{ "data": { "a": { "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": 927, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1520, "categoryRank": 7, "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": "2026-11-11T06:59:42.943462232Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 728, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 425, "p95ms24h": 609, "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" }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.intrinio.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-11T06:55:03.648316751Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "intrinio/python-sdk", "version": "7.2.0", "released": "2026-05-27", "seenAt": "2026-11-11T06:06:09.675102715Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "intrinio-sdk", "version": "7.2.0", "released": "2026-05-27", "seenAt": "2026-11-11T06:06:09.488560017Z" } ], "githubStars": 76, "pypiWeekly": 6231, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://intrinio.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:08:04.93525976Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "intrinio.com", "registered": "2014-05-07", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/intrinio.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:05:02.383216455Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.intrinio.com/documentation/api_v2/version_history", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:17:20.836551552Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d9e737d18047" }, { "url": "https://about.intrinio.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:08:59.421517654Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e18a8dbacde3" }, { "url": "https://about.intrinio.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:09:01.613522859Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9a576ab844a9" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://intrinio-mcp.intrinio.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-11T02:41:57.033522825Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:45:24.579501992Z" }, "github": { "repo": "intrinio/python-sdk", "checkedAt": "2026-11-09T09:48:17.598240188Z", "stars": 76, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": false, "pushedAt": "2026-05-27T20:49:13Z", "openIssues": 0, "openPRs": 0, "issuesOpened90d": 0, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 0 }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-11T06:59:42.943462232Z" }, "streak": { "days": 7, "from": "2026-11-04", "sinceWatching": true, "best": 7 } }, "answer": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Intrinio's 54.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Intrinio leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.", "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": 72, "category": "payments", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "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.", "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": 20, "b": 92 } }, { "by": 45, "category": "schema", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "No OpenAPI document was found. The SDKs are generated from a spec that declares API version 2.135.4, but the spec itself isn't published, and the MCP server's tool definitions aren't in any public source (5 of 25). docs.intrinio.com/llms.txt and intrinio.com/llms.txt return 404, and there are no Markdown pages (0 of 10). Each endpoint page states what it returns with its parameters, with little on when not to use a call (12 of 20). Parameters are typed, with required ones marked and allowed values in prose (9 of 15). Code samples in six languages on every endpoint, and a response codes page that lists codes without a body format (10 of 15). The v2 path is versioned, but the version history lists 2.0.0 to 2.6.2 with no dates and is out of step with the SDK's API version (7 of 15). Total 43.", "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": 43, "b": 88 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "security", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "One account key with no scopes, documented first as `api_key` in the query string and second as a Bearer header, with no rotation or expiry found. Public keys for browsers are restricted to listed domains. The MCP server uses OAuth 2 with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, a revocation endpoint and one scope (20 less 10 for the query string, so 10). Every endpoint is a read and the MCP page says the server cannot trade or change the account (15 of 20). News bodies and filing text are third-party content, with no guidance on treating them as untrusted (5 of 15). The account page shows limits and usage per subscription; no per-call log was found (3 of 15). security.txt returns 404, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 was found. The privacy policy says the company processes data under the GDPR (2 of 20). Total 35.", "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": 35, "b": 49 } }, { "by": 13, "category": "reliability", "leads": "intrinio", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "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.", "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": 83, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 13, "category": "transparency", "leads": "intrinio", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "A closed service under terms effective 3 September 2026 that are clear on personal, internal and commercial use and name Intrinio, Inc. (15 of 30). The privacy policy is dated 30 June 2018, names no retention periods, subprocessors or DPA, and says only that connection details may be retained; the terms require deletion within 30 days of termination with an officer's certification (8 of 30). No deprecation policy, and the version history has no dates (3 of 20). Data is processed in the United States; no subprocessor list (5 of 20). Total 31.", "b": "The editorial half. A closed service whose terms of use, user agreement and market data disclaimer (all effective 3 November 2026) set out internal, commercial and redistribution rights by plan and a liability cap. They name no legal entity, address or governing law, so the contracting party is unknown. The plugin and npm client are MIT. Soldfetch took 10 in the same position (10 of 30). The privacy policy keeps WebSocket connection records for 7 days but gives no period for request and tool-call logs or account data after closure, says nothing on model training, names no transfer mechanism and has no DPA (12 of 30). No deprecation policy. The terms allow MCP tools to change 'with reasonable notice where practical' and the user agreement promises notice before a plan is materially reduced, and the changelog records changes after the fact. Kite took 4 (4 of 20). Subprocessors are given only as categories (hosting, authentication, card and crypto payments, email, an AI model for support replies), with analytics vendors deferred to the cookie policy, no data locations, and no named data suppliers (4 of 20). 