{ "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "attributionRequired": true, "credit": "CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link the page or API address you took it from (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-11-11", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.7", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "terms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data" }, "tool": { "slug": "tickerlayer", "name": "TickerLayer", "vendor": "TickerLayer", "vendorUrl": "https://tickerlayer.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "market-data", "summary": "TickerLayer is a market data API for stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs, commodities, bond yields and perpetual futures, over REST and WebSocket with an API key, a hosted MCP server and pay-per-call x402 access in USDC on Base.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tickerlayer.json", "dns": "tickerlayer.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/tickerlayer/agent-plugin", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under the TickerLayer terms of use, user agreement and market data disclaimer (all effective 3 November 2026), which name no legal entity or governing law. Free and Individual plans are for internal use, Business adds use inside the customer's own product, and redistribution needs a written Enterprise agreement. The agent plugin (github.com/tickerlayer/agent-plugin) and the npm client are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "websocket" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "tickerlayer" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "tickerlayer" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST takes an API key in the `x-api-key` header. The OpenAPI file also defines `ApiKeyQuery`, an `apiKey` query parameter described as a 'compatibility fallback' that 'keeps the key in logged URLs', and the WebSocket at wss://stream.tickerlayer.com takes the key only in the URL as `apiKey`. A person creates the key in the dashboard after a browser signup. It is shown once and has no scopes, and regenerating it invalidates the previous key. The hosted MCP server takes the key as `x-api-key` or `Authorization: Bearer`, or OAuth 2.1 against https://api.tickerlayer.com (authorisation code with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, refresh tokens, a revocation endpoint and one scope, `market.read`). The x402 gateway at https://x402.tickerlayer.com needs no account or key (https://tickerlayer.com/llms.txt, https://tickerlayer.com/openapi.json, https://tickerlayer.com/docs/mcp, https://api.tickerlayer.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server, https://tickerlayer.com/terms-of-use, checked 2026-11-10).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan at 0 USD with no card, per llms.txt, covering crypto, forex and US stocks over REST, 3,000 calls every 30 days, 10 requests a second, no WebSocket, internal use only. Individual plans are priced per feed, 49 USD a month for crypto, commodities or indices, 59 USD for forex or ETFs and 59 to 99 USD per stock market (United States 99 USD), each with 250,000 REST calls a month, 1 WebSocket connection and 10 symbols. Business runs 449 to 999 USD per feed with 25 million calls and 100 requests a second, for use inside the customer's own product. Perpetuals 179 or 799 USD, Futures CFDs 219 or 849 USD, add-ons (overnight session, SignalPoint, Fundamentals, Bonds) 39 to 449 USD. Yearly billing is 20 per cent lower. Enterprise is custom, with redistribution and an SLA. Without an account, x402 charges 0.01 to 0.10 USDC a call on Base and settles only after a valid response (https://tickerlayer.com/pricing, https://tickerlayer.com/llms.txt, https://tickerlayer.com/ai/x402.md, checked 2026-11-10).", "priceSummary": "$0.01 / call", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "yes", "evidence": "Production gateway https://x402.tickerlayer.com on Base mainnet (`eip155:8453`) in USDC, with a sandbox at https://x402-testnet.tickerlayer.com on Base Sepolia. The catalogue lists 41 GET resources, scheme exact, protocol version 2, facilitator `coinbase-cdp-mainnet`, accountRequired false. Six routes each for stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs and commodities, plus bond yields and four market-calendar routes. Perpetuals, Futures CFDs, the add-ons and WebSocket are not covered. Settlement only after a valid response, and payment identifiers bound to the request (https://x402.tickerlayer.com/catalog, https://tickerlayer.com/ai/x402.md, checked 2026-11-10).", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/stocks/quote/{symbol}", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/crypto/snapshot/{symbol}", "priceUsd": 0.02, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/forex/agg/{symbol}/{multiplier}/{timespan}/{from}/{to}", "priceUsd": 0.03, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/bond/last/{symbol}", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/markets/status", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": 12, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-10" }, "docsUrl": "https://tickerlayer.com/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://tickerlayer.