# Alpha Vantage Global Quote

> Alpha Vantage Global Quote is a paid API for AI agents from Alpha Vantage at alphavantage.mpp.paywithlocus.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.008/call, not verified (last probed 2026-10-11); live alternatives: x402stock.xyz Stock Quote API ($0.01) and finance.toon.haus Stock Quote with Company Profile ($0.001).

Agents call it through Zero, which pays per call: no API key and no wallet of your own. New accounts start with $5.

Live alternatives for the same use case:
- [x402stock.xyz Stock Quote API](https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402stock-xyz-9f81eee2) ($0.01)
- [finance.toon.haus Stock Quote with Company Profile](https://www.zero.xyz/c/finance-toon-haus-4badf2c9) ($0.001)

Retrieves the latest real-time quote for a stock ticker, including price, open, high, low, volume, change, and previous close.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://alphavantage.mpp.paywithlocus.com/alphavantage/global-quote?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.008/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Last successful call: 2026-07-23
- Success rate: 100% of calls made through Zero
- Rating: 3.3 / 5 from 1 review
- Activations on Zero: 82
- Provider: Alpha Vantage
- Docs: https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/
- Website: https://www.alphavantage.co
- Tags: finance, stocks, forex, crypto, market-data, technical-analysis, data
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/alpha-vantage-global-quote-a04f6af9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_i718MfjRv7-4nTd65eRCY

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability alpha-vantage-global-quote-a04f6af9 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current stock price for AAPL — give me the latest quote including today's open, high, low, volume, and percentage change.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a single, current snapshot quote for a specific stock ticker — especially when you want price, volume, change, and previous close in one call. Prefer this over time-series endpoints when only the latest data point is needed. Best for real-time stock monitoring, portfolio dashboards, or quick price checks.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized ticker symbol returns an empty or error response
- Market closed or pre-market hours may return stale last-trading-day data
- Rate limiting may occur under high request frequency
- Non-US or delisted symbols may return no data

## How this service works

Latest price and volume for a single ticker — open, high, low, close, volume, and change.

## Output

Returns a Global Quote object containing the ticker symbol, current price, open, high, low, volume, previous close, price change amount, percentage change, and the date of the latest trading day.

## Example request

```json
{
 "symbol": "AAPL",
 "datatype": "json"
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "symbol"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "symbol": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Stock ticker symbol (e.g., \"IBM\")"
  },
  "datatype": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "\"json\" (default) or \"csv\""
  }
 },
 "additionalProperties": true
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/alpha-vantage-global-quote-a04f6af9/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from alphavantage.mpp.paywithlocus.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/alphavantage.mpp.paywithlocus.com/llms.txt)