{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "alpha-vantage", "name": "Alpha Vantage", "vendor": "Alpha Vantage Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.alphavantage.co", "kind": "http-api", "category": "market-data", "summary": "Alpha Vantage is a market data API for stocks, options, indices, forex, crypto, commodities, fundamentals, news sentiment, economic series and technical indicators. Agents call one REST endpoint with a function name, or the official MCP server at mcp.alphavantage.co.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alpha-vantage", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alpha-vantage.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alpha-vantage.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/alpha-vantage.json", "dns": "alpha-vantage.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/alphavantage/alpha_vantage_mcp", "license": "Proprietary service under Alpha Vantage's Terms of Service. The MCP server, CLI and shared client in alphavantage/alpha_vantage_mcp are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://www.alphavantage.co/query", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "marketdata-mcp-server" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "marketdata-cli" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve key. A form at alphavantage.co/support/#api-key asks for a name, an organisation and an email address and returns a free key. REST calls send it as `apikey=` in the query string, the only method the documentation shows. One key per account, no scopes. To replace a key the pages tell users to email support. The hosted MCP server takes OAuth 2 (authorisation code with PKCE, dynamic client registration, one scope `alphavantage:read`), where the user enters the key on a consent page. An `?apikey=` MCP URL still works and is marked deprecated.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free key at 25 requests a day with no card, covering most functions. Premium plans are priced by requests a minute with no daily limit, $49.99 a month for 75 up to $249.99 for 1,200, or ten times the monthly price a year (https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/). Real-time and 15-minute delayed US data need a premium plan and a separate entitlement step. Commercial use is by written agreement with no public price (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$49.99 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API documentation, the premium page or the MCP server repository (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 217, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 172, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/", "registryName": "io.github.alphavantage/alpha_vantage_mcp", "capabilities": [ "market.prices", "market.history", "market.fundamentals", "market.news", "data.markets", "market.indices", "market.crypto", "data.company" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "api-key", "mcp", "oauth", "official", "python", "stocks", "forex", "crypto", "personal-use" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-03", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 41.5, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1197, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 63, "payments": 30, "reliability": 30, "schema": 46, "security": 32, "transparency": 50 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One GET endpoint covers about 130 documented functions, with a free key at 25 requests a day and an official MCP server whose tools are all marked read-only. The REST key travels only in the query string, errors come back as HTTP 200 with a text message, and no status page, SLA or OpenAPI document was found.", "bestFor": "A personal research or analysis agent that wants many asset classes, fundamentals, indicators and news sentiment from one key at a flat price.", "strengths": [ "About 130 documented functions behind one GET endpoint, each with demo URLs and sample code in Python, NodeJS, PHP and C#", "Free key at 25 requests a day with no card, and five public monthly plans from $49.99 (75 requests a minute) to $249.99 (1,200)", "Official MIT MCP server, hosted at `mcp.alphavantage.co/mcp` with OAuth (PKCE, dynamic client registration, one `alphavantage:read` scope) and read-only hints on every tool", "`outputsize=compact` returns the latest 100 points, and the MCP server caps a response preview at 32,000 tokens by default", "The vendor says it holds a Nasdaq licence for real-time and 15-minute delayed US data, and the terms name FRED as the source of economic and commodity series" ], "weaknesses": [ "The REST key is documented only as `apikey=` in the query string, with no scopes and no self-service rotation found", "Errors and limit notices return HTTP 200 with an `Error Message` or `Information` text field. No error reference, 429 or Retry-After guidance was found", "No status page, SLA, OpenAPI document, llms.txt, API version or API changelog was found", "The terms grant personal, non-commercial use only. Use on behalf of a company needs a written agreement", "PyPI still serves `marketdata-mcp-server` 0.3.1 from 16 March 2026, and an issue open since 4 September 2026 reports that it crashes on startup" ], "agentNotes": [ "Check every 200 response for `Error Message`, `Information` or `Note` keys before parsing data. The API does not signal failures or limits by status code", "Budget 25 requests a day on a free key. Real-time, 15-minute delayed and intraday US data, index data and several indicators need a premium plan", "Keep `outputsize=compact` unless full history is needed, and ask for `datatype=csv` on long series to cut tokens", "Use the hosted MCP server with OAuth at `https://mcp.alphavantage.co/mcp`. 