Alpaca
Developer-first API for Stock, Options, Crypto Trading & more
Alpaca provides a developer-first brokerage API platform enabling algo traders, fintech startups, and institutions to trade stocks, options, and crypto programmatically. It offers both a Trading API for individual algorithmic traders and a Broker API for businesses embedding investing into their own products. The platform is self-clearing, commission-free for retail users, and supports SDKs in multiple languages.
Alpaca exposes REST and FIX APIs for trading stocks, options, and crypto, backed by its own clearing infrastructure, allowing developers to trade algorithmically or embed investing features into third-party applications
Developers, algo traders, quant funds, and fintech companies building investment products
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- AlpacaDB, Inc.
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