Coinbase Advanced Trade API
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AI ReadinessAI-Aware (B)67/100
Official vendor OpenAPI document · agent-readyFinanceBankingbearer47 EndpointsREST
For Agents
Place and cancel cryptocurrency orders, list Coinbase accounts, balances, portfolios, and fills, and read public market data including products, order books, and tickers.
Use for: Place a market buy order for Bitcoin, Cancel an open order, Check the balance of my Coinbase account, List my recent fills
Not supported: Does not handle fiat bank transfers, custody withdrawals, or Coinbase retail consumer accounts. Use for Coinbase Advanced Trade orders, accounts, portfolios, and market data only.
The Coinbase Advanced Trade API places and manages cryptocurrency trades on Coinbase: it lists brokerage accounts and balances, creates and cancels orders, reads portfolios and fills, and returns public market data such as products, order books, and tickers. Use it to build automated trading and portfolio workflows on Coinbase.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Coinbase Advanced Trade API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Coinbase Advanced Trade API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fcoinbase.com%2Fcoinbase" | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fcoinbase.com%2Fcoinbase" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Coinbase Advanced Trade API.
List brokerage accounts and read the balance for a specific account
Create a buy or sell order and cancel open orders
List historical orders and fills for reconciliation
List and create portfolios to organize trading activity
Read public market data such as products, order books, candles, and tickers without a credential
Get the current server time from Coinbase
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Coinbase Advanced Trade API for, with concrete tasks.
★ AI agent trade execution
An AI agent reads a product's current ticker, which is public and needs no credential, decides on a target price, then places and later cancels orders using the account's stored token. Through Jentic the agent finds the market-data and order operations by intent and calls them without hand-signing each request.
Place a limit buy order for 0.01 BTC-USD at a target price and confirm it was accepted
Portfolio balance monitoring
A reporting agent lists brokerage accounts and their balances and rolls them up by portfolio to show current holdings. The API returns account and portfolio data so a dashboard can refresh positions without manual export.
List all accounts and report the balance of each portfolio in USD
Market data ingestion
A research pipeline pulls public products, candles, and tickers to feed a pricing model, using only the market-data endpoints that need no credential. The API exposes products and their historical candles so the pipeline can backfill and stream prices.
Fetch daily candles for BTC-USD over the last month and return them as a table
Key Endpoints
47 endpoints — the coinbase advanced trade api places and manages cryptocurrency trades on coinbase: it lists brokerage accounts and balances, creates and cancels orders, reads portfolios and fills, and returns public market data such as products, order books, and tickers.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/accounts
List accounts
GET
/accounts/{account_id}
Get an account by id
POST
/orders
Create an order
GET
/market/products
List products (public market data)
GET
/market/products/{product_id}/ticker
Get a product ticker (public)
GET
/portfolios
List portfolios
GET
/accounts
List accounts
GET
/accounts/{account_id}
Get an account by id
POST
/orders
Create an order
GET
/market/products
List products (public market data)
GET
/market/products/{product_id}/ticker
Get a product ticker (public)
GET
/portfolios
List portfolios
Jentic AI Readiness Score
This API is usable in Jentic One now. Its AI-readiness score against Jentic's framework shows where it stands today and where improvements would make it even easier for agents to use.
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Coinbase Advanced Trade API
- AI-Aware (B)67/100
79
Foundational Compliance63
Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility48
AI-Readiness & Agent Experience94
Agent Usability75
Security73
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Foundational Compliance
Base layer of spec validity and structural soundness.
Grade: A-Signals: 4
97%
Lint Results
Aggregated quality score from linter diagnostics, weighted by severity.
100%
Resolution Completeness
Percentage of `$ref` references that resolve successfully.
100%
Specification Validity
Checks whether the API description parses successfully and conforms to its declared specification (e.g., OpenAPI).
17%
Structural Integrity
Structural correctness score based on schema issues using logarithmic dampening.
63
Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility
Clarity, completeness, and ingestion readiness for developers and tooling.
Grade: B-Signals: 4
0%
Example Density
How richly the API is illustrated with examples.
100%
Example Validity
Percentage of examples that conform to their schemas.
50%
Response Coverage
Percentage of operations with complete response definitions (success, client error, server error).
100%
Tooling Readiness
Health of API ingestion, bundling, and resolution within Jentic pipelines.
48
AI-Readiness & Agent Experience
Semantic breadth, depth, and agent comprehension for AI systems.
Grade: D+Signals: 4
39%
Description Coverage
Coverage of descriptions across API elements.
0%
Error Standardization
Coverage of RFC 9457 Problem Details for error responses.
100%
OperationId Quality
Coverage, uniqueness, and casing consistency of operationIds for AI inference.
53%
Summary Coverage
Coverage of summaries across operations/tags/info.
94
Agent Usability
Functional utility, complexity comfort, and AI orchestration readiness.
Grade: A+Signals: 1
94%
Complexity Comfort
Agent comfort level based on API operational and structural complexity.
75
Security
Trust, risk posture, and security compliance.
Grade: A-Signals: 1
75%
Authentication Strength
Average quality of security schemes based on authentication method strength (weakest link for OAuth2).
73
AI Discoverability
Findability, semantic richness, and reasoning readiness.
Grade: A-Signals: 1
73%
Descriptive Richness
Clarity and depth of descriptions across API elements.
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What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Calling the Coinbase Advanced Trade API by hand means generating a bearer token, signing requests correctly, and separating public market-data calls from authenticated trading calls. Through Jentic you install once, import Coinbase from the API Directory, store the token once, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
The account id, order id, and product id sit in the URL path, so a rule can allow your agent to read balances and public market data while blocking order creation and cancellation. Public market-data endpoints such as the product list and ticker need no credential, so read-only research runs without touching your trading key.
Credential isolation
Your Coinbase API token is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected when a trade runs. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'place a buy order' or 'get a product ticker', and Jentic returns the matching Coinbase operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without reading the trading docs.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Coinbase Advanced Trade API through Jentic.
Is there a Coinbase Advanced Trade MCP server?
You don't need an MCP server to connect your agent to the Coinbase Advanced Trade API. Jentic connects it directly from the API Directory: import Coinbase, store your API token once, and your agent places orders and reads balances on demand.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Coinbase API?
Yes. Write a rule that allows only the read operations for accounts, balances, and market data, so the agent can research and report without placing or cancelling a single order. The account and order ids travel in the URL path, and every call the agent makes is logged.
What authentication does the Coinbase Advanced Trade API use?
Trading calls authenticate with a bearer token, while public market-data endpoints such as the product list and ticker need no credential. Through Jentic the token is stored once by your self-hosted instance and injected at call time, so it never reaches the agent's context.
Can I place a crypto order with the Coinbase API?
Yes. Create an order with the product, side, and size, and the API returns the order id and status. You can then list your historical orders and fills, or cancel the order while it is still open.
What are the rate limits for the Coinbase Advanced Trade API?
The OpenAPI spec does not specify rate limits. Coinbase enforces per-key request limits on the Advanced Trade API, so check your account's limits before running high-frequency strategies.
How do I connect the Coinbase Advanced Trade API to my AI agent?
Search the Jentic API Directory for the Coinbase operation you need, such as placing an order, and import it. To run it on your own infrastructure, install Jentic One from its GitHub repo, then your agent calls the API with your token injected at execution time.
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