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Nasdaq

Nasdaq, Inc. operates the Nasdaq stock exchanges and sells market data, index, and financial technology products. Its developer surface is Nasdaq Data Link (data.nasdaq.com): a Tables API (REST, api_key, JSON/XML/CSV, 10,000-row pages with cursor and bulk export), a Bulk Download API, a request-based REST API for real-time and delayed equities, indexes, ETPs and options (Nasdaq Cloud Data Service, OAuth client-credentials, customer-specific base URL), and a Kafka-based Streaming API delivered through first-party Java and Python SDKs.

Nasdaq is listed with 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Cloud Data Service (NCDS) — Kafka Streams, Cloud Data Service (NCDS) REST API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Data Marketplace, Financial Data, Fortune 1000, Kafka, and Market Data.

The Nasdaq catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Nasdaq’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 21 more developer resources.

37.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Heartbeat 89/100 alive library Full breakdown ↓
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AccessEnterprise
4 APIs
Data MarketplaceFinancial DataFortune 1000KafkaMarket DataStock ExchangeStreamingFinancial ServicesCapital MarketsEconomics

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
  • MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
  • Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
  • Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
  • A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
  • Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
  • Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares compatibility
Capital Markets and Trading mixed 46.0 - -
Data Marketplaces (data providers on cloud data platforms) mixed 46.0 - -
Zoom App Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem (builders and partners on Zoom) mixed 46.0 - -

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

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APIs 4

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

Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS) — Kafka Streams

Real-time Nasdaq market data delivered over Apache Kafka (TLS) with SASL/OAUTHBEARER authentication against a Keycloak pro-realm token endpoint. Topics documented in the NCDS Ja...

Nasdaq Data Link Tables API

REST access to Nasdaq Data Link tabular datasets: GET /api/v3/datatables/{datatable_code}.{format} with row and column filters (qopts.columns), cursor pagination (qopts.cursor_i...

Nasdaq Data Link Bulk Download API

Asynchronous bulk download of Nasdaq Data Link tables: GET /api/v1/bulkdownloads/{datatable_code} with row filters returns a job (PENDING, RUNNING, SUCCEEDED...) and file URLs f...

Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS) REST API

Request-based REST API for real-time and delayed Nasdaq, BX, PSX and CQT equities (last sale, last trade, last quote, snapshot, trends, bars), indexes, ETPs and options chains/p...

Nasdaq API pricing

Rate limits

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Nasdaq Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Nasdaq Rate Limits

12 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS) — Kafka Streams

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of the Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS) public delivery surface. NCDS delivers real-time exchange data over Apache Kafka (TLS) using SASL/OAUTHBEARER ag...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Nasdaq — asyncapi rules

6 rules · 1 errors 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Nasdaq Authentication

4 schemes

SECURITY

Nasdaq Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: nasdaq
tags:
- Data Marketplace
- Financial Data
- Fortune 1000
- Kafka
- Market Data
- Stock Exchange
- Streaming
- Financial Services
- Capital Markets
- Economics
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasdaq/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Nasdaq
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/nasdaq.png
description: 'Nasdaq, Inc. operates the Nasdaq stock exchanges and sells market data, index, and financial technology products.
  Its developer surface is Nasdaq Data Link (data.nasdaq.com): a Tables API (REST, api_key, JSON/XML/CSV, 10,000-row pages
  with cursor and bulk export), a Bulk Download API, a request-based REST API for real-time and delayed equities, indexes,
  ETPs and options (Nasdaq Cloud Data Service, OAuth client-credentials, customer-specific base URL), and a Kafka-based Streaming
  API delivered through first-party Java and Python SDKs.'
created: '2026-05-05'
modified: '2026-10-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/nasdaq-rate-limits.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/nasdaq-asyncapi-spectral-rules.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/nasdaq-asyncapi.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/nasdaq-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/nasdaq-authentication.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/nasdaq-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/nasdaq-error-codes.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/nasdaq-status-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/nasdaq-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/nasdaq-hosts.yml
- type: IntegrationEdges
  url: integrations/nasdaq-integration-edges.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/nasdaq-vendors.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/nasdaq-packages.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nasdaq.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nasdaq-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Nasdaq
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nasdaq
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://data.nasdaq.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.nasdaq.com/products/data/data-link/api
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.data.nasdaq.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.nasdaq.com/privacy-statement
- type: Postman
  url: https://www.postman.com/nasdaq
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.data.nasdaq.com/
apis:
- name: Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS) — Kafka Streams
  description: 'Real-time Nasdaq market data delivered over Apache Kafka (TLS) with SASL/OAUTHBEARER authentication against
    a Keycloak pro-realm token endpoint. Topics documented in the NCDS Java and Python SDKs: GIDS, NLSUTP, NLSCTA, NLSPLUS-UTP-V4,
    NLSPLUS-CTA-V4, NEWS-PRO-GLOBAL, UTPBIN-UF30. The full topic catalog is product-license-gated and delivered to subscribers
    during onboarding.

