Alpha Vantage MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides real-time access to financial market data through the free Alpha Vantage API. This server implements a standardized interface for retrieving stock quotes and company information.

Features

Real-time stock quotes with price, volume, and change data
Detailed company information including sector, industry, and market cap
Real-time cryptocurrency exchange rates with bid/ask prices
Daily, weekly, and monthly cryptocurrency time series data
Real-time options chain data with Greeks and implied volatility
Historical options chain data with advanced filtering and sorting
Comprehensive ETF profile data with holdings, sector allocation, and key metrics
Upcoming earnings calendar with customizable time horizons
Historical earnings data with annual and quarterly reports
Built-in error handling and rate limit management

Installation

Using Claude Desktop

Installing via Docker

Clone the repository and build a local image to be utilized by your Claude desktop client

cd alpha-vantage-mcp
docker build -t mcp/alpha-vantage .

Change your claude_desktop_config.json to match the following, replacing REPLACE_API_KEY with your actual key:

claude_desktop_config.json path

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alphavantage": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "-e",
        "ALPHA_VANTAGE_API_KEY",
        "mcp/alpha-vantage"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ALPHA_VANTAGE_API_KEY": "REPLACE_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Installing via Smithery

To install Alpha Vantage MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @berlinbra/alpha-vantage-mcp --client claude

<summary> <h3> Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration <h3> </summary> <details>

{
 "mcpServers": {
  "alpha-vantage-mcp": {
   "args": [
    "--directory",
    "/Users/{INSERT_USER}/YOUR/PATH/TO/alpha-vantage-mcp",
    "run",
    "alpha-vantage-mcp"
   ],
   "command": "uv",
   "env": {
    "ALPHA_VANTAGE_API_KEY": "<insert api key>"
   }
  }
 }
}

</details>

Install packages

uv install -e .

Running

After connecting Claude client with the MCP tool via json file and installing the packages, Claude should see the server's mcp tools:

You can run the sever yourself via: In alpha-vantage-mcp repo:

uv run src/alpha_vantage_mcp/server.py

with inspector

* npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /Users/{INSERT_USER}/YOUR/PATH/TO/alpha-vantage-mcp run src/alpha_vantage_mcp/server.py `

Available Tools

The server implements twelve tools:

get-stock-quote: Get the latest stock quote for a specific company
get-company-info: Get stock-related information for a specific company
get-crypto-exchange-rate: Get current cryptocurrency exchange rates
get-time-series: Get historical daily price data for a stock
get-realtime-options: Get real-time options chain data with Greeks and implied volatility
get-historical-options: Get historical options chain data with advanced filtering and sorting capabilities
get-etf-profile: Get comprehensive ETF profile information including holdings and sector allocation
get-crypto-daily: Get daily time series data for a cryptocurrency
get-crypto-weekly: Get weekly time series data for a cryptocurrency
get-crypto-monthly: Get monthly time series data for a cryptocurrency
get-earnings-calendar: Get upcoming earnings calendar data for companies
get-historical-earnings: Get historical earnings data for a specific company

get-stock-quote

Input Schema:

{
    "symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Stock symbol (e.g., AAPL, MSFT)"
    }
}

Example Response:

Stock quote for AAPL:

Price: $198.50
Change: $2.50 (+1.25%)
Volume: 58942301
High: $199.62
Low: $197.20

get-company-info

Retrieves detailed company information for a given symbol.

Input Schema:

{
    "symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Stock symbol (e.g., AAPL, MSFT)"
    }
}

Example Response:

Company information for AAPL:

Name: Apple Inc
Sector: Technology
Industry: Consumer Electronics
Market Cap: $3000000000000
Description: Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones...
Exchange: NASDAQ
Currency: USD

get-crypto-exchange-rate

Retrieves real-time cryptocurrency exchange rates with additional market data.

Input Schema:

{
    "crypto_symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Cryptocurrency symbol (e.g., BTC, ETH)"
    },
    "market": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Market currency (e.g., USD, EUR)",
        "default": "USD"
    }
}

Example Response:

Cryptocurrency exchange rate for BTC/USD:

From: Bitcoin (BTC)
To: United States Dollar (USD)
Exchange Rate: 43521.45000
Last Updated: 2024-12-17 19:45:00 UTC
Bid Price: 43521.00000
Ask Price: 43522.00000

get-time-series

Retrieves daily time series (OHLCV) data with optional date filtering.

Input Schema:

{
    "symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Stock symbol (e.g., AAPL, MSFT)"
    },
    "outputsize": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "compact (latest 100 data points) or full (up to 20 years of data). When start_date or end_date is specified, defaults to 'full'",
        "default": "compact"
    },
    "start_date": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Optional: Start date in YYYY-MM-DD format for filtering results",
        "pattern": "^20[0-9]{2}-(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(?:0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])$"
    },
    "end_date": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Optional: End date in YYYY-MM-DD format for filtering results",
        "pattern": "^20[0-9]{2}-(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(?:0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])$"
    },
    "limit": {
        "type": "integer",
        "description": "Optional: Number of data points to return when no date filtering is applied (default: 5)",
        "default": 5,
        "minimum": 1
    }
}

Example Response (Recent Data):

Time Series Data for AAPL (Last Refreshed: 2024-12-17 16:00:00):
(Showing 5 most recent data points)

