Platform API
MetaApi API: questions and answers
5 questions about the MetaApi API, each answered from the MetaApi record on this site and nothing else.
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MetaApi API questions
Does MetaApi have a demo or paper trading API?
Yes: MetaApi's FAQ says you can add a demo MetaTrader account to the service to try it without real trades, or give the investor password for read only access.
MetaApi documentation, FAQchecked
The MetaApi record's full wording. The same question for every record.
What are MetaApi's API rate limits?
The limits register holds 6 limit records for the MetaApi API, each with its own scope: CPU credits per account, CPU credits an hour, per application, CPU credits a minute, per application, CPU credits a second, per application, Concurrent historical market data requests and CPU credits a second, per server.
metaapi.cloudchecked
MetaApi API rate limits in full, each with its scope. The same question for every record.
How do I authenticate with the MetaApi API?
An authorisation token sent in the auth-token header of every REST request. You take the token from the MetaApi web application. An invalid token returns HTTP 401.
MetaApi documentation, authentication and authorisationchecked
The MetaApi record's full wording. The same question for every record.
Does MetaApi support streaming or WebSocket prices?
Yes: a WebSocket API on the socket.io protocol that pushes terminal state changes, quotes, candles, ticks and order book data in real time. MetaApi recommends it over REST for automated trading.
MetaApi documentation, overviewchecked MetaApi documentation, rate limitingchecked
The MetaApi record's full wording. The same question for every record.
Is there an official Python library for MetaApi?
The MetaApi record marks one Python library as official: metaapi-cloud-sdk.
metaapi-cloud-sdkchecked
Every library in the MetaApi record. The same question for every record.
Not recorded here
The MetaApi record cannot answer these questions yet, so they are not asked above. That is a gap in this dataset. It says nothing either way about MetaApi.
- Does MetaApi have an MCP server? Not recorded here
- What does the most referenced MetaApi error mean? Not recorded here
Where to go next
- The MetaApi API record in full: every field with its source
- Answers for every broker and platform API
- Which broker APIs have a demo environment?
- What are the rate limits of each broker API?
- How does each broker API authenticate?
- Which broker APIs stream prices?
- Which broker APIs have an official Python library?
- Which broker APIs have an MCP server?
- What does each API's most referenced error mean?
Other platform APIs
In order of name. The order is not a ranking.