10+12+4+4 = 30. The provenance half is computed from the provenance block." }, "scores": { "a": 51, "b": 38 } }, { "by": 9, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "tickerlayer", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "`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.", "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": 70, "b": 79 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Intrinio, Inc.", "b": "TickerLayer", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api-v2.intrinio.com", "b": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "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": "none", "b": "12", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "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": "2026-05-27", "b": "2026-11-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "76 stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Intrinio's 54.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Intrinio leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Intrinio or TickerLayer?" }, { "answer": "Intrinio needs an API key. TickerLayer takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay TickerLayer per call over x402, with no account.", "question": "Do Intrinio and TickerLayer need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Intrinio has a hosted endpoint at https://api-v2.intrinio.com and TickerLayer at https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Intrinio and TickerLayer without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 83 against 70", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 51 against 38" ], "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" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 43", "Agent ergonomics, 79 against 70", "Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 35", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 92 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 70" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account", "Free to start without a card" ], "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-intrinio.json", "title": "Alpha Vantage vs Intrinio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-intrinio" }, { "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": 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"panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 13, "edge": "intrinio", "intrinio": 83, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "tickerlayer": 70, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 45, "edge": "tickerlayer", "intrinio": 43, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "tickerlayer": 88, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "tickerlayer", "intrinio": 70, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "tickerlayer": 79, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "tickerlayer", "intrinio": 35, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "tickerlayer": 49, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 72, "edge": "tickerlayer", "intrinio": 20, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "tickerlayer": 92, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "tickerlayer", "intrinio": 70, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "tickerlayer": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "intrinio", "intrinio": 51, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "tickerlayer": 38, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Intrinio's 54.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Intrinio leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do market prices. TickerLayer accepts x402. Intrinio doesn't.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "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.", "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/intrinio-vs-tickerlayer", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tickerlayer.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tickerlayer.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tickerlayer.min.md" }, "markdown": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Intrinio's 54.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Intrinio leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do market prices. TickerLayer accepts x402. Intrinio doesn't.\n\n- Intrinio: grade C, 54.2/100, rank #927 of 1520. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/intrinio.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/intrinio.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### 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 70\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 51 against 38\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### 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- Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 43\n- Agent ergonomics, 79 against 70\n- Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 35\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 92 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 70\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- Free to start without a card\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 +72\n\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- 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 +45\n\n- Intrinio (43): No OpenAPI document was found. The SDKs are generated from a spec that declares API version 2.135.4, but the spec itself isn't published, and the MCP server's tool definitions aren't in any public source (5 of 25). docs.intrinio.com/llms.txt and intrinio.com/llms.txt return 404, and there are no Markdown pages (0 of 10). Each endpoint page states what it returns with its parameters, with little on when not to use a call (12 of 20). Parameters are typed, with required ones marked and allowed values in prose (9 of 15). Code samples in six languages on every endpoint, and a response codes page that lists codes without a body format (10 of 15). The v2 path is versioned, but the version history lists 2.0.0 to 2.6.2 with no dates and is out of step with the SDK's API version (7 of 15). Total 43.\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### Security \u0026 auth: TickerLayer +14\n\n- Intrinio (35): One account key with no scopes, documented first as `api_key` in the query string and second as a Bearer header, with no rotation or expiry found. Public keys for browsers are restricted to listed domains. The MCP server uses OAuth 2 with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, a revocation endpoint and one scope (20 less 10 for the query string, so 10). Every endpoint is a read and the MCP page says the server cannot trade or change the account (15 of 20). News bodies and filing text are third-party content, with no guidance on treating them as untrusted (5 of 15). The account page shows limits and usage per subscription; no per-call log was found (3 of 15). security.txt returns 404, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 was found. The privacy policy says the company processes data under the GDPR (2 of 20). Total 35.\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### Reliability: Intrinio +13\n\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- 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### Transparency \u0026 trust: Intrinio +13\n\n- Intrinio (51): A closed service under terms effective 3 September 2026 that are clear on personal, internal and commercial use and name Intrinio, Inc. (15 of 30). The privacy policy is dated 30 June 2018, names no retention periods, subprocessors or DPA, and says only that connection details may be retained; the terms require deletion within 30 days of termination with an officer's certification (8 of 30). No deprecation policy, and the version history has no dates (3 of 20). Data is processed in the United States; no subprocessor list (5 of 20). Total 31.