How to connect Claude (or any MCP client) to Interactive Brokers
✓ Written from official docs · checked 2026-10-16
Interactive Brokers' AI Integration is a hosted MCP connector. These steps come from IBKR's July 28, 2026 announcement.
Claude, ChatGPT or Grok
Link your account through each platform's certified connector marketplace.
Other MCP clients (Claude Code, Cursor, Perplexity, Windsurf…)
- Open the tool's "add MCP server" or "custom connector" setting.
- Enter the connector URL:
https://api.ibkr.com/v1/api/mcp-public - Log in through Interactive Brokers' secure screen.
- Authorize access for a single account.
What it can and can't do
- Analyze portfolios, research, monitor risk, and draft trade instructions in natural language.
- In this release the client reviews each instruction and converts it to an order on an IBKR platform before it is submitted. The AI does not submit orders by itself.
- Clients control what the AI can access. IBKR says Gemini support is coming.