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Agents call the REST API at finnhub.io/api/v1 or the hosted MCP server at mcp.finnhub.io.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/finnhub", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/finnhub.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/finnhub.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/finnhub.json", "dns": "finnhub.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/Finnhub-Stock-API/finnhub-python", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "websocket" ], "remoteUrl": "https://finnhub.io/api/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "finnhub-python" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "finnhub" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "One API key per account from the dashboard after a browser signup. The docs accept it as a `token=` query parameter or an `X-Finnhub-Token` header; the Swagger document declares only the query form. The hosted MCP server at mcp.finnhub.io/mcp uses OAuth with the Finnhub account and fixed client ids (`claude`, `chatgpt`) with no secret, so the assistant never sees the key. No scopes, expiry or rotation guidance found.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free key at 60 API calls a minute for personal use with no card, covering 29 of 116 documented operations; 87 are marked premium. Self-serve plans by dataset, read from the pricing page's script data, run from $49.99 a month (market data Basic, 150 calls a minute) and $50 (fundamentals) to $3,500 a month for All-In-One at 900 market data and 300 fundamental calls a minute, all personal use. Enterprise is priced by contact, with commercial use and redistribution (https://finnhub.io/pricing, checked 2026-11-03).", "priceSummary": "$49.99 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Swagger document, the embedded docs, the pricing script data or the MCP page (checked 2026-11-03). A call without a key returns HTTP 401 with `{\"error\":\"Please use an API key.\"}`.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 70, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1095, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://finnhub.io/docs/api", "openapi": "https://finnhub.io/static/swagger.json", "capabilities": [ "market.prices", "market.fundamentals", "market.news", "market.filings", "market.history", "market.crypto", "market.indices", "data.markets", "data.company" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "api-key", "oauth", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "openapi", "no-card", "free-tier", "closed-source", "no-status-page", "python", "go", "typescript", "ruby", "php", "stocks", "forex", "crypto", "personal-use", "sla" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.1, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1217, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1520, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 48, "schema": 58, "security": 32, "transparency": 27 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A public Swagger document covers 116 endpoints, six official client libraries exist, and a free key gives 60 calls a minute with no card. The key is documented in the query string, no status page, changelog, error reference or privacy policy was found, and robots.txt kept the terms from our reader.", "bestFor": "Agents that need one key across quotes, fundamentals, estimates, filings and transcripts with official libraries, and a free key for prototypes.", "strengths": [ "Public Swagger 2.0 document with a description on every one of 116 operations and sample code in five languages", "Free key at 60 calls a minute with no card, and a documented 429 with a 30 calls a second ceiling", "Official libraries for Python, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, Kotlin and PHP, three updated on 2 November 2026", "Hosted MCP server with OAuth, 70 tools, and no key pasted into the client", "SLA stated as available for enterprise clients on the home page" ], "weaknesses": [ "The Swagger document declares the key only as a `token` query parameter, and the examples carry it in the URL", "No status page, changelog, error reference or privacy policy was found, and the terms page is disallowed by robots.txt", "87 of 116 operations are marked premium, and self-serve plans are sold per dataset with a $3,500 a month All-In-One", "No legal entity, address or governing law was found on any readable page", "Parameters carry allowed values in prose only, and responses are documented for 200 alone" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key as the `X-Finnhub-Token` header, not as `token=` in the URL, and keep under 30 calls a second on top of the plan's per-minute limit", "Check the `premium` marker before calling; a free key reaches 29 operations and the rest answer with an error", "Poll /quote sparingly; the docs say constant polling is not recommended and point to the websocket for real-time updates", "Expect 401 `{\"error\":\"Please use an API key.\"}` without a key and 429 over the limit; wait a minute before retrying, as the MCP page advises", "Self-serve plans are personal use; anything commercial needs the enterprise contact route" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 48, "schema": 58, "security": 32, "transparency": 8 }, "provenanceScore": 45, "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 finnhub-python", "http": "curl -H \"X-Finnhub-Token: $FINNHUB_API_KEY\" \"https://finnhub.io/api/v1/quote?symbol=AAPL\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "finnhub": { "url": "https://mcp.finnhub.io/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/market.prices", "tool": "https://letme.dev/finnhub" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Market data Basic, 150 calls a minute", "unit": "month", "usd": 49.99, "note": "personal use, billed quarterly" }, { "item": "Market data Standard, 300 calls a minute", "unit": "month", "usd": 129.99, "note": "personal use, billed quarterly" }, { "item": "Market data Professional, 900 calls a minute", "unit": "month", "usd": 199.99, "note": "personal use, billed annually" }, { "item": "Fundamentals, plan 1", "unit": "month", "usd": 50, "note": "personal use" }, { "item": "All-In-One, 900 market data and 300 fundamental calls a minute", "unit": "month", "usd": 3500, "note": "personal use" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Finnhub", "domain": "finnhub.