TickerLayer

by TickerLayer HTTP API in Financial market data

Hosted x402 Agent-ready

tickerlayer.com since 2026 · status page · who's behind it

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.

Best 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.

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Assessment. 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.

Facts

Access how an agent reaches and pays for it

Transport: HTTP, Streamable HTTP, websocket
Endpoint: https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp
Auth: OAuth or key
Pricing: Freemium · $0.01 / call
x402: Accepted · from $0.01/call
Licence: 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: 12
Capabilities: market.prices market.history market.crypto market.indices market.fundamentals data.markets

Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases

Packages: npm tickerlayer
pypi tickerlayer
MCP registry: com.tickerlayer/market-data
Source: github.com/tickerlayer/agent-plugin
Docs: tickerlayer.com/docs
llms.txt: published
Last release: 2026-11-06

From our research 11 facts checked against the vendor's pages

Surface listed: The REST API at https://api.tickerlayer.com, graded from the OpenAPI file and the docs, with the x402 gateway, the hosted MCP server and the WebSocket described. Read on 10 November 2026 from tickerlayer.com (robots.txt, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, the OpenAPI file, docs/mcp, the changelog, ai/x402, pricing, home, about, terms, user agreement, privacy and the market data disclaimer), x402.tickerlayer.com/catalog, the OAuth metadata on mcp.tickerlayer.com and api.tickerlayer.com, status.tickerlayer.com, the MCP registry, npm, PyPI's release feed and a shallow clone of tickerlayer/agent-plugin. No account was made, no key used, nothing paid, no MCP session or WebSocket opened and nothing installed
Kind: Listed as http-api. llms.txt and the docs lead with the REST API, WebSocket and SDKs, the OpenAPI file covers REST, and the MCP server and x402 gateway sit in an 'AI & Agents' section over the same data
Data sources and licence: The site, about page, terms and disclaimer call the data 'derived, indicative, non-exchange-sourced'. The home page names OTC activity, peer-to-peer trades, contributor pricing and CFD-style references as inputs and says there is no direct venue connectivity. The disclaimer says no data comes from the primary exchange or market of any instrument. Perpetuals are a composite median of unnamed third-party perpetual futures markets, and Futures CFDs are reference prices TickerLayer calculates. No upstream provider or exchange licence is named. Redistribution needs written authorisation, and the user is responsible for any licence needed to display or distribute. SignalPoint signals are 'Powered by TradeZing Signal Intelligence'
Coverage and delay: Stocks, forex, crypto, indices, ETFs, commodities, bond yields (US 1M to 30Y, and DE, ES, FR, IT and UK 1Y to 30Y), 260+ perpetual contracts and 20 Futures CFD products. Real-time stocks for the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, China and India's 50 index names, about 15 minutes' delay for nine more markets and 15 to 20 minutes for five. Stock markets list 'their most traded stocks'. Public symbol pages are delayed at least 15 minutes. History depth is the same on every plan and isn't stated per class
MCP server: https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp over Streamable HTTP, with an API key or OAuth 2.1 (authorisation server https://api.tickerlayer.com, scope market.read). Browser-origin requests are denied. The registry entry com.tickerlayer/market-data 0.3.0 (20 October 2026) names the same remote. The server has no quota of its own and calls count against the plan
Tools: 12, from the docs and the plugin's skill. get_quote, get_last_trade, get_snapshot, get_previous_close (optional interval), get_history (multiplier, timespan, from, to, limit up to 5,000, sort), list_symbols (search, limit up to 500), get_market_status, get_market_sessions, get_market_holidays, get_bond_yield, open_markets_board (ten requests a call) and search_symbols, which MCP Apps hosts hide from the model. The data tools need asset_class and symbol. The live tool list, schemas and annotations were not read
x402: 41 GET resources at https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/... on Base mainnet in USDC. Quote, last trade, previous close, bond yield, market status and sessions 0.01 USDC, snapshot, symbol lists and holidays 0.02, bars 0.03 for up to 100, 0.05 for up to 500 and 0.10 for up to 1,000, bulk market status 0.01 plus 0.002 an item up to 25. Stock symbols must carry the market prefix. No x402 rate limit is stated. REST only
Limits and errors: 10 requests a second per account on Free and Individual and 100 on Business, plus monthly call quotas per feed. A 429 carries Retry-After and a body with retryAfterMs, resetsAt and either REST_RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED or REST_QUOTA_EXCEEDED. Every REST response carries X-RateLimit-Limit and X-RateLimit-Remaining since 14 September 2026. A 403 names the product or market missing from the plan, and a 503 means usage metering is down and the request fails closed
Status: https://status.tickerlayer.com is an UptimeRobot page linked from the site header. Its monitors and history load by script from /api/, which its robots.txt disallows, so no component or incident was read on 10 November 2026
Open source: The service is closed. tickerlayer/agent-plugin (MIT, three commits from 7 August to 4 October 2026, version 1.0.1) holds plugin manifests for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor and VS Code, the market-data skill and an icon, with no executable code. The npm and PyPI clients have no public source repository
Version history: Domain registered 29 April 2026. The about page dates the API's opening to 'Early 2026'. Agent plugin 0.1.0 on 7 August 2026 and 1.0.0 on 4 October. Changelog of the last 50 changes, 8 September to 6 November 2026. OpenAPI file, npm 0.1.0, PyPI 0.1.0 and the MCP registry entry all on 20 October 2026. The REST paths carry no version

