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Twelve Data

Twelve Data is a financial market data provider offering real-time and historical data for stocks, forex, cryptocurrencies, ETFs, indices, commodities, and funds through a single REST API and a real-time WebSocket. Coverage spans time series (OHLCV), quotes and prices, 100-plus technical indicators, reference and catalog data, and company fundamentals. Every request is authenticated with an apikey and metered as API credits; a free Basic plan grants 800 API credits per day. Real-time price streaming is delivered over a WebSocket at wss://ws.twelvedata.com/v1/quotes/price.

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 Twelve Data the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 — Twelve Data scores 77.3/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 82/100 (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 — 77.3/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 16.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 17.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 20.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 9.6 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Securities & Market Data 9.8 / 15
Agent readiness — 82/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Twelve Data

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Twelve Data. 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 6

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.

Twelve Data WebSocket Streaming API

Real-time price streaming over a persistent, bidirectional WebSocket at wss://ws.twelvedata.com/v1/quotes/price. Clients authenticate with an apikey query parameter, send JSON s...

Twelve Data Core Data API

Real-time quotes, latest prices, and end-of-day data.

Twelve Data Fundamentals API

Company profiles, statements, dividends, earnings, and analysis.

Twelve Data Reference Data API

Catalogs of instruments, exchanges, and supporting metadata.

Twelve Data Technical Indicators API

100+ technical analysis indicators computed over time series.

Twelve Data Time Series API

Historical and real-time OHLCV time series.

Open Collections 1

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).

Twelve Data REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

twelvedata-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.

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.

Twelvedata Rate Limits

3 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.

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.

Twelve Data Real-Time Price WebSocket

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Twelve Data's **real-time price WebSocket**. Unlike a one-way HTTP Server-Sent Events stream, this is a genuine, bidirectional WebSocket (`wss://`) s...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral 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.

Twelve Data API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

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.

Twelvedata Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Twelvedata Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Twelvedata Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR

SECURITY

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.

Twelvedata Agentic Access

26 operations

26 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Twelve Data — 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

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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