> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ainvest.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Getting started

> Financial data suite built by finance people for engineers. Simple steps to try now

## See the data in action

<Steps>
  <Step title="Register">
    If not yet, register an account with [Ainvest](https://ainvest.com).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create an API key">
    When logged in, go to the [Developer center](https://www.ainvest.com/business/developer-manage/) to create your api keys.
    No credit card or other payment is required. Our free data plan allows limited amount of api calls per minute and per day, but this is quite enough for development and testing purposes.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Call the API">
    Go to our [API playground](/reference), paste the key to the Authorization header field to try it directly from the browser.
    Production base url is [https://openapi.ainvest.com/open](https://openapi.ainvest.com/open)
  </Step>
</Steps>