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The site footer gives Boston, Massachusetts.", "The terms and the privacy policy are each served as a PDF at the URL given, so a reader that skips PDFs will not read them. The privacy policy is dated 25 August 2025. The terms carry no date, and the file's metadata shows a change on 27 August 2026.", "www.alphavantage.co/.well-known/security.txt and /robots.txt both return 404.", "No status page was found. The site links none, and status.alphavantage.co does not present a valid certificate.", "The changelog link is the MCP server's. No changelog for the REST API was found.", "No RDAP service answered for the .co domain, so the registration date is not recorded. 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Alpha Vantage leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "intrinio", "name": "Intrinio", "vendor": "Intrinio, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://intrinio.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "market-data", "summary": "Intrinio is a US financial data API from Intrinio, Inc. with stock prices, options, fundamentals, filings, estimates and news for US securities, through a REST API, websockets, SDKs in six languages and a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/intrinio", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/intrinio.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/intrinio.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/intrinio.json", "dns": "intrinio.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/intrinio/python-sdk", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api-v2.intrinio.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "intrinio-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key from the account page, sent as `api_key` in the query string or as `Authorization: Bearer`. Separate public keys for client-side code are restricted to listed domains and sent as `X-Authorization-Public-Key`. The hosted MCP server at intrinio-mcp.intrinio.com uses OAuth 2 with PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration, a revocation endpoint and one scope, `intrinio`. No key rotation or expiry documented.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Individual plan $150 a month, personal use only, no redistribution or display. Startup plan from $333 a month billed quarterly, rising to $666 after six months and $999 after twelve, with commercial use and display rights. Enterprise from $1,250 a month with an SLA, by consultation. Both self-serve plans say a free trial is available; the trial length and whether a card is needed were not found. The MCP server is included with all plans.", "priceSummary": "$150 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API documentation, pricing page, MCP page or terms (checked 2026-11-03).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 76, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.intrinio.com/documentation/api_v2/getting_started", "capabilities": [ "market.prices", "market.fundamentals", "market.filings", "market.news", "market.history", "market.indices", "data.markets", "data.company" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "paid", "free-trial", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "oauth", "status-page", "python", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-05-27", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 879, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 20, "reliability": 83, "schema": 43, "security": 35, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A read-only US equities, options and fundamentals API with a clean status history, SDKs in six languages, paging up to 10,000 records and an OAuth MCP server included in every plan. The REST key is documented in the query string, no OpenAPI document or llms.txt was found, the version history is undated, and plans start at $150 a month.", "bestFor": "An agent doing US equity, options and fundamentals research on a paid plan that wants one vendor for prices, filings, estimates and an OAuth MCP server.", "strengths": [ "Statuspage at status.intrinio.com with no incident since 24 June 2026", "Hosted MCP server with OAuth 2 PKCE, dynamic client registration and a revocation endpoint, described as read-only and included with all plans", "Paging up to 10,000 records a page with a `next_page` token, and SDKs for Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, R and Ruby", "Plan prices published without a login, from $150 a month, with a free trial on the Individual and Startup plans", "Response codes documented, with 429 for limits and 503 for throttling or the 25-second timeout" ], "weaknesses": [ "The API key is documented as `api_key` in the query string as the first option, with no scopes, rotation or expiry found", "No OpenAPI document, llms.txt or Markdown docs for agents were found; the SDKs are generated from a spec that isn't published", "The version history lists API 2.0.0 to 2.6.2 with no dates, and the SDK declares API version 2.135.4", "No security.txt, bug bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 was found, and the privacy policy of 30 June 2018 names no retention periods or subprocessors", "Individual plans are personal use only, and display or redistribution needs a Startup or Enterprise order form" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key as `Authorization: Bearer`, not `?api_key=`, so it stays out of logs", "Expect 403 for a data feed the account isn't subscribed to, 429 with an explanation when a limit is hit, and 503 when a request passes 25 seconds; shrink the query rather than retry at once", "Keep `page_size` at 100 or below unless