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Developer-friendly and enterprise-grade APIs for financial market…
Alpha Vantage provides enterprise-grade financial market data through a set of powerful and developer-friendly data APIs and spreadsheets. Whether you need traditional asset classes (e.g., stocks, ETFs, commodities), economic metrics, foreign exchange rates, cryptocurrencies, fundamental data or even technical indicators, Alpha Vantage is your one-stop shop for global market data delivered through REST APIs.
Alpha Vantage provides free stock APIs in JSON and CSV for real-time and historical market data across multiple asset classes, with AI-powered market news and sentiment features. The platform targets developers with enterprise-grade, cloud-based APIs, spreadsheets, and MCP infrastructure for financial data access and analysis.
Offers real-time and historical market data via cloud-based APIs and spreadsheets, covering stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, indices, forex, commodities, options, and cryptocurrencies. Includes over 60 technical and economic indicators, market news, and sentiment analysis powered by AI/ML. Accessible through API endpoints, MCP servers, and Excel-ready spreadsheets, with a free API key to start exploring the data portfolio.
Who it’s for: Developers, quantitative researchers, software teams, investors, students, and educators seeking programmatic access to financial market data and analytics.
Backed by Y Combinator; mentions enterprise-grade data, partnerships with exchanges and financial institutions; ongoing updates through 2026.
I was born in London, UK and raised in Tokyo, Japan and the Bay Area. I co-founded Alpha Vantage in 2017, an API/dev tools company that was fortunate to be in the Summer 2018 batch. Today I continue to run Alpha Vantage day-to-day while also doing angel investing (mostly YC startups) on the side.
Cofounder of Alpha Vantage

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