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Real-Time Stock Market and Crypto Data

Developer-first API with unlimited API calls and over 6 years of historical data

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Alpaca's unlimited market data plans are designed for developers, traders, professionals, and Broker API partners.

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Businesses

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For developers and researchers

$0/mo

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$99/mo

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Real-time Data
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API Calls
200 API calls/min
Unlimited API calls
Historical Data
6+ years
6+ years
Market Coverage
100% market coverage
100% market coverage
Crypto Data
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US Stocks
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Exchanges
IEX
All US Exchanges
Corporate Actions
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Aggregate Bars
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Websockets
Limited to 30 symbols
Unlimited symbols

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For startups and enterprises

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For professional traders and hedge funds

$99/mo/device

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Real-time Data
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API Calls
Unlimited API calls
Historical Data
6+ years
Market Coverage
100% market coverage
Crypto Data
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US Stocks
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Exchanges
All US Exchanges
Corporate Actions
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Websockets
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Commercial use
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< [{"T":"success","msg":"connected"}]
> {"action": "auth", "key": "{APCA-API-KEY-ID}", "secret": "{APCA-API-SECRET-KEY}"}
< [{"T":"success","msg":"authenticated"}]
> {"action":"subscribe","bars":["AAPL","TSLA"]}
< [{"T":"subscription","trades":[],"quotes":[],"bars":["AAPL","TSLA"],"dailyBars":[]}]
< [{"T":"b","S":"AAPL","o":125.81,"c":125.84,"h":125.8778,"l":125.79,"v":200967,"t":"2021-05-20T13:59:00Z"}]
< [{"T":"b","S":"TSLA","o":578.11,"c":580,"h":580.47,"l":577.8,"v":233648,"t":"2021-05-20T13:59:00Z"}]
$ wscat -c wss://stream.data.alpaca.markets/v2/sip
Real-time stock data
for any ticker down to the second. True event-based streaming market data via Websockets, instead of being limited to pulling minute or daily bar data.
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6+ years of historical data
allowing you to develop and test your strategies with confidence.
SDK available in C# SDK available in Node.js SDK available in GoLang SDK available in Python
{
  "t": "2021-02-06T13:04:56.334320128Z",
    "x": "C",
    "p": 387.62,
    "s": >100,
    "c": [
      "",
        "T"
    ],
    "i": 52983525029461,
    "z": "B"
}
REST API and client libraries
Built to be simple, powerful and scalable.
It will take you 5 minutes to get started.
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Aggregate bars
gives you access to any minute/hour/daily bar data to support your trading strategies.
High-performance architecture built for enterprise scale.
Less than 20ms latency
<20ms
Latency
Low latency interface with high-performance architecture.
Robust systems
Redundancies
for Reliability
High data accuracy built around robust systems to ensure data availability.
Server
Direct Feed from
Exchanges
Our physical hardware is located next to most of the market participants.
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Commercial
Use
We support your redistribution or commercial use case with simple pricing.

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