Alpha Vantage APIs# Alpha Vantage API
## About Alpha Vantage APIs
Alpha Vantage provides APIs for the global financial market, ranging from traditional assets like stocks to cryptocurrencies and FOREX.
## What is Alpha Vantage?
Alpha Vantage provides powerful, enterprise-grade, and developer-friendly APIs for financial market data. In addition, it can deliver the cloud-based information through Excel and Google Sheets as well.
Not only that, Alpha Vantage offers the Alpha Academy for data scientists, developers, educators, investors, and students. The Academy serves as a knowledge base of blockchain technologies, machine learning, software development, and quantitative investing, all instructed by industry experts.
## How does Alpha Vantage work?
Alpha Vantage comprises business professionals, engineers, researchers, and partners with major institutions and exchanges worldwide to provide cryptocurrency, FOREX, and stock APIs. Their philosophy on API design centers around cutting-edge technology, research, and an unwavering commitment to democratizing financial data access.
Alpha Vantage likewise partners with Polygon.io, the same powerhouse that Google and Robinhood use, for real-time intraday data on stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States.
## Who can use the Alpha Vantage API data?
Alpha Vantage is for developers interested in creating world-class financial data market applications. Its APIs are segmented into four groups: fundamental data, physical and digital currencies, technical indicators, and time series stocks.
The API key is free upon request and is valid for life. Their free tier boasts five requests per minute, up to 500 per day.
## Why is Alpha Vantage important?
Financial market investors need minute-by-minute data to make quick buy and sell decisions. With over five trillion dollars exchanged on the stock market daily, having the correct information is critical.
Alpha Vantage APIs provide global coverage, over 50 technical indicators, FOREX and cryptocurrency data, and their cloud-based stock data APIs output in JSON, Excel, and Google Sheets.
## What can you expect from an Alpha Vantage API?
Developers can expect the Alpha Vantage APIs to serve clean, secure code and the most up-to-date market information available without leaking sensitive consumer information.
Likewise, with the sheer amount of APIs available from Alpha Vantage, any developer interested in creating a financial application can be sure to find the exact solutions for their precise needs.
## Are there examples of free Alpha Vantage APIs?
1. [Alpha Vantage](https://rapidapi.com/alphavantage/api/alpha-vantage/)
2. [Yahoo Finance](https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/yahoo-finance1/)
3. [Seeking Alpha](https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/seeking-alpha/)
4. [Yahoo Finance Low Latency](https://rapidapi.com/finance.yahoo.api/api/yahoo-finance-low-latency/)
5. [Yahoo Finance](https://rapidapi.com/sparior/api/yahoo-finance15/)
6. [Twelve Data](https://rapidapi.com/twelvedata/api/twelve-data1/)
7. [Financial Statements](https://rapidapi.com/alphawave/api/financial-statements/)
8. [Alpha Chain](https://rapidapi.com/alpha-chain1-alpha-chain-default/api/alpha-chain2/)
9. [Stock Prices](https://rapidapi.com/alphawave/api/stock-prices2/)
## Alpha Vantage API SDKs
All Alpha Vantage APIs are supported and made available in [multiple developer programming languages and SDKs](https://docs.rapidapi.com/v2.0/docs/getting-started-with-rapidapi-sdks) including:
1. Node.js
2. PHP
3. Python
4. Ruby
5. Objective-C
6. Java (Android)
7. C# (.NET)
8. cURL
Just select your preference from any API endpoints page.
[Sign up today for free on RapidAPI](https://rapidapi.com/auth/sign-up) to begin using Alpha Vantage APIs!
The simplest and most effective way to receive stock, ETF, forex, technical indicators, and cryptocurrency data. Constantly ranked as a leading API provider for ease of use, accuracy, and price. [See the documentation](https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/) and [read more](https://medium.com/@patrick.collins_58673/stock-api-landscape-5c6e054ee631) on the market data industry. [Start now for free](https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key).
Returns the adjusted open, high, low, and close price for a given symbol. Volume, dividend, and stock split information is also included for each symbol.
This API reproduces live PUBLIC data and features of YH. The response data is always live and synced with the site at request time. You are going to get almost everything that you see PUBLICLY on the site.
Financial data provided for developers, to enter the world markets. Instant access for real-time and historical data of stocks, forex, crypto, ETFs, indices, and more. Read more in [documentation](https://twelvedata.com/docs) and start [here](https://twelvedata.com/apikey).