Date: 2024-12-16
Open: $195.09
High: $197.68
Low: $194.83
Close: $197.57
Volume: 55,751,011
---
Date: 2024-12-13
Open: $194.50
High: $196.25
Low: $193.80
Close: $195.12
Volume: 48,320,567
---

Example Response (Date Range Filtering):

Time Series Data for AAPL (Last Refreshed: 2024-12-17 16:00:00):
Date Range: 2024-12-01 to 2024-12-07 (5 data points)

Date: 2024-12-06
Open: $191.25
High: $193.80
Low: $190.55
Close: $192.90
Volume: 52,145,890
---
Date: 2024-12-05
Open: $189.75
High: $192.40
Low: $188.90
Close: $191.30
Volume: 47,892,345
---

get-realtime-options

Retrieves real-time options chain data for a stock with optional Greeks calculation and contract filtering.

⚠️ PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED: This endpoint requires Alpha Vantage Premium with either the 600 requests/minute or 1200 requests/minute plan. The standard 75 requests/minute plan and free accounts will receive placeholder/demo data instead of real market data. For most use cases, consider using get-historical-options which works with all API key tiers.

Input Schema:

{
    "symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Stock symbol (e.g., AAPL, MSFT)"
    },
    "require_greeks": {
        "type": "boolean",
        "description": "Optional: Enable Greeks and implied volatility calculation (default: false)",
        "default": false
    },
    "contract": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Optional: Specific options contract ID to retrieve"
    },
    "datatype": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Optional: Response format (json or csv, default: json)",
        "enum": ["json", "csv"],
        "default": "json"
    }
}

Example Response:

Realtime Options Data for AAPL
Last Updated: 2025-01-21 16:00:00

=== Expiration: 2025-01-24 ===

Strike: $220.0 (CALL)
Last: $5.25
Bid: $5.10
Ask: $5.30
Volume: 1250
Open Interest: 8420
IV: 0.28
Delta: 0.65
Gamma: 0.02
Theta: -0.15
Vega: 0.45
Rho: 0.12
---

Strike: $220.0 (PUT)
Last: $1.85
Bid: $1.80
Ask: $1.90
Volume: 820
Open Interest: 5240
IV: 0.25
Delta: -0.35
Gamma: 0.02
Theta: -0.12
Vega: 0.42
Rho: -0.08
---

Note: The above example shows real market data which is only available with Alpha Vantage Premium 600+ requests/minute plans. Users with free accounts or 75 requests/minute plans will see placeholder data (symbols like "XXYYZZ", dates like "2099-99-99") and should use get-historical-options instead.

get-historical-options

Retrieves historical options chain data with advanced filtering and sorting capabilities to find specific contracts.

Input Schema:

{
    "symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Stock symbol (e.g., AAPL, MSFT)"
    },
    "date": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Optional: Trading date in YYYY-MM-DD format (defaults to previous trading day, must be after 2008-01-01)",
        "pattern": "^20[0-9]{2}-(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(?:0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])$"
    },
    "expiry_date": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Optional: Filter by expiration date in YYYY-MM-DD format",
        "pattern": "^20[0-9]{2}-(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(?:0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])$"
    },
    "min_strike": {
        "type": "number",
        "description": "Optional: Minimum strike price filter (e.g., 100.00)",
        "minimum": 0
    },
    "max_strike": {
        "type": "number",
        "description": "Optional: Maximum strike price filter (e.g., 200.00)",
        "minimum": 0
    },
    "contract_id": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Optional: Filter by specific contract ID (e.g., MSTR260116C00000500)"
    },
    "contract_type": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Optional: Filter by contract type (call or put)",
        "enum": ["call", "put", "C", "P"]
    },
    "limit": {
        "type": "integer",
        "description": "Optional: Number of contracts to return after filtering (default: 10, use -1 for all contracts)",
        "default": 10,
        "minimum": -1
    },
    "sort_by": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Optional: Field to sort by",
        "enum": ["strike", "expiration", "volume", "open_interest", "implied_volatility", "delta", "gamma", "theta", "vega", "rho", "last", "bid", "ask"],
        "default": "strike"
    },
    "sort_order": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Optional: Sort order",
        "enum": ["asc", "desc"],
        "default": "asc"
    }
}

Example Response (Basic):

Historical Options Data for AAPL (2024-02-20):
Status: success
Found 156 contracts, sorted by: strike (asc)

Contract Details:
Contract ID: AAPL240315C00190000
Expiration: 2024-03-15
Strike: $190.00
Type: call
Last: $8.45
Bid: $8.40
Ask: $8.50
Volume: 1245
Open Interest: 4567
Implied Volatility: 0.25
Greeks:
  Delta: 0.65
  Gamma: 0.04
  Theta: -0.15
  Vega: 0.30
  Rho: 0.25
---

Example Response (Filtered):

Historical Options Data for MSTR (2024-02-20):
Status: success
Filters: Expiry: 2026-01-16, Strike: min $4

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Alpha Vantage

Installation

Configuration

How to use

README

Alpha Vantage MCP Server

Features

Installation

Using Claude Desktop

Installing via Docker

Installing via Smithery

Install packages

Running

Available Tools

get-stock-quote

get-company-info

get-crypto-exchange-rate

get-time-series

get-realtime-options

get-historical-options

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