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Polygon

Polygon (Polygon.io, rebranded as Massive in early 2026) provides real-time and historical market data APIs across US stocks, options, indices, forex, cryptocurrencies, and futures. Coverage is delivered through REST endpoints and WebSocket streams under a single api.polygon.io surface plus an S3 flat files product, with tiered subscription plans for retail developers and Business contracts for redistribution and exchange-licensed data.

agent native

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Polygon the way a machine reads it — 79 machine-readable artifacts across 12 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 — Polygon scores 79.7/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 90/100 (agent native). 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 — 79.7/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 19.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 17.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 7.9 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Securities & Market Data 11.4 / 15
Agent readiness — 90/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Polygon

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Polygon. 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 12

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.

Polygon WebSocket API

Real-time streaming WebSocket clusters per asset class (stocks/options/indices/forex/crypto). Subscribers authenticate with an API key and subscribe to channels for trades, quot...

Polygon Aggregates API

Crypto aggregate bars.

Polygon Books API

Level-2 order book.

Polygon Contracts API

Option contract reference data.

Polygon Conversion API

Real-time currency conversion.

Polygon CorporateActions API

Stock splits and dividends.

Polygon DailyBars API

Daily open/close.

Polygon Markets API

Markets, exchanges, holidays, and status.

Polygon News API

Ticker news.

Polygon Quotes API

FX quote endpoints.

Polygon Snapshots API

Snapshot endpoints.

Polygon Tickers API

Ticker reference and metadata.

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Postman Collections 6

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Polygon Crypto REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Polygon Forex REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Polygon Indices REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Polygon Options REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Polygon Stocks REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 12

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Polygon Corporate Actions Review

Resolve a ticker, then list its stock splits and dividends history.

ARAZZO

Polygon Crypto Daily Comparison

Check market status, snapshot a crypto pair, and read its daily open/close.

ARAZZO

Polygon Crypto Pair Analysis

Snapshot a crypto pair, pull its aggregate bars, and read its Level-2 order book.

ARAZZO

Polygon Forex Pair Analysis

Read a currency pair's last quote, convert an amount, and pull its aggregate bars.

ARAZZO

Polygon Grouped Market Scan

Check market status, pull grouped daily bars for all US stocks, and profile one symbol.

ARAZZO

Polygon Index Analysis

Snapshot an index, pull its aggregate bars, and read its previous close.

ARAZZO

Polygon Market-Gated Stock Daily Snapshot

Check current US market status, then pull a stock's daily open/close and previous close.

ARAZZO

Polygon Options Chain Scan

Resolve an underlying's details, scan its options chain, and read its previous close.

ARAZZO

Polygon Options Contract Deep Dive

List an underlying's option contracts, snapshot the top contract, and pull its bars.

ARAZZO

Polygon Stock Research

Resolve a stock ticker's reference details, pull its aggregate bars, and read its previous close.

ARAZZO

Polygon Ticker Discovery and Profile

Search active stock tickers, resolve the top match's details, and pull its recent bars.

ARAZZO

Polygon Ticker News Context

Resolve a ticker's details, pull recent news, and read its previous close.

ARAZZO

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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.

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.

Polygon Plans Pricing

12 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.

Polygon Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 5

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Multi-asset market data

Unified REST and WebSocket surface for stocks, options, indices, forex, crypto, and futures.

Real-time and historical

Sub-second live feeds plus 20+ years of historical aggregates depending on tier.

WebSocket clusters per asset class

Dedicated streaming clusters for stocks, options, indices, forex, and crypto subscriptions.

Flat files

S3-style daily aggregate, trade, and quote files for bulk historical loads on paid tiers.

Tiered subscriptions

Basic / Starter / Developer / Advanced / Business plans per asset class with distinct rate limits.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Polygon WebSocket Streaming API

Polygon real-time market data WebSocket clusters. Each asset class (stocks, options, indices, forex, crypto) has its own dedicated cluster at `wss://socket.polygon.io/{cluster}`...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Polygon Context

10 classes · 40 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Polygon API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Polygon API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Polygon API Rules

21 rules · 4 errors · 13 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Polygon Aggregate Bar

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Polygon Options Contract

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Polygon NBBO Quote Tick

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Polygon Ticker

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Polygon Trade Tick

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Polygon Aggregate Bar Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Polygon Options Contract Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Polygon Ticker Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 5

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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.

Polygon Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Polygon 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.

Polygon Scopes

6 scopes · authorizationCode/clientCredentials

6 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Polygon Agentic Access

175 operations

175 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Trading platform price feeds

Power retail and institutional trading UIs with consolidated real-time quotes and bars.

Backtesting and research

Pull decades of aggregated bars and tick data for systematic strategy research.

Risk and surveillance

Stream live trades and quotes into compliance, surveillance, and risk engines.

Analytics dashboards

Build market dashboards, terminals, and embedded charts across asset classes.

Quant pipelines

Drive options Greeks, volatility surfaces, and FX hedging models with reliable feeds.

Integrations 4

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

TradingView

Polygon data feeds integrate with charting libraries used by trading apps.

Pandas and DataFrames

Python SDK returns DataFrames for direct use in research notebooks.

Snowflake and Databricks

Flat files load into modern data warehouses for SQL-based market analytics.

Kafka and streaming platforms

WebSocket feeds bridge into Kafka, Redpanda, and Kinesis for downstream processing.

Solutions 3

Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

Retail brokerages and fintech apps

Tiered plans for consumer-facing investing apps and personal-finance tools.

Quant funds and prop trading

Business contracts for redistribution and full SIP / OPRA / CME exchange-licensed data.

Data and AI research

Flat files and historical APIs for ML feature engineering and financial NLP.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Polygon — 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 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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