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Alpha vantage API
Give your agents access to Alpha vantage API. Bring your own Alpha vantage key, or skip the signup and pay per call from your Composio balance with Composio Instant.
Alpha Vantage is a financial data platform offering real-time and historical stock market APIs. Get instant, reliable access to equities, forex, and technical analysis data for smarter trading decisions.
What is Composio Instant?
Composio Instant lets your agent use paid APIs like Alpha vantage without a separate account or API key for each one. New accounts start with $2 of free credit.
No Alpha vantage account or key
Your agent calls Alpha vantage through Composio, so there is nothing to sign up for, store, or rotate.
Pay per call, at cost
Estimated $0.006 per 100 requests, paid from your Composio balance with zero markup.
Works in any agent
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other MCP clients, or your own code with the Composio SDK.
Works with your apps
Use Alpha vantage with Gmail, Slack, Google Sheets, and 1,700+ other apps you connect.
Connect the Alpha vantage API to your AI assistant
Use Alpha vantage from the AI assistant you already work in. Connect Composio once, then paste the prompt.
- 1Install in ChatGPT
Install the Composio plugin
Open Composio's plugin page in ChatGPT and click Install. Sign in to ChatGPT first if it asks. - 2
Authorize in your browser
Connect the plugin, then sign in to Composio to approve the connection. - 3
Turn on Composio in your chat
In a new chat, click +, then More, and select Composio. - 4
Paste the prompt
Paste the prompt into that chat. ChatGPT runs the call on Composio Instant.
- 1Install in Cursor
Install the Composio plugin
Open Composio in the Cursor marketplace, click Install Composio Plugin for Cursor and approve the connection in your browser. - 2
Paste the prompt
Open the Agent chat and paste the prompt. Cursor runs the call on Composio Instant.
- 1Add to Grok Bot
Add the Composio plugin
Open Composio's listing on x.ai and click Add to Grok Bot. When Grok Bot opens the plugin, click Add. - 2
Authenticate
Go to Installed, open Composio and click Authenticate. Sign in to Composio and click Authorize. - 3
Paste the prompt
Paste the prompt into your bot's chat. Grok Bot runs the call on Composio Instant.
- 1
Paste the setup prompt
Copy this into your Hermes chat. Hermes adds the Composio MCP server for you.Set up Composio from composio.dev/hermes - 2
Authorize in your browser
A browser window opens. Sign in to Composio to approve the connection. - 3
Paste the prompt
Start a new chat and paste the prompt. Hermes runs the call on Composio Instant.
ClaudeNew chatPaste this prompt
Use Alpha Vantage through Composio Instant to get the latest quote for AAPL. Return its latest price, volume, and daily trading metrics.
What success looks like
ALPHA_VANTAGE_GLOBAL_QUOTEYour assistant runs Alpha Vantage and replies with AAPL's latest price, volume, and daily trading metrics.
Use the Alpha vantage API in your code
Call Alpha vantage from your own agent with the Composio SDK. Four steps and one tool call.
- 1
Set up Composio
Turn on Instant Toolkits in your project settings and check your prepaid balance in Billing. Then set your API key.export COMPOSIO_API_KEY="your_composio_api_key" - 2
Install the SDK
The Python SDK needs Python 3.11 through 3.15.The TypeScript SDK is ESM-only and needs Node.js 22.22.3 or newer.pip install composionpm install @composio/core - 3ALPHA_VANTAGE_GLOBAL_QUOTE
Run the call
Create a session that keeps Instant to this toolkit and reports the charge, then run the tool on the Instant account. - 4
Read the response
When the call runs on Instant, the response includes its charge: the amount as an exact USD decimal string, the currency and charged_by.
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
const composio = new Composio();
const session = await composio.create("user_123", {
toolkits: ["alpha_vantage"],
instant: {
toolkits: { enable: ["alpha_vantage"] },
returnInstantCharge: true,
},
});
const result = await session.execute(
"ALPHA_VANTAGE_GLOBAL_QUOTE",
{
"symbol": "AAPL"
},
{ account: "instant_account" },
);
console.log(result);
console.log("Instant charge:", result.instantCharge);{
"data": "<quote data>",
"error": null,
"successful": true,
"instant_charge": {
"amount": "<usd amount>",
"currency": "USD",
"charged_by": "<provider>"
}
}Available Alpha vantage API tools
12 Alpha vantage tools run on Instant, priced per call with no Alpha vantage key. Tools marked Your key need your own Alpha vantage account.