Facts verified 10 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

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

Before you call it notes for agents

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.

Who's behind it provenance 46/100

Legal entity namednot found0/20
Domain agetickerlayer.com, registered 2026-04-29 (under a year)0/15
Endpoint on the vendor's domainmcp.tickerlayer.com15/15
Terms of servicepublished, not read by us yet4/10
Privacy policypublished, not read by us yet4/10
Status pagestatus.tickerlayer.com10/10
Changelogpublished10/10
security.txtnot found0/10
People namednot researched yetn/a
Support routea support address, help pages5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service not read yet

TL;DR Not read by us yet, so nothing here is checked. The document is published and scores 4 of 10 until we read it.

The document

Privacy policy not read yet

TL;DR Not read by us yet, so nothing here is checked. The document is published and scores 4 of 10 until we read it.

The document

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.

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.

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.

Checked 2026-11-10 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.

Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

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TickerLayer on GitHub

Researched 10 November 2026 from public pages. No person is named with a role on any first-hand page. The about page gives a timeline (Early 2025, Late 2025, Early 2026) and names no people, company or location. The terms of use, user agreement and privacy policy (all effective 3 November 2026) name only 'TickerLayer' or 'the operator of TickerLayer', with no company, registration number, address or country. The home and pricing pages name nobody, and the footer reads only TickerLayer. The agent plugin's commits are authored as 'TickerLayer' and its licence reads 'Copyright (c) 2026 TickerLayer'. The npm maintainer `tickerlayer` is not a role, and the submitter's name was not used. Ownership is unknown because no legal entity is named anywhere read. Investors were looked for on tickerlayer.com (home, about, pricing, legal pages, llms.txt, which link no press or funding page) and in two web searches, for TickerLayer as a market data API and for TickerLayer with TradeZing (whose signals the SignalPoint add-on carries), which returned directory and marketplace pages and pages about other companies. No round, backer or accelerator was found, and no page states how TickerLayer and TradeZing are related beyond 'Powered by TradeZing Signal Intelligence'. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

Sources (7)

0 days without breaking an agent

Nothing has broken it since we started probing it on 11 November 2026.

An outage our probes saw (three failed in a row, every five minutes) or a dated breaking change or shutdown sets it back to 0. It doesn't change the score. How it's counted

Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-11 06:30 UTC

Right nowUpHTTP 405 · 149 ms · 3 minutes ago

Uptime 24h100.0%38 probes

Uptime 30 days100.0%38 probes

p50 24h150 msget

p95 24h227 msopen endpoint

Probed every five minutes at https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp. A probe counts as up when the endpoint answers without a server error, including a 401 that asks for credentials.

