API for Stock, Options, and Crypto Trading

Alpaca's easy to use APIs allow developers and businesses to trade algorithms, build apps and embed investing into their services.

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A Unified Platform

All-Inclusive suite for investing, brokerage, custody and post-trade processing.

Trading on mobile device

Trading

Trading on mobile device

Integrations

Trading on mobile device

Brokerage Infrastructure

Global community

Community

Best in Class Platform 🥇

Simple Modern API

Leverage our highly flexible suite of Broker APIs, helping you build end-to-end embedded trading and investing products.

Commission Free API

Building with the Alpaca API can make stock trading commission-free

OAuth Integration

Exposing your API info is tired—use OAuth to keep your key private

Alpaca Securities

Alpaca Securities LLC is a member of FINRA and SIPC

Margin and Short Selling

A wide array of advanced investing and trading strategies are supported

Testing Environment

We've got your back—test your work before deploying to production

Inclusive API

SDKs are available in Python, .NET/C#, Go, Node, and more

Alpaca Securities

Alpaca Securities LLC is a member of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA). You can check the background of Alpaca Securities on FINRA's BrokerCheck. Alpaca Securities is also a member of SIPC - securities in your account are protected up to $500,000. For details, please visit www.sipc.org.

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Latest Product Launches

Funding Wallets for Broker API

Funding Wallets for Broker API

Allow your end-users to deposit and withdraw funds in their local currency using local rails for faster settlement. Furthermore, each of your end-users will receive a unique funding wallet number, ensuring precise allocation to brokerage accounts.

Commission-free Options Trading

Commission-free Options Trading

Enjoy options trading for US-listed equities. Fill orders, monitor your trading history, and access additional features. Now available to everyone.

Local Currency Trading API For App Localization

Local Currency Trading API For App Localization

Alpaca's Local Currency Trading API allows your customers to see the value of stock prices, trades, performance, and statements in their local currencies.

Turki Alshaikh, Co-Founder of Investsky
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We chose to partner with Alpaca for many reasons. Still, we want to highlight Alpaca's ability to differentiate as an API-first company and provide an unparalleled brokerage as a service to InvestSky. We appreciate the support we get from all Alpaca teams ranging from Sales to Customer Success. We also really appreciate how supportive Alpaca's leadership is towards partners." - Turki Alshaikh, Co-Founder of Investsky

Brian Yun, Co-Founder at Woodstock
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Alpaca has been a great business partner. One of the reasons we chose Alpaca is due to their Local Currency Trading API. We believe this offering will simplify the trading experience for Japanese investors by providing access to US stocks in local currency without having to convert to the US dollar at any point." - Brian Yun, Co-Founder at Woodstock

Abdulrahman Al Kharafi, CEO of Zad App & Head of Fintech Securities House
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Alpaca's Broker API has everything needed to build a full-fledged trading application out of the box. Building our backend infrastructure on top of Broker API was easier than expected, given their extensive documentation, ready-to-test sandbox environment, and professional support." - Abdulrahman Al Kharafi, CEO of Zad App & Head of Fintech Securities House

Som Mohapatra, CIO and Co-founder at Quantbase
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Before Alpaca, companies like ours would likely have undergone the grueling, complex process to become a broker themselves, taking up a significant amount of time, dev resources, and legal resources. Alpaca is one of the most important companies in our stack, and has made it significantly easier for companies to bring their product to market." - Som Mohapatra, CIO and Co-founder at Quantbase

Saleeh Alaqeel, Cofounder and COO at Abyan Capital
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Alpaca has been a great business partner. The Broker API team has been highly responsive and professional throughout our integration and launching journey. They have helped us significantly in decreasing time-to-market by having a well-documented process." - Saleeh Alaqeel, Cofounder and COO at Abyan Capital