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://tickerlayer.com/openapi.json", "registryName": "com.tickerlayer/market-data", "capabilities": [ "market.prices", "market.history", "market.crypto", "market.indices", "market.fundamentals", "data.markets" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "x402", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "mcp-registry", "oauth", "api-key", "websocket", "streaming", "status-page", "closed-source", "python", "typescript", "agent-skills", "pre-1.0", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.5, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 160, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1520, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 92, "reliability": 70, "schema": 88, "security": 49, "transparency": 38 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "breakdown": [ { "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "effectiveWeight": 20, "score": 70, "points": 14, "reason": "Read with the hosted lines, on the REST API. status.tickerlayer.com is an UptimeRobot page linked from the site header (20). Its monitors and history load by script from /api/, which its robots.txt disallows, so no incident record was read, as for eodhd and apitemplate-io (5). Limits are published with numbers, 10 requests a second per account on Free and Individual, 100 on Business, and monthly call quotas per feed (15). The OpenAPI file's 429 carries `Retry-After` and a body with `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt` and a code that separates the per-second limit from the monthly quota, and every response has carried `X-RateLimit-Limit` and `X-RateLimit-Remaining` since 14 September 2026. Every data operation is a GET, and x402 retries with the same payment identifier return the stored response (15). An SLA is named only for Enterprise under a written agreement and as 'partially available' on Business, with no published terms or figure, and the terms of use promise no uptime. Financial-datasets took 10 for SLAs listed on a self-serve plan, so this is half (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the REST API, the MCP server or the x402 gateway (10). 20+5+15+15+5+10 = 70.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes." }, { "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 88, "points": 14.3, "reason": "OpenAPI 3.1 at tickerlayer.com/openapi.json (TickerLayer Market Data API 1.0.0, about 386,000 characters), read in its first 100,000 and last 96,000 characters, with summaries, descriptions, tags and examples on the operations read and shared 400, 401, 403, 404, 429 and 503 responses. The WebSocket is described in prose only and the hosted MCP tool schemas weren't read (23 of 25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page (10). Operation descriptions state purpose and plan gating, and the vendor's skill says which MCP tool to use for each question and when not to, such as `get_quote` not being the tool for a price. Financial-datasets took 17 (17 of 20). Enums on `interval`, `multiplier`, `timespan` and `sort`, `format: date` on dates, bounded `limit`, required path parameters, as for massive (13 of 15). Examples on most parameters and responses, one Error schema with ten fields and documented codes, but the codes appear only as example values with no enum or table (13 of 15). A dated changelog of the last 50 changes, 8 September to 6 November 2026, but no version in the REST paths ('no /v1/') and the spec at 1.0.0. Above twelve-data's 10 for monthly updates and below massive's 15 for versioned paths (12 of 15). 23+10+17+13+13+12 = 88.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 79, "points": 12.84, "reason": "Read on the REST API, with the MCP server where a line covers it. Responses are sized by `limit` (bars up to 5,000, catalogue up to 1,000), `sort`, date ranges and batch calls for futures quotes and market status, with no field selection. The MCP server has 12 tools, 11 shown to the model. Massive and financial-datasets took 15 (15 of 25). `limit`, `offset` and `next_offset`, cursors on fundamentals and economic events, `total_count` on bars, `search` on symbols and `updated_since` on signals (18 of 20). Errors carry `statusCode`, `message`, a code, `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt`, `limitRps`, `plansUrl` and the missing `product` or `market`, and the skill gives an action per status. Above financial-datasets' 16 (17 of 20). Every data call is a GET, and x402 settles only after a valid response with payment identifiers bound to the request, but no readOnlyHint or other annotation was found for the MCP tools. Financial-datasets took 14 without annotations (15 of 20). Data tools need only `asset_class` and `symbol`, with defaults for limit and sort, and official clients exist for JavaScript or TypeScript and Python, both at 0.1.0 from 20 October 2026. Stocks need the `COUNTRY:TICKER` form (14 of 15). 15+18+17+15+14 = 79.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "effectiveWeight": 17.5, "score": 49, "points": 8.57, "reason": "A plain account key with no scopes, shown once and replaced by regenerating it in the dashboard (20). The OpenAPI file defines an `apiKey` query parameter as a 'compatibility fallback', and the WebSocket takes the key only in its URL, so 10 off. The MCP server adds OAuth 2.1 with PKCE S256, dynamic registration, refresh tokens, a revocation endpoint and one scope, `market.read`. Twelve-data took 18 on the same pattern, one less here because the WebSocket has no header option (17 of 30). Every operation reads data, and the OAuth scope is read-only, as for twelve-data and financial-datasets (15 of 20). Responses are prices, bars, symbols, calendars and yields. There is no news feed, and SignalPoint signals are structured fields, so no untrusted text reaches the agent (10 of 15). Rate-limit headers on every response, quota 429s that state the limit and when it renews, and a dashboard list of WebSocket connections with source IP, key and how each ended (24 October 2026). No per-call REST log for the key holder was found, though the privacy policy says request logs are kept (7 of 15). security.txt answered a client error, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 was found (0 of 20). 17+15+10+7+0 = 49.