Alpha Vantage MCP: market data and financials on request

How to connect Alpha Vantage to your AI app

1. 1Click Connect Alpha Vantage free and sign in to Alpha Vantage.
2. 2Alpha Vantage only returns data. Trim the list to what your analysis uses, for example switching off commodity series if you only follow equities.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app for the last four quarters of a company's income statement, then open Activity to see the call.

Questions Alpha Vantage can answer

• Pull annual and quarterly income statements and balance sheets for a company.
• See upcoming earnings and IPOs for the next three months, or read an earnings call transcript.
• Get daily or monthly forex rates and technical indicators such as moving averages.
• Check news and sentiment scores for a ticker or topic.
• Track commodity prices, from Brent crude to copper and coffee.

Visibility for financial lookups

• Switch off any Alpha Vantage tool you don't use; it's hidden and refused if called.
• Policies check every request, so a client's name or account number in a request can be hidden before it goes out.
• Activity keeps a record of every Alpha Vantage call your team makes through its AI apps.

What you get with Alpha Vantage and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use Alpha VantageClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Alpha Vantage through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Alpha Vantage tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Alpha Vantage tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Alpha Vantage. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Get All Commodities Price IndexTool to retrieve the global price index of all commodities. use when you need monthly, quarterly, or annual aggregated price index data for commodities.
• ALUMINUMTool to fetch global aluminum prices. use when you need monthly, quarterly, or annual lme aluminum price data.
• Balance SheetTool to return annual and quarterly balance sheets for a company. use when you need detailed fiscal statements for analysis.
• Brent Crude Oil PricesTool to fetch brent crude oil prices. use when you need daily, weekly, or monthly brent price data.
• Global Coffee PriceTool to retrieve the global coffee price series. use when you need historical monthly, quarterly, or annual coffee prices.
• COPPERTool to fetch global price of copper in monthly, quarterly, and annual intervals. use when you need historical copper price series for analysis.
• CornTool to retrieve global price of corn in monthly, quarterly, and annual intervals. use after verifying api key when you need historical corn price data.
• COTTONTool to retrieve global cotton prices in monthly, quarterly, and annual intervals. use when you need historical cotton price data.
• Earnings CalendarTool to return the earnings calendar for the next three months. use when you need a schedule of upcoming earnings across symbols.
• Earnings Call TranscriptTool to retrieve the earnings call transcript for a given company and quarter. use after confirming symbol and quarter. returns full transcript text and associated llm-based sentiment signals.
• FX Daily Time SeriesTool to fetch daily time series (open, high, low, close) for a currency pair. use after confirming base and quote currency codes to retrieve historical daily fx rates.
• FX Monthly Time SeriesTool to get monthly time series (open, high, low, close) for a currency pair. use when you need historical monthly forex data for a given currency pair.
• Income StatementTool to fetch annual and quarterly income statements. use after confirming the company symbol.
• IPO CalendarTool to retrieve the ipo calendar for the next three months. use when you need a list of upcoming ipo events across markets.
• Listing StatusTool to fetch listing status of us stocks and etfs. use when you need active or delisted securities as of a date.
• News SentimentTool to fetch live and historical market news & sentiment. use when you need curated news articles with sentiment scores for specified tickers and topics.
• Stock SplitsTool to retrieve historical stock split events for a symbol. use when you need past split dates and ratio details before analyzing corporate actions.
• Global Sugar PriceTool to retrieve the global sugar price series. use when you need historical monthly, quarterly, or annual sugar prices.
• Technical IndicatorTool to fetch technical indicators for the specified equity or currency pair. use after obtaining time series to compute moving averages or oscillators.
• WHEATTool to fetch global price of wheat. use when you need historical wheat prices in monthly, quarterly, or annual intervals.