# MetaApi API: questions and answers Independent and unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any broker or platform named here. Educational only: nothing here is advice, and nothing here recommends a broker or a trade. This is the markdown version of https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/metaapi, written from the same records as that page. Risk warning: CFDs and spread bets are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You can lose money on these products, and each provider publishes its own loss figure under FCA rules. You should consider whether you understand how they work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Automated and API trading can amplify losses through bugs, connectivity failures and runaway orders. 5 questions about the MetaApi API, each answered from the MetaApi record on this site (https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metaapi) and nothing else. - Newest check: 2026-10-12 - Official documentation: [metaapi.cloud](https://metaapi.cloud/docs/client/) An answer here is the record's own wording, cut at the end of a sentence, or a list of names read from records. An answer that opens with the word Unverified has no dated source behind it. Where this page and the provider's own documentation differ, the documentation wins. Nothing here recommends a broker. ## 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. - Status: verified. Source: [MetaApi documentation, FAQ](https://metaapi.cloud/docs/client/faq/), checked 2026-10-12. - [The MetaApi record's full wording](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metaapi#access) ### 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. - Status: verified. Source: [metaapi.cloud](https://metaapi.cloud/docs/client/rateLimiting/), checked 2026-10-12. - [MetaApi API rate limits in full, each with its scope](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metaapi/rate-limits) ### 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. - Status: verified. Source: [MetaApi documentation, authentication and authorisation](https://metaapi.cloud/docs/client/restApi/auth/), checked 2026-10-12. - [The MetaApi record's full wording](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metaapi#access) ### 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. - Status: verified. Source: [MetaApi documentation, overview](https://metaapi.cloud/docs/client/), checked 2026-10-12. - Status: verified. Source: [MetaApi documentation, rate limiting](https://metaapi.cloud/docs/client/rateLimiting/), checked 2026-10-12. - [The MetaApi record's full wording](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metaapi#access) ### Is there an official Python library for MetaApi? The MetaApi record marks one Python library as official: metaapi-cloud-sdk. - Status: verified. Source: [metaapi-cloud-sdk](https://metaapi.cloud/sdks), checked 2026-10-12. - [Every library in the MetaApi record](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metaapi#sdks) ## 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?](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/mcp-server) (not recorded here) - [What does the most referenced MetaApi error mean?](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/error-codes) (not recorded here) ## Where to go next - [The MetaApi API record in full: every field with its source](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metaapi) - [Answers for every broker and platform API](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers) - [Which broker APIs have a demo environment?](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/demo-api) - [What are the rate limits of each broker API?](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/rate-limits) - [How does each broker API authenticate?](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/authentication) - [Which broker APIs stream prices?](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/streaming) - [Which broker APIs have an official Python library?](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/python-library) - [Which broker APIs have an MCP server?](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/mcp-server) - [What does each API's most referenced error mean?](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/error-codes) - [cTrader API: questions and answers](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/ctrader) - [DXtrade API: questions and answers](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/dxtrade) - [Match-Trader API: questions and answers](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/match-trader) - [MetaCopier API: questions and answers](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/metacopier) - [MetaTrader 4 API: questions and answers](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/metatrader-4) - [MetaTrader 5 API: questions and answers](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/metatrader-5) - [TradeLocker API: questions and answers](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/tradelocker) ## Licence and how to cite The records behind this page are all rights reserved. This file is the page itself, at its own address, in another format. It is not part of the CC BY 4.0 downloads listed at https://openbrokerapi.com/data. Quote from it with a link to the page. Cite as: MetaApi API: questions and answers. Broker API Hub, https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/metaapi, newest check 2026-10-12. Where you rely on a single figure, cite the source and the checked date printed beside it as well. Where this page and a broker's own documentation differ, the documentation wins.