Token Screeners evaluated across how clearly the sold pixels are separated from the neutral ones, yearly cost including trade fees, whether the free tier is a usable product or a demo, and market coverage and data provenance.
GeckoTerminal
#1 of 7 · published ranking
GeckoTerminal
82ChainChoice Score
4199
Why it leads
Best in the pool on all in cost including execution and coverage and provenance
Cost
Not priced· No comparable price is published
No provider can pay for a position in this table. The code that computes this order cannot read which links earn us a commission, and every build proves it. Every score below rebuilds from the published criteria.Ranking 2026.08 · 4 criteria · 7 products · same inputs, same order
Personal comparison
Token Screeners ranked comparison
No comparable price is published; ranking still uses verified product evidence.
RankProviderBest fitScore
1
GeckoTerminalGeckoTerminalCoinGecko-owned DEX pool tracker coveri...Top ranked
Yearly cost including trade fees — 10/10Trade-off: It is not neutral just because listings are free. The GeckoTerminal-branded ad page a...
Whether the free tier is a usable product or a demo — 10/10Trade-off: Paid products do not sit beside the ranking, they feed it. A $299 Enhanced Token Info...
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
BirdeyeBirdeyeMulti-chain token tracker and data API...
How clearly the sold pixels are separated from the neutral ones — 8/10Trade-off: The 0.6% swap fee is documented on a page about a third-party function, not on either...
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
GMGMGN.AIMeme-token scanner and execution termin...
Whether the free tier is a usable product or a demo — 8/10Trade-off: Access to GMGN's trading API is rationed by how much you trade - "Access is granted s...
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
AXAxiomSolana-only new-pairs terminal that ran...
Whether the free tier is a usable product or a demo — 7/10Trade-off: The published "Net Fee" figures are already net of cashback, so the headline 0.95% is...
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.
6
PHPhotonSolana and Ethereum live-pairs terminal...
Whether the free tier is a usable product or a demo — 7/10Trade-off: The fee page that sets the price says "Last updated 2 years ago", and photon-sol.tiny...
Ranked on 4 published criteria weighted 34/28/20/18, 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.
Audit
Infrastructure
Methodology
2026.09.15
published 2026-09-16
Providers tracked
980+
across 119 categories
Last verified
2026-09-25
newest dated pricing or sentiment read
Named on the roster
2 people
managing directors · 6 automated processes
Decision guide
What matters most before choosing in this category
Assume the trending list is partly an advertising product, then decide how much of that you can price in. On the largest screener the paid products do not merely sit next to the ranking — its own Boosting documentation states that ads help boost a token's Trending Score, and at 500 active Boosts a token unlocks a Golden Ticker that recolours its symbol on the screener itself. Even the cleanest product here sells projects a paid accelerator into its trending modules. Second, price the whole year including execution: several of these screeners also route trades, and that per-trade fee dwarfs any subscription for anyone who actually trades. Third, check what the free tier survives, because in this category it is usually the product rather than a demo.
What matters most before choosing in this category
Assume the trending list is partly an advertising product, then decide how much of that you can price in. On the largest screener the paid products do not merely sit next to the ranking — its own Boosting documentation states that ads help boost a token's Trending Score, and at 500 active Boosts a token unlocks a Golden Ticker that recolours its symbol on the screener itself. Even the cleanest product here sells projects a paid accelerator into its trending modules. Second, price the whole year including execution: several of these screeners also route trades, and that per-trade fee dwarfs any subscription for anyone who actually trades. Third, check what the free tier survives, because in this category it is usually the product rather than a demo.
Which parts of this interface are sold, and does the page say so where you can see it?
Does the screener also execute trades, and what does that fee cost you across a year?
Is the free tier a usable product, or a demo that stops at the moment you need it?
Current editor lead
Expert review and scoring weights
GeckoTerminal
GeckoTerminalData checked Sep 2026
CoinGecko-owned DEX pool tracker covering 252 chains, free to use, with no trade execution.
