# Alpha Vantage Symbol Search

> Alpha Vantage Symbol Search is a paid API for AI agents from Alpha Vantage at alphavantage.mpp.paywithlocus.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.008/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Search for stock, ETF, forex, and crypto ticker symbols and security metadata by keyword across global markets

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://alphavantage.mpp.paywithlocus.com/alphavantage/symbol-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.008/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- 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-symbol-search-9e4d69c6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bpq58rTczpcRy10EeOHTf

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-symbol-search-9e4d69c6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the ticker symbol for Microsoft? Search for all matches including international exchanges and tell me the symbol, region, currency, and market hours for each.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to resolve a company name or partial ticker to a canonical symbol before fetching price data, technical indicators, or fundamentals. Especially useful when the user provides a company name instead of a ticker, or when you need to identify the correct symbol across multiple global exchanges.

## Known failure modes

- Empty bestMatches array if no securities match the keyword
- Missing or misspelled keywords may return unrelated results
- Rate limit errors if API quota exceeded
- Network timeout if upstream Alpha Vantage is unavailable

## How this service works

Search for matching symbols by keywords. Returns symbol, name, region, currency, and match score.

## Output

Returns a list of best-match securities with fields: ticker symbol (e.g. MSFT), security name, asset type (Equity/ETF/etc.), trading region, market open/close times, timezone, currency, and a numeric match score indicating relevance.

## Example request

```json
{
 "keywords": "tesla"
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "keywords"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "datatype": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "\"json\" (default) or \"csv\""
  },
  "keywords": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Search keywords (e.g., \"microsoft\", \"SAIC\")"
  }
 },
 "additionalProperties": true
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/alpha-vantage-symbol-search-9e4d69c6/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)