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://finnhub.io/terms-of-service", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "No legal entity, address or governing law was found. The site names only Finnhub; the GitHub organisation gives New York, NY; the Swagger document's license field says Apache-2.0, which describes the document, not the data.", "finnhub.io/robots.txt disallows /terms-of-service and /faq for every crawler, so the terms were not read. The pricing page says each self-serve plan is Personal Use with the terms applying.", "/privacy and /about return 302 to the home page. No privacy policy was found.", "/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt return 302 to the home page, so none.", "No status page or changelog was found on the site, in the docs document or on the MCP page.", "RDAP for the .io domain answered without events, so the registration date is not recorded." ], "score": 45 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/finnhub.json", "live": { "slug": "finnhub", "probe": { "target": "https://finnhub.io/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-11T06:59:37.493275628Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 136, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 122, "p95ms24h": 224, "samples24h": 244, "samples30d": 1558, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 87, "ok": 87 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 243, "ok": 243 }, { "date": "2026-11-08", "probes": 243, "ok": 243 }, { "date": "2026-11-09", "probes": 243, "ok": 243 }, { "date": "2026-11-10", "probes": 244, "ok": 244 }, { "date": "2026-11-11", "probes": 72, "ok": 72 } ], "since": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "finnhub", "version": "2.0.16", "seenAt": "2026-11-11T05:57:09.56980886Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "finnhub-python", "version": "2.4.30", "released": "2026-11-05", "seenAt": "2026-11-11T05:57:09.382992226Z" } ], "githubStars": 1099, "npmWeekly": 2570, "pypiWeekly": 53754, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://finnhub.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:08:44.894381068Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "finnhub.io", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T14:48:14.411644148Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://finnhub.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:20:47.359594342Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8e51e0791db6" }, { "url": "https://finnhub.io/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 0, "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:20:49.528093979Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "blockedByRobots": true } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.finnhub.io/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-11T02:41:09.166795698Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:44:35.999434229Z" }, "github": { "repo": "finnhub-stock-api/finnhub-python", "checkedAt": "2026-11-09T09:45:41.022477289Z", "stars": 1099, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-11-05T14:38:35Z", "openIssues": 39, "openPRs": 3, "issuesOpened90d": 0, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 0, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 24, "medianDays": 0 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-11T06:59:37.493275628Z" }, "streak": { "days": 7, "from": "2026-11-04", "sinceWatching": true, "best": 7 } }, "answer": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Finnhub's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "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" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-10" }, "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 } }, "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" }, "area": "domain-data", "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 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.json", "live": { "slug": "tickerlayer", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-11T07:00:06.406304915Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 160, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 150, "p95ms24h": 222, "samples24h": 43, "samples30d": 43, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-11", "probes": 43, "ok": 43 } ], "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": "2026-11-11T07:00:06.406304915Z" }, "streak": { "days": 0, "from": "2026-11-11", "sinceWatching": true, "best": 0 } }, "edges": [ { "by": 62, "category": "payments", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public without login, read from the pricing page's script data, sold per dataset by the month with calls a minute rather than per call (10). A free key at 60 calls a minute with no card, which the pricing FAQ says can be used forever (20). The key comes from a browser signup and no key API was found (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.", "b": "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." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 92 } }, { "by": 30, "category": "schema", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "A public Swagger 2.0 document covers 116 paths with a description on every operation, declaring the key as a query parameter and a 200 response only; the MCP tools were not read (20 of 25). /llms.txt returns the site's HTML shell and no Markdown docs exist (0 of 10). Each operation states its purpose, a premium marker and, on quote, advice against polling, with little on when not to use it (14 of 20). Required flags and types are set on 248 parameters, but allowed values such as news categories sit in description text and no enum is declared (8 of 15). Every operation has example URLs and sample code in five languages, while the only documented error is the 429 (9 of 15). The path carries v1 and no changelog or dated change notes were found (7 of 15). 20 + 0 + 14 + 8 + 9 + 7 = 58.", "b": "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." }, "scores": { "a": 58, "b": 88 } }, { "by": 23, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "The REST API is the surface graded. `from` and `to` on candles and news, and symbol-scoped calls, size responses; no field selection, and the MCP server lists 70 tools (12 of 25). Date filters but no pagination on most lists (10 of 20). Only the 429 is documented; a missing key answered 401 with a JSON `error` field in our one test call (5 of 20). All but one operation are GET reads; the MCP annotations were not read (14 of 20). Few required parameters and official libraries in six languages (15). 