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Market-Data APIs

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

Ranked here: market-data APIs supplying data your own users will see, compared on published cost at production call volume, redistribution and licensing rights, the free tier and coverage. Not ranked here: anything other than an API that supplies market data.

#1 of 7published ranking
CoinMarketCap API
79ChainChoice Score
Why it leads
CoinMarketCap API scores higher than everything else in this ranking on its entry tier durability.
Show the arithmetic
Best in this ranking on entry tier durability (7/10; next 6/10)
Cost
$0.00 your cost/yr · Transactions per year: 1k
Reviewed
Re-read due since The published cadence is 45 days; this page's next read was due on 11 November 2026.
Published Methodology v2026.11.1
How this page is reviewed

Reviewed means every product ranked on this page was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.

Accountable for this review: Mathias Siemonsmeier, Founder.

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No provider can pay for a position in this table. The code that computes this order cannot read which links carry a referral code, and every build proves it. Every score below rebuilds from the published criteria.Ranking v2026.11.1 · 4 criteria · 7 products · same inputs, same order

How we review · 7 ranked of 8 assessed · 4 criteria · 0 sponsor weight

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Personal comparison

What market-data APIs cost you

Your inputs update the cost column. The independent ranking stays fixed.

The cheapest published tier that covers your usage. List price before any discount; add-ons priced separately are excluded.

RankProviderBest fitScoreYour cost
1
CoinMarketCap APICredit-metered REST API for price, volu...Top ranked
Published cost at production call volume — 8/10Trade-off: Two things the page will not tell you plainly. The annual plans are not discounts — e...
79score
your cost/yr
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CoinMarketCap API · coinmarketcap.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

2
CoinGecko APICredit-metered REST and WebSocket API c...
Coverage and documented granularity — 8/10Trade-off: The licence is complete, readable and heavy — read it before the pricing page. Correc...
77score
your cost/yr
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CoinGecko API · coingecko.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

3
Coinpaprika APIPer-call REST market data API with publ...
Published cost at production call volume — 9/10Trade-off: The redistribution right you would be buying this API for is on the one tier with no...
76score
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Coinpaprika API · coinpaprika.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

4
KaikoInstitutional tick-level trade and orde...
Coverage and documented granularity — 9/10Trade-off: Two gaps sit behind the four published numbers. The figures are floors with an open c...
70score
Lowest at your inputs
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Kaiko · kaiko.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

5
Messari APIMulti-service crypto data API offering...
Coverage and documented granularity — 6/10Trade-off: The transparent price is a trap at scale and the scalable price is unreadable. x402 l...
66score
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Messari API · api.messari.io. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

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Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

6
Dune APISQL query engine over indexed blockchai...
Published cost at production call volume — 4/10Trade-off: Dune is not priced per API call and is not a cross-venue market-data feed, so both it...
61score
-Not published
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Dune API · dune.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

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Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

1 more assessed and ranked below — none of them hidden for commercial reasons.
Ranking blindCommercial terms excludedDated primary sources

Ranked on 4 published criteria weighted 30/28/20/22, which set goal alignment — 30 of the 86 points. The rest: regional access 20 (constant here), evidence depth 18 (constant here), ease of use 10 (constant here), institutional trust 8 (constant here). Profile match is shown in breakdowns but carries no weight.

How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
None of this ranking's criteria scores a way of losing money; the families that apply are listed below as not assessed.
Not assessed by this ranking: Liveness failure, Exit failure, Information failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Published cost at production call volume (30%), Redistribution and licensing rights (28%), What the free tier actually survives (20%), Coverage and documented granularity (22%).
Audit
Infrastructure
Methodology
2026.11.1
published 10 November 2026
Providers tracked
860+
across 121 categories
Last verified
10 November 2026
newest dated pricing or sentiment read
Named on the roster
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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.

Will the data be visible to your own users, and does the tier you are pricing actually permit that?
What does the bill look like at your real monthly call volume, not on the free tier?
How far back does intraday history go on the plan you are buying, as opposed to on the marketing card?
Current engine lead

The #1 overall and the scoring weights

CoinMarketCap APIData checked Nov 2026
Credit-metered REST API for price, volume and exchange data with published per-tier credit quotas.

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's pricing page prints the Growth plan at "$ 299 /mo" with "2M call credits/mo". The Startup plan below it, at "$ 79 /mo", carries 450K credits and falls short of 1,000,000 calls a month, so the step up to Growth is steep. Weakest on redistribution and licensing rights (4/10): CoinMarketCap's pricing page says the commercial licence "covers one product with up to 100k users" and that "you may not redistribute or resell it as a standalone service". The link it gives for its Commercial Terms of Use leads to the API marketing page, not to a terms document. Published price: Fetched 10 November 2026 from the CoinMarketCap API pricing page (HTTP 200, verified against the raw served HTML); every subscription price is unchanged from 6 August 2026.

Best forPublished cost at production call volume — 8/10
Main tradeoffTwo 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 ($299/mo) the 5m-12h history window is three months, and reaching 2010 at intraday resolution requires Enterprise.
Verify before signupFetched 10 November 2026 from the CoinMarketCap API pricing page (HTTP 200, verified against the raw served HTML); every subscription price is unchanged from 6 August 2026. Six tiers: Basic free, "15,000" credits/mo, "50 requests per minute"; Builder "$ 29 /mo" or "$ 420 $ 348/year", "150K call credits/mo", "300 requests per minute"; Startup "$ 79 /mo" or "$ 1140 $ 948/year", "450K call credits/mo", "600 requests per minute"; Growth "$ 299 /mo" or "$ 4500 $ 3588/year", "2M call credits/mo", "750 requests per minute"; Professional "$ 699 /mo" or "$ 10500 $ 8388/year", "5M call credits/mo", "1200 requests per minute"; Enterprise "Inquire for pricing", "30,000,000" credits, "1600+ requests per minute". New since August: an "x402-Enabled Endpoints" table prices five endpoints at "0.01 USDC" per call with a "30/min per wallet" rate limit and the footnote "Pricing is subject to change. Please check the 402 Payment Required response for the latest pricing." NORMALISATION (10 November 2026, unit = USD/month for the cheapest published plan supplying >=1,000,000 credits/month, worked example): Startup's 450,000 credits fall short, so the cheapest qualifying plan is Growth at $299.00/mo; $299 / 2,000,000 credits = $0.0001495 per credit = $0.1495 per 1,000 credits — still the lowest per-call subscription rate in the pool. The x402 path at 1,000,000 calls would be 1,000,000 x $0.01 = $10,000.00/month, 33x Growth, so it prices sporadic agent traffic, not production volume. ANNUAL ARITHMETIC (worked example), 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 nothing is sold at, and the page's "Save up to 20%" banner measures against them. The page still 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%
Methodology

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.

The order on this page is the published ranking for this category. Every criterion, weight and source behind it is on the methodology page.
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.
Reviewed27 September 2026Method4 criteriaCategorymarket_data_apis
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