Is Alpha Vantage Mcp safe to use?

Alpha Vantage Mcp has 1 known CVE tracked by MCPpedia. You can verify these on OSV.dev by searching for "@openai/codex". Review the Security section above for details before installing.

How do I install Alpha Vantage Mcp?

Alpha Vantage Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can Alpha Vantage Mcp do?

Alpha Vantage Mcp provides 3 tools: TIME_SERIES_DAILY, TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY, ADD_TWO_NUMBERS. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Alpha Vantage Mcp?

Alpha Vantage Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.

Is Alpha Vantage Mcp actively maintained?

Alpha Vantage Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 12 days ago. It has 150 GitHub stars.

Alpha Vantage Mcp

@openai/codex

Real-time financial market data: stocks, forex, crypto, commodities, and economic indicators

150 6.4M/wk 3 tools GitHub npm PyPI

1 open CVE

No license

Actively maintained

Last commit 12d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio

3 tools · ~206 tok

Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alphavantage": {
      "args": [
        "marketdata-mcp-server",
        "YOUR_API_KEY"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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What Alpha Vantage Mcp does

The official Alpha Vantage API MCP server enables LLMs and agentic workflows to seamlessly interact with real-time and historical stock market data through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Add this server to your favorite apps such as Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and many more to give them access to comprehensive financial data.

Test This Server

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OSV.dev

1 open1 fixed

CVE-2025-61260lowCVSS 3.1

OpenAI Codex CLI enables code execution through malicious MCP (Model Context Protocol) configuration files

A vulnerability was identified in OpenAI Codex CLI v0.23.0 and before that enables code execution through malicious MCP (Model Context Protocol) configuration files. The attack is triggered when a user runs the codex command inside a malicious or compromised repository. Codex automatically loads project-local .env and .codex/config.toml files without requiring user confirmation, allowing attackers to embed arbitrary commands that execute immediately.

Affected: >= 0source →

CVE-2025-59532medium · fixedCVSS 4

Codex has sandbox bypass due to bug in path configuration logic

Due to a bug in the sandbox configuration logic, Codex CLI could treat a model-generated `cwd` as the sandbox’s writable root, including paths outside of the folder where the user started their session. This logic bypassed the intended workspace boundary and enables arbitrary file writes and command execution where the Codex process has permissions - this did not impact the network-disabled sandbox restriction. **Remediation** We released a patch in Codex CLI **0.39.0** that canonicalizes and

Affected: >= 0.2.0Fixed in 0.39.0source →

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Tools (3)

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~206 tokens total

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Alpha Vantage Mcp safe to use?: Alpha Vantage Mcp has 1 known CVE tracked by MCPpedia. You can verify these on OSV.dev by searching for "@openai/codex". Review the Security section above for details before installing.
How do I install Alpha Vantage Mcp?: Alpha Vantage Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Alpha Vantage Mcp do?: Alpha Vantage Mcp provides 3 tools: TIME_SERIES_DAILY, TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY, ADD_TWO_NUMBERS. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Alpha Vantage Mcp?: Alpha Vantage Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
Is Alpha Vantage Mcp actively maintained?: Alpha Vantage Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 12 days ago. It has 150 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alphavantage": {
      "args": [
        "marketdata-mcp-server",
        "YOUR_API_KEY"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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What Alpha Vantage Mcp does

Test This Server

Run this in your terminal to verify the server starts. Then let us know if it worked — your result helps other developers.

npx -y '@openai/codex' 2>&1 | head -1 && echo "✓ Server started successfully"

After testing, let us know if it worked:

README

Alpha Vantage MCP Server

Quickstart

To use the server, get your free Alpha Vantage API key, copy it to your clipboard, then follow the instructions below for the agentic tool/platform of your interest.

⚡ We use an optimization technique called Progressive Tool Discovery to minimize the number of tokens consumed (hence the cost incurred) while preserving the superb response quality when the MCP server is invoked. You can learn more about this technique here

⭐ View MCP source code on Github

👉 Any questions? Please contact support@alphavantage.co

Connection Examples

Remote Server Connection:

https://mcp.alphavantage.co/mcp?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

Local Server Connection:

uvx marketdata-mcp-server YOUR_API_KEY

Setup Instructions by Use Case

💬📊 Power your chatbot with financial data

Install in Claude

Requirements:

Claude Pro account (or higher tier)

Claude Remote Server Connection

To connect Claude (Web or Desktop) to this MCP server:

📺 Watch the setup tutorial - Click the image below to watch a step-by-step video guide:

📺 Already have your Alpha Vantage MCP server set up? Below are a few examples of Claude performing various stock analysis & charting tasks:

Query Param Option (Recommended):

Go to claude.ai/settings/connectors (Web) or Settings → Connectors (Desktop)
Click "Add Custom Connector"
Add the MCP server URL with your API key: https://mcp.alphavantage.co/mcp?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY (replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual Alpha Vantage API key)
Click "Connect"

OAuth Option:

Go to claude.ai/settings/connectors (Web) or Settings → Connectors (Desktop)
Click "Add Custom Connector"
Add the MCP server URL: https://mcp.alphavantage.co/mcp
Click "Connect"
Enter your Alpha Vantage API token
Click "Authorize Access"

Claude Local Server Connection

See Claude Desktop MCP docs for more info.

Install uv (a modern Python package and project manager):

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Open Claude Desktop developer settings and edit your claude_desktop_config.json file to add the following configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alphavantage": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["marketdata-mcp-server", "YOUR_API_KEY"]
    }
  }
}

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual Alpha Vantage API key.

Install in ChatGPT

Requirements:

ChatGPT Plus account (or higher tier)
Developer mode enabled (beta feature) - see OpenAI's Developer Mode documentation

📺 Watch the setup tutorial - Click the image below to watch a step-by-step video guide:

[![Alpha Vantage MCP Setup Tutorial](https://img.youtu

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

93/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−7

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

1 open1 fixed

CVE-2025-61260lowCVSS 3.1

OpenAI Codex CLI enables code execution through malicious MCP (Model Context Protocol) configuration files

Affected: >= 0source →

CVE-2025-59532medium · fixedCVSS 4

Codex has sandbox bypass due to bug in path configuration logic

Affected: >= 0.2.0Fixed in 0.39.0source →

Inventory

Tools (3)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~206 tokens total

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

Have you used this server?

Share your experience — it helps other developers decide.

How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Alpha Vantage Mcp safe to use?: Alpha Vantage Mcp has 1 known CVE tracked by MCPpedia. You can verify these on OSV.dev by searching for "@openai/codex". Review the Security section above for details before installing.
How do I install Alpha Vantage Mcp?: Alpha Vantage Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Alpha Vantage Mcp do?: Alpha Vantage Mcp provides 3 tools: TIME_SERIES_DAILY, TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY, ADD_TWO_NUMBERS. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Alpha Vantage Mcp?: Alpha Vantage Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
Is Alpha Vantage Mcp actively maintained?: Alpha Vantage Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 12 days ago. It has 150 GitHub stars.