finance-mcp-serverslisted
Install: claude install-skill howard-lynn-ye/fin-skills
# Finance MCP servers
Two questions decide this: **can it place a trade**, and **what licence does connecting it drag in**.
AGPL is common here and is a real blocker if you serve anything over a network.
## 1. The roster
*(✅ verified via the GitHub REST API, snapshot 2026-09-04)*
| Server | Repo | ★ | Licence | Status |
|---|---|---:|---|---|
| **Alpaca (vendor-official)** | `alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server` | 942 | MIT | 🟢 active. 🚨 **places real trades** (stocks/ETFs/crypto/options) |
| **Alpha Vantage (vendor-official)** | `alphavantage/alpha_vantage_mcp` | 207 | MIT | 🟢 active. **This is Alpha Vantage's only official Python artifact** — they publish no REST SDK |
| **QuantConnect (vendor-official)** | `QuantConnect/mcp-server` | 77 | Apache-2.0 | 🟢 LEAN/QC API |
| **Massive** (was Polygon.io) | `massive-com/mcp_massive` | 387 | MIT | ⚠️ **`polygon-io/mcp_polygon` now redirects here — Polygon rebranded to Massive.com. Update your links.** |
| Financial Datasets | `financial-datasets/mcp-server` | **2,284** | MIT | 🔴 **most-starred finance MCP but ~15 months stale** (last push 2025-06-05) |
| **SEC EDGAR** | `stefanoamorelli/sec-edgar-mcp` | 355 | 🔴 **AGPL-3.0** | active — network copyleft |
| **SEC EDGAR (permissive)** | `cyanheads/secedgar-mcp-server` | 9 | 🟢 **Apache-2.0** | 🟢 **the permissive alternative** — small but correctly licensed |
| **FRED** | `stefanoamorelli/fred-mcp-server` | 117 | 🔴 **AGPL-3.0** | active |
| **OpenBB** | first-party extension inside