API Ninjas MCP: 140+ data APIs on call in your AI app

Add API Ninjas to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect API Ninjas free and sign in with your API Ninjas account.
2. 2With this many APIs, trim the list to your work. A finance team might keep earnings, ETF and interest-rate lookups and switch off barcode or nutrition tools, so the AI app picks from a shorter list.
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 to validate an IBAN and tell you which bank it belongs to, then check Activity for the lookup.

Data lookups from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

• Validate an IBAN and break it into country and bank details, or look up a card issuer from its BIN.
• Pull a company's earnings calendar, an earnings call transcript or its current market cap.
• Get current inflation, central bank interest rates and US mortgage rates, past and present.
• Work out US or Canadian income tax with a federal, state or provincial and FICA breakdown.
• Check whether an email address comes from a disposable provider, or fetch a domain's DNS records.

Keep the data calls in view

• Switch off API Ninjas tools outside your work; they're hidden from your AI app and refused if called.
• Policies check every call, so you can warn before a customer's bank details are sent for a lookup.
• Activity keeps a record of every API Ninjas lookup your AI apps make.

What you get with API Ninjas and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use API NinjasClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach API Ninjas through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any API Ninjas 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.

API Ninjas tools

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

• Generate Barcode ImageTool to generate a barcode image for specified text. use when you need a barcode image (png or svg) of custom data.
• BIN LookupTool to look up bank information from a bank identification number. use after you have a bin to fetch issuer details (brand, type, country).
• Get Bitcoin Price and Market DataTool to retrieve the latest bitcoin price and 24-hour market data. use when you need real-time bitcoin metrics in usd.
• Commodity PriceTool to get real-time price for a commodity. use when you need the current market price by specifying the commodity name. example: "what is the current price of gold?"
• Crypto PriceTool to get real-time price for a cryptocurrency pair. use when you need the current market price by symbol.
• Check Disposable EmailTool to check whether an email address is from a disposable email provider. use when validating user emails prior to sending communications.
• DNS LookupTool to retrieve dns records for a specified domain. use when you need dns record details for troubleshooting or validation.
• Earnings CalendarTool to fetch past and upcoming earnings results for a specified ticker. use when you need both historical earnings and upcoming earnings dates for a company.
• Earnings Call TranscriptTool to get the earnings call transcript for a company and quarter. use when you need full call text after earnings are released.
• ETF InfoTool to get detailed information about an etf by ticker. use after identifying the etf ticker symbol to retrieve its key metrics and top holdings.
• Income TaxTool to get current and historical income tax rates for a country. use when you need detailed federal and state/provincial tax bracket information by country code and year.
• IBAN LookupTool to look up and validate an international bank account number (iban). use when you have an iban and need to retrieve its components (country, bank code, account number, etc.) and its validity.
• Income Tax CalculatorTool to calculate income taxes for us and canada. use when you need detailed breakdown of federal, state/provincial, and fica taxes. country and region codes must be correct.
• Get Inflation DataTool to get current inflation data for a country. use when you need latest cpi or hicp monthly and annual inflation rates.
• Interest RateTool to get current interest rates for central banks and benchmarks. use when you need to fetch the latest interest rate for a specific country or all available countries.
• Market CapTool to get real-time market cap data for a company. use when you need up-to-date market capitalization by specifying the stock ticker. example: "what is the market cap of nvda?"
• Mortgage RateTool to get current and historical mortgage rates. use when you need weekly fixed-rate mortgage data, optionally for specific dates or date ranges.
• Extract Nutrition InformationTool to extract nutrition information from text query. use when you need to parse food-related text (e.g., recipes, menus) to calculate corresponding nutrition data.