NSE just published their circular laying out the operational specifications for retail algo trading. You can check out our overview of the circular on Z-Connect.
With this new regulatory clarity, our regulatory risk in offering the product is greatly reduced. So, we're lowering Kite Connect's price to ₹500 per month for the data (real-time + historical) APIs. The order placement and account management APIs (view holdings, positions, etc.) have been free since March 2025. The 500 rupee fee ensures that only users with serious intent sign up to use the APIs since streaming data comes with a significant bandwidth cost for us.
Hi, what of those who created and paid today, the post was released at 11.05AM. Those who has created should get extension of the app for respective months, isnt it?
Hi, I'm using serverless (Digitalocean Apps) for the application. Is static IP mandatory even if the orders are less than 10 per second? Also, should all apis be called from the static IP or is it only order placement api?
@donisback you'll need a static IP regardless of order rate, yes. The static IP will only be for the order place/modify/cancel endpoints.
@kkzooms we have a no refund policy. It becomes very difficult to do any downward revision of pricing if we're expected to retroactively refund older payments as well. Hope you understand.
@Matti : Thank you for clarification. So, I can use any API except orders -( https://kite.trade/docs/connect/v3/orders/) from any IP address. From which date is this (static IP) going to be implemented? I'll have to dockerize and move to digitalocean droplets .
Thanks to Zerodha. I was paying 4000/month for more than 2 years. Happy zerodha reduced the cost to 500. I am ready to spend that 3500 for static IP. I am using jiofiber, enquired with Airtel also, staic IP is not given to retail users. In airtel they are asking for business/registered company name. ACT Fiber provides static IP, but not available in our location. It is not money, but geting static IP is not feasible in all locations. Please exempt static IP requirement based on capital, profit, orders per month, etc., for struggling retail users.
@Matti There seems to also be a requirement for a generic algo ID that will be assigned to an algo even in case of retailers' algo too(below 10 orders/sec). How will this be implemented? Will it be tied to API key such that all orders emanating from any algo that makes use of a particular API key will have the same Algo ID assigned to them all?
How will this be implemented? Will it be tied to API key such that all orders emanating from any algo that makes use of a particular API key will have the same Algo ID assigned to them all?
Yes, that is the plan for now. If the exchanges propose a different method, we'll adhere to that.
@Matti I have signed up and created an APP 3 days back. It did not ask me to pay Rs 500 yet but I have paid it myself my linking to my Zerodha trading account today. Will it again auto-deduct .
@akhilesh_singla icebergs are an algo in themselves, we have approval for iceberg orders as an algo. We'll have to see how the orders are counted, this isn't defined yet.
Hi,
Can we use the API for commercial purposes ?
I have a QUIZ based finance app called
"Curious Trader NSE"
Where users can improve their trading intuition through the time simulated quizzes
And the historical data is shown to the end users
Please clarify if that's allowed as per your privacy policy
Or is the API only for personal use ?
@kkzooms we have a no refund policy. It becomes very difficult to do any downward revision of pricing if we're expected to retroactively refund older payments as well. Hope you understand.
From which date is this (static IP) going to be implemented? I'll have to dockerize and move to digitalocean droplets .
@boobeshwari unfortunately, this is the best case scenario. The regulator is not comfortable allowing APIs without the static IP constraint.
Can we use the API for commercial purposes ?
I have a QUIZ based finance app called
"Curious Trader NSE"
Where users can improve their trading intuition through the time simulated quizzes
And the historical data is shown to the end users
Please clarify if that's allowed as per your privacy policy
Or is the API only for personal use ?
You may write to compliance team with the product description on kiteconnect(at)zerodha.com and check with them.