{"id":"jerbouma-financetoolkit","name":"FinanceToolkit","af_score":54.2,"security_score":49.0,"reliability_score":28.8,"what_it_does":"FinanceToolkit is an open-source Python library for transparent financial analysis. It fetches historical market data and financial statements (primarily via Financial Modeling Prep, with fallback to Yahoo Finance unless enforced), and computes a wide set of financial ratios, models, technical indicators, options analytics/Greeks, performance metrics, and risk metrics (e.g., Sharpe ratio, Value at Risk).","best_when":"You want reproducible, transparent implementations of financial formulas and consistent metric definitions across many tickers in a Python environment.","avoid_when":"You need a hosted API/SDK, strong guarantees of data-provider accuracy, or standardized error/contract semantics at the HTTP layer.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-29T14:59:58.827158+00:00","has_mcp":false,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["API key for Financial Modeling Prep (provided to Toolkit via api_key)","Secondary data source via Yahoo Finance (appears to require no explicit auth in the library interface, based on README description)"],"has_free_tier":true,"known_gotchas":["No MCP/HTTP interface: an agent must run Python code locally/in its environment to use the toolkit.","Data retrieval may switch between Financial Modeling Prep and Yahoo Finance depending on access/config; results may differ if enforced-source settings change.","Upstream rate limits and plan restrictions (e.g., FMP free plan) can cause partial failures or fallback behavior; automated pipelines should handle provider-specific limitations."],"error_quality":0.0}