API Trading
Kraken API Trading
Reliable and low latency trading backed by award-winning security
Crypto spot trading
Analyze data, trade on spot markets and manage your accounts
Open, modify and cancel crypto orders — individually or in batches.
Receive immediate order fill notifications via WebSockets
Stake and unstake assets depending on usage and funding needs
Get status updates on deposits and withdrawals
Crypto futures trading
Fully automate your futures trading accounts
Open, modify and cancel crypto futures orders
Set leverage and PnL asset preferences
Withdraw crypto profits to a spot wallet
Access historical futures data
Crypto data feeds
Create custom futures and spot market data feeds
OHLC (candle/Kline) data
Order book spread, volume and depth
Asset, pair and top-level ticker information
Historical funding rates
Kraken API Trading Features
Easy onboarding
Quickly build and automate API based crypto trading strategies.
Deep Liquidity
Improve trade execution with our deep liquidity in tight spreads.
>99% uptime
Reliable, low-latency endpoints for 24/7/365 crypto trading and data.
Capture arbitrage
Capitalize on trading opportunities across multiple markets.
Integrated staking
Programmatically stake and unstake multiple cryptoassets.
Tap into data
Subscribe to our WebSockets API for continuous, real-time data.
How to start API trading on Kraken
Fill out the contact form below to get in touch with a Kraken representative. Our attentive Account Management staff are available 24/7/365, and will help you every step of the way.
Professional and institutional clients gain access to our Account Management service.
Our award-winning Account Management team is renowned for being best in class — not just across all crypto exchanges, but all financial services companies.
Fill out the contact form below to get in touch with a Kraken representative. Our attentive Account Management staff are available 24/7/365, and will help you every step of the way.
Professional and institutional clients gain access to our Account Management service.
Our award-winning Account Management team is renowned for being best in class — not just across all crypto exchanges, but all financial services companies.
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API documentation
Our spot and futures markets both feature public and private REST API and WebSockets API data.
Spot API
Futures API
WebSockets
Public and private futures markets WebSockets documentation
Supported assets
API trading for 200+ assets
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