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Alpaca MCP connector
The Alpaca connector brings live and historical stock and crypto market data, news, and top movers into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and the Elaichi Agent, so anyone on your team can ask about prices in plain language.
- Connects with an API key
- Free 14-day trial
- No credit card
Show me latest quotes for AAPL, MSFT and NVDA.
Working in Alpaca with Elaichi
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List all Alpaca stocks bars
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List all Alpaca stock bars
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List all Alpaca stocks trades
How to connect Alpaca to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
Alpaca MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Alpaca MCP connector for Claude Code
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In a terminal, run
claude mcp addwith the endpoint.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Start Claude Code and run
/mcp. -
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Pick elaichi, then sign in and approve in the browser.
Terminal
$ claude mcp add --transport http elaichi --scope user https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Use --scope project instead to share it with the repository through .mcp.json.
Alpaca MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Alpaca MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Alpaca MCP connector for Microsoft Copilot
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In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, Add a tool, New tool and Model Context Protocol.
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Paste the endpoint into Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0, then Dynamic discovery, and press Create.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Create a new connection, sign in and approve, then press Add to agent.
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Under Channels, open Teams and Microsoft Copilot and make the agent available in Microsoft Copilot.
- Server URL
- https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
- Type
- Dynamic discovery
Microsoft Copilot was called Microsoft 365 Copilot. Keep the tool on end-user credentials, so each person signs in as themselves.
Connect Alpaca to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
What teams do with Alpaca through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Alpaca is logged.
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Trading
Check a price before the desk decides
Ask for the latest quote and trade on a ticker, plus the current bid and ask spread, and get the numbers back in the conversation before anyone commits.
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Research
Pull a week of bars for a chart
Request daily or intraday bars for a list of stocks over any date range and have the agent summarize the move, the range, and the volume without opening a spreadsheet.
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Finance
Mark the portfolio at today's prices
Fetch a snapshot for every holding at once and let the agent tally the day's change across the book for the morning update.
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Content
Draft the market recap from live movers
Ask for today's biggest gainers and losers and the latest Alpaca news on them, then have the agent draft the newsletter paragraph.
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Client services
Answer a client's question about a ticker
When a client asks why a stock dropped, pull the recent trades, the news headlines, and the day's snapshot in one ask and reply with a clear explanation.
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Product
Compare crypto prices across venues
Ask for the best bid and offer across exchanges for a coin and the latest crypto bars, so the team can see where liquidity sits before a launch.
Try asking
- “Show me latest quotes for AAPL, MSFT and NVDA.”
- “Compare daily bars for SPY over the last two weeks.”
- “List crypto trades for BTC/USD from this morning.”
What connecting Alpaca gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Alpaca account.
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Show me latest quotes for AAPL, MSFT and NVDA.
Compare daily bars for SPY over the last two weeks.
List crypto trades for BTC/USD from this morning.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask about bars and quotes, get answers.
Plain language questions answered from live Alpaca bars, trades and quotes.
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot reach Alpaca here.
One org MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared API key.
Tool catalog
74 Alpaca tools ready without custom code.
Browse every Alpaca resource and method, from stock snapshots to crypto trades.
Toolboxes
Every desk gets its own Alpaca toolbox.
Toolboxes scoped per team decide which Alpaca tools that team sees.
Shared connections
Teammates query Alpaca without touching a key.
See who connected each Alpaca account and which teams and members share it.
Audit log
Every Alpaca call has a name on it.
When, who, what happened, type and resource, appended for each Alpaca request.
From answering questions to doing the work
A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations, collections and live dashboards come with the Black plan.
Alpaca digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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✓
Fetch bars
Alpaca
1.4s -
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Group by owner
Transform
0.1s -
✓
Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Jake Morgan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Alpaca
Queued
Automations
A schedule fires, a digest posts back.
Six steps fetch Alpaca bars, group them, draft a digest, then wait for approval.
Alpaca health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the bars collection
Bars
1,284 ↓ 12%
Trades
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Bars created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Trading desk 34%
Research 27%
Risk 21%
Crypto desk 18%
Collections and dashboards
Alpaca numbers computed, not asked for.
Four metrics, 14 days of records created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
For IT and engineering
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Alpaca
All three can connect Alpaca to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over Alpaca tools | Allow or restrict single Alpaca tools, per role or user. | App and action restrictions on the account. | Role permissions, down to the action. |
| Record of calls | One audit entry per Alpaca call. | A History tab of tool calls. | A log of every tool call. |
| Single sign-on | SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. | SAML on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC on Enterprise. |
| Price | Free for one person; $15 per user per month on Gold. | 2 tasks per successful call. | Billed per tool call. |
Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.
Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.
Alpaca tools for your AI agents
74 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Alpaca, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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Questions, answered
How do I connect Alpaca to Claude?
Connect Alpaca in Elaichi first by pasting your Alpaca API key when prompted. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in to Elaichi as yourself and Alpaca market data is available in Claude.
Does Alpaca work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Alpaca is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Alpaca once and every client picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Alpaca data?
With Alpaca connected, an agent can look up the latest quote, trade, and snapshot for a stock or crypto pair, pull historical bars over any date range, show the spread between bid and ask, list today's top movers, and read recent market news. Because Alpaca has a large set of actions, short concrete asks such as "latest quote for AAPL" work better than long sentences. The agent finds the right action and returns the numbers in the conversation.
Does connecting Alpaca give the AI access to everything in my account?
No. The agent can only reach what the Alpaca API key you connected can reach, and this connector covers market data such as bars, quotes, trades, snapshots, news, and movers. Elaichi can narrow that further with restrictions, but it can never widen it beyond what the connected Alpaca key allows.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Alpaca?
The Alpaca connector in Elaichi reads market data, so its actions look up bars, quotes, trades, snapshots, news, and movers rather than placing orders or editing anything. Restrictions still apply per action, so you can switch off any Alpaca action you do not want used. A restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot cannot run it, whatever the prompt says.
What happens to an Alpaca connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Alpaca at once, in every client they used. If the Alpaca connection was shared with a team, it keeps working for everyone else. Disconnecting Alpaca once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and every other client at the same time.
Does the Alpaca MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Alpaca is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Alpaca?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Alpaca. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Alpaca call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Alpaca?
Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Alpaca: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Alpaca in front of your team
14 days of Black, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
When the trial ends, nothing is deleted. You move to the free Personal plan, and connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are.
Add one link to your AI app
The same link for everyone on your team.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
ChatGPT
Claude
Cursor
Microsoft Copilot