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 12.5, "score": 92, "points": 11.5, "reason": "x402 on the vendor's own gateway, x402.tickerlayer.com, for 41 GET routes. That is six routes for each of stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs and commodities, plus bond yields and four market-calendar routes. Perpetuals, Futures CFDs, the add-ons, the symbol catalogue and WebSocket need a key. Between massive's 30 for US stock routes only and financial-datasets' 35 for every documented data endpoint (32 of 40). Per-call x402 prices from 0.01 to 0.10 USDC in the catalogue and docs, and plan prices per feed on the pricing page, all without a login (20). A Free plan of 3,000 REST calls every 30 days with 'no card', per llms.txt (20). An agent with a funded Base wallet pays per call with no account or key (20). 32+20+20+20 = 92.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored." }, { "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 79, "points": 6.91, "reason": "Read as a closed service. The newest changelog entry is 6 November 2026, a bond yield curve endpoint (30). 50 dated changelog entries from 8 September to 6 November 2026 (20). A public changelog, a consultation form, info@tickerlayer.com and a support chat, all untested, with no community channel and no issues on the plugin repository read. Massive and twelve-data took 10 (9 of 15). Official clients for JavaScript or TypeScript (npm) and Python (PyPI), both 0.1.0 from 20 October 2026, and an MCP registry entry under the verified namespace `com.tickerlayer` (15). The npm package has no dependencies or install hooks but no repository field, the clients' source isn't public and no CI is visible (5 of 10). 30+20+9+15+5 = 79.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 38, "points": 3.33, "note": "editorial 30, provenance 46", "reason": "The editorial half. A closed service whose terms of use, user agreement and market data disclaimer (all effective 3 November 2026) set out internal, commercial and redistribution rights by plan and a liability cap. They name no legal entity, address or governing law, so the contracting party is unknown. The plugin and npm client are MIT. Soldfetch took 10 in the same position (10 of 30). The privacy policy keeps WebSocket connection records for 7 days but gives no period for request and tool-call logs or account data after closure, says nothing on model training, names no transfer mechanism and has no DPA (12 of 30). No deprecation policy. The terms allow MCP tools to change 'with reasonable notice where practical' and the user agreement promises notice before a plan is materially reduced, and the changelog records changes after the fact. Kite took 4 (4 of 20). Subprocessors are given only as categories (hosting, authentication, card and crypto payments, email, an AI model for support replies), with analytics vendors deferred to the cookie policy, no data locations, and no named data suppliers (4 of 20). 10+12+4+4 = 30. The provenance half is computed from the provenance block.", "checked": "2026-11-10" } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-11-10", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "Read on the REST API, with the MCP server where a line covers it. Responses are sized by `limit` (bars up to 5,000, catalogue up to 1,000), `sort`, date ranges and batch calls for futures quotes and market status, with no field selection. The MCP server has 12 tools, 11 shown to the model. Massive and financial-datasets took 15 (15 of 25). `limit`, `offset` and `next_offset`, cursors on fundamentals and economic events, `total_count` on bars, `search` on symbols and `updated_since` on signals (18 of 20). Errors carry `statusCode`, `message`, a code, `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt`, `limitRps`, `plansUrl` and the missing `product` or `market`, and the skill gives an action per status. Above financial-datasets' 16 (17 of 20). Every data call is a GET, and x402 settles only after a valid response with payment identifiers bound to the request, but no readOnlyHint or other annotation was found for the MCP tools. Financial-datasets took 14 without annotations (15 of 20). Data tools need only `asset_class` and `symbol`, with defaults for limit and sort, and official clients exist for JavaScript or TypeScript and Python, both at 0.1.0 from 20 October 2026. Stocks need the `COUNTRY:TICKER` form (14 of 15). 15+18+17+15+14 = 79.", "maintenance": "Read as a closed service. The newest changelog entry is 6 November 2026, a bond yield curve endpoint (30). 50 dated changelog entries from 8 September to 6 November 2026 (20). A public changelog, a consultation form, info@tickerlayer.com and a support chat, all untested, with no community channel and no issues on the plugin repository read. Massive and twelve-data took 10 (9 of 15). Official clients for JavaScript or TypeScript (npm) and Python (PyPI), both 0.1.0 from 20 October 2026, and an MCP registry entry under the verified namespace `com.tickerlayer` (15). The npm package has no dependencies or install hooks but no repository field, the clients' source isn't public and no CI is visible (5 of 10). 30+20+9+15+5 = 79.", "payments": "x402 on the vendor's own gateway, x402.tickerlayer.com, for 41 GET routes. That is six routes for each of stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs and commodities, plus bond yields and four market-calendar routes. Perpetuals, Futures CFDs, the add-ons, the symbol catalogue and WebSocket need a key. Between massive's 30 for US stock routes only and financial-datasets' 35 for every documented data endpoint (32 of 40). Per-call x402 prices from 0.01 to 0.10 USDC in the catalogue and docs, and plan prices per feed on the pricing page, all without a login (20). A Free plan of 3,000 REST calls every 30 days with 'no card', per llms.txt (20). An agent with a funded Base wallet pays per call with no account or key (20). 