://datashop.cboe.com/data-policies
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cboe.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://datashop.cboe.com/faqs
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cboe.com/insights/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://datashop.cboe.com/releasenotes
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.cboe.com/system-status/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cboe-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/cboe-scopes.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/cboe-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cboe-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cboe-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cboe-lifecycle.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cboe-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cboe-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cboe-conventions.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/cboe-sandbox.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cboe-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/cboe-mcp.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cboe-domain-security.yml
apis:
- aid: cboe:cboe-livevol-all-access-api
  name: Cboe LiveVol All Access API
  tags:
  - Options
  - Equities
  - Market Data
  - Volatility
  - Analytics
  - Scanners
  - Earnings
  humanURL: https://api.livevol.com/v1/docs/
  baseURL: https://api.livevol.com/v1
  description: The Cboe LiveVol All Access API is a REST API suite offering quote and trade details for equities and options
    via live, delayed, and historical endpoints. Endpoint groups cover Market at a Glance (option trades, quotes, market notifications),
    Time and Sales (trades, quotes, market depth, option trades with Greeks), Events (earnings data), Analytics (trade review),
    Reference (symbols, expirations, exchanges, currencies), and Scans and Alerts (custom scanners, trade optimizer). Access
    is OAuth 2.0 via id.livevol.com with points-based usage tiers sold through Cboe DataShop.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.livevol.com/v1/docs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.livevol.com/v1/docs/Help
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api.livevol.com/v1/docs/Home/Authentication
  - type: Examples
    url: https://api.livevol.com/v1/docs/Home/Examples
  - type: ErrorCodes
    url: https://api.livevol.com/v1/docs/Home/ResponseCodes
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://datashop.cboe.com/cboe-all-access-api
- aid: cboe:cboe-delayed-quotes-api
  name: Cboe Delayed Quotes API
  tags:
  - Quotes
  - Options
  - Indices
  - Market Data
  humanURL: https://www.cboe.com/delayed_quotes/
  baseURL: https://cdn.cboe.com/api/global
  description: Public, unauthenticated JSON endpoints served from cdn.cboe.com that back the delayed-quote pages on cboe.com.
    Provide delayed quotes and full option chains for equities and Cboe indices (for example /delayed_quotes/quotes/_SPX.json
    and /delayed_quotes/options/_SPX.json), including price, volume, implied volatility, and Greeks fields. Not formally documented
    as a supported product; captured here as an observed public surface.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cboe.com/delayed_quotes/