Finance Market Data | Cheapest API
Access real-time and historical market data for US equities, options, crypto, and foreign exchange data through the Alpaca REST and WebSocket APIs. There are APIs for Stock Pricing, Option Pricing, Crypto Pricing, Forex, Logos, Corporate Actions and News.
Finance Market Data | Cheapest API endpoints
| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|---|---|---|
| News | ||
| GET |
News Articles /v1beta1/news |
Returns latest news articles across stocks and crypto. By default returns latest 10 news articles. |
| Stock | ||
| GET |
Historical Trades /v2/stocks/trades |
The historical stock trades API provides trade data for a list of stock symbols between the specified dates. The returned results are sorted by symbol first then by trade… |
| GET |
Historical Quotes /v2/stocks/quotes |
The historical stock quotes API provides quote data for a list of stock symbols between the specified dates. The returned results are sorted by symbol first then by quote… |
| GET |
Historical Bars /v2/stocks/bars |
The historical stock bars API provides aggregates for a list of stock symbols between the specified dates. The returned results are sorted by symbol first then by bar timestamp.… |
| GET |
Latest Quotes /v2/stocks/quotes/latest |
The latest multi quotes endpoint provides the latest bid and ask prices for each given ticker symbols. |
| GET |
Historical Bars Single Symbol /v2/stocks/{symbol}/bars |
The historical stock bars API provides aggregates for the stock symbol between the specified dates. |
| GET |
Latest Bars /v2/stocks/bars/latest |
The latest multi bars endpoint returns the latest minute-aggregated historical bar data for the ticker symbols provided. |
| GET |
Snapshot /v2/stocks/snapshots |
The snapshot endpoint for multiple tickers provides the latest trade, latest quote, minute bar daily bar, and previous daily bar data for each given ticker symbol. |
| GET |
Latest Trades /v2/stocks/trades/latest |
The latest multi trades endpoint provides the latest historical trade data for multiple given ticker symbols. |
| GET |
Latest Trade Single Symbol /v2/stocks/{symbol}/trades/latest |
The latest trades endpoint provides the latest trade data for a given ticker symbol. |
| GET |
Snapshot Single Symbol /v2/stocks/{symbol}/snapshot |
The snapshot endpoint provides the latest trade, latest quote, minute bar daily bar, and previous daily bar data for a given ticker symbol. |
| GET |
Latest Quote Single Symbol /v2/stocks/{symbol}/quotes/latest |
The latest quotes endpoint provides the latest bid and ask prices for a given ticker symbol. |
| GET |
Historical Quotes Single Symbol /v2/stocks/{symbol}/quotes |
The historical stock quotes API provides quote data for a stock symbol between the specified dates. |
| GET |
Historical Auctions /v2/stocks/auctions |
The historical auctions endpoint provides auction prices for the stock symbol between the specified dates. |
| GET |
Latest Bar Single Symbol /v2/stocks/{symbol}/bars/latest |
The latest stock bars endpoint returns the latest minute-aggregated historical bar for the requested security. |
| GET |
Condition Codes /v2/stocks/meta/conditions/{ticktype} |
Returns the mapping between the condition codes and names. |
| GET |
Historical Auctions Single /v2/stocks/{symbol}/auctions |
The historical auctions endpoint provides auction prices for a list of stock symbols between the specified dates. |
| GET |
Historical Trades Single Symbol /v2/stocks/{symbol}/trades |
The historical stock trades API provides trade data for a stock symbol between the specified dates. |
| GET |
Exchange Codes /v2/stocks/meta/exchanges |
Returns the mapping between the stock exchange codes and the corresponding exchanges names. |
| Crypto | ||
| GET |
Latest Crypto Orderbook /v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/latest/orderbooks |
The latest orderbook endpoint returns the latest bid and ask orderbook for the crypto symbols provided. |
| GET |
Crypto Snapshots /v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/snapshots |
The latest orderbook endpoint returns the latest trade, latest quote, latest minute bar, latest daily bar, and previous daily bar data for crypto symbols. |
| GET |
Latest Crypto Bars /v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/latest/bars |
The latest multi bars endpoint returns the latest minute-aggregated historical bar data for each of the crypto symbols provided. |
| GET |
Historical Crypto Bars /v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/bars |
The crypto bars API provides historical aggregates for a list of crypto symbols between the specified dates. |
| GET |
Latest Crypto Trades /v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/latest/trades |
The latest trades endpoint returns the latest trade data for the crypto symbols provided. |
| GET |
Latest Crypto Quotes /v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/latest/quotes |
The latest quotes endpoint returns the latest bid and ask prices for the crypto symbols provided. |
| GET |
Historical Crypto Trades /v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/trades |
The crypto trades API provides historical trade data for a list of crypto symbols between the specified dates. |
| GET |
Historical Crypto Quotes /v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/quotes |
The crypto quotes API provides historical quote data for a list of crypto symbols between the specified dates. |
| Forex | ||
| GET |
Latest Rates For Currency Pairs /v1beta1/forex/latest/rates |
Get the latest forex rates for the given currency pairs. |
| GET |
Historical Rates For Currency Pairs /v1beta1/forex/rates |
Get historical forex rates for the given currency pairs in the given time interval, and at the given timeframe (snapshot frequency). |
| Logos | ||
| GET |
Logos /v1beta1/logos/{symbol} |
Get the image of the company logo for the given symbol |
| Screener | ||
| GET |
Most Active Stocks /v1beta1/screener/stocks/most-actives |
Returns the most active stocks by volume or trade count. By default returns the top 10 symbols by volume. |
| GET |
Top Market Movers /v1beta1/screener/{market_type}/movers |
Returns the top market movers (gainers and losers). The change for each symbol is calculated from the previous closing price and the latest closing price. For stocks the endpoint… |
| Corporate actions | ||
| GET |
Corporate Actions /v1beta1/corporate-actions |
This endpoint provides data about the corporate actions for each given symbol over a specified time period. |
| Option | ||
| GET |
Options Latest Quotes /v1beta1/options/quotes/latest |
The latest multi quotes endpoint provides the latest bid and ask prices for each given contract symbol. |
| GET |
Option Latest Trades /v1beta1/options/trades/latest |
The latest multi trades endpoint provides the latest historical trade data for multiple given contract symbols. |
| GET |
Option Exchange Codes /v1beta1/options/meta/exchanges |
Returns the mapping between the option exchange codes and the corresponding exchanges names. |
| GET |
Option snapshots /v1beta1/options/snapshots |
The snapshot endpoint for multiple contract symbol provides the latest trade, latest quote for each given symbol. |
| GET |
Option Chain /v1beta1/options/snapshots/{underlying_symbol} |
The option chain endpoint for underlying symbol provides the latest trade, latest quote for each contract symbol of the underlying symbol. |
| GET |
Option Historical Trades /v1beta1/options/trades |
The historical option trades API provides trade data for a list of contract symbols between the specified dates up to 7 days ago. The returned results are sorted by symbol first… |
| GET |
Option Historical Bars /v1beta1/options/bars |
The historical option bars API provides aggregates for a list of option symbols between the specified dates. The returned results are sorted by symbol first then by bar… |
Finance Market Data | Cheapest API pricing
| Plan | Price | Rate limit | Quotas |
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| BASIC | Free | — |
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| PRO | $5 / month | 1 / second |
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| ULTRA Recommended | $15 / month | 10 / second |
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| MEGA | $50 / month | 100 / second |
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