the plan is paid, since larger pages are limited to one request a minute on free feeds", "Confirm the plan before displaying or passing Intrinio data to anyone else; the Individual plan forbids it", "The MCP server returns a message naming the product that unlocks data outside the plan; don't retry the same call" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 20, "reliability": 83, "schema": 43, "security": 35, "transparency": 31 }, "provenanceScore": 71, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-03", "maintenance": "2026-11-03", "payments": "2026-11-03", "reliability": "2026-11-03", "schema": "2026-11-03", "security": "2026-11-03", "transparency": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install intrinio-sdk", "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: Bearer $INTRINIO_API_KEY\" \"https://api-v2.intrinio.com/securities/AAPL/prices\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http intrinio https://intrinio-mcp.intrinio.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "intrinio": { "url": "https://intrinio-mcp.intrinio.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/market.prices", "tool": "https://letme.dev/intrinio" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Individual plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 150, "note": "personal use only, monthly billing" }, { "item": "Startup plan, first six months", "unit": "month", "usd": 333, "note": "billed quarterly; $666 for the next six months, $999 a month after that" }, { "item": "Enterprise plan, from", "unit": "month", "usd": 1250, "note": "custom terms, by consultation" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Intrinio, Inc.", "domain": "intrinio.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://about.intrinio.com/terms", "privacy": "https://about.intrinio.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.intrinio.com", "changelog": "https://docs.intrinio.com/documentation/api_v2/version_history", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "Intrinio, Inc. is named as a Delaware corporation in the terms (effective 3 September 2026) and the privacy policy (effective 30 June 2018), both under Florida law.", "The terms have no clause on automated reading of the website. Section 8(f) forbids software designed to collect information from the Services, and section 2.3 applies the data restrictions to AI and machine learning systems.", "intrinio.com/robots.txt disallows /docs/* for all crawlers, so the documentation was read at docs.intrinio.com, whose robots.txt allows everything. about.intrinio.com, ascend.intrinio.com and status.intrinio.com allow everything.", "RDAP for intrinio.com was refused (403 from rdap.org), so the registration date is unchecked.", "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404 on intrinio.com. docs.intrinio.com/llms.txt and intrinio.com/llms.txt return 404.", "The MCP server's OAuth metadata was read at /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server and /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource; no MCP session was opened." ], "score": 71 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/intrinio.json", "live": { "slug": "intrinio", "probe": { "target": "https://api-v2.intrinio.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-04T20:05:06.978481043Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 862, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 435, "p95ms24h": 1129, "samples24h": 48, "samples30d": 48, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 48, "ok": 48 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.intrinio.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T20:05:16.899252755Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://intrinio.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:53:22.904326032Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T20:05:06.978481043Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 53, "category": "reliability", "leads": "intrinio", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Graded as a hosted service. No status page was found. The site links none and status.alphavantage.co has no valid certificate (0). With no page there is no incident history to read (5). Limits are published with numbers, 25 requests a day on a free key and 75 to 1,200 a minute on premium plans (15). No 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance was found, and in our test calls a missing key and an unknown function both returned HTTP 200 with a text field (0). No SLA was found, and the terms supply the service as is (0). The REST API is generally available (10). Total 30.", "b": "Graded as a hosted service. Atlassian Statuspage at status.intrinio.com with APIv2 and APIv1 components (20). The incident feed's newest entry is a delayed SIP feed for CTA on 24 June 2026, so the 90 days to 3 November are clean (30). Limits are published in part. Pages above 100 records and bulk requests are 1 a minute on free feeds and 1 a second on paid ones, free feeds are throttled at 100 requests a second, and the daily and per-minute caps for a plan are shown only on the account page (8 of 15). A 429 carries an explanation of the limit and a 503 marks throttling or the 25-second timeout, with no Retry-After or backoff guidance (5 of 15). The Enterprise plan lists an SLA (10). The REST API is generally available (10). Total 83." