# Cboe Global Markets

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cboe/  
**Website:** https://www.cboe.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 52.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 63.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 64.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 76.3 |
| Access Clarity | 76.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 68.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 15.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (2)

- **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)

- **Cboe Global Markets MCP Server** — No official Cboe or LiveVol MCP server was found (docs, npm, MCP registries). This is a candidate tool list derived from documented Cboe LiveVol All Access API endpoints — one t...

## Security (2)

- **Cboe Authentication** — oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes
- **Cboe Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cboe Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Market Data, Options, Equities, Derivatives, Volatility, Financial Markets, Exchanges, Trading

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cboe/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.