12 + 10 + 5 + 14 + 15 = 56.", "b": "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." }, "scores": { "a": 56, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 22, "category": "reliability", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page was found on the site, in the docs document or on the MCP page (0), so no incident history could be read (5). Limits are published with numbers, 60 calls a minute on the free key, 150 to 900 a minute by plan, and 30 calls a second on top of every plan (15). The docs say the limit answers 429 and the MCP page says to wait a minute, with no Retry-After or backoff guidance (8 of 15). The home page says 99.99 per cent uptime with an SLA available for enterprise clients (10). The API is generally available (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 8 + 10 + 10 = 48.", "b": "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." }, "scores": { "a": 48, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 19, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Read as a closed service. The newest dated change is 2 November 2026, when finnhub-go, finnhub-ruby and finnhub-php gained a price target history endpoint; the MCP page is dated 6 August 2026 (30). Only that one dated change falls in the last 90 days, the previous library commits being 22 June 2026 (5 of 20). Support by email, with no public changelog or community channel found (5 of 15). Six official client libraries, finnhub-python at 2.4.29 of 24 June 2026 (15). The libraries are generated from the API document; no CI run was visible and the Python README names an older version than PyPI (5 of 10). 30 + 5 + 5 + 15 + 5 = 60.", "b": "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." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 17, "category": "security", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "One key per account with no scopes, documented as `token=` in the query string or an `X-Finnhub-Token` header, and the Swagger document declares only the query form. The MCP server uses OAuth with fixed public client ids and keeps the key from the assistant (20 less 10 for the query string, plus 2 for the MCP route, so 12). Every data operation is a read (15 of 20). News, transcripts and filings are third-party text and no guidance was found (5 of 15). No usage log for the key holder was found (0 of 15). security.txt redirects to the home page and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found (0 of 20). 12 + 15 + 5 + 0 + 0 = 32.", "b": "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." }, "scores": { "a": 32, "b": 49 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Finnhub", "b": "TickerLayer", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://finnhub.io/api/v1", "b": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes, from $0.01/call", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "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", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "70", "b": "12", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "com.tickerlayer/market-data", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-11-02", "b": "2026-11-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "1.1k stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Finnhub's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Finnhub or TickerLayer?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay TickerLayer per call over x402, with no account.", "question": "Do Finnhub and TickerLayer need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Finnhub has a hosted endpoint at https://finnhub.io/api/v1 and TickerLayer at https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Finnhub and TickerLayer without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that need one key across quotes, fundamentals, estimates, filings and transcripts with official libraries, and a free key for prototypes.", "slug": "finnhub", "watchFor": "The Swagger document declares the key only as a `token` query parameter, and the examples carry it in the URL" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 70 against 48", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 58", "Agent ergonomics, 79 against 56", "Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 32", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 92 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 60", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 38 against 27" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "tickerlayer", "watchFor": "The data is derived and indicative from unnamed non-exchange sources, and no page says it is licensed from an exchange" } ], "history": null, "job": { "capability": "market.prices", "name": "Market prices" }, "others": [ { "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-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Benzinga vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-finnhub.json", "title": "Databento vs Finnhub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-finnhub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Databento vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "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/finnhub-vs-massive.json", "title": "Finnhub vs Massive (formerly Polygon.io)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-massive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tiingo.json", "title": "Finnhub vs Tiingo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tiingo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-twelve-data.json", "title": "Finnhub vs Twelve Data", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-twelve-data" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Intrinio vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massive-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Massive (formerly Polygon.io) vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massive-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-tiingo.json", "title": "TickerLayer vs Tiingo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-tiingo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-twelve-data.json", "title": "TickerLayer vs Twelve Data", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-twelve-data" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-finnhub.json", "title": "Eulerpool Financial Data API vs Finnhub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-finnhub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Eulerpool Financial Data API vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-finnhub.json", "title": "Financial Datasets vs