Accessible Investing for Global Customers
Deliver fractional US stocks and other financial products directly to your local markets with ease.
Trusted by 200+ global financial institutions and fintechs
Developer-First API, In-House Infrastructure
Leverage our modern API and real-time, event-driven architecture to accelerate product velocity with faster iterations.
Self-Clearing with Embedded Operations
Instant onboarding, flexible KYC, and cost-effective trading all supported by Alpaca's self-clearing broker-dealer.
Flexibly add one or many assets
Alpaca's Broker API allows you to seamlessly embed stock, options, fixed income and crypto trading into your investment app.
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Stocks
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11k+ US equities with fully paid securities lending
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Fractional & notional trading with margin
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Full extended and 24/5 trading hours
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Real-time stock market data access
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Flexible minimum trade amounts
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Fully disclosed & omnibus supported
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Options
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Level 1, 2 and 3 fully supported
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Automated exercise, assignment & event transmission
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Robust risk management
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Support major underlying symbols
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Daily refresh of asset master
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Crypto
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Custody security
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Real-time crypto market data access
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24/7/365 crypto trading
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Unlock a new revenue stream with crypto
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Available in 49 US states, US territories, Washington DC & select international jurisdictions
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Instant access to 20+ coins
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Fixed Income
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Currently offered with US Treasuries
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Real-time trading with 2ms execution speed
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Aggregated liquidity across multiple providers
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Transparent, flexible, retail-friendly pricing model
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Coming soon: corporate bonds, fractional order, $1 minimums
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Stocks
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Options
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Crypto
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Fixed Income
Stocks
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11k+ US equities with fully paid securities lending
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Fractional & notional trading with margin
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Full extended and 24/5 trading hours
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Real-time stock market data access
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Flexible minimum trade amounts
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Fully disclosed & omnibus supported
Options
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Level 1, 2 and 3 fully supported
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Automated exercise, assignment & event transmission
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Robust risk management
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Support major underlying symbols
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Daily refresh of asset master
Crypto
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Custody security
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Real-time crypto market data access
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24/7/365 crypto trading
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Unlock a new revenue stream with crypto
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Available in 49 US states, US territories, Washington DC & select international jurisdictions
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Instant access to 20+ coins
Fixed Income
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Currently offered with US Treasuries
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Real-time trading with 2ms execution speed
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Aggregated liquidity across multiple providers
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Transparent, flexible, retail-friendly pricing model
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Coming soon: corporate bonds, fractional order, $1 minimums
Performance and scale are in our DNA
Broker API offers a modern, proprietary architecture with real-time events support and battle-tested technology that powers some of the most demanding algorithmic traders in the world.
600,000+
Daily orders self-cleared
From April to May 2025
1.5ms
Order processing
Powered by Alpaca's OMS v2
99.99%
System Uptime
Since Jan 2025
Advanced capabilities for modern investing experiences
High-Yield Cash
Earn competitive APY through our FDIC Sweep Program with account-level configurability and up to $1M in FDIC insurance per customer
FIX Messaging
Utilize full FIX 4.2 support to enable low-latency, high-throughput order submission, cancellation, and modification
Fractional Shares
Empower customers to trade real-time on both quantity and notional orders (up to 9 decimal points)
Tokenization
Leverage real US equities and fractional share infrastructure to issue tokenized stocks at scale
Fully Paid Securities Lending (FPSL)
Enable clients to earn passive income on owned securities while retaining high-balance accounts
Portfolio Rebalancing
Automatically adjust self-managed portfolio with desired cash or stock holding weights, conditions, and triggers
Local Currency Trading
Place, monitor and sell positions with just-in-time FX conversion to USD and back in 15+ supported currencies
24/5 Trading
Allow global customers to flexibly trade US equities beyond standard hours from Sunday evening through Friday evening
Everything you need, without the overhead
Our comprehensive platform gets you to market quickly - we provide everything from KYC as a service, account funding, to market data and middle/back office reporting.
Our API-driven architecture lets you access and pay for only the products you need.
Real-Time Events
Receive and automate responses to real-time updates on account opening, fund flows, equity or crypto trades and replay past events via Server-Sent-Events (SSE).
Onboarding
Offer customers a seamless, near instant account opening experience. Non-registered technology partners can leverage Alpaca’s KYC as a service to get to market faster.
Funding
Support multiple funding models, including instant funding, pooled accounts and post-trade settlement. Customers can fund via Plaid, ACH transfers, or SWIFT.