32+20+20+20 = 92.", "reliability": "Read with the hosted lines, on the REST API. status.tickerlayer.com is an UptimeRobot page linked from the site header (20). Its monitors and history load by script from /api/, which its robots.txt disallows, so no incident record was read, as for eodhd and apitemplate-io (5). Limits are published with numbers, 10 requests a second per account on Free and Individual, 100 on Business, and monthly call quotas per feed (15). The OpenAPI file's 429 carries `Retry-After` and a body with `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt` and a code that separates the per-second limit from the monthly quota, and every response has carried `X-RateLimit-Limit` and `X-RateLimit-Remaining` since 14 September 2026. Every data operation is a GET, and x402 retries with the same payment identifier return the stored response (15). An SLA is named only for Enterprise under a written agreement and as 'partially available' on Business, with no published terms or figure, and the terms of use promise no uptime. Financial-datasets took 10 for SLAs listed on a self-serve plan, so this is half (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the REST API, the MCP server or the x402 gateway (10). 20+5+15+15+5+10 = 70.", "schema": "OpenAPI 3.1 at tickerlayer.com/openapi.json (TickerLayer Market Data API 1.0.0, about 386,000 characters), read in its first 100,000 and last 96,000 characters, with summaries, descriptions, tags and examples on the operations read and shared 400, 401, 403, 404, 429 and 503 responses. The WebSocket is described in prose only and the hosted MCP tool schemas weren't read (23 of 25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page (10). Operation descriptions state purpose and plan gating, and the vendor's skill says which MCP tool to use for each question and when not to, such as `get_quote` not being the tool for a price. Financial-datasets took 17 (17 of 20). Enums on `interval`, `multiplier`, `timespan` and `sort`, `format: date` on dates, bounded `limit`, required path parameters, as for massive (13 of 15). Examples on most parameters and responses, one Error schema with ten fields and documented codes, but the codes appear only as example values with no enum or table (13 of 15). A dated changelog of the last 50 changes, 8 September to 6 November 2026, but no version in the REST paths ('no /v1/') and the spec at 1.0.0. Above twelve-data's 10 for monthly updates and below massive's 15 for versioned paths (12 of 15). 23+10+17+13+13+12 = 88.", "security": "A plain account key with no scopes, shown once and replaced by regenerating it in the dashboard (20). The OpenAPI file defines an `apiKey` query parameter as a 'compatibility fallback', and the WebSocket takes the key only in its URL, so 10 off. The MCP server adds OAuth 2.1 with PKCE S256, dynamic registration, refresh tokens, a revocation endpoint and one scope, `market.read`. Twelve-data took 18 on the same pattern, one less here because the WebSocket has no header option (17 of 30). Every operation reads data, and the OAuth scope is read-only, as for twelve-data and financial-datasets (15 of 20). Responses are prices, bars, symbols, calendars and yields. There is no news feed, and SignalPoint signals are structured fields, so no untrusted text reaches the agent (10 of 15). Rate-limit headers on every response, quota 429s that state the limit and when it renews, and a dashboard list of WebSocket connections with source IP, key and how each ended (24 October 2026). No per-call REST log for the key holder was found, though the privacy policy says request logs are kept (7 of 15). security.txt answered a client error, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 was found (0 of 20). 17+15+10+7+0 = 49.", "transparency": "The editorial half. A closed service whose terms of use, user agreement and market data disclaimer (all effective 3 November 2026) set out internal, commercial and redistribution rights by plan and a liability cap. They name no legal entity, address or governing law, so the contracting party is unknown. The plugin and npm client are MIT. Soldfetch took 10 in the same position (10 of 30). The privacy policy keeps WebSocket connection records for 7 days but gives no period for request and tool-call logs or account data after closure, says nothing on model training, names no transfer mechanism and has no DPA (12 of 30). No deprecation policy. The terms allow MCP tools to change 'with reasonable notice where practical' and the user agreement promises notice before a plan is materially reduced, and the changelog records changes after the fact. Kite took 4 (4 of 20). Subprocessors are given only as categories (hosting, authentication, card and crypto payments, email, an AI model for support replies), with analytics vendors deferred to the cookie policy, no data locations, and no named data suppliers (4 of 20). 10+12+4+4 = 30. The provenance half is computed from the provenance block." }, "sources": [ { "what": "robots.txt (archive crawlers blocked, account, auth, /api and market pages disallowed for `*`, no Content-Signal)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/robots.txt", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "llms.txt (API base, plans, MCP, x402, data positioning)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/llms.txt", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "llms-full.txt (limits, errors, pagination, delay by market, sources)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/llms-full.txt", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "OpenAPI 3.1 file, read in its first 100,000 and last 96,000 characters (paths, security schemes, responses, Error schema)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/openapi.json", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "MCP setup guide", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/docs/mcp.md", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "changelog, last 50 changes", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/docs/changelog.md", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "x402 docs (gateways, networks, prices, settlement, idempotency)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/ai/x402.md", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "x402.tickerlayer.com robots.txt (disallows /v1/)", "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/robots.txt", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "x402 catalogue (41 resources, Base mainnet, facilitator)", "url": "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/catalog", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "pricing page", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/pricing", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "home page (data inputs, usage counts, footer links)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "about page (timeline, no entity or people)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/about", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "terms of use (effective 3 November 2026)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/terms-of-use", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "user agreement (effective 3 November 2026)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/user-agreement", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "privacy policy (effective 3 November 2026)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/privacy-policy", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "market data disclaimer (effective 3 November 2026)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/market-data-disclaimer", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "security.txt (client error)", "url": "https://tickerlayer.com/.well-known/security.txt", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "status page robots.txt (disallows /api/) and UptimeRobot page, history not loaded", "url": "https://status.tickerlayer.com/", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "MCP protected-resource metadata", "url": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "OAuth authorisation server metadata", "url": "https://api.tickerlayer.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "official MCP registry entry com.tickerlayer/market-data", "url": "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=tickerlayer", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "agent plugin, skill, API notes and changelog, shallow clone", "url": "https://github.com/tickerlayer/agent-plugin", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "npm release history of tickerlayer", "url": "https://registry.npmjs.org/tickerlayer", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "PyPI release feed of tickerlayer", "url": "https://pypi.org/rss/project/tickerlayer/releases.xml", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "domain registration (RDAP)", "url": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/tickerlayer.com", "seen": "2026-11-10" } ], "openQuestions": [ "Who operates TickerLayer. No legal entity, address, country or governing law appears in the terms, user agreement, privacy policy, about page or footer, and two web searches found no first-hand register entry", "Where the data comes from. The pages name input types (OTC activity, peer-to-peer trades, contributor pricing, CFD-style references) and unnamed third-party perpetual futures markets, but no provider, and no page says whether any exchange licence is held. Page titles say 'Real-Time Market Data API' while the disclaimer says data may be delayed. llms-full.txt lists real-time and delayed markets", "unchecked: the status page's monitors and 90-day history, which load from /api/ on status.tickerlayer.com, disallowed by its robots.txt", "unchecked: the middle of the OpenAPI file (about 190,000 characters, the indices, ETF, commodity, perpetual, futures and bond paths), so the operation count is not established", "unchecked: the hosted MCP tools/list, input schemas and annotations (no session opened). The 12 tools and their parameters come from the docs and the plugin's skill and API notes", "unchecked: GitHub stars, issues and the organisation's age (GitHub's API was not available to this session), npm and PyPI weekly downloads, and the Wayback Machine, whose crawlers tickerlayer.com's robots.txt blocks", "unchecked: the cookie policy, which the privacy policy says names the analytics and support-chat vendors, and the customer stories page", "The home page claims '2,000+ developers and teams' and '1.5B+ API calls served' with no source, for a domain registered on 29 April 2026. Recorded as the vendor's claims", "Whether the 14 September change to index `prev` and the 10 October change to perpetuals source rows broke existing clients. The changelog one-liners state no notice. Not deducted", "The terms call the data non-exchange-sourced 'except for the Perpetuals feed', while the disclaimer says no data comes from the primary exchange or market of any instrument. Read together, perpetuals come from third-party perpetual futures venues, which the pages don't name" ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An agent can read quotes, bars and market hours across eight asset classes through a documented REST API, 12 MCP tools or 41 x402 resources with no account, and 429s carry Retry-After. The data is derived from unnamed non-exchange sources, no operator is named, and the status history couldn't be read.", "bestFor": "An agent that needs latest prices, bars and market hours across stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs, commodities, bond yields and perpetual futures from one schema, and wants to pay per call without an account.", "strengths": [ "x402 on its own gateway for 41 routes across six asset classes, bond yields and market hours, from 0.01 USDC, settled only after a valid response", "OpenAPI 3.1 with enums, examples and one error schema carrying `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt` and the missing product, plus `Retry-After` and `X-RateLimit-*` headers", "llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a