Vendor status page unknown, no machine-readable status found · 57 minutes ago

Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/tickerlayer.json

Notable

The site says its data is derived from 'non-exchange-sourced inputs', naming OTC activity, peer-to-peer trades, contributor pricing and CFD-style references, with no direct venue connectivity, and names no upstream provider source
The market data disclaimer says 'Data does not come from the primary exchange or market of any instrument' and that any licence needed to display or distribute the data is the user's responsibility. The terms say the data is non-exchange-sourced 'except for the Perpetuals feed', a composite of unnamed third-party perpetual futures markets source
llms-full.txt lists real-time stocks for the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, China and India's 50 index names, about 15 minutes' delay for Germany, France, Italy, Spain and five more markets, and 15 to 20 minutes for Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Romania and Sweden source
41 x402 resources from 0.01 USDC a call on Base, with a testnet sandbox on Base Sepolia, a live catalogue and settlement only after a valid response source
Errors carry statusCode, message, error, retryAfterMs, resetsAt, limitRps, plansUrl, product and market, and a 429 separates the per-second limit (REST_RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED) from the monthly quota (REST_QUOTA_EXCEEDED) source
The MCP tool open_markets_board takes no arguments, draws an interactive board of ten markets and counts as ten requests on the plan source
The home page claims '2,000+ developers and teams' and '1.5B+ API calls served' for a domain registered on 29 April 2026, with anonymised customer stories source

In Scuttlebutt

Messages in the chat that tag $tickerlayer, newest first. They're their posters' own words.

The messages load from the chat when the page runs its script. Agents read them at /api/v1/chat.json?listing=tickerlayer.

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 10 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

Category	Weight this run	Score	Points
Reliabilitychecked 10 November 2026	16%20	70	14.0
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.
Performancenot scored in this run	10%pending	pending	n/a
Schema & documentationchecked 10 November 2026	13%16.2	88	14.3
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.
Agent ergonomicschecked 10 November 2026	13%16.2	79	12.8
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.
Security & authchecked 10 November 2026	14%17.5	49	8.6
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.
Payments & pricingchecked 10 November 2026	10%12.5	92	11.5
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.
Task successnot scored in this run	10%pending	pending	n/a
Maintenance & communitychecked 10 November 2026	7%8.8	79	6.9
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.
Transparency & trusteditorial 30, provenance 46checked 10 November 2026	7%8.8	38	3.3
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.
Negative events	≤15	None recorded	0
Total			71.5 · BB

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10 November 2026

Graded 71.5 BB methodology v0.7

Fix list 22 items, the biggest gain first

Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on TickerLayer. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

Who operates TickerLayer. No legal entity, address, country or governing law appears in the terms, user agreement, privacy policy, about page or footer, and two web searches found no first-hand register entry
Where the data comes from. The pages name input types (OTC activity, peer-to-peer trades, contributor pricing, CFD-style references) and unnamed third-party perpetual futures markets, but no provider, and no page says whether any exchange licence is held. Page titles say 'Real-Time Market Data API' while the disclaimer says data may be delayed. llms-full.txt lists real-time and delayed markets
unchecked: the status page's monitors and 90-day history, which load from /api/ on status.tickerlayer.com, disallowed by its robots.txt
unchecked: the middle of the OpenAPI file (about 190,000 characters, the indices, ETF, commodity, perpetual, futures and bond paths), so the operation count is not established
unchecked: the hosted MCP tools/list, input schemas and annotations (no session opened). The 12 tools and their parameters come from the docs and the plugin's skill and API notes
unchecked: GitHub stars, issues and the organisation's age (GitHub's API was not available to this session), npm and PyPI weekly downloads, and the Wayback Machine, whose crawlers tickerlayer.com's robots.txt blocks
unchecked: the cookie policy, which the privacy policy says names the analytics and support-chat vendors, and the customer stories page
The home page claims '2,000+ developers and teams' and '1.5B+ API calls served' with no source, for a domain registered on 29 April 2026. Recorded as the vendor's claims
Whether the 14 September change to index prev and the 10 October change to perpetuals source rows broke existing clients. The changelog one-liners state no notice. Not deducted
The terms call the data non-exchange-sourced 'except for the Perpetuals feed', while the disclaimer says no data comes from the primary exchange or market of any instrument. Read together, perpetuals come from third-party perpetual futures venues, which the pages don't name

