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title: "Zerodha Kite MCP vs Tapetide MCP"
canonical: "https://tapetide.com/mcp/compare/zerodha-kite-mcp"
last_verified: "2026-10-09"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T05:53:37.710Z"
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# Zerodha Kite MCP vs Tapetide MCP

Kite MCP is built for your Zerodha account. It reads your holdings, positions and orders, manages GTTs and pulls Kite quotes and candles. It has no company data. Tapetide is the research side: what a business earns, who owns it, how the market is moving, for any listed company.

**Use Kite MCP for:** Your Zerodha holdings, positions, margins, orders and GTTs.

**Use Tapetide MCP for:** Research on any company and the wider market, with the history to test an idea.

## At a glance

| — | Kite MCP | Tapetide MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Built for | Connects your Zerodha account to an AI assistant: holdings, positions, margins, orders, GTTs and Kite quotes. | Research the whole Indian market: companies, screens, flows, options and history, for any NSE or BSE stock. |
| Sign in | Zerodha account. Each session signs in through a Kite login link. | Google sign-in, or a personal API token. |
| Cost | Free for Zerodha customers. Brokerage and account charges apply as usual. | Free plan: 50 tool calls a day, 1,000 a month. Paid and enterprise plans available. |
| Tools | 22 published tools | 48 published tools |

## What each server can answer

Checked on 9 October 2026.

| Capability | Kite MCP | Tapetide MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Market research: Instruments covered | Yes: Every instrument tradable on Kite, including F&O | Yes: About 8,100 NSE and BSE companies, including SME listings |
| Market research: Financial statements | No | Yes: 12 years of annual statements and 13 quarters of results |
| Market research: Shareholding | No | Yes: Quarterly and annual history, MF holdings, promoter pledges |
| Market research: Stock screening | No | Yes: 326 fundamental ratios with AND/OR logic |
| Market research: Technical indicators | No: Raw candles only. The assistant has to compute indicators. | Yes: Indicators and technical screens across the market |
| Market research: Filings and earnings calls | No | Yes: Earnings-call digests for about 3,400 companies, plus parsed transcripts, annual reports and presentations to read page by page |
| Market research: FII / DII flows | No | Yes: Daily FII/DII since 2014, F&O positioning and FPI by sector |
| Market research: Options analytics | Partly: Quotes and OI per contract. No chain, Greeks or IV. | Yes: End-of-day chains for 4 indices with Greeks, and IV history for about 556 stocks and indices |
| Market research: Index valuations | No: Index quotes only, no valuations | Yes: About 140 NSE indices, valuations up to 20 years |
| History and backtesting: Price history | Yes: Candles from minute to daily, with open interest | Yes: Daily and weekly OHLCV back to 2000 for older listings, with delivery % |
| History and backtesting: Point-in-time data | No | Yes: Historical symbols and ISINs, index membership on a date |
| Your broker account: Holdings and positions | Yes: Equity and mutual fund holdings, positions, margins | Partly: Your Tapetide portfolio, imported from a broker statement. Not a live broker link. |
| Your broker account: Order book and trades | Yes | No |
| Your broker account: Place orders | Partly: Zerodha documents hosted access as read-only except GTT orders, although order tools appear in its tool list. | No: Never places broker orders, by design |

## Where each one fits

### Kite MCP

- Asking about your own Zerodha holdings, P&L and margins
- Reviewing orders and trades, and setting GTTs from a chat
- Pulling Kite quotes and intraday candles for instruments you trade

**Where it stops**

- Works only with a Zerodha account, signed in through Kite for each session
- No company financials, shareholding, filings or FII/DII flows
- No screener and no computed indicators
- Instruments are found by trading symbol, so the assistant searches before it can quote

### Tapetide MCP

- Researching any listed company, not only the ones you hold
- Screening the market and testing an idea against history
- Following flows, valuations and options across the market

**Where it stops**

- Does not place orders or read your live broker account
- Options data is end of day, not live
- No intraday candles; price history is daily and weekly
- Free plan is capped at 50 tool calls a day and 1,000 a month

## Questions that need both

- "Pull my Zerodha holdings from Kite, then use Tapetide to flag any where promoter holding fell or pledges rose in the last four quarters."
  Kite knows what you own. Tapetide knows what changed inside those companies.
- "Screen for profitable small caps with rising FII holding on Tapetide, then check my Kite margins to see how much I could allocate."
  One server finds the idea, the other checks it against your account.