Markdown twin of every docs page and a skill that says which MCP tool to use for which question", "A dated changelog of 50 entries from 8 September to 6 November 2026", "MCP server under OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, dynamic registration, revocation and one read scope, listed in the official registry as `com.tickerlayer/market-data`" ], "weaknesses": [ "The data is derived and indicative from unnamed non-exchange sources, and no page says it is licensed from an exchange", "No legal entity, address or governing law in the terms, user agreement or privacy policy", "The REST key can travel as an `apiKey` query parameter, and the WebSocket takes it only in the URL", "The privacy policy names no subprocessors and gives no period for request logs", "No security.txt, bug bounty or certification found, and the status page's history loads from a path robots.txt disallows" ], "agentNotes": [ "Write stocks as `COUNTRY:TICKER`, such as `US:KO`, and always pass `asset_class` to the data tools.", "If a 429 carries `REST_QUOTA_EXCEEDED`, stop and tell the user. Waiting doesn't reset the monthly quota.", "Present prices as indicative TickerLayer values, never as official exchange prices.", "Call `get_market_status` before you report a quiet symbol as missing data.", "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header, never as the `apiKey` query parameter." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 71.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 92, "reliability": 70, "schema": 88, "security": 49, "transparency": 30 }, "provenanceScore": 46, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-10", "maintenance": "2026-11-10", "payments": "2026-11-10", "reliability": "2026-11-10", "schema": "2026-11-10", "security": "2026-11-10", "transparency": "2026-11-10" }, "last": "2026-11-10", "oldest": "2026-11-10", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 }, "scoreHistory": [ { "date": "2026-11-10", "grade": "BB", "kind": "listed", "method": "0.7", "score": 71.5 } ] }, "connect": { "install": "npm install tickerlayer", "http": "curl -H \"x-api-key: $TICKERLAYER_API_KEY\" \"https://api.tickerlayer.com/stocks/quote/US:KO\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http tickerlayer https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "tickerlayer": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp" } } }, "x402": "curl -i \"https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/stocks/quote/US:KO\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/market.prices", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tickerlayer" }, "notable": [ "The site says its data is derived from 'non-exchange-sourced inputs', naming OTC activity, peer-to-peer trades, contributor pricing and CFD-style references, with no direct venue connectivity, and names no upstream provider (https://tickerlayer.com/)", "The market data disclaimer says 'Data does not come from the primary exchange or market of any instrument' and that any licence needed to display or distribute the data is the user's responsibility. The terms say the data is non-exchange-sourced 'except for the Perpetuals feed', a composite of unnamed third-party perpetual futures markets (https://tickerlayer.com/market-data-disclaimer, https://tickerlayer.com/terms-of-use)", "llms-full.txt lists real-time stocks for the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, China and India's 50 index names, about 15 minutes' delay for Germany, France, Italy, Spain and five more markets, and 15 to 20 minutes for Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Romania and Sweden (https://tickerlayer.com/llms-full.txt)", "41 x402 resources from 0.01 USDC a call on Base, with a testnet sandbox on Base Sepolia, a live catalogue and settlement only after a valid response (https://x402.tickerlayer.com/catalog)", "Errors carry `statusCode`, `message`, `error`, `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt`, `limitRps`, `plansUrl`, `product` and `market`, and a 429 separates the per-second limit (`REST_RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED`) from the monthly quota (`REST_QUOTA_EXCEEDED`) (https://tickerlayer.com/openapi.json)", "The MCP tool `open_markets_board` takes no arguments, draws an interactive board of ten markets and counts as ten requests on the plan (https://tickerlayer.com/docs/mcp)", "The home page claims '2,000+ developers and teams' and '1.5B+ API calls served' for a domain registered on 29 April 2026, with anonymised customer stories (https://tickerlayer.com/)" ], "area": "domain-data", "details": [ { "label": "Surface listed", "value": "The REST API at https://api.tickerlayer.com, graded from the OpenAPI file and the docs, with the x402 gateway, the hosted MCP server and the WebSocket described. Read on 10 November 2026 from tickerlayer.com (robots.txt, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, the OpenAPI file, docs/mcp, the changelog, ai/x402, pricing, home, about, terms, user agreement, privacy and the market data disclaimer), x402.tickerlayer.com/catalog, the OAuth metadata on mcp.tickerlayer.com and api.tickerlayer.com, status.tickerlayer.com, the MCP registry, npm, PyPI's release feed and a shallow clone of tickerlayer/agent-plugin. No account was made, no key used, nothing paid, no MCP session or WebSocket opened and nothing installed" }, { "label": "Kind", "value": "Listed as `http-api`. llms.txt and the docs lead with the REST API, WebSocket and SDKs, the OpenAPI file covers REST, and the MCP server and x402 gateway sit in an 'AI \u0026 Agents' section over the same data" }, { "label": "Data sources and licence", "value": "The site, about page, terms and disclaimer call the data 'derived, indicative, non-exchange-sourced'. The home page names OTC activity, peer-to-peer trades, contributor pricing and CFD-style references as inputs and says there is no