tastytrade
tastytrade is an options-focused brokerage offering a public Open API that provides full read and write access to real-time account data, positions, balances, transaction history, market data, option chains, and order execution across equities, options, futures, and crypto. The API uses REST over HTTPS with JSON payloads for synchronous operations and WebSocket connections (DXLink for market data, dedicated account streamer for real-time account updates). OAuth 2.0 and session-token authentication are both supported, with a safe sandbox environment for development and testing.
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.
API Evangelist profiles tastytrade the way a machine reads it — 141 machine-readable artifacts across 29 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 — tastytrade scores 52.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile tastytrade
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for tastytrade. 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 29
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.
tastytrade DXLink Market Data Streaming API
Real-time market data streaming via DXLink, a WebSocket-based protocol backed by dxFeed. Clients fetch a quote token from the tastytrade REST API and use it to authenticate with...
tastytrade Account Streamer API
WebSocket-based account streaming that delivers real-time notifications for order fills, position changes, account balance updates, and margin requirement changes. Clients authe...
tastytrade accounts API
Operations about accounts
tastytrade api-quote-tokens API
Operations about api-quote-tokens
tastytrade Available Dates API
The Available Dates API from tastytrade — 1 operation(s) for available dates.
tastytrade Backtests API
The Backtests API from tastytrade — 4 operation(s) for backtests.
tastytrade balance-snapshots API
Operations about balance-snapshots
tastytrade complex-orders API
Allows an API client to retreive information about complex orders on a per account basis.
tastytrade customers API
Operations about customers
tastytrade futures-option-chains API
Operations about futures-option-chains
tastytrade instruments API
Operations about instruments
tastytrade margin-requirements API
allows a client to fetch margin-requirements for positions and orders
tastytrade margin-requirements-public-configuration API
Operations about margin-requirements-public-configurations
tastytrade market-data-controller API
The market-data-controller API from tastytrade — 1 operation(s) for market-data-controller.
tastytrade Market Metrics API
The Market Metrics API from tastytrade — 3 operation(s) for market metrics.
tastytrade market-time API
Operations about market-times
tastytrade net-liq-controller API
The net-liq-controller API from tastytrade — 1 operation(s) for net-liq-controller.
tastytrade option-chains API
Operations about option-chains
tastytrade orders API
Allows an API client to view, filter, create, cancel and replace orders.
tastytrade pairs-watchlists API
Allows an API client to fetch pairs watchlists.
tastytrade positions API
Operations about positions
tastytrade public-watchlists API
Allows an API client to fetch tastyworks watchlists.
tastytrade quote-alerts API
Operations about quote-alerts
tastytrade Simulate Trade API
The Simulate Trade API from tastytrade — 1 operation(s) for simulate trade.
tastytrade span API
Operations about spans
tastytrade Symbols API
The Symbols API from tastytrade — 1 operation(s) for symbols.
tastytrade trading-status API
Allows an API client to request information about the basic trade status of an account. \ This includes information about the strategies an account can trade.
tastytrade transactions API
Operations about transactions
tastytrade user-watchlists API
Allows an API client to fetch a user's watchlists.
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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.
Plans
PLANSRate 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.
Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 2
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.
Tastytrade Api Context
JSON-LDTastytrade Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
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.
tastytrade API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 66
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.
TradingStatus
JSON SCHEMAAccount
JSON SCHEMAAccountAuthorityDecorator
JSON SCHEMACustomer
JSON SCHEMAQuoteStreamerTokenAuthResult
JSON SCHEMAAvailableSymbolDates
JSON SCHEMABacktestGet
JSON SCHEMABacktestPost
JSON SCHEMAEntryConditions
JSON SCHEMAExitConditions
JSON SCHEMALeg
JSON SCHEMASnapshot
JSON SCHEMATrial
JSON SCHEMAAccountBalance
JSON SCHEMAAccountBalanceSnapshot
JSON SCHEMACurrentPosition
JSON SCHEMACompactOptionChainSerializer
JSON SCHEMACryptocurrency
JSON SCHEMAEquity
JSON SCHEMAEquityOption
JSON SCHEMAFuture
JSON SCHEMAFutureOption
JSON SCHEMAFutureOptionProduct
JSON SCHEMAFutureProduct
JSON SCHEMAFuturesNestedOptionChainSerializer
JSON SCHEMANestedOptionChainSerializer
JSON SCHEMAQuantityDecimalPrecision
JSON SCHEMASearchableInstrumentDeserializer
JSON SCHEMAWarrant
JSON SCHEMAInstrument
JSON SCHEMAInstrumentKey
JSON SCHEMAMarketData
JSON SCHEMADividendInfo
JSON SCHEMAEarningsInfo
JSON SCHEMAMarketMetricInfo
JSON SCHEMACurrentSession
JSON SCHEMACurrentSessionDeserializer
JSON SCHEMAMarketCalendarDeserializer
JSON SCHEMANextSession
JSON SCHEMAPreviousSession
JSON SCHEMASimpleSessionDeserializer
JSON SCHEMANetLiqOhlc
JSON SCHEMAComplexOrder
JSON SCHEMAOrder
JSON SCHEMAPlacedOrderResponse
JSON SCHEMApatchAccountsAccountNumberComplexOrdersId
JSON SCHEMApatchAccountsAccountNumberOrdersId
JSON SCHEMApostAccountsAccountNumberComplexOrders
JSON SCHEMApostAccountsAccountNumberComplexOrdersDryRun
JSON SCHEMApostAccountsAccountNumberOrders
JSON SCHEMApostAccountsAccountNumberOrdersDryRun
JSON SCHEMApostAccountsAccountNumberOrdersIdDryRun
JSON SCHEMAputAccountsAccountNumberOrdersId
JSON SCHEMAQuoteAlertDeserializer
JSON SCHEMApostQuoteAlerts
JSON SCHEMAMarginRequirement
JSON SCHEMAMarginRequirementsGlobalConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAPositionLimit
JSON SCHEMARow
JSON SCHEMASymbolData
JSON SCHEMATransaction
JSON SCHEMAPairsWatchlist
JSON SCHEMAWatchlist
JSON SCHEMApostWatchlists
JSON SCHEMAputWatchlistsWatchlistName
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Examples 38
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.
Backtesting Getbacktests
EXAMPLEBacktesting Getbacktestslogs
EXAMPLEQuote Alerts Getquotealerts
EXAMPLESymbol Search Searchsymbols
EXAMPLEWatchlists Getwatchlists
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Security Posture 1
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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for tastytrade — 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 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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