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 83 } }, { "by": 16, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "intrinio", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "`outputsize=compact` returns the latest 100 points, `datatype=csv` shortens long series, and the MCP server previews anything over 32,000 tokens with a link to the full data. No field selection (15 of 25). `limit` and time filters on news and a `month` parameter for intraday history, with no pagination elsewhere (10 of 20). Errors and limit notices arrive as HTTP 200 with free text under `Error Message` or `Information`, undocumented (5 of 20). Every call is a GET read, and all MCP tools carry readOnlyHint true and destructiveHint false (16 of 20). Few required parameters and sensible defaults. No official SDK, only a Python CLI and community libraries (8 of 15). Total 54.", "b": "`page_size` from 100 up to 10,000 sizes a response, and the MCP server batches ticker lists, but there is no field selection (15 of 25). `next_page` tokens, date and symbol filters on the data endpoints (18 of 20). Response codes are documented, 403 for an unsubscribed feed and 429 with a limit explanation, with no error body format or error code reference (10 of 20). Every call is a read and the vendor says the MCP server writes nothing back, but no readOnlyHint or safe-retry guidance was found (12 of 20). Few required parameters, and official SDKs in Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, R and Ruby (15). Total 70." }, "scores": { "a": 54, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "payments", "leads": "alpha-vantage", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Five monthly plans are public with prices, sold by requests a minute and not by call (10). A free key gives 25 requests a day with no card (20). The key comes from a browser form that asks for a name and an email address, and no key API was found (0). Total 30.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public without a login, $150, $333 rising to $999, and $1,250 and up, with no per-call price (10). Both self-serve plans say a free trial is available, and the trial length and card requirement were not found on the pricing, plan or terms pages, since the plan pages are drawn by script (10 of 20). A person signs up in a browser; no key API was found (0). Total 20." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 20 } }, { "by": 7, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "intrinio", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "The MCP server repository, which a workflow deploys to the hosted server, had its last commit on 3 October 2026, and the site footer says it was updated in October 2026 (30). No tags, and the newest PyPI release is 17 March 2026, so there are no dated releases in the last 90 days, though the repository shows over 30 commits since 21 July (8 of 20). Pull requests 14 and 18 were merged within a day and issue 16 closed in a day, while issue 17, a reported startup crash, has been open since 4 September. Support is by email (10 of 25). The server sits in the official MCP registry under the vendor's GitHub namespace, with no official SDKs (12 of 15). The published package leaves its `mcp` dependency unpinned, and the workflows deploy and publish without a visible test run (3 of 10). Total 63.", "b": "The six real-time websocket SDK repositories were pushed between 22 and 29 October 2026, and the MCP server is labelled New on the vendor's page (30). The last tagged release found is intrinio-sdk 7.2.0 on PyPI on 27 May 2026, following 7.0.0 on 2 March and 7.1.0 on 24 March; the October pushes have no tags or dated changelog entries, and the API version history carries no dates (10 of 20). Support is live chat through HubSpot, an AI chat and support@intrinio.com, with a status page; GitHub issue activity was not read (8 of 15). Official SDKs are current in six languages (15). The Python SDK is generated by swagger-codegen with CI not checked (7 of 10). Total 70." }, "scores": { "a": 63, "b": 70 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Alpha Vantage Inc.", "b": "Intrinio, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://www.alphavantage.co/query", "b": "https://api-v2.intrinio.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Alpha Vantage's Terms of Service. The MCP server, CLI and shared client in alphavantage/alpha_vantage_mcp are MIT", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.alphavantage/alpha_vantage_mcp", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-03", "b": "2026-05-27", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "217 stars, 172 PyPI/wk", "b": "76 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Intrinio scores 54.2 (C) on agent readiness against Alpha Vantage's 41.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Alpha Vantage leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Alpha Vantage or Intrinio?" }, { "answer": "Alpha Vantage takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Intrinio needs an API key.", "question": "Do Alpha Vantage and Intrinio need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Alpha Vantage has a hosted endpoint at https://www.alphavantage.co/query and Intrinio at https://api-v2.intrinio.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Alpha Vantage and Intrinio without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "A personal research or analysis agent that wants many asset classes, fundamentals, indicators and news sentiment from one key at a flat price.", "slug": "alpha-vantage", "watchFor": "The REST key is documented only as `apikey=` in the query string, with no scopes and no self-service rotation found" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 83 against 30", "Agent ergonomics, 70 against 54", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 63" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent doing US equity, options and fundamentals research on a paid plan that wants one vendor for prices, filings, estimates and an OAuth MCP server.", "slug": "intrinio", "watchFor": "The API key is documented as `api_key` in the query string as the first option, with no scopes, rotation or expiry found" } ], "history": { "alpha-vantage": [ { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0.2, "from": 41.3, "fromGrade": "E", "to": 41.5, "toGrade": "E" } ], "intrinio": null }, "job": { "capability": "market.prices", "name": "Market prices" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-benzinga.