# API last trade price is different from what shows in Alpaca Dashboard

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/api-last-trade-price-is-different-from-what-shows-in-alpaca-dashboard/5309>\
**Category:** Alpaca Market Data\
**Created:** [April 5, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/api-last-trade-price-is-different-from-what-shows-in-alpaca-dashboard/5309 "2021-04-05T14:03:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![KingZen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/kingzen/32/2330_2.png) [@KingZen](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/KingZen)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/api-last-trade-price-is-different-from-what-shows-in-alpaca-dashboard/5309/1 "2021-04-05T14:03:07Z")

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Just as an example, the ACY last trade price is showing $15.40 in API, but Dashboard shows $13.86. Does anyone know why this is? It appears that $13.86 is the correct last traded price, so does anyone know why the API is showing the older previous last-traded price?

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**Author:** ![Chris\_S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/chris_s/32/2125_2.png) [@Chris\_S](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Chris_S)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/api-last-trade-price-is-different-from-what-shows-in-alpaca-dashboard/5309/2 "2021-04-05T18:34:29Z")

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not competly sure about it, but there is a possibility most of the “last” X functions are not yet fully implemented to use the new data v2 API. I know lastQuote isnt fully implemented yet, might be the same for lastTrade which results in a delay of data or even empty data in response. Im currently using the workarround of using a seperate [polygon.io](http://polygon.io) subscribption for all data releveant tasks and alpaca only for order execution.

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**Author:** ![KingZen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/kingzen/32/2330_2.png) [@KingZen](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/KingZen)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/api-last-trade-price-is-different-from-what-shows-in-alpaca-dashboard/5309/3 "2021-04-05T18:52:57Z")

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I’m using v1 API if that helps. So where is Alpaca getting their data on the dashboard? Is that coming from Polygon or some other source?

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**Author:** ![KingZen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/kingzen/32/2330_2.png) [@KingZen](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/KingZen)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/api-last-trade-price-is-different-from-what-shows-in-alpaca-dashboard/5309/4 "2021-04-08T18:12:36Z")

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Just to give an update, I’m seeing this issue still. It’s like the API returns price that is different from the one shown on Dashboard. At this point I don’t know which one is more accurate and which one I should use. Kind of concerning that the prices seem to be derived from different sources?

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**Author:** ![Chris\_S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/chris_s/32/2125_2.png) [@Chris\_S](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Chris_S)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/api-last-trade-price-is-different-from-what-shows-in-alpaca-dashboard/5309/5 "2021-04-09T11:48:38Z")

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I think last price and last quote isnt yet fully implemented and functioning in the new data api. I experienced the same issues and my workarround was a [polygon.io](http://polygon.io) subscription for price details and only use alpaca for execution.