Finnhub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-finnhub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Financial Datasets vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-modeling-prep-vs-finnhub.json", "title": "Financial Modeling Prep vs Finnhub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-modeling-prep-vs-finnhub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-modeling-prep-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "Financial Modeling Prep vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-modeling-prep-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-finnhub.json", "title": "EODHD vs Finnhub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-finnhub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-tickerlayer.json", "title": "EODHD vs TickerLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-tickerlayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-finnhub.json", "title": "Benzinga vs Finnhub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-finnhub" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 22, "edge": "tickerlayer", "finnhub": 48, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "tickerlayer": 70, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "tickerlayer", "finnhub": 58, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "tickerlayer": 88, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 23, "edge": "tickerlayer", "finnhub": 56, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "tickerlayer": 79, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "tickerlayer", "finnhub": 32, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "tickerlayer": 49, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 62, "edge": "tickerlayer", "finnhub": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "tickerlayer": 92, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 19, "edge": "tickerlayer", "finnhub": 60, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "tickerlayer": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "tickerlayer", "finnhub": 27, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "tickerlayer": 38, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Finnhub's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do market prices. TickerLayer accepts x402. Finnhub doesn't.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "finnhub": "A public Swagger document covers 116 endpoints, six official client libraries exist, and a free key gives 60 calls a minute with no card. The key is documented in the query string, no status page, changelog, error reference or privacy policy was found, and robots.txt kept the terms from our reader.", "tickerlayer": "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tickerlayer", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tickerlayer.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tickerlayer.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tickerlayer.min.md" }, "markdown": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Finnhub's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do market prices. TickerLayer accepts x402. Finnhub doesn't.\n\n- Finnhub: grade E, 45.1/100, rank #1217 of 1520. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/finnhub.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/finnhub.json\n- TickerLayer: grade BB, 71.5/100, rank #160 of 1520. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tickerlayer.json\n- Best financial market data APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/market-data/index.md\n- All 78 markets comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/market-data/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Finnhub (E)\n\nGood for: Agents that need one key across quotes, fundamentals, estimates, filings and transcripts with official libraries, and a free key for prototypes.\n\nWatch for: The Swagger document declares the key only as a `token` query parameter, and the examples carry it in the URL\n\n### TickerLayer (BB)\n\nGood for: 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 48\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 58\n- Agent ergonomics, 79 against 56\n- Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 32\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 92 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 60\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 38 against 27\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account\n\nWatch for: The data is derived and indicative from unnamed non-exchange sources, and no page says it is licensed from an exchange\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: TickerLayer +62\n\n- Finnhub (30): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public without login, read from the pricing page's script data, sold per dataset by the month with calls a minute rather than per call (10). A free key at 60 calls a minute with no card, which the pricing FAQ says can be used forever (20). The key comes from a browser signup and no key API was found (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.\n- TickerLayer (92): 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.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: TickerLayer +30\n\n- Finnhub (58): A public Swagger 2.0 document covers 116 paths with a description on every operation, declaring the key as a query parameter and a 200 response only; the MCP tools were not read (20 of 25). /llms.txt returns the site's HTML shell and no Markdown docs exist (0 of 10). Each operation states its purpose, a premium marker and, on quote, advice against polling, with little on when not to use it (14 of 20). Required flags and types are set on 248 parameters, but allowed values such as news categories sit in description text and no enum is declared (8 of 15). Every operation has example URLs and sample code in five languages, while the only documented error is the 429 (9 of 15). The path carries v1 and no changelog or dated change notes were found (7 of 15). 20 + 0 + 14 + 8 + 9 + 7 = 58.\n- TickerLayer (88): 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.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: TickerLayer +23\n\n- Finnhub (56): The REST API is the surface graded. `from` and `to` on candles and news, and symbol-scoped calls, size responses; no field selection, and the MCP server lists 70 tools (12 of 25). Date filters but no pagination on most lists (10 of 20). Only the 429 is documented; a missing key answered 401 with a JSON `error` field in our one test call (5 of 20). All but one operation are GET reads; the MCP annotations were not read (14 of 20). Few required parameters and official libraries in six languages (15). 