# Binance API (slim)

> Binance's API covers spot, margin and futures trading, market data and account endpoints over REST, WebSocket and FIX, with a free spot testnet and a remote MCP server, documented on 30 October 2026, that trades inside a dedicated Agentic sub-account.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/binance.md (~8,400 tokens) · this version ~2,180 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/binance.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/binance
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-04 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/binance#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/binance#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**B · 63.2/100 · rank #448 of 1349 · #6 in Crypto exchanges · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Binance publishes numeric rate limits, a free testnet with FIX, connectors in eight languages and, since late October 2026, a remote MCP server that trades only in a dedicated sub-account with no withdrawal scope. There is no status page, the terms and privacy notice could not be read, and the MCP tool list is not published.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Binance · category: Crypto exchanges · legal entity: not named · provenance 54/100
- Endpoint: `https://agent.binance.com/mcp/agentic` (Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Pay per use · x402: no · licence: Proprietary hosted service under Binance's Terms of Use, which load by script and weren't read. The API docs, connectors, CLI and Skills Hub are open on GitHub under MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: The spot REST API at api.binance.com/api/v3, with its WebSocket, FIX and futures siblings, read from developers.binance.com, testnet.binance.vision, binance.com support pages and the binance GitHub organisation on 3 November 2026. No account was made, no key was used and no MCP session was opened
- MCP server: Official, remote, at https://agent.binance.com/mcp/agentic over Streamable HTTP. OAuth in a desktop browser with scopes market data, account, trade and transfer, on a dedicated Agentic sub-account; no withdrawal scope; confirmation before orders, cancels and transfers. Tool count not published; docs dated 30 October 2026; not in the official MCP registry. Supported clients per the docs are Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, ChatGPT, VS Code and Grok Bot
- Key permissions: Reading, spot and margin trading, futures and withdrawals, with an IP access restriction. Unrestricted-IP HMAC keys are reading only since 30 January 2023, withdrawals need an IP restriction, and keys need a Verified Plus account. FIX needs the FIX_API or FIX_API_READ_ONLY permission
- Rate limits: Per IP, as weights per endpoint. 6,000 request weight a minute, 50 orders per 10 seconds, 160,000 orders a day, 61,000 raw requests per 5 minutes, per exchangeInfo. 429 with Retry-After, 418 bans of 2 minutes to 3 days for repeat offenders, 403 for WAF blocks. FIX order entry 10,000 messages per 10 seconds
- Testnet: testnet.binance.vision with REST (/api only), WebSocket API and streams, and FIX hosts, keys by GitHub login or registered RSA and Ed25519 public keys, virtual balances, resets about monthly with no notice
- Countries: Prohibited per Binance's list of 27 February 2024 are Canada, the Netherlands, the United States, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Crimea and non-government-controlled areas of Ukraine, plus other places Binance designates. Binance.US is a separate exchange
- Fees: 0.1 per cent standard spot fee for regular users per the fee FAQ. The maker and taker table and futures fees load by script and weren't read
- FIX and WebSocket: FIX 4.4 over TLS (spot only) with order entry, drop copy and market data sessions and SBE ports, Ed25519 keys only. WebSocket API at ws-api.binance.com and market streams; testnet twins of each
- Terms on automated trading: Not read. The Terms of Use at binance.com/en/terms load by script and answered with navigation only. The Skills Hub README says the person is responsible for all trading decisions and that Binance may change or discontinue the feature
- Skills and CLI: binance-skills-hub, 21 skills under MIT for OpenClaw, Claude Code and similar, installed with npx skills add; the binance skill drives binance-cli (Rust, v2.2.0 on 20 October 2026) with profiles for prod, testnet and demo
- SDKs: Official connectors for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby and .NET on GitHub, most pushed in October 2026; a Postman collection; a Swagger spec last pushed in October 2024
- Status: No status page found on binance.com or in the API docs
- Legal entity: Not named on a page we could read. The about page lists three Abu Dhabi Global Market entities (Nest Exchange Limited, Nest Clearing and Custody Limited, Nest Trading Limited) regulated by the FSRA; Wikipedia gives Binance Holdings Ltd.
- Prices: Spot trade, regular user 0.1% percentage fee

- Scores: Reliability 45, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 86, Agent ergonomics 76, Security & auth 72, Payments & pricing 35, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 81, Transparency & trust 43 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the hosted lines on the spot REST API. · Schema & documentation, The docs are Markdown in a public repository with a Postman collection and a Swagger spec, but the spec was last pushed in October 2024 (20… · Agent ergonomics, limit on depth, trades and klines, a symbols filter on exchangeInfo and tickers, and SBE encoding, though fields cannot be selected (16 of 2… · Security & auth, API keys with HMAC, RSA or Ed25519 signatures, permissions for reading, trading, futures and withdrawals, an IP restriction, revocation in A… · Payments & pricing, No machine payment protocol (0). · Maintenance & community, Read as a closed service. · Transparency & trust, The editorial half.
- Sources: 24, open questions: 8, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: exchange.spot-trading, exchange.market-data, exchange.derivatives, exchange.balances, exchange.transfers, exchange.staking, market.crypto
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/binance.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/binance.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/binance from a page on binance.com or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/binance/binance-spot-api-docs, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.
- Support: https://www.binance.com/en/support; https://developers.binance.com/; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

1. Read the X-MBX-USED-WEIGHT and X-MBX-ORDER-COUNT headers and stop on 429 for the Retry-After seconds; a 418 ban runs 2 minutes to 3 days
2. Treat a 5xx on an order as unknown, not failed, and query the order by origClientOrderId before retrying
3. Use an Ed25519 key with an IP restriction and only the reading and trading permissions; never enable withdrawals for an agent key
4. Develop on testnet.binance.vision with BINANCE_API_ENV=testnet; it resets about monthly without notice
5. For the MCP route, the person must fund the Agentic sub-account from the web UI first; the agent cannot move funds in from the main account

## Connect

```bash
curl https://api.binance.com/api/v3/ticker/price?symbol=BTCUSDT
```

```bash
claude mcp add binance-mcp-server --transport http https://agent.binance.com/mcp/agentic
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/binance

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