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs Benzinga", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-benzinga" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-databento.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs Databento", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-databento" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-eodhd.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs EODHD", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-eodhd" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-financial-datasets.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs Financial Datasets", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-financial-datasets" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-financial-modeling-prep.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs Financial Modeling Prep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-financial-modeling-prep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-finnhub.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs Finnhub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-finnhub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-massive.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs Massive (formerly Polygon.io)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-massive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-tiingo.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs Tiingo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-tiingo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-twelve-data.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs Twelve Data", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-twelve-data" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-intrinio.json", "title": "Databento vs Intrinio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-intrinio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-intrinio.json", "title": "Finnhub vs Intrinio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-intrinio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-massive.json", "title": "Intrinio vs Massive (formerly Polygon.io)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-massive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tiingo.json", "title": "Intrinio vs Tiingo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tiingo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-twelve-data.json", "title": "Intrinio vs Twelve Data", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-twelve-data" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-intrinio.json", "title": "Financial Datasets vs Intrinio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-intrinio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-modeling-prep-vs-intrinio.json", "title": "Financial Modeling Prep vs Intrinio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-modeling-prep-vs-intrinio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-intrinio.json", "title": "EODHD vs Intrinio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-intrinio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-intrinio.json", "title": "Benzinga vs Intrinio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-intrinio" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "alpha-vantage": 30, "by": 53, "edge": "intrinio", "intrinio": 83, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "alpha-vantage": 46, "by": 3, "edge": "alpha-vantage", "intrinio": 43, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "alpha-vantage": 54, "by": 16, "edge": "intrinio", "intrinio": 70, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "alpha-vantage": 32, "by": 3, "edge": "intrinio", "intrinio": 35, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "alpha-vantage": 30, "by": 10, "edge": "alpha-vantage", "intrinio": 20, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "alpha-vantage": 63, "by": 7, "edge": "intrinio", "intrinio": 70, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "alpha-vantage": 50, "by": 1, "edge": "intrinio", "intrinio": 51, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Intrinio scores 54.2 (C) on agent readiness against Alpha Vantage's 41.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Alpha Vantage leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do market prices.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "alpha-vantage": "One GET endpoint covers about 130 documented functions, with a free key at 25 requests a day and an official MCP server whose tools are all marked read-only. The REST key travels only in the query string, errors come back as HTTP 200 with a text message, and no status page, SLA or OpenAPI document was found.", "intrinio": "A read-only US equities, options and fundamentals API with a clean status history, SDKs in six languages, paging up to 10,000 records and an OAuth MCP server included in every plan. The REST key is documented in the query string, no OpenAPI document or llms.txt was found, the version history is undated, and plans start at $150 a month." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-intrinio", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-intrinio.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-intrinio.