CoinGecko-owned DEX pool tracker covering 252 chains, free to use, with no trade execution. Strongest on yearly cost including trade fees (10/10): GeckoTerminal executes no trades and the terminal is free; its DEX API page states the free limit and the paid path in one line: "Subscribe to any paid plan to increase rate limits by 25X, from 10 calls/min to 250 calls/min." The linked CoinGecko plans are priced openly, from a free Demo tier upward. Weakest on how clearly the sold pixels are separated from the neutral ones (8/10): The ad policy states that "Chain, DEX and Token listings are FREE" and "you cannot buy listings through ad spend"; promoted tokens sit in a "Community Promoted" module with a "Hide Ad" control. The one paid product, a $199.00 Fast Pass, speeds the verification gating Trending Cards; ranking is not declared unbuyable. Published price: Free to use; the terminal executes no trades. Rate-limit and upgrade path from https://www.geckoterminal.com/dex-api (fetched 2026-09-25, HTTP 200): "Looking to increase rate limits and unlock more data access?
Best forYearly cost including trade fees — 10/10
Main tradeoffIt is not neutral just because listings are free. The GeckoTerminal-branded ad page at https://ads.coingecko.com/geckoterminal states "Anyone can launch ads from $99 – even if you're not the project owner!" (note the en dash; the draft rendered it as a hyphen), so a third party with no relationship to a token can buy the promoted slot attached to it. Separately, GeckoTerminal publishes no data-latency or update-frequency statement on any of the four GeckoTerminal-owned pages loaded here - I searched the API FAQ specifically for latency, update-frequency and delay language and found none - so 'real-time' is unquantified; if you need to be first to a pair, that gap matters more than the chain count.
Verify before signupFree to use; the terminal executes no trades. Rate-limit and upgrade path from https://www.geckoterminal.com/dex-api (fetched 2026-09-25, HTTP 200): "Looking to increase rate limits and unlock more data access? The same on-chain DEX data is accessible via CoinGecko API's new /onchain endpoints. Subscribe to any paid plan to increase rate limits by 25X, from 10 calls/min to 250 calls/min." with the link "Compare Plans & Pricing". Source moved: the previous source https://apiguide.geckoterminal.com/faq (which published the 30 calls per minute public limit) returned HTTP 403 on 2026-09-25 with the body 'The organization has been suspended', to both a direct fetch and a rendering fetch, so its strings are no longer published anywhere that loads. The linked CoinGecko plan page https://www.coingecko.com/en/api/pricing sits behind a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403 to a direct fetch) but loaded through a rendering fetch on 2026-09-25 showing Demo at 0 dollars per month with 10k call credits, Basic at 35, Analyst at 129, Lite at 499 and Pro at 999 dollars per month (monthly billing). The only product sold to listed projects is the Update Token Info Fast Pass at 199.00 dollars per request on https://www.geckoterminal.com/update-token-info (the 499.00 strike-through price shown in August is gone), with a free path still offered on the same page.
Methodology
How this category is reviewed
Reviewed on how clearly the sold pixels are separated from the neutral ones, what a year of ordinary use costs including the trade fee, whether the free tier is a usable product, and how much of the market it sees.
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 screeners
Does paying make a token trend?
On the largest screener in this pool, its own documentation says so. The advertising page answers the question directly — ads help boost a token's Trending Score — and the Boosting doc describes a Golden Ticker unlocked at 500 active Boosts that recolours the token's symbol on the screener and token pages so it stands out. That is a paid visual change to the ranking surface itself, not a banner beside it. The disclosure exists and is findable, which is why this is scored rather than treated as disqualifying; what separates the products here is how clearly that boundary is drawn where a user is actually looking.
What does a screener really cost me?
Almost never the subscription. Several of these products also execute trades, and the per-trade fee is the dominant cost for anyone using the screener for what it is for — a year of ordinary trading through an executing screener costs multiples of any subscription in this pool. That is why cost here is scored all-in rather than by sticker price. One further caution found in the pricing itself: a headline ad product prices 24 hours, 2 days and a week at exactly the same daily rate, so what looks like a duration discount is not one — worth checking before assuming volume buys anything.
Can I trust the volume and liquidity numbers?
They vary more than the uniform presentation suggests, which is why provenance is scored separately from coverage. These products differ in how many chains and DEXs they index, how quickly new pairs appear, and whether the figures are computed by the vendor or passed through from an upstream source. A screener that sees fewer venues will show a thinner picture of the same token without saying so. Treat coverage as a claim to check against the chains you actually trade, not as a headline number.
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