| Action | Tool slug | What it does | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Quote | ALPHA_VANTAGE_GLOBAL_QUOTE | Get the latest price, volume, and daily trading metrics for a security ticker. | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| Company Overview | ALPHA_VANTAGE_COMPANY_OVERVIEW | Retrieve company overview and fundamental data for an individual stock. | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| Daily Time Series | ALPHA_VANTAGE_TIME_SERIES_DAILY | Retrieve daily open, high, low, close, and volume data for an equity. | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| News Sentiment | ALPHA_VANTAGE_NEWS_SENTIMENT | Fetch live and historical market news and sentiment. | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| Symbol Search | ALPHA_VANTAGE_SYMBOL_SEARCH | Find ticker symbols by name or keyword, with region, currency, and match score. | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| Crypto Intraday Time Series | ALPHA_VANTAGE_CRYPTO_INTRADAY | Tool to retrieve intraday time series data for cryptocurrencies with realtime updates. | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| Currency Exchange Rate | ALPHA_VANTAGE_CURRENCY_EXCHANGE_RATE | Retrieve the real-time exchange rate for a currency pair, including the rate, bid and ask prices and last refresh time. | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| FX Daily Time Series | ALPHA_VANTAGE_FX_DAILY | Tool to fetch daily time series (open, high, low, close) for a currency pair. | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| FX Intraday Time Series | ALPHA_VANTAGE_FX_INTRADAY | Tool to retrieve intraday OHLC time series for a forex pair at 1-60 minute intervals (premium endpoint). | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| Market Status | ALPHA_VANTAGE_MARKET_STATUS | Tool to retrieve current market status (open/closed) for global stock exchanges. | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| Time Series Intraday | ALPHA_VANTAGE_TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY | Retrieve intraday OHLCV data for an equity at a selected interval, with options for adjusted prices, extended hours, and historical months. | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| Top Gainers, Losers & Most Active | ALPHA_VANTAGE_TOP_GAINERS_LOSERS | Tool to fetch the top 20 gainers, losers, and most actively traded US tickers. | InstantEstimated $0.006 per 100 requests65% off |
| Earnings | ALPHA_VANTAGE_EARNINGS | Retrieve annual and quarterly earnings per share history for a company. | Your key |
| Technical Indicator | ALPHA_VANTAGE_TECHNICAL_INDICATOR | Fetch indicators such as moving averages or oscillators for an equity or currency pair. | Your key |
Instant prices are Alpha vantage's list prices with 0% markup, paid from your Composio balance and updated every hour. Instant calls also count toward your plan's tool calls. See all plans on the pricing page.
Alpha vantage API use cases and example prompts
Copy a prompt into your agent. Each one uses Alpha vantage with apps you connect through Composio.
Share a market watch brief
Use Alpha Vantage to get the latest quotes and market news for the tickers in my Market Watch sheet in Google Sheets. Add the quote details and news summaries to the matching rows, then post a brief update in Slack's #market-watch channel.
Apps used: Alpha vantage, Google Sheets, Slack
Create company research pages
Use Alpha Vantage to find the ticker and company overview for each company listed on my Public Company Research page in Notion. Add the company fundamentals and latest quote details to each company's section.
Apps used: Alpha vantage, Notion
Prepare a stock performance report
Use Alpha Vantage to retrieve daily prices for the tickers in my Quarterly Review folder in Google Drive. Write a report in Google Docs with each ticker's daily open, high, low, close, and volume data, and save it in that folder.
Apps used: Alpha vantage, Google Docs, Google Drive
Prepare account review notes
Use Alpha Vantage to search for the tickers of public companies in my Acme accounts in HubSpot, then retrieve each company's overview and latest quote. Add the results to the matching company records in HubSpot and draft a Gmail message to my account team with the key findings.
Apps used: Alpha vantage, HubSpot, Gmail
Alpha vantage API troubleshooting
Still stuck? The Instant tools docs cover limits, charges and session settings.
Use ALPHA_VANTAGE_SYMBOL_SEARCH and compare the region, currency, and match score before passing the ticker to ALPHA_VANTAGE_GLOBAL_QUOTE.
Set outputsize to full in ALPHA_VANTAGE_TIME_SERIES_DAILY to request more than the compact result.
Check its availability in the tools table. If it runs on Instant, check that Instant Toolkits is on for your project, your session allows the action and you use the latest toolkit version.
Your Composio balance is empty. Add funds in Billing if your plan supports it, or connect your own Alpha vantage account.
Check credential_source and instant_charge in the Composio execution log.
Other tools on Instant
These tools also run on Composio Instant and use the same Composio balance.
Finnhub
Finnhub is a market data API delivering real-time quotes, company fundamentals, and financial news. Use it to power trading apps, research, alerts, and analytics with timely market intelligence.
Twelve data
Twelve Data is a financial data API providing real-time and historical market data for stocks, forex, crypto, ETFs, and indices. It helps you access accurate, up-to-date financial information for analysis and automation.
Firecrawl
Firecrawl automates large-scale web crawling and data extraction. It helps organizations efficiently gather, index, and analyze content from online sources.
Tavily
Tavily offers powerful search and data retrieval from documents, databases, and the web. It helps teams locate and filter information instantly, saving hours on research.
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