# Pacifica agent risk score, safety controls and pricing

> Pacifica: AI can trade directly. Live and paper or demo trading. Safety 62% (partial). No API fee. Sourced, checked 2026-10-30.

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# Pacifica

It can place orders without you approving each one. Paper trading is available.

[**29****Agent Risk Score**29% of the points we could check · partial, 3 of 7 inputsHow much an AI agent could lose here if it is wrong, hacked or prompt-injected. Higher is safer.](#agent-risk-score)[**62****Safety score**62% of the points we could check · partialWhat the tool itself can do with your money: who places orders, paper mode, withdrawals. Higher is safer.](#safety)

Last checked **2026-10-30****5** official sources linked[How we score](https://tradingagentstack.com/methodology/)[Incident tracker](https://tradingagentstack.com/incidents/)

Can trade unattended**From our listing**Official MCP server with read-only, agent-key and main-key modes. Revocable agent keys sign orders; whether they can request withdrawals is unclear in the docs

Category[Crypto exchanges](https://tradingagentstack.com/crypto-exchanges-for-trading-bots/)
Pricingno API fee
Best forCrypto exchanges · crypto perpetuals, crypto spot
Verified2026-10-30

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Official site (source): [https://pacifica.fi/](https://pacifica.fi/)

## Agent Risk Score (v2)

[Agent risk 29% (partial, 3 of 7 inputs)](https://tradingagentstack.com/methodology/#agent-risk-score) If an agent using this tool is wrong, hacked or prompt-injected, how much money can it lose? Higher is safer. Each input links to the vendor's own docs; affiliate links never affect it. [How it's calculated](https://tradingagentstack.com/methodology/#agent-risk-score) · [Incidents](https://tradingagentstack.com/incidents/)

Missing: Who holds the keys, Spending limits enforced outside the agent, Sending funds to new addresses, Transaction preview or simulation. Missing inputs lower the maximum instead of counting as zero.

| Input | From official docs | Points |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Who holds the keys | Missing: no official source found yet | missing / 20 |
| Spending limits enforced outside the agent | Missing: no official source found yet | missing / 20 |
| Human approval | API orders execute with no approval step [source](https://docs.pacifica.fi/api-documentation/api/signing/api-agent-keys) | 0 / 15 |
| Sending funds to new addresses | Missing: no official source found yet | missing / 15 |
| Transaction preview or simulation | Missing: no official source found yet | missing / 10 |
| Open source and audits | Closed: no public source code in our listing [source](https://pacifica.fi/) | 0 / 10 |
| Incident record (last 12 months) | No incident naming this tool in our incident tracker for the last 12 months, and every scored input links an official source [source](https://tradingagentstack.com/incidents/) | 10 / 10 |
| Total | 29% of the points we could check | **10 / 35** |

## Safety score

[Safety 62% (partial)](https://tradingagentstack.com/safety-score/) Can trade unattended. Partial score: some inputs are missing from our listing, so we show points out of the inputs we have instead of guessing. Not a ranking; affiliate links never affect it. [How it's calculated](https://tradingagentstack.com/safety-score/)

Based on 6 of 7 inputs we could verify.

| Input | From our listing | Points |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Can it place live orders unattended? | API orders execute with no per-order approval step [source](https://docs.pacifica.fi/api-documentation/api/signing/api-agent-keys) | 0 / 25 |
| Order approval or confirmation options | No per-order approval; the official MCP server has a read-only mode (official docs) [source](https://docs.pacifica.fi/api-documentation/api/mcp) | 8 / 15 |
| Paper, demo or testnet mode | Testnet API; the official MCP server defaults to testnet (official docs) [source](https://docs.pacifica.fi/api-documentation/api/rest-api) | 15 / 15 |
| Withdrawal permission needed or allowed | Missing: our listing doesn't say | — / 15 |
| Scoped keys, permission scopes or IP whitelisting | Revocable agent keys bound to the account; subaccounts with their own keypairs (official docs) [source](https://docs.pacifica.fi/api-documentation/api/signing/api-agent-keys) | 10 / 10 |
| Open source or audited | BlockSec audit of the perp contracts; core contracts are not open source (official docs) [source](https://docs.pacifica.fi/other/audits) | 10 / 10 |
| Sourced and verified facts | Facts from the vendor's official docs | 10 / 10 |
| Total | 62% of the points we could check | **53 / 85** |

## Full facts

| Category | Exchanges & brokers for bots |
| --- | --- |
| Assets | crypto perpetuals, crypto spot |
| Live vs paper | live; testnet API (the official MCP server defaults to testnet) |
| Order approval / safety | Official MCP server with read-only, agent-key and main-key modes. Revocable agent keys sign orders; whether they can request withdrawals is unclear in the docs |
| Pricing / free tier | no API fee; tier 1 0.015% maker / 0.040% taker |
| Rate limits | Credit-based per 60 seconds: 100 credits without a key, 300 with one, up to 30,000 at top fee tiers. |
| Official / community | official |
| Last checked | 2026-10-30 |
| Source | [docs.pacifica.fi](https://docs.pacifica.fi/api-documentation/api/signing/api-agent-keys) |
| Regions (US / UK / EU) | US, Canada, UK, China, Russia, Ukraine, the Philippines and several sanctioned countries (terms, Jun 2026). |

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