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-intrinio.min.md" }, "markdown": "Intrinio scores 54.2 (C) on agent readiness against Alpha Vantage's 41.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Alpha Vantage leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do market prices.\n\n- Alpha Vantage: grade E, 41.5/100, rank #1197 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alpha-vantage.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/alpha-vantage.json\n- Intrinio: grade C, 54.2/100, rank #879 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/intrinio.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/intrinio.json\n- Best financial market data APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/market-data/index.md\n- All 55 markets comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/market-data/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Alpha Vantage (E)\n\nGood for: A personal research or analysis agent that wants many asset classes, fundamentals, indicators and news sentiment from one key at a flat price.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: The REST key is documented only as `apikey=` in the query string, with no scopes and no self-service rotation found\n\n### Intrinio (C)\n\nGood for: An agent doing US equity, options and fundamentals research on a paid plan that wants one vendor for prices, filings, estimates and an OAuth MCP server.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 83 against 30\n- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 54\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 63\n\nWatch for: The API key is documented as `api_key` in the query string as the first option, with no scopes, rotation or expiry found\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Intrinio +53\n\n- Alpha Vantage (30): Graded as a hosted service. No status page was found. The site links none and status.alphavantage.co has no valid certificate (0). With no page there is no incident history to read (5). Limits are published with numbers, 25 requests a day on a free key and 75 to 1,200 a minute on premium plans (15). No 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance was found, and in our test calls a missing key and an unknown function both returned HTTP 200 with a text field (0). No SLA was found, and the terms supply the service as is (0). The REST API is generally available (10). Total 30.\n- Intrinio (83): Graded as a hosted service. Atlassian Statuspage at status.intrinio.com with APIv2 and APIv1 components (20). The incident feed's newest entry is a delayed SIP feed for CTA on 24 June 2026, so the 90 days to 3 November are clean (30). Limits are published in part. Pages above 100 records and bulk requests are 1 a minute on free feeds and 1 a second on paid ones, free feeds are throttled at 100 requests a second, and the daily and per-minute caps for a plan are shown only on the account page (8 of 15). A 429 carries an explanation of the limit and a 503 marks throttling or the 25-second timeout, with no Retry-After or backoff guidance (5 of 15). The Enterprise plan lists an SLA (10). The REST API is generally available (10). Total 83.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Intrinio +16\n\n- Alpha Vantage (54): `outputsize=compact` returns the latest 100 points, `datatype=csv` shortens long series, and the MCP server previews anything over 32,000 tokens with a link to the full data. No field selection (15 of 25). `limit` and time filters on news and a `month` parameter for intraday history, with no pagination elsewhere (10 of 20). Errors and limit notices arrive as HTTP 200 with free text under `Error Message` or `Information`, undocumented (5 of 20). Every call is a GET read, and all MCP tools carry readOnlyHint true and destructiveHint false (16 of 20). Few required parameters and sensible defaults. No official SDK, only a Python CLI and community libraries (8 of 15). Total 54.\n- Intrinio (70): `page_size` from 100 up to 10,000 sizes a response, and the MCP server batches ticker lists, but there is no field selection (15 of 25). `next_page` tokens, date and symbol filters on the data endpoints (18 of 20). Response codes are documented, 403 for an unsubscribed feed and 429 with a limit explanation, with no error body format or error code reference (10 of 20). Every call is a read and the vendor says the MCP server writes nothing back, but no readOnlyHint or safe-retry guidance was found (12 of 20). Few required parameters, and official SDKs in Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, R and Ruby (15). Total 70.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Alpha Vantage +10\n\n- Alpha Vantage (30): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Five monthly plans are public with prices, sold by requests a minute and not by call (10). A free key gives 25 requests a day with no card (20). The key comes from a browser form that asks for a name and an email address, and no key API was found (0). Total 30.\n- Intrinio (20): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public without a login, $150, $333 rising to $999, and $1,250 and up, with no per-call price (10). Both self-serve plans say a free trial is available, and the trial length and card requirement were not found on the pricing, plan or terms pages, since the plan pages are drawn by script (10 of 20). A person signs up in a browser; no key API was found (0). Total 20.