generated: '2026-08-17'
method: searched
source: https://sifting.io/changelog
also: [https://sifting.io/pricing.md, https://sifting.io/docs/quickstart, https://sifting.io/tools]
note: >-
  READ THIS BEFORE USING THIS ARTIFACT. SiftingIO has NO test-mode / sandbox environment and no
  test-vs-live key separation — there is one key prefix (sft_), one base URL, and one set of live
  data. What it does have is an interactive console in the docs and a genuinely free tier, and
  those are the two things a developer or agent actually uses to try the API before committing.
  Both are recorded below. Nothing here is invented: there are no magic test symbols, no test
  cards (this is not a payments API), no fixture generator and no time simulation, and this file
  says so rather than manufacturing values.

sandbox_environment:
  exists: false
  base_url: null
  detail: >-
    One production host only — https://api.sifting.io. The OpenAPI declares a single server entry
    ("Production"). There is no api-sandbox / api-test / demo host, and none is documented.

test_live_separation:
  exists: false
  key_prefixes:
    live: sft_
    test: null
  detail: >-
    A market data API is read-only (all 37 operations are GET), so there is no state to isolate
    and nothing to roll back — the usual reason for a test mode does not apply. Trying the API
    against real data IS the test.

console:
  exists: true
  kind: try-it runner embedded in the docs
  location: every endpoint page under https://sifting.io/docs
  shipped: '2026-05-03'
  source_quote: >-
    "Every endpoint page in the docs now includes a runner that executes authenticated requests
    against the live API, so you can verify parameters and response shapes before writing a line
    of code." — https://sifting.io/changelog
  authenticated: true
  runs_against: live production API
  example_pages: [https://sifting.io/docs/discovery/search, https://sifting.io/docs/live/trade, https://sifting.io/docs/historical/stocks]

free_tier_as_trial:
  exists: true
  card_required: false
  card_required_source: '"No card required." — https://sifting.io/pricing.md, Free tier notes'
  signup: https://sifting.io/register
  quota: 10,000 REST calls/mo per market
  rate_limit: 60 req/min
  ws_connections: 1
  ws_subscriptions: 5
  historical_depth: 1 month
  scope: per market — a free key exists on every one of the five markets
  parity: >-
    "New endpoints and SDK updates land on the free tier the same day they land on Enterprise.
    Same data, same schema, same credential." — https://sifting.io/changelog
  agent_relevance: >-
    This is what makes the MCP server usable at zero cost: the MCP integration page states a free
    API key works (10,000 REST calls a month, 60 req/min, 1 month of history).

no_account_surfaces:
  note: >-
    Three utilities run on the same data with NO key and NO account — the closest thing SiftingIO
    has to an anonymous playground.
  tools:
    - {name: Market hours checker, url: https://sifting.io/market-hours, detail: 'Open/closed status, weekly schedules and holiday calendars for 23 markets, updated every 15 seconds.'}
    - {name: Symbol catalog, url: https://sifting.io/symbols, detail: 'Every symbol SiftingIO publishes data for, each with a working API call.'}
    - {name: Market hours widget, url: https://sifting.io/tools/widgets, detail: 'Embeddable live market-status badge. See components/siftingio-components.yml.'}

postman:
  url: https://www.postman.com/siftingio/siftingio-market-data-api
  status: 200
  kind: public workspace / collection
  provider_claim: >-
    "Prefer no code? Try every endpoint in our official Postman collection. No install required."
    — https://sifting.io/sdks. llms.txt names it as the official first-party collection and warns
    that any Postman workspace not listed there is unaffiliated.

test_values:
  magic_symbols: null
  test_cards: null
  test_accounts: null
  test_clock: null
  fixture_tooling: null
  trigger_tooling: null
  detail: >-
    None published, and none applicable — SiftingIO is a read-only market data provider, not a
    payments, messaging or provisioning API. Real symbols (AAPL, BTCUSD, EURUSD, XAUUSD, WTIUSD)
    against the free tier are the documented way to exercise every endpoint.

mcp_local_testing:
  inspector: 'SIFTING_API_KEY=<key> npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector siftingio-mcp'
  source: https://github.com/SiftingIO/siftingio-mcp-python/blob/main/README.md
  detail: >-
    Both MCP implementations document the MCP inspector as the interactive way to exercise the
    tools by hand, and both accept SIFTING_BASE_URL / SIFTING_WS_URL overrides to point at a
    different backend — which is a developer escape hatch, not a provider-hosted sandbox.