Coinbase Advanced Trade API — Developer Documentation

Build powerful crypto trading applications with the Coinbase Advanced Trade API. Access accounts, place orders, stream market data, and manage portfolios.

The Coinbase Advanced Trade API gives you full programmatic control over one of the world’s most trusted cryptocurrency exchanges. Whether you are building an automated trading bot, a portfolio dashboard, or a market-data pipeline, this REST API — rooted at https://api.coinbase.com — provides everything you need: real-time order placement and management, account and portfolio access, live market feeds, and historical price data across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 500+ trading pairs. Every request is secured with a short-lived JWT Bearer token derived from your API key.

Introduction

Learn what the Coinbase Advanced Trade API offers, explore supported assets, and understand the underlying architecture.

Authentication

Generate a JWT Bearer token, configure your API key, and authorize every request to https://api.coinbase.com.

Quickstart

Make your first API call in minutes — fetch account balances, list products, and place a test order step by step.

Place an Order

Walk through placing a market or limit order, handling order confirmation, and checking order status.

Create Order Endpoint

Full reference for the POST /api/v3/brokerage/orders endpoint — request body, order configuration types, and response schema.

List Accounts

Retrieve all brokerage accounts tied to your Coinbase profile, including available balances per currency.

Market Data

Query real-time price quotes, fetch historical candles, and access the full product order book.

WebSocket Feed

Subscribe to live order book updates, trade matches, and ticker events over a persistent WebSocket connection.

Error Codes

Look up every API error code, understand what triggered it, and find the recommended remediation steps.

FAQ

Find answers to common questions about rate limits, supported order types, sandbox access, and more.

Get started in four steps

New to the Coinbase Advanced Trade API? Follow these steps to go from zero to your first live API call.

1. Create an API key

   Sign in to Coinbase, navigate to Settings → API, and create a new API key. Save your API key name and private key — you will need both to generate JWT tokens.

2. Authenticate your requests

   Use your API key and private key to sign a JWT token. Pass that token in every request as an Authorization: Bearer <JWT> header. See the Authentication guide for full details and code examples.

3. Make your first API call

   Send a GET request to https://api.coinbase.com/api/v3/brokerage/accounts to retrieve your account balances and confirm your credentials are working correctly.

4. Explore the endpoints

   Browse the full API reference to place orders, stream market data, manage portfolios, and more. Check out the Quickstart for guided, hands-on examples.