# Intrinio vs TickerLayer (slim)

> TickerLayer scores 71.5 (BB) to Intrinio's 54.2 (C) for market prices. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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 & trust. Both do market prices. TickerLayer accepts x402. Intrinio doesn't.

- Intrinio: C 54.2, rank #927 of 1520 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/intrinio.min.md
- TickerLayer: BB 71.5, rank #160 of 1520 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tickerlayer.min.md
- Intrinio, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 70; Transparency & trust, 51 against 38.
- TickerLayer, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 88 against 43; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 70; Security & auth, 49 against 35; Payments & pricing, 92 against 20; Maintenance & 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.

| Category | Intrinio | TickerLayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 83 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 43 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 35 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 92 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 38 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Intrinio | TickerLayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Intrinio, Inc. | TickerLayer |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api-v2.intrinio.com` | `https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | yes, from $0.01/call |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | none | 12 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.tickerlayer/market-data` |
| Last release | 2026-05-27 | 2026-11-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | not read yet |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | not read yet |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not read yet |
| Popularity | 76 stars | none |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, TickerLayer +72: Intrinio 20 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0).); TickerLayer 92 (x402 on the vendor's own gateway, x402.tickerlayer.com, for 41 GET routes.)
- Schema & documentation, TickerLayer +45: Intrinio 43 (No OpenAPI document was found.); 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…)
- Security & auth, TickerLayer +14: 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.); TickerLayer 49 (A plain account key with no scopes, shown once and replaced by regenerating it in the dashboard (20).)
- Reliability, Intrinio +13: Intrinio 83 (Graded as a hosted service.); TickerLayer 70 (Read with the hosted lines, on the REST API.)
- Transparency & trust, Intrinio +13: Intrinio 51 (A closed service under terms effective 3 September 2026 that are clear on personal, internal and commercial use and name Intrinio, Inc.); TickerLayer 38 (The editorial half.)
- Agent ergonomics, TickerLayer +9: 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).); TickerLayer 79 (Read on the REST API, with the MCP server where a line covers it.)