Build a Zerodha Kite trading bot with your AI coding agent.

How Kite Connect access and login work

You create an app in Zerodha's developer console, tied to your client id and one redirect address. Each morning you sign in on Zerodha's own page with your password and an authenticator code. The app then swaps a short-lived code for the day's token.

That token ends at 6 AM the next day, or sooner if you sign in to another Kite session. Zerodha staff say the exchange requires a manual login at least once a day and advise against automating it. So Super Algo Kit never scripts the login: you open the link, and the bot waits.

Static IP for Zerodha algo trading

Since 1 April 2026, Zerodha accepts place, modify and cancel calls only from a static IP you registered. Reads, streaming and GTT calls still work from any address. You set one primary IP and an optional secondary in the developer console, and may change them once per calendar week.

Run the bot at home only if your internet provider gives that line a static IP. Otherwise, rent a server with a fixed IP. Backtests and paper trading send no orders, so they need no static IP.

Can you paper trade with Kite Connect?

Zerodha offers no sandbox, and the free Personal plan places real orders, so it is not a test environment. Super Algo Kit paper trades with its own paper broker on live quotes from the paid Connect plan. It sends no orders to Zerodha. Paper first, live only when you say.

Zerodha algo trading limits and costs to plan for

These are Zerodha's numbers as the kit read them on 29 September 2026. Confirm any limit before your code depends on it.

• Orders: 10 a second, 400 a minute, 5,000 a day.
• Up to 10 orders a second per client needs no exchange registration.
• At most 25 modifications per order, then cancel and place again.
• Market orders need a price protection setting and become protected limit orders.
• Personal plan free with no live data; Connect plan 500 rupees a month per app.
• Normal brokerage applies, and live data may not be shown publicly or passed on.

What Super Algo Kit does with Kite Connect

The kit builds an adapter from its Zerodha card and tests it against known failure cases. Your agent never holds your live keys or places live orders.

• Waits in a clear state until today's token arrives, and alerts you before the open.
• After a timeout, looks the order up by its tag before deciding; never resends blindly.
• Caps order messages at 5 to 8 a second, the kit's own limit below Zerodha's.
• Checks that price protection is set and your outgoing IP matches the registered one.
• Adds an independent risk gate outside the strategy and a kill switch you can run yourself.