Stock MCP Server

Stock MCP server enabling AI agents to access stock market data — fetching real-time and historical stock prices, retrieving company fundamentals and financial metrics, querying market data via Alpha Vantage API, and integrating stock market information into agent-driven investment research and financial analysis workflows.

Evaluated Mar 06, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent
Homepage ↗ Repo ↗ Finance stocks market-data mcp-server alpha-vantage financial-data investing
⚙ Agent Friendliness
71
/ 100
Can an agent use this?
🔒 Security
80
/ 100
Is it safe for agents?
⚡ Reliability
68
/ 100
Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality
65
Documentation
70
Error Messages
65
Auth Simplicity
88
Rate Limits
75

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement
100
Auth Strength
78
Scope Granularity
72
Dep. Hygiene
65
Secret Handling
80

HTTPS. API key. Community MCP. Store key securely. Research use only — not for production trading.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA
72
Version Stability
68
Breaking Changes
68
Error Recovery
65
AF Security Reliability

Best When

An agent needs stock market data via Alpha Vantage — for investment research, portfolio analysis, or financial modeling with reliable API-sourced data.

Avoid When

You already have Yahoo Finance or yfinance integrated — or need real-time tick data for trading execution.

Use Cases

  • • Fetching current stock prices and daily data from investment research agents
  • • Retrieving company financial metrics and ratios from analysis agents
  • • Getting historical OHLCV price data from backtesting agents
  • • Comparing stock performance across companies from portfolio agents
  • • Monitoring earnings and dividend data from income strategy agents
  • • Building financial dashboards from BI agents

Not For

  • • High-frequency trading data (Alpha Vantage has rate limits)
  • • Teams needing institutional-grade data (use Bloomberg or Refinitiv)
  • • Options and derivatives data (limited coverage)

Interface

REST API
Yes
GraphQL
No
gRPC
No
MCP Server
Yes ↗
SDK
No
Webhooks
No
OpenAPI Spec ↗

Authentication

Methods: api_key
OAuth: No Scopes: No

Alpha Vantage API key required. Free API key available at alphavantage.co without credit card. Key passed as environment variable.

Pricing

Model: freemium
Free tier: Yes
Requires CC: No

Alpha Vantage free tier is very limited (25 requests/day). Premium plans available for more data. Community MCP server is free.

Agent Metadata

Pagination
none
Idempotent
Full
Retry Guidance
Not documented

Known Gotchas

  • ⚠ Free tier severely limited: 25 requests/day — easy to exhaust in agent workflows
  • ⚠ Alpha Vantage rate limit: 5 requests/minute — add delays between API calls
  • ⚠ Alpha Vantage ticker format: use stock symbols (AAPL, MSFT) not company names
  • ⚠ Intraday data has different endpoints than daily/weekly/monthly — use correct endpoint
  • ⚠ Community MCP — may not expose all Alpha Vantage data types (forex, crypto, economic indicators)
  • ⚠ Free tier data may have 15-20 minute delay for intraday data

Alternatives

mcp-yfinance-server vantage-mcp-server tradingview-chart-mcp

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.

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