Trade
Build engaging investing and trading experiences for novice to professional investors. Help customers create Watchlists or analyze Market Data. Use our Logo API to enhance the visual experience.
Orders
Allow customers to place, monitor or cancel whole share or fractional (notional) orders directly while selecting from multiple order types (market, limit, stop, stop limit, day or good til canceled (GTC). They can also buy on margin or sell short.
Corporate Actions
Educate and engage your users when notifying them of upcoming public corporate action announcements on dividends, mergers, spinoffs and stock splits on how it will impact their account.
Social Sentiment
Provide your customers with community-driven insights, social sentiment and news that increases trader confidence.
Market News
Deliver market-moving content by displaying real-time stock and crypto headlines from trusted sources.
Documents API
Build a custom branded document center in your app where customers can view or download account onboarding materials, trade confirmations, portfolio history, monthly statements, tax forms, and more.
Journal
Journaling gives marketers multiple options to engage prospects and customers. Influence new user sign ups with cash towards their first trade, reward loyal customers with stock or crypto, enable cash gifting programs or rewards for referrals.
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One API, many possibilities
Broker-Dealers
Banks
Investment Advisors
Treasury Management
Fintech Startups
Crypto Exchanges
Tokenization Platforms
Your Next Venture
Supporting 200+ partners in 40+ countries to open financial access
See how global brokerages and fintechs are building and scaling with Alpaca
Europe & Africa
Asia
North America
Middle East
Latin America
Oceania
Simple and Modern API
Our simple and modern RESTful Web API allows you to build scalable trading services, while staying compliant with applicable rules and regulations. We also offer Open API support.
Licensed, secure and fully self-clearing
Self-Clearing Member
Holding a DTCC membership, we provide greater operational control, enhanced trade security, and reduced clearing costs for our global partners
Financial Integrity
As a FINRA-regulated entity, Alpaca adheres to stringent regulatory standards, ensuring the integrity of every transaction
Robust Protection
Your clients' assets receive automatic SIPC protection up to $500,000 and Excess SIPC coverage as needed
Rigorous Security
We adhere to the highest standards in security with ISO 27001:2013 and undergo regular SOC 2 Type 2 audits to ensure all PII is always safe
Utmost Privacy
We maintain full compliance with global privacy regulations, including GDPR and ICO standards, ensuring confidentiality of your data
Easily build and scale today with Alpaca
"Before Alpaca, integrating with a broker would have required a significantly higher amount of dev resources and time. Alpaca's technology has significantly reduced how cumbersome of a process it is."
Benjamin Rollert, CEO and Co-Founder at Composer
"Alpaca has been a great business partner. One of the reasons we chose Alpaca is due to their Local Currency Trading API."
Brian Yun, Co-Founder at Woodstock
"Alpaca has been an incredible partner for RUUT, we really feel their support for our mission and are very happy to keep building together."
Rodrigo Verduzco, Co-Founder at RUUT
"Broker API allows us to build the best trading experience for our users and we are excited to be a part of Alpaca's journey."
Egem Eraslan, Founder and CEO at Midas
"With our scalable infrastructure and access to Alpaca’s brokerage rails there should be no challenge in tokenizing more assets ... we could do that in a month, maybe even a few weeks."
David Robinson, Head of Growth at Backed
"Alpaca's Broker API help our users invest in US markets and keep more money in their pockets."
Chattrin (Joe) Laksanabunsong, CPO at Dime!
"Alpaca has been a great business partner. One of the reasons we chose Alpaca is due to their Local Currency Trading API."
Brian Yun, Co-Founder at Woodstock
"Broker API allows us to build the best trading experience for our users and we are excited to be a part of Alpaca's journey."
Egem Eraslan, Founder and CEO at Midas
"Alpaca's Broker API help our users invest in US markets and keep more money in their pockets."
Chattrin (Joe) Laksanabunsong, CPO at Dime!
"Before Alpaca, integrating with a broker would have required a significantly higher amount of dev resources and time. Alpaca's technology has significantly reduced how cumbersome of a process it is."
Benjamin Rollert, CEO and Co-Founder at Composer
"Alpaca has been an incredible partner for RUUT, we really feel their support for our mission and are very happy to keep building together."
Rodrigo Verduzco, Co-Founder at RUUT
"With our scalable infrastructure and access to Alpaca’s brokerage rails there should be no challenge in tokenizing more assets ... we could do that in a month, maybe even a few weeks."
David Robinson, Head of Growth at Backed