A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides real-time access to financial market data through the free [Alpha Vantage
Alpha Vantage MCP MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Alpha Vantage MCP directly instead of describing what you should do. 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.
The server ships on npm as @smithery/cli, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Once Alpha Vantage MCP is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
get-stock-quote — Get the latest stock quote for a specific companyget-company-info — Get stock-related information for a specific companyget-crypto-exchange-rate — Get current cryptocurrency exchange ratesget-time-series — Get historical daily price data for a stockget-historical-options — Get historical options chain data with sorting capabilitiesRunning — After connecting Claude client with the MCP tool via json file and installing the packages, Claude should see the server's mcp tools:You will need 2 environment variables: ALPHA_VANTAGE_API_KEY, REPLACE_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
This sits in the knowledge and memory group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Alpha Vantage MCP's toolset — get-stock-quote, get-company-info, get-crypto-exchange-rate and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by QuantML-Github; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Alpha Vantage MCP's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| 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-historical-options | Get historical options chain data with sorting capabilities |
| Running | After connecting Claude client with the MCP tool via json file and installing the packages, Claude should see the server's mcp tools: |
{
"mcpServers": {
"alpha-vantage": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@smithery/cli"],
"env": {
"ALPHA_VANTAGE_API_KEY": "your-value",
"REPLACE_API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| ALPHA_VANTAGE_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| REPLACE_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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