Alphavantage Stock MCP Server

Design for free tier account, MCP server for Stock data and analysis server using Alpha Vantage API

Local serverstdioTypeScript

What is the Alphavantage Stock MCP MCP server?

Alphavantage Stock MCP MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Alphavantage Stock MCP directly instead of describing what you should do. Design for free tier account, MCP server for Stock data and analysis server using Alpha Vantage API.

What you get

A TypeScript/Node.js implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for accessing historical stock market data through the Alpha Vantage API. This server enables LLMs and agentic workflows to seamlessly interact with financial data.

Setting it up

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.

Configuration and credentials

You will need one environment variable: ALPHAVANTAGE_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.

Before you rely on it

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the alphavantage stock mcp mcp server does with a few real requests.

Choosing this one

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by xweety; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

This entry was verified against Alphavantage Stock MCP's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.

How to install the Alphavantage Stock MCP MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alphavantage-stock-data": {  
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "alphavantage-stock-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY": "YOUR-ALPHA-VANTAGE-API-KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes

Frequently asked questions

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