## Tools

### Kite MCP (22 tools)

**Your account**

`get_profile`, `get_margins`, `get_holdings`, `get_mf_holdings`, `get_positions`

**Orders and trades**

_Listed by the hosted server. Zerodha’s docs say regular order placement is not available there; GTTs are._

`get_orders`, `get_order_history`, `get_order_trades`, `get_trades`, `place_order`, `modify_order`, `cancel_order`

**GTT orders**

`get_gtts`, `place_gtt_order`, `modify_gtt_order`, `delete_gtt_order`

**Market data**

`get_quotes`, `get_ltp`, `get_ohlc`, `get_historical_data`, `search_instruments`

**Session**

`login`

### Tapetide MCP (48 tools)

**Find and screen**

`search_stocks`, `screen_stocks`, `screen_stocks_technical`, `get_screener_ratios`, `get_trending_stocks`

**Company research**

`get_company_profile`, `get_financials`, `get_shareholding`, `get_stock_ownership`, `get_forecasts`, `get_earnings_call_summary`, `get_stock_events`, `get_stock_deals`, `get_promoter_pledge`, `get_credit_ratings`, `list_company_documents`, `get_document_summary`, `read_document`

**Prices and indices**

`get_stock_quote`, `get_batch_quotes`, `get_price_history`, `get_index_performance`, `get_index_history`, `market_valuations`

**Market and flows**

`get_market_pulse`, `get_fii_dii_detail`, `get_fpi_sectors`, `get_market_data`, `market_heatmap`, `get_market_news`, `get_india_vix`

**Options**

`get_option_chain`, `get_option_iv_history`, `get_options_analytics`

**Scores and point-in-time**

`get_tapetide_score`, `screen_tapetide_scores`, `get_adjustment_factors`, `get_observation_status`, `get_index_membership_asof`, `resolve_identifier_asof`, `get_identifiers_asof`

**Your Tapetide portfolio**

`get_user_portfolio`, `add_portfolio_stocks`, `update_portfolio_stock`, `remove_portfolio_stocks`, `get_watchlist`, `add_to_watchlist`, `remove_from_watchlist`

## Common questions

### Is Zerodha Kite MCP free?

Yes. Zerodha says connecting your account through Kite MCP has no additional charges. You need a Zerodha account, and normal brokerage and account charges apply.

### Does Kite MCP have fundamentals or financial statements?

No. Kite MCP covers your account and Kite market data: quotes, last traded price, OHLC and historical candles. It has no financial statements, shareholding, filings, FII/DII flows or screener. Tapetide covers these for about 8,100 NSE and BSE companies.

### Can Kite MCP place orders?

Zerodha describes hosted Kite MCP as read-only, with GTT orders as the exception. The hosted tool list also includes place, modify and cancel order tools. Check Zerodha’s current documentation before relying on either. Tapetide is read-only and never places orders.

### Can I use Kite MCP and Tapetide MCP together?

Yes, and that is the most useful setup. Add both to Claude or another MCP client. Your assistant reads your account from Kite and does the research with Tapetide.

## Sources for Kite MCP

- Zerodha MCP product page
- Z-Connect announcement
- kite-mcp-server on GitHub

## Connect Tapetide MCP

Endpoint: https://mcp.tapetide.com/mcp

Setup guide: https://tapetide.com/mcp