Stock Quote API for AI Agents: One Quote, One Cent of a Cent, No Subscription
Agent loops often need exactly one thing: the current price of one ticker. The usual routes to that number are a subscription feed or another API key to babysit. SML Quick Quote is the pay-per-call primitive instead. Measured live on 2026-10-15 GET /api/quick/quote/AAPL → HTTP 402 in 0.66 s, quotin
Posted on Oct 15 • Originally published at scriptmasterlabs.com
Agent loops often need exactly one thing: the current price of one ticker. The usual routes to that number are a subscription feed or another API key to babysit. SML Quick Quote is the pay-per-call primitive instead.
Alpha Vantage wins on breadth: fundamentals, technical indicators, forex and crypto series, and a free key tier. Use it for research catalogs. Quick Quote is for the moment inside a workflow — watchlist checks, alert enrichment, routing decisions — where one real reading at $0.001 beats carrying another market-data account.
It is read-only market data: not a brokerage connection, not an order router, not a recommendation engine.
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