Access Matrix
Public-safe onboarding
Canonical plan contract
This page mirrors the runtime gates used by the managed API and the public client documentation.
- Trial / no-key: discovery token only. Includes
guide,changelog,/v1/features, and/v1/changelog; excludesverify, market data, charts, and orderflow. - Free: 500 requests/month and 10 requests/minute. Includes basic authenticated market truth; excludes charts, orderflow, Layer 5 context, options, macro exact series, and event export.
- Pro: 10,000 requests/month and 60 requests/minute. Adds charts, Layer 5 context, options, macro exact series, and event export; excludes orderflow depth.
- Max: custom / unlimited request ceilings by contract. Includes everything in Pro plus orderflow depth and liquidity metrics.
Surface gates
- Discovery:
guide,changelog,/v1/features,/v1/changelog. - Verification:
verify//v1/statusrequires an issued API key. - Charts:
chart fxandchart stocksrequire Pro or Max. - Agent context:
context fx,context gold, andcross-assetrequire Pro or Max. - Options:
options chain,options wall, andoptions analysisrequire Pro or Max. - Macro exact series:
macro seriesrequires Pro or Max. - Event export: premium event export requires Pro or Max.
- Orderflow:
orderflow raw,orderflow summary,orderflow context,orderflow historical, andorderflow liquidity-metricsrequire Max.
Dashboard key handoff
When you create a key in the dashboard, copy the quickstart block to your agent:
# This is your Cornerstones API key; store it, verify access, then read the guide.
python -m pip install cornerstones-client
cornerstones-client auth login --api-key <issued-api-key>
cornerstones-client verify
cornerstones-client guide
The API key belongs to Cornerstones. It is not an OpenAI, broker, exchange, or upstream data-provider credential.