Alpha Vantage API
Stocks, forex, crypto and 60+ technical indicators
Freemium
✓ Verified
🇺🇸 United States
Alpha Vantage is a developer favorite for financial market data, offering real-time and historical stock prices, forex rates, cryptocurrency data, and 60+ built-in technical indicators (RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, SMA). It covers global equity markets including US, international stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds, plus fundamental data for US equities. The free tier (25 req/day) is popular for learning and prototyping; paid plans start at $49.99/month. 20+ years of historical data available. Excellent for Python-based quant research due to easy pandas integration.
API Details
Auth Method
API Key
Pricing Model
Freemium
Free Tier
Yes — 25 requests/day free
Rate Limit
75 RPM (premium)
Format
REST / JSON / CSV
Versioning
Single endpoint versioning
SLA / Uptime
99.5%
Compliance
Standard data licensing
Geographic Restrictions
Global markets
Last Verified
2026-02-20
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can pull real-time and historical market data covering global stocks, foreign exchange rates, and cryptocurrencies. It also provides deep technical indicators and broader economic metrics like GDP and inflation rates. This wide range of datasets makes it an ideal engine for powering the research and live dashboards on your economy, crypto, and global outlook website.
They offer a completely free tier that lets you make up to twenty-five data requests per day, which is a great starting point for testing your code. If your platform's traffic grows and you need to pull live quotes or process heavy amounts of financial data for your readers, you will need to upgrade to one of their premium monthly plans that offer unlimited daily requests.
Yes. Unlike many free data sources that scrape their numbers illegally, Alpha Vantage is an officially licensed data provider with organizations like NASDAQ. This means the real-time and fifteen-minute delayed market quotes you display on your platform are legally compliant, accurate, and safe from unexpected regulatory shutdowns.
You just need to visit the Alpha Vantage website and fill out a brief registration form to instantly generate a free API key. Once you have that key, you simply include it in your code to start pulling financial data in standard formats like JSON or CSV right into your backend.