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Alpha Vantage Review, Pricing, and Features
Alpha Vantage is an API-first source for market and economic data. Developers, students, quants, and analysts can pull stocks, funds, FX, crypto, options, commodities, fundamentals, news, sentiment, and macro series with one key. The free quota is small, and commercial use needs separate licensing.
Best for
- Developers and students looking for a simple API key for market, fundamentals, macro, FX, crypto, commodity, and options data.
- Low-volume prototypes that can fit within the free 25 API calls per day limit.
- Personal-use API workflows that need premium throughput or premium endpoints without a full enterprise data contract.
Watch out
- A standard free limit of 25 API requests per day.
- Premium access varies by tier. Real-time U.S. data starts at 150 requests per minute, while real-time options start at 600 requests per minute.
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Pricing
Free • From $49.99/mo · Enterprise · 3 plans
Free
Lifetime free API key with access to most datasets, suitable for learning, prototypes, and low-volume personal use.
Premium membership (personal use)
Subscription API keys for higher-throughput personal use, including full history, intraday data, real-time or 15-minute delayed U.S. data, and options APIs.
Commercial / enterprise licensing
Custom agreements for business and institutional clients that need exchange-licensed real-time or 15-minute delayed U.S. market data and commercial rights.
Key features
- Call REST endpoints for stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, FX, crypto, commodities, options, technical indicators, fundamentals, and macro data.
- Pull daily, weekly, monthly, or intraday equity series with split and dividend adjustments where supported.
- Premium U.S. options endpoints include real-time and historical chains, Greeks, and implied volatility.
- Retrieve company overviews, financial statements, dividends, splits, shares outstanding, ETF holdings, listings, earnings, and calendars.
- Alpha Intelligence adds news, sentiment, earnings-call transcripts, gainers and losers, insider trades, and related analytics.
- Get FX, crypto, commodities, Treasury yields, GDP, CPI, inflation, unemployment, retail sales, durable goods, and other macro series.
- Use the official Excel and Google Sheets add-ins without building an application.
- Call the official MCP server from an AI-agent or LLM workflow.
- The free key allows 25 requests per day, enough for learning and small prototypes but not production.
- The $49.99 plan includes 75 calls per minute, 15-minute delayed U.S. data, and end-of-day options. Plans from $99.99 add real-time U.S. data. Plans from $199.99 add real-time options.
- Commercial redistribution and exchange-licensed data require separate onboarding and licensing.
Data partners
Exchange-licensed provider of realtime and 15-minute delayed US market data distributed via Alpha Vantage.
FAQ
Is Alpha Vantage free?
Not entirely. Alpha Vantage includes a free tier, but its paid subscription and other options unlock more capacity. Visit the vendor site for current limits and pricing. Enterprise quotes are handled directly with the vendor.
Who is Alpha Vantage best for?
Alpha Vantage is built for Retail Traders, Institutional Investors, Quants/Developers, Analysts, and Students/Researchers. It suits beginner, intermediate, and advanced users.
What platforms and connections does Alpha Vantage support?
You can use Alpha Vantage on Web. Alpha Vantage offers an API (REST) with APIKey authentication. Integrations include Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and MCP / AI agents (Claude, VS Code, Cursor, etc.).
Which markets does Alpha Vantage cover?
Alpha Vantage covers North America, Europe, and APAC. Examples include US, GB, CA, DE, IN + 1 more. It tracks Stocks, ETFs, Mutual Funds, Options, Currencies, Cryptos + 2 more. Identifiers include Ticker.
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