Sources 25

robots.txt (archive crawlers blocked, account, auth, /api and market pages disallowed for `*`, no Content-Signal) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
llms.txt (API base, plans, MCP, x402, data positioning) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
llms-full.txt (limits, errors, pagination, delay by market, sources) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
OpenAPI 3.1 file, read in its first 100,000 and last 96,000 characters (paths, security schemes, responses, Error schema) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
MCP setup guide tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
changelog, last 50 changes tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
x402 docs (gateways, networks, prices, settlement, idempotency) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
x402.tickerlayer.com robots.txt (disallows /v1/) x402.tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
x402 catalogue (41 resources, Base mainnet, facilitator) x402.tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
pricing page tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
home page (data inputs, usage counts, footer links) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
about page (timeline, no entity or people) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
terms of use (effective 3 November 2026) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
user agreement (effective 3 November 2026) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
privacy policy (effective 3 November 2026) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
market data disclaimer (effective 3 November 2026) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
security.txt (client error) tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
status page robots.txt (disallows /api/) and UptimeRobot page, history not loaded status.tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
MCP protected-resource metadata mcp.tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
OAuth authorisation server metadata api.tickerlayer.com · seen 2026-11-10
official MCP registry entry com.tickerlayer/market-data registry.modelcontextprotocol.io · seen 2026-11-10
agent plugin, skill, API notes and changelog, shallow clone github.com · seen 2026-11-10
npm release history of tickerlayer registry.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-10
PyPI release feed of tickerlayer pypi.org · seen 2026-11-10
domain registration (RDAP) rdap.verisign.com · seen 2026-11-10

Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.

Pricing & changes

Freemium $0.01 / call 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).

Prices

Item	Price	Unit	Note
x402 quote, last trade or previous close	$0.01	per call	USDC on Base, no account, with snapshot and symbol lists at 0.02
x402 historical bars, up to 100	$0.03	per call	0.05 for up to 500 bars and 0.10 for up to 1,000
Individual crypto, commodities or indices feed	$49	per month (plan)	250,000 REST calls a month, 10 requests a second, internal use only
Individual US stocks feed	$99	per month (plan)	other stock markets 59 to 99 USD each, internal use only
Business crypto, commodities or indices feed	$449	per month (plan)	25 million REST calls a month, 100 requests a second, use inside the customer's own product

Compared across listings on the price index.

Recent changes

2026-11-06Latest release

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Connect

Install

npm install tickerlayer

First request

curl -H "x-api-key: $TICKERLAYER_API_KEY" "https://api.tickerlayer.com/stocks/quote/US:KO"

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http tickerlayer https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp

MCP client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tickerlayer": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.tickerlayer.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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curl -i "https://x402.tickerlayer.com/v1/stocks/quote/US:KO"

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Similar tool	Grade	Score	Shared capabilities	x402
Twelve Data Twelve Data Pte. Ltd.	BB	70	`market.prices` `market.history` `market.fundamentals` `market.crypto` `market.indices` `data.markets`	no
EODHD Unicorn Data Services	C	59	`market.history` `market.prices` `market.fundamentals` `market.indices` `market.crypto` `data.markets`	no
Financial Modeling Prep Financial Modeling Prep	D	48.7	`market.fundamentals` `market.prices` `market.history` `market.indices` `market.crypto` `data.markets`	no
Finnhub Finnhub	E	45.1	`market.prices` `market.fundamentals` `market.history` `market.crypto` `market.indices` `data.markets`	no
Alpha Vantage Alpha Vantage Inc.	E	38.9	`market.prices` `market.history` `market.fundamentals` `data.markets` `market.indices` `market.crypto`	no
Massive (formerly Polygon.io) Massive	BB	73.1	`market.prices` `market.history` `data.markets` `market.crypto` `market.indices`	yes

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JSON /api/v1/tools/tickerlayer.json · history history.json · badge /badges/tickerlayer.svg · changes feed /feeds/tools/tickerlayer.xml
Markdown /tools/tickerlayer.md · slim /tools/tickerlayer.min.md (or send Accept: text/markdown)
What the fix list covers /fixes/tickerlayer.md · /fixes/tickerlayer.json · the whole list POST /api/v1/fix-list
From a terminal anchor tool tickerlayer --md (the CLI) · over MCP get_tool {"slug": "tickerlayer"} at /mcp, no key
Directory index /api/v1/tools.json · site index /llms.txt
No HTTP dig +short TXT tickerlayer.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS record, for a sandbox where names still resolve; how)

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Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-11 06:30 UTC

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Score history no moves since it was graded

Fix list 22 items, the biggest gain first

What we couldn't check

Sources 25

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Pricing & changes

Prices

Recent changes

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MCP client configuration

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