# Commodity Futures Trading Commission

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/commodity-futures-trading-commission/  
**Website:** https://www.cftc.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is the U.S. federal regulator for commodity futures and options markets. The CFTC publishes the weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) report and other public data through a Socrata Open Data API at publicreporting.cftc.gov, providing programmatic access to Legacy, Disaggregated, Traders in Financial Futures, and Supplemental Commodity Index Trader datasets, as well as swap data and large trader reports.

## Kin Score — 33.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 57.3 |
| Governance | 60.6 |
| Contract Governance | 60.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| 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 | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **CFTC Swap Data Repositories** — The CFTC oversees Swap Data Repositories (SDRs) that collect and maintain swap transaction records as required by the Dodd-Frank Act. SDRs publish certain real-time public data ...
- **CFTC Bank Participation and Large Trader Reports** — The CFTC publishes monthly Bank Participation reports and other aggregate large trader reports that complement the weekly COT data. These reports are released as PDFs and HTML t...
- **Commodity Futures Trading Commission COT API** — Commitments of Traders datasets
- **Commodity Futures Trading Commission Disaggregated API** — Disaggregated COT report format
- **Commodity Futures Trading Commission Legacy API** — Legacy COT report format
- **Commodity Futures Trading Commission Supplemental API** — Supplemental Commodity Index Trader format
- **Commodity Futures Trading Commission TFF API** — Traders in Financial Futures format

## Agentic access (1)

- **Commodity Futures Trading Commission Agentic Access** — 7 operations

## Security (1)

- **Commodity Futures Trading Commission Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Commodity Futures Trading Commission Plans Pricing**

## Tags

CFTC, Commitments of Traders, Federal-Government, Financial, Futures, Open Data, SODA, Trading

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