# Firstrade

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/firstrade/  
**Website:** https://www.firstrade.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Firstrade Securities is a commission-free online brokerage offering trading in stocks, ETFs, options, mutual funds, and fixed income securities with no account minimums and no inactivity fees. Firstrade does not publish an official public REST API; programmatic account access is available through the Plaid financial data aggregator, which supports account balance retrieval, transaction history, investment holdings, and asset reports for Firstrade accounts. Community-developed unofficial Python SDKs also exist for session- based automation but are not affiliated with or endorsed by Firstrade.

## Kin Score — 34.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.12.1. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 54.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Banking & Open Finance**: 25.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 31.1 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Freemium · Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **Firstrade Account Data API (via Plaid)** — Access to Firstrade account data is available through the Plaid financial data aggregation platform. Plaid supports four product categories for Firstrade: Assets (consolidated b...
- **Firstrade Account API** — Account list, balances, positions, and history
- **Firstrade Authentication API** — Session login and MFA flows
- **Firstrade Market Data API** — Stock quotes, OHLC chart data, and option chains
- **Firstrade Orders API** — Equity and option order placement, listing, and cancellation
- **Firstrade Watchlist API** — Watchlist CRUD operations

## Agentic access (1)

- **Firstrade Agentic Access** — 24 operations · 11 acting

## Security (2)

- **Firstrade Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Firstrade Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Brokerage, Commission-Free Trading, Stocks, ETFs, Options, Mutual Funds, Fixed Income, Retirement, IRA, Investing, Finance, Open Banking

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