Cycles IQ App, API and MCP
The Cycles IQ app gives you your own dashboards, cycle scoring templates and lenses. The Cycles IQ API gives your code and your AI agents the cycle model on demand: send a series, name a stored dataset or, by REST, a market from the search, and get its cycles back, with dominant cycles, cyclic RSI, phase and consensus, and projections. Priced per token, with no base fee, the way language-model APIs are priced. No membership needed: a free account starts with a 30-day trial and then continues on the Free plan.
What it is
The measurements of the Cycles IQ model as API calls, by REST and by MCP. Send your own data, or by REST name a market from the search; the model measures the cycles in it.
Every analysis route takes the values in the body of the call: cycle scan and explorer, dominant cycle, DSP filters (detrend, smooth, cyclic RSI), turning points, the cycle consensus. One call, one answer.
Every plan searches the markets (GET /api/data/SearchSymbols) and analyses a market by the id the search returns, with ?datasetid=. The answers carry the cycles, not the prices. The MCP server takes no market data: your assistant brings the series, from another connector, a file or your own numbers.
Store a dataset with your key and name it in later calls with ?datasetid=NAME; the server loads it inside the analysis call. Datasets you uploaded in the app and your streams work the same way.
Push bars from TradingView alerts, NinjaTrader or your own scripts into your feed and analyse the stream like any dataset. Stream updates never count toward your calls; on Pay as you go and Member, ten updates are one token.
The raw price bars of market data are not part of any plan: reading them (the data routes other than the search) needs the feature MarketDataAccess, granted on request for an account. The search and the cycle analysis of markets by id are open in every plan, by REST.
The Cycles IQ app comes with every account: your own dashboards, cycle scoring templates and Lars's lenses, his own reading of the cycles. The public Cycles API skill, free on GitHub, teaches your AI coding tool the routes and how to read the answers. Your own flows and scripts (filters, scans and alerts) in your own environment, the private skill files and development support come with the Cycles IQ Membership and the Pro Membership.
In development
A dedicated Cycles language model will read the cycle analysis charts you send to an endpoint and return a written interpretation that follows the interpretation rules of the method. The same reading will be part of the dashboards in the app and a lens of the Cycles Knowledge Graph.
Chart interpretation will be billed in tokens like every other call. No release date yet.
Pricing
Today. Sign up for free: every new account starts at once with the 30-day trial, then continues on the Free plan. Pay as you go you book yourself in the app with a payment method; it is active within a minute. FSC members have their own plan at no cost. The app is included in every plan; pay as you go bills your API and MCP usage. The Cycles IQ Membership and the Pro Membership include everything of the app, the API and MCP, on the Member plan: half the token price (0.875 EUR per 1,000 tokens) and higher limits. The plans on this page are licensed for private use; professional and commercial use needs the Pro Membership.
Every accountSign up at app.cyclesiq.com, or when you add the connector in Claude or ChatGPT, with e-mail and password or with Google. The sign-up confirms the address with a code it mails you. Every call needs an account.
30 days from sign-up, in the app or through an AI assistant: 300 calls a minute and 5,000 calls for the whole trial, the PRO feature, 50 stored datasets of up to 50,000 bars and 3 live streams. The trial ends after 30 days or at 5,000 calls, whichever comes first.
The account continues on the Free plan: 20 calls a minute, 200 a day and 1,000 a month, and three stored datasets of up to 5,000 bars. No payment method, no time limit.
0 EUR a month
Sign in at app.cycles.org, open Account → API and activate the API. Analysis of your own data and, by REST, of markets by id, the cycle consensus: 60 calls a minute, 500 a day and 2,000 a month, three stored datasets. Streaming as your membership allows it. No payment method, no time limit.
Activate in the FSC app1.75 EUR per 1,000 tokens · no base fee
A Cycles IQ account, a payment method, an API key. 300 calls a minute and a daily safety cap of 20,000 calls, raised on request; no monthly limit. The PRO feature, 50 stored datasets of up to 50,000 bars, 50 live streams. Billed monthly for the tokens you use, net plus VAT where it applies, through Stripe with Link as the merchant of record; a spending limit you set yourself, 50 EUR a month unless you change it. Cancel at the end of any month. Estimate your month with the cost calculator.
Book pay as you go in the appSign in, open Account → API, book; the plan is active within a minute.