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Intrinio +7\n\n- Alpha Vantage (63): The MCP server repository, which a workflow deploys to the hosted server, had its last commit on 3 October 2026, and the site footer says it was updated in October 2026 (30). No tags, and the newest PyPI release is 17 March 2026, so there are no dated releases in the last 90 days, though the repository shows over 30 commits since 21 July (8 of 20). Pull requests 14 and 18 were merged within a day and issue 16 closed in a day, while issue 17, a reported startup crash, has been open since 4 September. Support is by email (10 of 25). The server sits in the official MCP registry under the vendor's GitHub namespace, with no official SDKs (12 of 15). The published package leaves its `mcp` dependency unpinned, and the workflows deploy and publish without a visible test run (3 of 10). Total 63.\n- Intrinio (70): The six real-time websocket SDK repositories were pushed between 22 and 29 October 2026, and the MCP server is labelled New on the vendor's page (30). The last tagged release found is intrinio-sdk 7.2.0 on PyPI on 27 May 2026, following 7.0.0 on 2 March and 7.1.0 on 24 March; the October pushes have no tags or dated changelog entries, and the API version history carries no dates (10 of 20). Support is live chat through HubSpot, an AI chat and support@intrinio.com, with a status page; GitHub issue activity was not read (8 of 15). Official SDKs are current in six languages (15). The Python SDK is generated by swagger-codegen with CI not checked (7 of 10). Total 70.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Alpha Vantage | Intrinio | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 83 | Intrinio +53 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 46 | 43 | Alpha Vantage +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 70 | Intrinio +16 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 32 | 35 | Intrinio +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | Alpha Vantage +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 70 | Intrinio +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 51 | Intrinio +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **41.5 · E** | **54.2 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Alpha Vantage | Intrinio |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Alpha Vantage Inc. | Intrinio, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://www.alphavantage.co/query` | `https://api-v2.intrinio.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Alpha Vantage's Terms of Service. The MCP server, CLI and shared client in alphavantage/alpha_vantage_mcp are MIT | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.alphavantage/alpha_vantage_mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-03 | 2026-05-27 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Popularity | 217 stars, 172 PyPI/wk | 76 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Alpha Vantage\n\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n### Intrinio\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Alpha Vantage.** One GET endpoint covers about 130 documented functions, with a free key at 25 requests a day and an official MCP server whose tools are all marked read-only. The REST key travels only in the query string, errors come back as HTTP 200 with a text message, and no status page, SLA or OpenAPI document was found.\n\n**Intrinio.** A read-only US equities, options and fundamentals API with a clean status history, SDKs in six languages, paging up to 10,000 records and an OAuth MCP server included in every plan. The REST key is documented in the query string, no OpenAPI document or llms.txt was found, the version history is undated, and plans start at $150 a month.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Alpha Vantage\n\n1. Check every 200 response for `Error Message`, `Information` or `Note` keys before parsing data. The API does not signal failures or limits by status code\n2. Budget 25 requests a day on a free key. Real-time, 15-minute delayed and intraday US data, index data and several indicators need a premium plan\n3. Keep `outputsize=compact` unless full history is needed, and ask for `datatype=csv` on long series to cut tokens\n4. Use the hosted MCP server with OAuth at `https://mcp.alphavantage.co/mcp`. The `?apikey=` MCP URL is marked deprecated\n5. Confirm the owner's use is personal and non-commercial, or that a commercial agreement exists, before acting for a business\n\n### Intrinio\n\n1. Send the key as `Authorization: Bearer`, not `?api_key=`, so it stays out of logs\n2. Expect 403 for a data feed the account isn't subscribed to, 429 with an explanation when a limit is hit, and 503 when a request passes 25 seconds; shrink the query rather than retry at once\n3. Keep `page_size` at 100 or below unless the plan is paid, since larger pages are limited to one request a minute on free feeds\n4. Confirm the plan before displaying or passing Intrinio data to anyone else; the Individual plan forbids it\n5. The MCP server returns a message naming the product that unlocks data outside the plan; don't retry the same call\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Alpha Vantage or Intrinio?\n\nIntrinio scores 54.2 (C) on agent readiness against Alpha Vantage's 41.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Alpha Vantage leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Alpha Vantage and Intrinio need an API key?\n\nAlpha Vantage takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Intrinio needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Alpha Vantage and Intrinio without installing anything?\n\nYes. Alpha Vantage has a hosted endpoint at https://www.alphavantage.co/query and Intrinio at https://api-v2.intrinio.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-intrinio.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-intrinio.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"alpha-vantage\", \"b\": \"intrinio\"}`. 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