# Capital.com quote 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/brokers/capital-com/messages/quote, 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. Carries one price update for an epic subscribed to with marketData.subscribe: the bid, the offer, the size at each and the time. - Message: `quote` - Interface: Capital.com WebSocket API - Group: Live prices - Status: verified. Source: [open-api.capital.com](https://open-api.capital.com/#section/WebSocket-API/Subscribe-to-market-data), checked 2026-10-12. This is a message of the Capital.com WebSocket API, not an HTTP endpoint. It has no method and no path: it is sent as JSON over an open WebSocket connection. It is in no OpenAPI file on this site and the request builder does not list it. Note: The vendor's page documents this message by one example and gives no table of its fields, so no type is recorded and nothing is said about which fields are always present. ## The message - Name: `quote` - Direction: Event, sent by the server - Carried by: WebSocket. Capital.com's page says to ping the service at least once every 10 minutes to keep the connection alive. - WebSocket address: `wss://api-streaming-capital.backend-capital.com/connect` - Also sent in answer to: [marketData.subscribe](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/capital-com/messages/marketdata-subscribe) ## Fields - `status` (type not stated, required or not: not stated): OK in the vendor's example. - `destination` (type not stated, required or not: not stated): Always quote for this message. It is what tells a price update apart from an answer to a request. - `payload.epic` (type not stated, required or not: not stated): The epic the price is for. - `payload.product` (type not stated, required or not: not stated): The product. CFD in the vendor's example. - `payload.bid` (type not stated, required or not: not stated): The bid price. A number in the vendor's example. - `payload.bidQty` (type not stated, required or not: not stated): The size available at the bid. A number in the vendor's example. - `payload.ofr` (type not stated, required or not: not stated): The offer price. A number in the vendor's example. - `payload.ofrQty` (type not stated, required or not: not stated): The size available at the offer. A number in the vendor's example. - `payload.timestamp` (type not stated, required or not: not stated): The time of the price. In the vendor's example it is a 13 digit number, which reads as Unix time in milliseconds. ## Limits that apply at Capital.com - Headline limit: 10/s per user - Scope: user - Status: verified. Source: [open-api.capital.com](https://open-api.capital.com/), checked 2026-09-18. - Note: Orders and new positions: 1 per 0.1 s. POST /session: 1 a second per API key. Demo: 1000 an hour for POST /positions and /workingorders. ## Related Capital.com messages: Live prices - [marketData.subscribe](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/capital-com/messages/marketdata-subscribe): Subscribes to live price updates for a list of epics. Capital.com's page gives 40 as the most epics. An answer confirms each epic, then a quote message arrives for each price update. - [marketData.unsubscribe](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/capital-com/messages/marketdata-unsubscribe): Stops live price updates for a list of epics. An answer confirms each epic that was unsubscribed. ## More on Capital.com - [All Capital.com messages](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/capital-com/messages): 7 documented here, grouped by what they do. - [Capital.com API quickstart](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/capital-com/quickstart) - [All Capital.com error codes](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/capital-com) - [Capital.com API page](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/capital-com): The full record: access, authentication, limits and the source for each. ## 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: Capital.com quote. Broker API Hub, https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/capital-com/messages/quote, 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.