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Interactive Brokers

Interactive Brokers is a global multi-asset brokerage platform providing advanced trading tools. It offers secure integration with leading external AI models like ChatGPT and Claude, enabling users to leverage AI for portfolio analysis and trade instruction drafting. The platform also includes natural-language command processing via 'iBot'. The service is designed for experienced traders, offering AI capabilities for research, performance analysis, and generating trade instructions across over 170 global markets. Clients can connect AI tools directly to their brokerage accounts. Interactive Brokers also provides access to prediction markets.

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Why it matters

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Stork Quadrant

Sleeping Giant· 34/100

Has a real moat but invisible to agents. Add an MCP and you'd climb.

“Interactive Brokers survives because it owns the execution rails, regulatory licensing, and real-time market data—not because its AI analysis layer is defensible. An LLM can draft trade ideas all day; it cannot execute them, settle them, or access live pricing without IB's infrastructure. The moat is the broker, not the AI wrapper. IB's real risk is that a competitor (or an LLM provider) builds tighter integrations that make the brokerage layer invisible.”

— Claude Haiku 4.5, scored 2026-07-26

Defensibility · 57/100

  • Physical-world coupling
  • Regulatory moat
  • Network liquidity
  • Proprietary refreshing data
  • High-trust catastrophic workflows
  • Multi-party coordination
  • Brand / community / taste

An LLM alone could replace

  • Generate portfolio analysis summaries from historical returns
  • Draft trade instruction text based on market research
  • Explain trading strategies and risk concepts in natural language
  • Summarize earnings reports or news for investment thesis building

Agent-Readiness · 5/100

  • Verified MCP
  • Listed on agent surfaces
  • Usage-based pricing
  • Headless agent auth
  • Public OpenAPI
  • Active changelog
  • llms.txt— https://www.interactivebrokers.com/llms.txt

How to defend

Double down on execution speed and data exclusivity—make the AI-to-order pipeline so fast and seamless that switching costs spike. Alternatively, build proprietary alpha data (execution analytics, order flow patterns, prediction market signals) that only IB's clients see, making the AI analysis meaningfully better than what a generic LLM can offer.

  • Ship an MCP server and list it on Stork — biggest single point gain (+25).
  • Get listed in the Anthropic MCP registry, Cursor, or Claude Desktop (+20).
  • Add a usage-based or per-call tier; per-seat-only pricing dies when agents replace seats (+15).
  • Expose API-key auth with a self-serve sandbox tier; remove sales-call gates (+15).
  • Publish an OpenAPI spec at /openapi.json or /.well-known/openapi (+10).
How this score is computed →See the full quadrantHow to defend

About Interactive Brokers

Business Model
Subscription SaaS
Usage Pricing
$0 - $0.005 per trade
Free Credits
None
Headquarters
Greenwich, CT, USA
Founded
1978
Team Size
5000+
Funding
Public
Platforms
Web, iOS, Android, Desktop
Target Audience
Individual investors and institutional traders

Pricing Plans

IBKR Lite
$0 / per-trade
  • • $0 commissions on US stocks and ETFs
  • • Margin as low as $6.13%
  • • Interest up to 2.13%
IBKR Pro
$0.005 per share / per-trade
  • • $0.005 per share on US Stocks and ETFs
  • • Margin as low as $4.13%
  • • Interest up to 3.13%
  • • Enhanced price execution

Cost Examples

  • • Trade US stock: $0
  • • Trade US stock (IBKR Pro): $0.005 per share

Leadership

Thomas PeterffyCEOLinkedIn
API Docs

Specs

API Available

Yes, public API

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Overview

Interactive Brokers is a global multi-asset brokerage platform providing advanced trading tools. It offers secure integration with leading external AI models like ChatGPT and Claude, enabling users to leverage AI for portfolio analysis and trade instruction drafting. The platform also includes natural-language command processing via 'iBot'.

The service is designed for experienced traders, offering AI capabilities for research, performance analysis, and generating trade instructions across over 170 global markets. Clients can connect AI tools directly to their brokerage accounts. Interactive Brokers also provides access to prediction markets.

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