Sentiment Analytics evaluated across published predictive evidence, published price and free-tier substance, documented bot filtering, and source and asset coverage.
Ranked here: sentiment analytics services that sell social signal on assets, for a reader about to pay for it who wants to know whether it has been tested. Not ranked here: analytics that do not sell a social signal, whatever other data or coverage they offer.
#1 of 7 · published ranking
LunarCrush
80ChainChoice Score
4199
Why it leads
LunarCrush scores higher than everything else in this ranking on its published predictive evidence and its manipulation filtering documented.
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Best in this ranking on published predictive evidence and manipulation filtering documented
Cost
$1,080 your cost/yr · Transactions per year: 1k
ReviewedNext review by 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.
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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What sentiment analytics cost you
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The cheapest published tier that covers your usage. List price before any discount; add-ons priced separately are excluded.
RankProviderBest fitScoreYour cost
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LunarCrushSocial feed aggregation across six plat...Top ranked
Published predictive evidence — 8/10Trade-off: The one reproducible test in this pool is on 2,898 US equity earnings prints in 2026...
80score
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LunarCrush · lunarcrush.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.
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Santiment (Sanbase / SanAPI)Social, on-chain and development metric...
Published price and free-tier substance — 9/10Trade-off: Paying $49/mo does not remove the API lag. The comparison table's "Realtime restricti...
79score
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Santiment (Sanbase / SanAPI) · santiment.net. 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
THThe Tie (Terminal and Data APIs)Institutional terminal and quant API wh...
Documented bot filtering — 6/10Trade-off: The Tie sells a sentiment score on tokens while, per its own disclosure page dated Ma...
61score
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The Tie (Terminal and Data APIs) · thetie.io. 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.
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Crypto Fear & Greed Index (alternative.me)A free single 0-100 Bitcoin sentiment n...
Published price and free-tier substance — 10/10Trade-off: Fifteen per cent of a published-weight index is switched off. The Surveys component i...
60score
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Crypto Fear & Greed Index (alternative.me) · alternative.me. 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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StockGeist Crypto Sentiment APICredit-metered REST and SSE sentiment f...
Published price and free-tier substance — 8/10Trade-off: The site carries a sitewide banner reading "StockGeist.ai dashboard is under maintena...
59score
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StockGeist Crypto Sentiment API · stockgeist.ai. 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.
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KAKaito ProAttention and mindshare rankings over c...
Documented bot filtering — 5/10Trade-off: The metric and the incentive are the same object. Kaito's own surfaces include a Capi...
56score
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Kaito Pro · pro.kaito.ai. 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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1 more assessed and ranked below — none of them hidden for commercial reasons.
Ranked on 4 published criteria weighted 30/25/25/20, 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
Information failure: the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.
Scored by Published predictive evidence · 30% (LunarCrush 8/10, Santiment (Sanbase / SanAPI) 5/10, The Tie (Terminal and Data APIs) 4/10)
Scored by Documented bot filtering · 25% (LunarCrush 7/10, Santiment (Sanbase / SanAPI) 5/10, The Tie (Terminal and Data APIs) 6/10)
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Published price and free-tier substance (25%), Source and asset coverage (20%).
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
2 people
managing directors · 6 automated processes
Decision guide
What matters most before choosing in this category
Weighted on published predictive evidence (30), published price and free-tier substance (25), documented bot filtering (25), and source and asset coverage (20). Across eight vendors, exactly one publishes a predictive test a buyer can check - and it is about US equities, not crypto. LunarCrush's Earnings Social Atlas covers 2,898 earnings prints with an event-level CSV downloadable without registration; recomputing it returns a decile spread of 1.186x, against the vendor's own companion note saying "The decile spread is modest by design" and "If you find a 5x effect, you have a bug, not alpha." The web page headlines a 1.2 to 1.4x range using an internal liquidity cut not included in the public file. That gap - between the checkable number and the advertised one - exists at the most rigorous vendor in the category.
Has this vendor published any test of whether its signal predicts anything?
What fraction of ingested posts does the bot filter actually remove?
Can you read the price, and does the free tier survive contact with real use?
Current engine lead
The #1 overall and the scoring weights
LunarCrushData checked Nov 2026
Social feed aggregation across six platforms sold as Galaxy Score and AltRank composites plus an API and MCP server.
Social feed aggregation across six platforms sold as Galaxy Score and AltRank composites plus an API and MCP server. Strongest on published predictive evidence (8/10): LunarCrush publishes a free 2,898-row event-level file of earnings events with a methodology guide. Its four published anchors, including 28.4% of events with a pre-print social z-score above 1, are stated to reproduce from the file; the liquidity cut behind the page headlines "is not included in this public file". Weakest on published price and free-tier substance (5/10): The pricing page lists Light at "$90/month" or "$72/month billed annually", Medium at $300 or $240 and Heavy at $900 or $720, Enterprise custom. Shipped site copy still quotes "Individual ($24/month)", and the free plan text reads "No social analytics or API access." Published price: Fetched 10 November 2026 from https://lunarcrush.com/pricing, which publishes every paid plan with its billing period in the served HTML.
