Free halal stock screening API (Akinda free tier)

Most developer APIs that offer halal stock screening either require a contract or hide their free tier behind a sales process. Akinda is the exception — the Basic tier is free, self-serve, and lets a developer integrate halal compliance into a side project without any commercial commitment.

What's in the free tier

• 200 API calls per day against the /compliance/<ticker> endpoint.
• 1 GB of data transfer per month.
• US ticker coverage — currently around 5,000 tickers in the catalogue.
• No credit card required — sign up with email or Google.
• Same methodology as paid tiers — the screen doesn't change based on what you pay for.

What it's good for

The free tier is targeted at developers who want to try the API, ship a hobby project, or screen a personal portfolio. 200 calls per day is enough to run a modest watchlist refresh, build a Telegram bot that checks tickers, or wire a halal indicator into a personal Notion dashboard.

When you outgrow it

• You need the financial ratios (debt, liquidity, non-compliant revenue) — those live on /basic-report and require the Personal Standard tier.
• You need the full AAOIFI screening grid + AI- extracted SEC dollar fields — that's on /full-report, Personal Ultimate or higher.
• You're hitting the rate limit — paid tiers scale to 300 / 2,000 / unlimited calls per minute.

How to start

1. Create an account at /signup using email or Google.
2. Copy the auto-provisioned API key from /api-keys.
3. Fire your first request: GET https://b2b-api.akinda.io/api/v1/compliance/AAPL?apikey=<key>.

You'll get back a compact JSON verdict — here is the real response for AAPL:

{"company_name":"Apple Inc.","halal_status":"HALAL","ticker":"AAPL"}

The halal_status field comes back as HALAL, NOT HALAL or DOUBTFUL — plus an ERROR_DATA / INCOMPLETE_DATA state when a company's filings aren't available. Authenticate with the apikey query parameter or the X-API-Key header; there is no Authorization: Bearer flow. The verdict itself uses the same AAOIFI-based methodology on every tier — paid plans add the evidence behind it (the three ratios on /basic-report, the full screen on /full-report) and higher limits, not a different screen.