\n- TickerLayer (38): The editorial half. A closed service whose terms of use, user agreement and market data disclaimer (all effective 3 November 2026) set out internal, commercial and redistribution rights by plan and a liability cap. They name no legal entity, address or governing law, so the contracting party is unknown. The plugin and npm client are MIT. Soldfetch took 10 in the same position (10 of 30). The privacy policy keeps WebSocket connection records for 7 days but gives no period for request and tool-call logs or account data after closure, says nothing on model training, names no transfer mechanism and has no DPA (12 of 30). No deprecation policy. The terms allow MCP tools to change 'with reasonable notice where practical' and the user agreement promises notice before a plan is materially reduced, and the changelog records changes after the fact. Kite took 4 (4 of 20). Subprocessors are given only as categories (hosting, authentication, card and crypto payments, email, an AI model for support replies), with analytics vendors deferred to the cookie policy, no data locations, and no named data suppliers (4 of 20). 10+12+4+4 = 30. The provenance half is computed from the provenance block.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: TickerLayer +9\n\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- 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## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Intrinio | TickerLayer | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 83 | 70 | Intrinio +13 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 88 | TickerLayer +45 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 79 | TickerLayer +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 35 | 49 | TickerLayer +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 92 | TickerLayer +72 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 79 | TickerLayer +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 38 | Intrinio +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.2 · C** | **71.5 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Intrinio | TickerLayer |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Intrinio, Inc. | TickerLayer |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api-v2.intrinio.com` | `https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | 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 | none | 12 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `com.tickerlayer/market-data` |\n| Last release | 2026-05-27 | 2026-11-06 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | not read yet |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | not read yet |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not read yet |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not read yet |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not read yet |\n| Popularity | 76 stars | none |\n\n## Verdicts\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**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### 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### 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, Intrinio or TickerLayer?\n\nTickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Intrinio's 54.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Intrinio leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Intrinio and TickerLayer need an API key?\n\nIntrinio needs an API key. TickerLayer takes 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 Intrinio and TickerLayer without installing anything?\n\nYes. Intrinio has a hosted endpoint at https://api-v2.intrinio.com and TickerLayer at https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tickerlayer.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tickerlayer.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"intrinio\", \"b\": \"tickerlayer\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare intrinio tickerlayer`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/intrinio.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tickerlayer.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Intrinio or TickerLayer\n\n- [Alpha Vantage vs Intrinio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-intrinio.md)\n- [Alpha Vantage vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alpha-vantage-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Benzinga vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Databento vs Intrinio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-intrinio.md)\n- [Databento vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/databento-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Finnhub vs Intrinio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-intrinio.md)\n- [Finnhub vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/finnhub-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Intrinio vs Massive (formerly Polygon.io)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-massive.md)\n- [Intrinio vs Tiingo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-tiingo.md)\n- [Intrinio vs Twelve Data](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/intrinio-vs-twelve-data.md)\n- [Massive (formerly Polygon.io) vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massive-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [TickerLayer vs Tiingo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-tiingo.md)\n- [TickerLayer vs Twelve Data](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tickerlayer-vs-twelve-data.md)\n- [Eulerpool Financial Data API vs Intrinio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-intrinio.md)\n- [Eulerpool Financial Data API vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eulerpool-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Financial Datasets vs Intrinio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-intrinio.md)\n- [Financial Datasets vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-datasets-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Financial Modeling Prep vs Intrinio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-modeling-prep-vs-intrinio.md)\n- [Financial Modeling Prep vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-modeling-prep-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [EODHD vs Intrinio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-intrinio.md)\n- [EODHD vs TickerLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eodhd-vs-tickerlayer.md)\n- [Benzinga vs Intrinio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/benzinga-vs-intrinio.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "attributionRequired": true, "credit": "CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link the page or API address you took it from (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-11-11", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.7", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "terms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Intrinio vs TickerLayer", "url": "" } ], "description": "TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) to Intrinio's 54.2 (C) for market prices. 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