12 + 10 + 5 + 14 + 15 = 56.\n- TickerLayer (79): 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.\n\n### Reliability: TickerLayer +22\n\n- Finnhub (48): Read with the hosted lines. No status page was found on the site, in the docs document or on the MCP page (0), so no incident history could be read (5). Limits are published with numbers, 60 calls a minute on the free key, 150 to 900 a minute by plan, and 30 calls a second on top of every plan (15). The docs say the limit answers 429 and the MCP page says to wait a minute, with no Retry-After or backoff guidance (8 of 15). The home page says 99.99 per cent uptime with an SLA available for enterprise clients (10). The API is generally available (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 8 + 10 + 10 = 48.\n- TickerLayer (70): 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.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: TickerLayer +19\n\n- Finnhub (60): Read as a closed service. The newest dated change is 2 November 2026, when finnhub-go, finnhub-ruby and finnhub-php gained a price target history endpoint; the MCP page is dated 6 August 2026 (30). Only that one dated change falls in the last 90 days, the previous library commits being 22 June 2026 (5 of 20). Support by email, with no public changelog or community channel found (5 of 15). Six official client libraries, finnhub-python at 2.4.29 of 24 June 2026 (15). The libraries are generated from the API document; no CI run was visible and the Python README names an older version than PyPI (5 of 10). 30 + 5 + 5 + 15 + 5 = 60.\n- TickerLayer (79): 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.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: TickerLayer +17\n\n- Finnhub (32): One key per account with no scopes, documented as `token=` in the query string or an `X-Finnhub-Token` header, and the Swagger document declares only the query form. The MCP server uses OAuth with fixed public client ids and keeps the key from the assistant (20 less 10 for the query string, plus 2 for the MCP route, so 12). Every data operation is a read (15 of 20). News, transcripts and filings are third-party text and no guidance was found (5 of 15). No usage log for the key holder was found (0 of 15). security.txt redirects to the home page and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found (0 of 20). 12 + 15 + 5 + 0 + 0 = 32.\n- TickerLayer (49): 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.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Finnhub | TickerLayer | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 48 | 70 | TickerLayer +22 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 88 | TickerLayer +30 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 79 | TickerLayer +23 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 32 | 49 | TickerLayer +17 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 92 | TickerLayer +62 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 79 | TickerLayer +19 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 27 | 38 | TickerLayer +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.1 · E** | **71.5 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Finnhub | TickerLayer |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Finnhub | TickerLayer |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://finnhub.io/api/v1` | `https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | yes, from $0.01/call |\n| Licence | none | 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 |\n| Tools exposed | 70 | 12 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `com.tickerlayer/market-data` |\n| Last release | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-06 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | not read yet |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | not read yet |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not read yet |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not read yet |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not read yet |\n| Popularity | 1.1k stars | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Finnhub.** A public Swagger document covers 116 endpoints, six official client libraries exist, and a free key gives 60 calls a minute with no card. The key is documented in the query string, no status page, changelog, error reference or privacy policy was found, and robots.txt kept the terms from our reader.\n\n**TickerLayer.** 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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Finnhub\n\n1. Send the key as the `X-Finnhub-Token` header, not as `token=` in the URL, and keep under 30 calls a second on top of the plan's per-minute limit\n2. Check the `premium` marker before calling; a free key reaches 29 operations and the rest answer with an error\n3. Poll /quote sparingly; the docs say constant polling is not recommended and point to the websocket for real-time updates\n4. Expect 401 `{\"error\":\"Please use an API key.\"}` without a key and 429 over the limit; wait a minute before retrying, as the MCP page advises\n5. Self-serve plans are personal use; anything commercial needs the enterprise contact route\n\n### TickerLayer\n\n1. Write stocks as `COUNTRY:TICKER`, such as `US:KO`, and always pass `asset_class` to the data tools.\n2. If a 429 carries `REST_QUOTA_EXCEEDED`, stop and tell the user. Waiting doesn't reset the monthly quota.\n3. Present prices as indicative TickerLayer values, never as official exchange prices.\n4. Call `get_market_status` before you report a quiet symbol as missing data.\n5. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header, never as the `apiKey` query parameter.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Finnhub or TickerLayer?\n\nTickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Finnhub's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Finnhub and TickerLayer need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay TickerLayer per call over x402, with no account.\n\n### Can an agent call Finnhub and TickerLayer without installing anything?\n\nYes. Finnhub has a hosted endpoint at https://finnhub.io/api/v1 and TickerLayer at https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tickerlayer.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tickerlayer.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"finnhub\", \"b\": \"tickerlayer\"}`. 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