direct venue connectivity. The disclaimer says no data comes from the primary exchange or market of any instrument. Perpetuals are a composite median of unnamed third-party perpetual futures markets, and Futures CFDs are reference prices TickerLayer calculates. No upstream provider or exchange licence is named. Redistribution needs written authorisation, and the user is responsible for any licence needed to display or distribute. SignalPoint signals are 'Powered by TradeZing Signal Intelligence'" }, { "label": "Coverage and delay", "value": "Stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs, commodities, bond yields (US 1M to 30Y, and DE, ES, FR, IT and UK 1Y to 30Y), 260+ perpetual contracts and 20 Futures CFD products. Real-time stocks for the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, China and India's 50 index names, about 15 minutes' delay for nine more markets and 15 to 20 minutes for five. Stock markets list 'their most traded stocks'. Public symbol pages are delayed at least 15 minutes. History depth is the same on every plan and isn't stated per class" }, { "label": "MCP server", "value": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp over Streamable HTTP, with an API key or OAuth 2.1 (authorisation server https://api.tickerlayer.com, scope `market.read`). Browser-origin requests are denied. The registry entry `com.tickerlayer/market-data` 0.3.0 (20 October 2026) names the same remote. The server has no quota of its own and calls count against the plan" }, { "label": "Tools", "value": "12, from the docs and the plugin's skill. `get_quote`, `get_last_trade`, `get_snapshot`, `get_previous_close` (optional `interval`), `get_history` (`multiplier`, `timespan`, `from`, `to`, `limit` up to 5,000, `sort`), `list_symbols` (`search`, `limit` up to 500), `get_market_status`, `get_market_sessions`, `get_market_holidays`, `get_bond_yield`, `open_markets_board` (ten requests a call) and `search_symbols`, which MCP Apps hosts hide from the model. The data tools need `asset_class` and `symbol`. The live tool list, schemas and annotations were not read" }, { "label": "x402", "value": "41 GET resources at https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/... on Base mainnet in USDC. Quote, last trade, previous close, bond yield, market status and sessions 0.01 USDC, snapshot, symbol lists and holidays 0.02, bars 0.03 for up to 100, 0.05 for up to 500 and 0.10 for up to 1,000, bulk market status 0.01 plus 0.002 an item up to 25. Stock symbols must carry the market prefix. No x402 rate limit is stated. REST only" }, { "label": "Limits and errors", "value": "10 requests a second per account on Free and Individual and 100 on Business, plus monthly call quotas per feed. A 429 carries `Retry-After` and a body with `retryAfterMs`, `resetsAt` and either `REST_RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` or `REST_QUOTA_EXCEEDED`. Every REST response carries `X-RateLimit-Limit` and `X-RateLimit-Remaining` since 14 September 2026. A 403 names the product or market missing from the plan, and a 503 means usage metering is down and the request fails closed" }, { "label": "Status", "value": "https://status.tickerlayer.com is an UptimeRobot page linked from the site header. Its monitors and history load by script from /api/, which its robots.txt disallows, so no component or incident was read on 10 November 2026" }, { "label": "Open source", "value": "The service is closed. tickerlayer/agent-plugin (MIT, three commits from 7 August to 4 October 2026, version 1.0.1) holds plugin manifests for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor and VS Code, the `market-data` skill and an icon, with no executable code. The npm and PyPI clients have no public source repository" }, { "label": "Version history", "value": "Domain registered 29 April 2026. The about page dates the API's opening to 'Early 2026'. Agent plugin 0.1.0 on 7 August 2026 and 1.0.0 on 4 October. Changelog of the last 50 changes, 8 September to 6 November 2026. OpenAPI file, npm 0.1.0, PyPI 0.1.0 and the MCP registry entry all on 20 October 2026. The REST paths carry no version" } ], "unitPrices": [ { "item": "x402 quote, last trade or previous close", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "USDC on Base, no account, with snapshot and symbol lists at 0.02" }, { "item": "x402 historical bars, up to 100", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.03, "note": "0.05 for up to 500 bars and 0.10 for up to 1,000" }, { "item": "Individual crypto, commodities or indices feed", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "250,000 REST calls a month, 10 requests a second, internal use only" }, { "item": "Individual US stocks feed", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "other stock markets 59 to 99 USD each, internal use only" }, { "item": "Business crypto, commodities or indices feed", "unit": "month", "usd": 449, "note": "25 million REST calls a month, 100 requests a second, use inside the customer's own product" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "tickerlayer.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-04-29", "domainNote": "RDAP (Verisign) gives tickerlayer.com a registration date of 29 April 2026 through Cloudflare, last changed 5 October 2026. No page read names a company, registration number, address or country.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://tickerlayer.com/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://tickerlayer.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.tickerlayer.com", "changelog": "https://tickerlayer.