Alpaca MCP Server
Official Alpaca MCP for stock, options, and crypto trading, portfolio and order management, and market data.
- Sato Score70
Alpaca MCP Server is a MCP server by Alpaca, with last code activity on 2026-10-12 (Active). Latest release on 2026-10-12. Sato Score 70/100 (how open, active and verifiable it is, not a safety grade), as of 2026-10-15. How the score works →
See how to install Alpaca MCP Server →Last commit Sep 25, 2026 · Last release Oct 12, 2026 (v2.4.0) · ★ 1,011
Listed from alpaca.markets on 2026-07-12. Install: not attempted. Evidence →
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Alpaca's own MCP server lets an AI agent trade and manage a brokerage account through natural language — placing market/limit/stop/trailing-stop orders, checking portfolios and watchlists, and pulling real-time and historical market data, news, and corporate actions. It runs against Alpaca's brokerage API and defaults to a free paper-trading account. Builders plug it into Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, or other MCP clients via stdio or Streamable HTTP.
Sato Score
70/100· HighHow open, active & verifiable — not a safety or returns grade.
- Maintenance & liveness
- 35/35
- Code transparency
- 12/20
- Interface verifiability
- 0/10
- Docs & demo
- 6/10
- Listing transparency & provenance
- 14/15
- Independent verification
- 3/10
Sato Check
v2.4.0 · as of 2026-10-13- Does it take your key?
- No key read found
- Does your key leave?
- Not yet run
- Can it move funds on its own?
- Unknown
A profile describes what we read and ran, with dates. It is not a safety rating, an audit or an endorsement, and "not found" is not "not there".
Evidence — listed vs checked · what the words mean
Listed from alpaca.markets on 2026-07-12. Install: not attempted.
| Claim | Value | Evidence | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chains supported | not stated | self-reported | docs.alpaca.markets | as of 2026-10-15 |
| Verification status | Self-Reported — not independently reviewed | self-reported | alpaca.markets | as of 2026-10-15 |
| Recent activity | last release 2026-10-12 · last commit 2026-09-25 | observed | github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server | 2026-10-15 |
| Install works | documented by the project, not run by Sato Hubnot attempted: the run did not complete and the log named no cause we could attribute | self-reported | github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server | as of 2026-09-21 |
| Website answers | answered (HTTP 200) | observed | alpaca.markets | 2026-10-15 |
| Daily check record | 90 of 90 daily checks since 2026-07-17 succeededa success rate of our checks, not uptime; the source is this listing's own history | observed | — | 2026-10-14 |
| Takes your key | no private-key read found in what we read | traced | satohub.ai | 2026-10-13 |
| Key leaves the machine | not yet run with planted test keysthe sandbox lane has not run on this version | observed | satohub.ai | not dated |
| Moves funds on its own | unknown — could not read what it exposes | traced | satohub.ai | 2026-10-13 |
| Deploys as | PyPI (uvx/pipx, stdio), Dockerconfidence 0.85 | self-reported | github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server | as of 2026-07-14 |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, PyCharm, Antigravity CLIconfidence 0.85 | self-reported | github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server | as of 2026-07-14 |
| X account | https://x.com/alpacahqconfidence 0.85 | self-reported | github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server | as of 2026-07-14 |
| Sato Score | 70/100 (High)how open, active and verifiable — not a safety or quality grade | computed | satohub.ai | 2026-10-15 |
Self-reported rows are the project’s own words, dated when we recorded them — not a check. Only reproduced and reviewed rows carry a mark. None of these rows is a safety or quality rating.
Install — not run by us — the run did not complete and the log named no cause we could attribute
Runtime: python
uvx alpaca-mcp-server
{"mcpServers":{"alpaca":{"command":"uvx","args":["alpaca-mcp-server"],"env":{"ALPACA_API_KEY":"...","ALPACA_SECRET_KEY":"..."}}}}You supply: ALPACA_API_KEY, ALPACA_SECRET_KEY (free paper-trading account at app.alpaca.markets)
claude mcp add satohub-alpaca-mcp -- uvx alpaca-mcp-server
A local server: your client runs this command on your machine. Installing runs third-party software under your own credentials. Sato Hub publishes the documented invocation and, where the harness reproduced it, the date it did — neither is a safety review.
