SnapTrade API
SnapTrade offers a genuinely open brokerage data and trading API: self serve free tier, default sandbox, public docs, seven official SDKs and webhooks. Commercial production adds a KYC approval and payment step, standard for a fintech aggregator, but the developer path stays self directed.
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SnapTrade scores A on the API Report Card. SnapTrade offers a genuinely open brokerage data and trading API: self serve free tier, default sandbox, public docs, seven official SDKs and webhooks. Commercial production adds a KYC approval and payment step, standard for a fintech aggregator, but the developer path stays self directed.
SnapTrade has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
SnapTrade is a developer facing financial data platform that lets applications connect to end user brokerage accounts to read data and place trades.
SnapTrade sells to fintech and investing software builders: wealth and portfolio tracking apps, trading and social investing tools, tax and accounting products, and advisor platforms that need read access to a user's brokerage holdings or the ability to route trades. Developers generate a Connection Portal URL, have the end user link a brokerage account, then call the API to sync accounts, balances, positions, orders and transactions or to place trades where supported.
SnapTrade is an established brokerage connectivity API competing directly with the account aggregation incumbents, though no audited public customer counts were found in the research.
The critical operating data is the end user's brokerage account state: connected accounts, cash balances, holdings and positions, historical and recent orders, and transaction history including trades, dividends, fees, corporate actions and transfers.
SnapTrade presents as a modern, cloud native API with signed request authentication, a hosted connection flow, a default sandbox, seven official SDK languages and webhook support.
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Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.