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-10", "notes": [ "No legal entity is named anywhere read. The terms of use, the user agreement and the privacy policy (all effective 3 November 2026), the about page and the pricing footer name only 'TickerLayer' or 'the operator of TickerLayer', with no company, registration number, address, country or governing law. Their contact addresses are obfuscated and weren't read. The plugin README gives info@tickerlayer.com.", "The terms say the Services come 'AS IS', promise no uptime, cap liability at the greater of 12 months' fees or US$100, and allow MCP tools to change 'with reasonable notice where practical'. The user agreement makes payments non-refundable, refunds at TickerLayer's discretion. The terms ban scraping public pages at a volume that interferes with the Services. A handful of pages were read at a person's pace.", "The privacy policy keeps WebSocket connection records for 7 days and request and tool-call logs for 'a limited operational window', names subprocessor categories but no vendors, and says nothing on model training or transfer mechanisms.", "robots.txt on tickerlayer.com disallows ia_archiver and archive.org_bot entirely and, for `*`, /dashboard, /admin, /login, /signup, /auth, /oauth, /api, /billing, /profile, the market pages and /cdn-cgi/, with no Content-Signal. x402.tickerlayer.com disallows /v1/ and status.tickerlayer.com disallows /api/. robots.txt on mcp.tickerlayer.com and api.tickerlayer.com answered a client error, read as no rules. Only their OAuth metadata and one unauthenticated GET to /mcp (client error) were sent there.", "/.well-known/security.txt answered a client error.", "firstReleased is 2026-08-07, the first commit of tickerlayer/agent-plugin ('Release v0.1.0'), whose changelog names the hosted MCP server. The about page says the API opened in 'Early 2026' with no day. lastRelease is 2026-11-06, the newest changelog entry." ], "score": 46, "checks": [ { "check": "Legal entity named", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 20, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Domain age", "value": "tickerlayer.com, registered 2026-04-29 (under a year)", "points": 0, "max": 15, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain", "value": "mcp.tickerlayer.com", "points": 15, "max": 15, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Terms of service", "value": "published, not read by us yet", "points": 4, "max": 10, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Privacy policy", "value": "published, not read by us yet", "points": 4, "max": 10, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Status page", "value": "status.tickerlayer.com", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Changelog", "value": "published", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "security.txt", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "People named", "value": "not researched yet", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Support route", "value": "a support address, help pages", "points": 5, "max": 5, "state": "ok" } ] }, "humans": { "slug": "tickerlayer", "checked": "2026-11-10", "company": "TickerLayer", "peopleNote": "No person is named with a role on any first-hand page. The about page gives a timeline (Early 2025, Late 2025, Early 2026) and names no people, company or location. The terms of use, user agreement and privacy policy (all effective 3 November 2026) name only 'TickerLayer' or 'the operator of TickerLayer', with no company, registration number, address or country. The home and pricing pages name nobody, and the footer reads only TickerLayer. The agent plugin's commits are authored as 'TickerLayer' and its licence reads 'Copyright (c) 2026 TickerLayer'. The npm maintainer `tickerlayer` is not a role, and the submitter's name was not used. Ownership is unknown because no legal entity is named anywhere read. Investors were looked for on tickerlayer.com (home, about, pricing, legal pages, llms.txt, which link no press or funding page) and in two web searches, for TickerLayer as a market data API and for TickerLayer with TradeZing (whose signals the SignalPoint add-on carries), which returned directory and marketplace pages and pages about other companies. No round, backer or accelerator was found, and no page states how TickerLayer and TradeZing are related beyond 'Powered by TradeZing Signal Intelligence'.", "companySocial": { "github": "https://github.com/tickerlayer" }, "support": { "emails": [ "info@tickerlayer.com" ], "urls": [ "https://tickerlayer.com/docs", "https://tickerlayer.com/docs/mcp", "https://status.tickerlayer.com" ], "contactUrls": [ "https://tickerlayer.com/consultation" ] }, "sources": [ "https://tickerlayer.com/", "https://tickerlayer.com/about", "https://tickerlayer.com/terms-of-use", "https://tickerlayer.com/user-agreement", "https://tickerlayer.com/privacy-policy", "https://tickerlayer.com/llms.txt", "https://github.com/tickerlayer/agent-plugin" ], "ownership": { "status": "unknown", "checked": "2026-11-10", "sources": [ "https://tickerlayer.com/terms-of-use", "https://tickerlayer.com/about" ] } }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.json", "live": { "slug": "tickerlayer", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-11T06:48:11.628584391Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 143, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 150, "p95ms24h": 222, "samples24h": 41, "samples30d": 41, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-11", "probes": 41, "ok": 41 } ], "since": "2026-11-11T02:53:34.214194678Z" }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.tickerlayer.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-11T05:35:55.448183455Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "tickerlayer", "version": "0.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-11T06:42:09.859295043Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "tickerlayer", "version": "0.1.0", "released": "2026-10-20", "seenAt": "2026-11-11T06:42:10.714909327Z" } ], "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": 6, "pypiWeekly": 5, "updatedAt": "2026-11-11T06:48:11.628584391Z" }, "streak": { "days": 0, "from": "2026-11-11", "sinceWatching": true, "best": 0 } } }