Alpha Vantage
Alpha Vantage's pricing URL resolves, but plan structure is not surfaced clearly enough for an agent to enumerate without hand-parsing. No per-unit price was found on the page; an agent has no direct way to estimate the cost of a single task. All advertised paths route to a sales conversation rather than a self-serve checkout. No public API documentation URL was discovered.
Pricing summary
$49.99
per monthContact sales
How Alpha Vantage scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
10 / 15
Usage-based / metered
0 / 25
Self-serve checkout
0 / 15
Public API
0 / 15
Low / no minimum
5 / 10
Unauth automated payment
0 / 10
Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base
0 / 5
Total
15 / 100
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Alpha Vantage?
Discover price
https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/ — full tier list with USDSelect a plan
Five distinguishable monthly tiers + annual variantsPay per task
Billing is by requests/min cap, not per call; free key still per-call rate-limitedAvoid a sales call
Card form embedded on https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/API docs without auth
https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/ publicEstimate cost upfront
Tier price + req/min cap published; cost upper bound is the tier pricePros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-03. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires scheduling a call.
- API documentation is reachable without a login — discovery and integration can happen in one session.
- No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
- A unit price is published but consumption per task is not declared upfront — cost predictability is partial.
How Alpha Vantage could lift its score
Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Alpha Vantage Premium API Key — At Alpha Vantage, the majority of our API endpoints can be accessed for free. For use cases that exceed our standard API usage limit (25 API requests per day) or require certain premium API functions, we offer a premium plan to scale your use cases. Alpha Vantage is the trusted partner of premier organizations and institutions around the globe, including: |
| tier_count | 1 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 49.99 |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 0 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | null |
| api_docs_auth_walled | null |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | null |
| usage_headline_present | false |
| custom_tier_present | false |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":false,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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15
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)Financial Data APIs
Not advertised
1
No
$49.99/mo
0 / 1
Auth-walled
No
Not published
2026-05-03
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.ai-pricing.json
agents.txt
llms.txt
sitemap.xml
MCP Server Card
Agent Skills
x402 / MPP
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