    '
  humanURL: https://github.com/Nasdaq/NasdaqCloudDataService
  baseURL: https://streams.ncds.nasdaq.com:9094
  tags:
  - Market Data
  - Kafka
  - Streaming
  - Avro
  properties:
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Nasdaq/NasdaqCloudDataService
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/Nasdaq/NasdaqCloudDataService-SDK-Java
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/Nasdaq/NasdaqCloudDataService-SDK-Python
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasdaq/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/nasdaq-asyncapi.yml
  aid: nasdaq:nasdaq-cloud-data-service-ncds-kafka-streams
- name: Nasdaq Data Link Tables API
  description: 'REST access to Nasdaq Data Link tabular datasets: GET /api/v3/datatables/{datatable_code}.{format} with row
    and column filters (qopts.columns), cursor pagination (qopts.cursor_id), metadata, and bulk export (qopts.export=true).
    Authenticated with an api_key query parameter; anonymous access is rate limited.'
  humanURL: https://data.nasdaq.com/tablesapi
  baseURL: https://data.nasdaq.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Market Data
  - Datasets
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/Nasdaq/data-link-python
  aid: nasdaq:nasdaq-data-link-tables-api
- name: Nasdaq Data Link Bulk Download API
  description: 'Asynchronous bulk download of Nasdaq Data Link tables: GET /api/v1/bulkdownloads/{datatable_code} with row
    filters returns a job (PENDING, RUNNING, SUCCEEDED...) and file URLs fetched with the X-Api-Token header. Limited to 30
    requests per table per day.'
  humanURL: https://data.nasdaq.com/tablesapi
  baseURL: https://data.nasdaq.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Market Data
  - Bulk Data
  - REST
  properties: []
  aid: nasdaq:nasdaq-data-link-bulk-download-api
- name: Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS) REST API
  description: Request-based REST API for real-time and delayed Nasdaq, BX, PSX and CQT equities (last sale, last trade, last
    quote, snapshot, trends, bars), indexes, ETPs and options chains/prices, plus reference data. OAuth-style client credentials
    exchanged at POST /v1/auth/token for a bearer token; the base URL is customer-specific and issued during onboarding.
  humanURL: https://github.com/Nasdaq/NasdaqCloudDataService-REST-API
  baseURL: https://{base_url}/v1
  tags:
  - Market Data
  - Real-Time
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Nasdaq/NasdaqCloudDataService-REST-API
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/nasdaq-ncds-rest-postman-collection.json
  aid: nasdaq:nasdaq-cloud-data-service-ncds-rest-api
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-19'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 8
  pass: local-v5

Nasdaq API — frequently asked questions

Does Nasdaq have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Nasdaq, including Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS) — Kafka Streams, Nasdaq Data Link Tables API and Nasdaq Data Link Bulk Download API, and 1 more.

How do I authenticate with the Nasdaq API?

Nasdaq uses bearer-token authentication (4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Nasdaq Authentication.

Is the Nasdaq API ready for AI agents?

Nasdaq has a Kin Score of 37.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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