0.875 EUR per 1,000 tokens · no base fee
Half the pay as you go price, for the members of the Cycles IQ Membership and of the Pro Membership. 600 calls a minute (30 a second) and a daily safety cap of 50,000 calls; no monthly limit. The PRO feature, 100 stored datasets of up to 100,000 bars, 75 live streams. Set on your account when you join: you book it in the app like pay as you go, and a pay as you go plan switches to the member price at once. Billed the same way, with the same spending limit.
Cycles IQ Membership and Pro MembershipOn request
1,500 calls a minute and a daily safety cap of 100,000 calls, the PRO feature, 500 stored datasets of up to 100,000 bars, 100 live streams. For Pro members whose systems need more than the member plan: set up on the member's account by agreement and invoiced; market data by key where the project needs it.
Write to LarsWhat a token is. Every successful call has a value in tokens: the rating of its route, from 1 for a read to 20 for the analysis of a market by its id (30 for a chart picture), plus one token for every 1,000 data points it works on. A cycle scan of 1,200 values is 3 + 2 = 5 tokens; ten live stream updates are one token. Every successful REST answer names its tokens in the header X-CyclesIQ-Tokens. Your plan limits calls; Pay as you go and Member are billed by tokens. The app's own calls and answers with an error status have no tokens. The cost calculator estimates your calls, tokens and cost for a month.
Limits
Every call with a key or a sign-in counts once on your account, whatever the endpoint, through REST, the MCP and your code alike. "No cap" means the period has no limit in that plan. A call above a limit is answered with an error and a retry time and is not charged.
| Limit | 30-day trial | Free | FSC member | Pay as you go | Member | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calls a minute | 300 | 20 | 60 | 300 | 60030 a second | 1,500 |
| Calls a day | no cap | 200 | 500 | 20,000safety cap, raised on request | 50,000safety cap | 100,000safety cap, raised on request |
| Calls a month | 5,000 for the whole trial | 1,000 | 2,000 | no capbilled by tokens | no capbilled by tokens | no cap |
| PRO featurethe dominant-peak finder; the stability score is open to every plan | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes |
| Stored datasets | 50, up to 50,000 bars each | 3, up to 5,000 bars each | 3, up to 5,000 bars each | 50, up to 50,000 bars each | 100, up to 100,000 bars each | 500, up to 100,000 bars each |
| Live streams you may keep | 3 | none | 3 from the Analyst level of the membership, none for Basic | 50 | 75 | 100 |
| Stream updates a day | 300 per stream | – | 300 per stream | 300 per stream | 300 per stream | 300 per stream |
Outside the count: stream updates (300 a day per stream; on Pay as you go and Member, ten updates are one token), your limits and usage (GET /api/me/*) and the documentation. The month is the calendar month (UTC); calls in the trial count toward the trial only. The numbers are the plan table of 30 September 2026, with the Member plan since 1 November 2026, and are reviewed against real use.
What the API answers: 401 is a missing or expired key. 403 with a message means the route is not part of your plan or needs a feature; waiting does not help, the message says what to do. 429 with Retry-After is the limit of the minute or the day; 429 with an allowance message means the calls of the month or of the trial are used up, and the answer names the plan, when it resets and the way to more. Your limits and what you used: ask your assistant (my_limits) or call GET https://api.cyclesiq.com/api/me/limits.
Keys and documentation
Sign in to app.cyclesiq.com (FSC members: app.cycles.org), open Account → API and create a key. The full key is shown once. Send it in the X-API-Key header, or as Authorization: Bearer. The same page shows your plan, its limits and the calls you used.
The live reference with a quick start: api.cyclesiq.com/apidocs. The interactive specification, where you can run a call against your key: api.cyclesiq.com/specs. The API answers at api.cyclesiq.com.
Connect https://api.cyclesiq.com/mcp in Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or Cursor and sign in with your Cycles IQ account; a new account starts its 30-day trial there too. The server analyses the data you give it and provides no market data.
Cycles IQ is listed in Claude's connector directory: open claude.ai/directory/connectors/cycles-iq, choose Connect and sign in with your Cycles IQ account.
Terms
Use of the Cycles IQ API is governed by the Terms of Service; Lars von Thienen operates the API, the Foundation for the Study of Cycles grants the FSC member plan to its members under the same terms. Results are measurements and projections, not investment advice. Questions about a plan, the market-data feature or an integration: one e-mail.
Cycles IQ in your own environment, with your own flows and scripts: the Cycles IQ Membership and the Pro Membership.