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Cboe Global Markets

Cboe Global Markets is one of the world's largest exchange holding companies, operating options, futures, equities, and FX markets including the Cboe Options Exchange, home of the VIX Index and SPX options. Cboe offers market data programmatically through the Cboe DataShop platform and the LiveVol All Access API — a REST API suite covering real-time, delayed, and historical options and equities quotes and trades, Greeks and implied volatility analytics, earnings events, custom market scanners, and trade review — secured with OAuth 2.0 via the LiveVol identity service, plus free public delayed-quote JSON endpoints that back cboe.com quote pages.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Cboe Global Markets the way a machine reads it — 8 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Cboe Global Markets scores 50.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 50.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Regulatory · Securities & Market Data 11.4 / 15
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Cboe Global Markets

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cboe Global Markets. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 2

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Cboe LiveVol All Access API

The Cboe LiveVol All Access API is a REST API suite offering quote and trade details for equities and options via live, delayed, and historical endpoints. Endpoint groups cover ...

Cboe Delayed Quotes API

Public, unauthenticated JSON endpoints served from cdn.cboe.com that back the delayed-quote pages on cboe.com. Provide delayed quotes and full option chains for equities and Cbo...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

cboe-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cboe Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cboe Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cboe Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Cboe Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Cboe Scopes

42 scopes · clientCredentials/authorizationCode

42 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Every other property we hold for Cboe Global Markets — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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