Best forPublished predictive evidence — 8/10
Main tradeoffThe one reproducible test in this pool is on 2,898 US equity earnings prints in 2026 H1, not on crypto, and the effect that actually reproduces from the public file is about 1.19x top-versus-bottom decile. Corrected during verification: the vendor's own companion file discloses that the louder figures on the Atlas web page - "~1.2–1.4×", "+1.79σ print-day average", "1,665 liquid prints", "29.7% of liquid prints build more than 1σ of attention before the number is public" - are computed on an internal panel using a dollar-volume liquidity cut "which is not included in this public file", and warns to "Expect directionally identical but numerically different results". So the headline a buyer sees is not the number he can check; the number he can check is smaller. The page also routes the tradeable version - hourly feed, point-in-time constituent membership, 5+ years of history - to a two-week institutional trial arranged with the CEO by email. A crypto buyer is extrapolating an equities result across an asset class, a frequency and a price tier none of which were tested in public.
Verify before signupFetched 10 November 2026 from https://lunarcrush.com/pricing, which publishes every paid plan with its billing period in the served HTML. The plan cards were renamed since 28 October 2026 and the prices are unchanged: Light "$90/month" or "$72/month billed annually"; Medium "$300/month" or "$240/month billed annually"; Heavy "$900/month" or "$720/month billed annually"; Enterprise "Custom Pricing". The page title still uses the old plan names ("LunarCrush Pricing - Individual $90/mo, Builder $300/mo, Scale $900/mo"), and so does the page's embedded offer data, which also lists day passes named Individual Daily, Builder Daily and Scale Daily at 5, 15 and 45 US dollars. New on the page: "Pay-as-you-go is $1 per 1,000 requests across the API, MCP, and CLI; subscriptions include the LunarCrush Discover app." The FAQ sentence on refunds quoted on 28 October 2026 is no longer on the page. No free plan card is rendered on the pricing page. Worked example (ChainChoice arithmetic, not a page figure): Light billed annually is 72 x 12 = 864 dollars a year, against 90 x 12 = 1,080 dollars billed monthly, a 20 percent annual discount.
Weighted criteria
Published predictive evidence30%
Published price and free-tier substance25%
Documented bot filtering25%
Source and asset coverage20%
Methodology
How this category is reviewed
Reviewed on published predictive evidence, published price and free-tier substance, documented bot filtering, and source and asset coverage.
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 sentiment
Does any sentiment vendor prove its signal predicts price?
One, partially, and not for crypto. This was tested by looking rather than assumed: The Tie's /research and /resources return HTTP 404 and its live insights index carries roughly a hundred items - funding briefs, acquisitions, event recaps, webinars - none reporting a correlation, hit rate or accuracy figure. Santiment makes no predictive claim at all. Kaito publishes a one-sentence definition of mindshare and no methodology page. alternative.me states two assumptions and validates neither. cookie.fun documents features only, and Augmento's current site contains no instance of "research", "correlation", "Spearman" or "study". That leaves LunarCrush's Earnings Social Atlas, which is real, checkable, and about US equity earnings prints. StockGeist is the near-miss: its evidence page promises "evidence that StockGeist has correctly forecast market fluctuations", and its AYTU case study describes social activity that "followed this announcement immediately" after a company press release - the signal trailing the news, offered as forecasting, with no sample, no counterfactual and no accuracy figure.
How much of the feed is bots?
No vendor here says. Five assert filtering - LunarCrush "removes automated posts, duplicate-network activity, and low-quality content", Kaito "extensively leverages LLM to exclude low-effort content including spams", The Tie offers "Bot and spam detection to ensure clean signal", Santiment applies a score threshold, and cookie.fun flags "signs of botted likes or views" - and not one states what fraction of ingested posts the filter removes, what it catches, or what it misses. Searching LunarCrush's entire shipped JavaScript bundle for a removal percentage, a removed count or a filtered-out figure returned none. Two vendors do ship a proxy you can compute yourself: LunarCrush exposes spam as a queryable time-series metric to "gauge manipulation risk", and The Tie exposes tweet_unique_sources_percent. A proxy you compute is not a disclosed removal rate, but it beats an assertion.
Is there a conflict of interest to watch for?
At one vendor, yes, and it is disclosed rather than hidden. The Tie scores sentiment on tokens while The Tie Capital LLC - per its own disclosure dated 28 May 2026 - "is a broker-dealer registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission" and a "member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority", providing "private capital raises, mergers and acquisitions advisory" to clients in the digital asset industry. The disclosure covers banking risks and does not address information barriers between the bank and the sentiment feed. That is not an accusation; it is a question a buyer should ask before treating the feed as neutral.
Reviewed10 November 2026Method4 criteriaCategorysentiment_analytics
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