Read from the project’s own docs as of 2026-09-21. What a deploy spec is →
Observed record — 91 daily checks since 2026-07-17
- Succeeded
- 91
- Failed
- 0
- Their error
- 0
- Unattributed
- 0
This is the share of our daily checks that succeeded — not an availability guarantee. A check can fail because the host was down, because our runner timed out, or because the network in between dropped it, and only the first of those is a fact about this project. Failures are split by what we can attribute; anything we cannot attribute is counted, not hidden. 46 of these checks predate 2026-09-01, when the probe counted a bot-block (HTTP 403) as a failure and recorded no reason for any failure. Every one of them passed, so the rate covers them too.
Last 30 days — to 2026-10-15, one point per UTC day
A gap is a day we have no attributable observation — never a zero. Thirty points is the whole shape the free layer carries; the daily rows behind it stay in the snapshot series.
Details
- Chains
- Unknown
- Agent types
- Trading, Data Provider
- Open source
- Unknown
- Deploys as
- PyPI (uvx/pipx, stdio), Docker
- Works with
- Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, PyCharm, Antigravity CLI
- Last checked
- 2026-10-15
Marketplace Signals
No marketplace signals recorded for this resource yet.
Verification status reflects evidence reviewed by Sato Hub. Self-reported claims are never presented as verified.
Where Alpaca MCP Server fits
Related concepts: How Agents Interact With Smart Contracts, How Agents Use Wallets, What Are MCPs? The Standard Way to Give Agents Tools
Recent Activity
All news →Releases and posts from Alpaca MCP Server, pulled from its GitHub and X.
alpaca-mcp-server v2.4.0
What's Changed sync: September 2026 specs, add option stop orders by @claudiutiganetea-alpaca in #126 sync: October 2026 specs, bump version to 2.4.0 by @claudiutiganetea-alpaca in #131 Full Changelog : v2.3.2...v2.4.0
alpaca-mcp-server v2.3.2
What's Changed Put correct git URL in README by @bharadwajpro in #3 Add Dockerfile by @chand1012 in #4 Fixes bug in alpaca_mcp_server.py to enable live trading by @lacymorrow in #17 feat: add DEBUG env var by @biohazardxxx in #22 Add support for multi-symbol stock quotes + test coverage by @erikfox in #27 Simplify Dockerfile by @sachyco in #30 Add HTTP Authorization header forwarding by @sachyco i
Listing History
Recorded changes to Alpaca MCP Server's listing — status, verification, Sato Score, and recent releases. Full history is kept in the listing record.
- Oct 12, 2026New release published
- Oct 1, 2026Crossed 1k GitHub stars990 → 1000.
- Sep 21, 2026Verified: deploy spec
- Jul 18, 2026Sato Hub began tracking this listing
- Jul 14, 2026Auto-enriched: deployment options, supported integrations, x url
- Jul 13, 2026Listed on Sato Hub
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- Is Alpaca MCP Server open source?
- Unknown. Sato Hub has not found a public repository or a license statement for Alpaca MCP Server as of 2026-10-15.
- Which chains does Alpaca MCP Server support?
- Sato Hub has no confirmed chain list for Alpaca MCP Server as of 2026-10-15; treat chain support as unknown.
- Is Alpaca MCP Server still maintained?
- The most recent code activity Sato Hub observed was on 2026-10-12 (last commit 2026-09-25, last release 2026-10-12), which Sato Hub labels "Active". Posts on X are not counted as maintenance. Activity is a recency signal, not a quality judgment.
- How do I install or run Alpaca MCP Server?
- python. Install: uvx alpaca-mcp-server. Entry: {"mcpServers":{"alpaca":{"command":"uvx","args":["alpaca-mcp-server"],"env":{"ALPACA_API_KEY":"...","ALPACA_SECRET_KEY":"..."}}}}. This is taken from the project's own documentation and has not been reproduced by Sato Hub. It runs as an MCP server (uvx alpaca-mcp-server).
- Is Alpaca MCP Server verified on Sato Hub?
- No independent verification is on record for Alpaca MCP Server; its verification status is "Self-Reported" and its Sato Score is 70 of 100. Self-reported is not verified, and the score is not a safety, quality or returns grade.
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