Credit-metered REST API for price, volume and exchange data with published per-tier credit quotas. Strongest on published cost at production call volume (8/10): CoinMarketCap prints Growth at "$ 299 /mo" for "2M call credits/mo", so a million credits costs $299 from the page alone; the step from Startup's 450K credits straight to 2M is steep and the unit is credits rather than calls. Weakest on redistribution and licensing rights (4/10): CoinMarketCap's pricing FAQ grants commercial use from Basic up but caps it at "one product with up to 100k users" for end users' "personal, non-commercial purposes", with wider scope only under an unpriced Enterprise licence; the linked Commercial Terms of Use lead to a marketing page, not a licence. Published price: Fetched 2026-09-27 from the CoinMarketCap API pricing page (HTTP 200, verified against the raw served HTML); every subscription price is unchanged from 2026-08-06.
Market-data APIs
Market-data APIs evaluated across query cost at real volume, self-host escape hatch, vendor continuity, and indexing speed and coverage.
Ranked on 4 published criteria weighted 30/28/20/22, which set goal alignment — 30 of the 86 points. The rest: regional access 20, evidence depth 18, ease of use 10, institutional trust 8. Profile match is shown in breakdowns but carries no weight.
What matters most before choosing in this category
If the data will be visible to your own users, read the licence before the price list, because that is where this category actually binds. Redistribution is the right most products need and the one least often included: at Coinpaprika the comparison table marks it unavailable on every published tier including the $799 plan, and available only on a custom enterprise agreement. CoinMarketCap points API buyers at its commercial terms with a link that serves a marketing page instead. If your use is internal, the decision flips to cost at your real call volume — and the expectation about who hides pricing is inverted here, with the institutional vendor publishing numbered floors while a mass-market one does not.
If the data will be visible to your own users, read the licence before the price list, because that is where this category actually binds. Redistribution is the right most products need and the one least often included: at Coinpaprika the comparison table marks it unavailable on every published tier including the $799 plan, and available only on a custom enterprise agreement. CoinMarketCap points API buyers at its commercial terms with a link that serves a marketing page instead. If your use is internal, the decision flips to cost at your real call volume — and the expectation about who hides pricing is inverted here, with the institutional vendor publishing numbered floors while a mass-market one does not.
Expert review and scoring weights
How this category is reviewed
Reviewed on published cost at production call volume, redistribution and licensing rights, what the free tier actually survives, and coverage and documented granularity.