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The right you most need is the one nobody puts a price on.

Market-data APIs evaluated on published cost at production call volume, redistribution and licensing rights, what the free tier actually survives, and coverage and documented granularity.

category.market_data_apis.promise Reviewed on published cost at production call volume, redistribution and licensing rights, what the free tier actually survives, and coverage and documented granularity.

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Infrastructure

Methodology

2026.04.0

published 2026-04-27

Providers tracked

630+

across 70 categories

Last verified

2026-08-06

editorial freshness

Editorial board

4

audit-log live

Decision guide

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.

Key question

Will the data be visible to your own users, and does the tier you are pricing actually permit that?

Key question

What does the bill look like at your real monthly call volume, not on the free tier?

Key question

How far back does intraday history go on the plan you are buying, as opposed to on the marketing card?

Current editor lead

CoinMarketCap API

Credit-metered REST API for price, volume and exchange data with published per-tier credit quotas.

Data checked Aug 2026

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): Cheapest per-call rate in the pool: Growth is "$ 299 /mo" for "2M call credits/mo" = $0.1495 per 1,000 credits (2026-08-06), undercutting Coinpaprika's $0.199 and CoinGecko Lite's $0.2495. Scored below Coinpaprika only because absolute spend to clear 1,000,000 calls is $299 vs $199 — Startup caps at 450,000 credits… Weakest on redistribution and licensing rights (5/10): Best published position among the three self-serve vendors, undermined by a dead link to the document that governs. The pricing FAQ states "Commercial use approved means that the API plan you've selected grants you the right to integrate CoinMarketCap data into commercial products, services, or applications that you… Published price: Fetched 2026-08-06 from the CoinMarketCap API pricing page (verified against the raw served HTML). Six tiers: Basic free, "15,000" credits/mo, "50 requests per minute"; Builder "$ 29 /mo" or "$ 420 $ 348/year", "150K call credits/mo", 300 rpm; Startup "$ 79…

Best for

Published cost at production call volume — 8/10What the free tier actually survives — 7/10

Main tradeoff

Two things the page will not tell you plainly. The annual plans are not discounts — every yearly figure is exactly twelve times the monthly one ($3,588 = 12 x $299), and the "Save up to 20%" banner is measured against struck-through prices nothing is sold at; only the "10_perc_off_yearly_cmc" checkout code produces a real reduction. And if you need intraday history, the plan cards' "All time historical data" does not mean what it says: at Growth ($299/mo) the 5m-12h history window is three months, and reaching 2010 at intraday resolution requires Enterprise.

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Fetched 2026-08-06 from the CoinMarketCap API pricing page (verified against the raw served HTML). Six tiers: Basic free, "15,000" credits/mo, "50 requests per minute"; Builder "$ 29 /mo" or "$ 420 $ 348/year", "150K call credits/mo", 300 rpm; Startup "$ 79 /mo" or "$ 1140 $ 948/year", "450K call credits/mo", 600 rpm; Growth "$ 299 /mo" or "$ 4500 $ 3588/year", "2M call credits/mo", 750 rpm; Professional "$ 699 /mo" or "$ 10500 $ 8388/year", "5,000,000" credits, 1200 rpm; Enterprise "Inquire for pricing", 30,000,000 credits, "1600+ requests per minute". NORMALISATION (2026-08-06, unit = USD/month for the cheapest published plan supplying >=1,000,000 credits/month): Startup's 450,000 credits fall short, so the cheapest qualifying plan is Growth at $299.00/mo. Unit cost = $299 / 2,000,000 credits = $0.0001495 per credit = $0.1495 per 1,000 credits — the lowest per-call rate in the pool. ANNUAL ARITHMETIC, checked on every priced tier: $348/12 = $29.00; $948/12 = $79.00; $3,588/12 = $299.00; $8,388/12 = $699.00. Every annual figure is exactly twelve times the monthly figure, so the yearly commitment carries no discount at any tier; the struck-through numbers ($420, $1,140, $4,500, $10,500) are reference prices that nothing is actually sold at, and the page's "Save up to 20%" banner measures against them. The page separately shows "Limited-time offer 🎉 10% off all yearly plans with code at checkout 10_perc_off_yearly_cmc", which would be a real reduction.

Weighted criteria

Published cost at production call volume30%

Redistribution and licensing rights28%

What the free tier actually survives20%

Coverage and documented granularity22%

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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.

Reviewed on: Published cost at production call volume, Redistribution and licensing rights, What the free tier actually survives, Coverage and documented granularity.

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Frequently asked

Questions people ask before choosing data apis

Can I show this data to my own users?

Only if your plan grants redistribution, and that is rarer than the pricing pages suggest. Coinpaprika's own comparison table, read from its raw served HTML, marks redistribution unavailable on Free, Starter, Pro, Business and Ultimate — every published tier, including the $799 one — and available only under a custom enterprise agreement. One of the mass-market vendors here does grant it, and its terms expressly permit charging for products that integrate the API, subject to an attribution requirement with a specified minimum font size. The general rule for this category is that the pricing page tells you the cost and the terms page tells you whether you may do the thing you are buying it for.

Which vendor is cheapest?

It depends entirely on your call volume, and the extremes are further apart than the marketing implies. The only vendor publishing an exact per-call price settles it on-chain in USDC with no account required — and normalised to a per-call basis it is the most expensive here by two to three orders of magnitude, which is a reasonable trade for zero onboarding on low volume and a poor one at scale. At the other end, the institutional vendor a buyer would assume routes everything through sales publishes numbered monthly floors on its product page. Price the plan at the volume you will actually run, not the tier you will start on.

How much history does the free or entry tier really give me?

Much less than the plan cards imply, and this is the most common surprise in the category. CoinMarketCap advertises all-time historical data while capping intraday history at one month on its startup tier and three months on the $299 growth tier, with full history only on enterprise. That distinction between daily closes and intraday granularity is what decides whether the plan supports a backtest or only a chart, so check the granularity row rather than the headline before committing to a tier.

REVIEWEDApr 2026METHOD4 criteriaCATEGORYmarket_data_apis

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