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Options Technology

Options Technology (Options IT) is a capital markets managed services and trading infrastructure provider founded in 1993, backed by private equity firm Abry Partners since 2019, serving over 550 firms globally. Its market data business, built on the 2021 acquisition of ACTIV Financial, sells low-latency raw and normalized exchange feeds delivered over colocated multicast and TCP, real-time streaming into AWS, GCP, and Azure, tickerplant snapshot and time-series services, and lossless data capture with raw .pcap files. The commercial relationship is sales-gated and entitlement-managed, but the ACTIV Web One API - a WebSocket plus WebAssembly JavaScript API distributed via npm - has genuinely public developer documentation, tutorials, and an in-browser playground at weboneapi.activfinancial.com.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Options Technology the way a machine reads it — 4 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Options Technology scores 34.3/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 17/100 (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 — 34.3/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Regulatory · Securities & Market Data 6.9 / 15
Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Options Technology

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Options Technology. 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 1

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.

ACTIV Web One API (AtlasFeed)

WebSocket-based (WebAssembly) JavaScript/TypeScript market data API for browser and Node.js, installed as npm package '@activfinancial/one-api' (latest 1.1.4). Supports snapshot...

Security Posture 3

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.

Options Technology Authentication

sessionCredentials · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Options Technology Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Options Technology Trust Center

trust center published

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Options Technology — 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.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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