{
  "slug": "alpha-vantage",
  "name": "Alpha Vantage",
  "aliases": [],
  "vendor": { "name": "Alpha Vantage Inc.", "slug": "alpha-vantage", "website": "https://www.alphavantage.co" },
  "homepage_url": "https://www.alphavantage.co/",
  "docs_url": "https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/",
  "pricing_url": "https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/",
  "product_type": "api-service",
  "product_status": "active",
  "summary": "REST API for stock, ETF, options, forex, crypto, commodity and economic data plus fundamentals, news sentiment and technical indicators, with a free key tier and premium plans",
  "description": "Alpha Vantage is a REST market-data API from Alpha Vantage Inc. It serves daily, weekly, monthly and intraday time series for stocks and ETFs, options data, index data, fundamentals (statements, earnings), forex and cryptocurrency rates, commodities, economic indicators, more than fifty technical indicators and an \"Alpha Intelligence\" family covering news sentiment, earnings transcripts and insider activity. Responses are JSON by default with CSV available on most endpoints, every call carries an API key, and the company also publishes an MCP server for AI agents and spreadsheet access.\n\nThe free key covers most endpoints within a daily request allowance; premium subscriptions scale by requests per minute and are billed monthly or annually, with enterprise arrangements for higher throughput. The terms of service restrict standard use to personal, non-commercial purposes and define redistribution to third parties or use inside commercial products as commercial use requiring a separate agreement. Alpha Vantage is popular for prototypes and teaching because of the free tier, but rate limits, daily history truncation on free keys and the licence boundary make it less suited to production or redistribution.",
  "capabilities": ["Daily, weekly, monthly and intraday stock and ETF series", "Options, index, forex, crypto and commodity data", "Fundamentals and earnings", "News sentiment and other Alpha Intelligence endpoints", "Technical indicators", "JSON and CSV output", "MCP server for AI agents"],
  "workflows": ["Prototyping a dashboard with a free key", "Teaching API consumption in a finance course"],
  "advantages": ["Free tier covering most endpoints", "Simple REST interface", "Broad asset and indicator coverage"],
  "limitations": ["Daily and per-minute request limits by plan", "Standard terms are personal, non-commercial", "Redistribution requires a commercial agreement"],
  "prerequisites": ["Free API key"],
  "audiences": ["Students and hobbyist developers", "Analysts prototyping data pipelines"],
  "alternatives": ["polygon-io", "yfinance", "nasdaq-data-link", "fred", "databento"],
  "comparison_notes": "yfinance is free but unofficial; Massive and Databento are paid professional APIs with tick-level depth; FRED covers economic series only. Alpha Vantage's niche is a licensed free tier with broad but rate-limited coverage.",
  "categories": [{ "slug": "market-data-apis", "primary": true }],
  "tags": ["market-data", "api", "time-series", "free-tier"],
  "use_cases": ["access-market-data"],
  "operating_systems": ["any"],
  "execution_modes": ["cloud"],
  "interfaces": ["api", "mcp-server"],
  "deployment_models": ["saas"],
  "integrations": ["Excel/Google Sheets", "MCP clients", "Community Python and R wrappers"],
  "data_formats": ["JSON", "CSV"],
  "languages": [],
  "source_model": "proprietary",
  "pricing_model": ["freemium", "paid", "enterprise"],
  "pricing_checked_at": "2026-11-02",
  "self_hostable": false,
  "sources": [
    { "url": "https://www.alphavantage.co/", "type": "official_site", "title": "Alpha Vantage: Free Stock APIs in JSON & Excel", "supports": ["name", "summary", "capabilities", "vendor"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },
    { "url": "https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/", "type": "official_docs", "title": "Alpha Vantage API Documentation", "supports": ["capabilities", "data_formats", "pricing_model"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },
    { "url": "https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/", "type": "pricing_page", "title": "Premium API Key", "supports": ["pricing_model"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },
    { "url": "https://www.alphavantage.co/terms_of_service/", "type": "policy_page", "title": "Alpha Vantage Terms of Service (PDF)", "supports": ["limitations", "description"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02", "note": "Personal, non-commercial use by default; redistribution counts as commercial use" }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",
  "depth": "standard",
  "editorial_status": "reviewed",
  "visibility": "public",
  "featured": false,
  "author": "batch-E"
}