Requirements:

• Any free or paid Claude account

📺 Watch the setup tutorial. (Click image below.)

Claude Remote Server Connection (Recommended, OAuth)

The Alpha Vantage MCP Server is already listed in Claude's official Connectors directory. Getting started is easy:

1. Go to https://claude.ai/new#settings/customize-connectors (Web) or Settings → Connectors (Desktop)
2. Click the "Add" button in the upper-right corner and choose "Browse connectors" in the dropdown menu
3. Search for "Alpha Vantage" in the search box
4. Click on the "Alpha Vantage MCP Server" tile returned by the search result
5. Click "Connect" near the top-right of the page
6. Enter your Alpha Vantage API key in the pop-up authentication page
7. Click "Authorize Access"

If you would like to update/rotate the API key in the future, simply disconnect then reconnect to the MCP server and follow steps #6 and #7 again. This brief video shows the key rotation process:

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.

Requirements:

• Any free or paid ChatGPT account

📺 Watch the setup tutorial. (Click image below.)

ChatGPT Remote Server Connection (Recommended, OAuth)

The Alpha Vantage MCP Server is already listed in ChatGPT's official app directory. Getting started is easy:

1. In ChatGPT, click Plugins
2. Type "Alpha Vantage" into the Search plugins bar
3. Click the + (or Install) button on the Alpha Vantage result.
4. Enter your Alpha Vantage API key in the pop-up authentication page
5. Click "Authorize Access"

If you would like to update/rotate the API key in the future, simply disconnect then reconnect the MCP server and follow steps #4 and #5 again.

Test your connection with a sample query:

Give me last week's OHLCV data for IBM

📺 Below are a few examples of ChatGPT performing various stock analysis & charting tasks:

Requirements:

• SuperGrok (or higher tier)

Setup:

1. Click the + button → Connectors → Add connector → Custom
2. Name: Alpha Vantage MCP Server (or whatever you prefer)
3. Server URL: https://mcp.alphavantage.co/mcp?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY (replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual Alpha Vantage API key).
4. Click Add Connector