Alpaca

Alpaca

API for Stock, Options & Crypto Trading

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Alpaca helps you to trade stocks, options & crypto with algorithms, connect with apps, and build investing services with an easy-to-use API. We support over 25k+ active developers and 150+ global investing app partners. 🦙❤️
This is the 11th launch from Alpaca. View more

Alpaca Options API

Trade options commission-free via API
Alpaca now offers options through their API. Starting today, developers and traders alike can buy, sell, and exercise. The best part? It’s commission-free.
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Launch tags:APIFintechDeveloper Tools
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What do you think? …

Kumar Thangudu
How many hours of engineering work did this take to achieve?
Hitoshi Harada
@datarade Truthfully, it’s not about hours, but our team has devoted months of high quality and super dense heads down work to make this happen. It’s actually one of the fastest release of options in the industry as far as I know.
Tanvir Hasan
Absolutely love this, congrats on the launch of Alpaca Options API! This is a game-changer for developers and traders alike. Super interested in exploring the commission-free options trading through the API. Looking forward to seeing what future updates hold-do you have any plans to integrate with other trading platforms?
Hitoshi Harada
@tmwky Glad to hear you love it! We keep improving and expand the offering including level 3 and multi leg orders
Albert
congrats on the launch, yoshi and team! offering options commission-free through the alpaca options api is a game-changer for developers and traders. curious to know, what inspired alpaca to create a developer-friendly api for trading options? excited to see the impact this will have in the fintech space.
Hitoshi Harada
@mashy We always listen to our users to build what users love. Our developer community asked for it many times for years and we finally did it! Options are quite quantitative by nature and go well with algorithmic approach too. Plus, this is going to be available for our broker partners who start offering options in many countries in the world soon too. We are excited to see many use cases with API that we didn’t think about. Tell us more!
Oleksandra Vasiukhnyk
Thrilled about the launch of Alpaca Options API! Commission-free trading via an API is a major advantage for developers like me who are looking to integrate more financial services. Quick question: Are there specific limits on the number of trades or types of options available?
Hitoshi Harada
@oleksandra_vasiukhnyk Yes we are super excited with this launch! This release allows any kind of options trading up to level 2 with all rules applied (390 trades per day to stay in non-professional etc). We continue to work on level 3 and multi leg support in coming quarters
Kubilay Özışık
Great news! Would be nice to see some sample projects -preferably using real-time- using your API
Hitoshi Harada
@kubilayozisik Yes please give a try and give us your feedback. We built it to keep it simple and easy to use as API
Radzi Nugraha Purba
the documentation is exceptionally clear and self-explanatory. super easy to use!
Hitoshi Harada
@radzi_nugraha_purba Thank you for recognizing it! Docs are very important as API first approach
Andrew Hawel
Congrats on the launch and on landing all of the great feature spots in WSJ, TechCrunch, and more!
Hitoshi Harada
@andrew_hawel We appreciate all people who recognize our progress, including everyone here. Thank you for your support!