The score, by dimension
- the same for all 7
- #7 of 7 · best 15.5
- the same for all 7
- the same for all 7
- the same for all 7
Tick: the best in this ranking · Methodology v2026.11.1
CoinDesk Data API
Exchange-aggregated market data API
#7 of all 7 worldwide57
- Rank
- #7 of all 7 worldwidere-runs: scores 55–59 and stays #7
- Your cost
- Not priced on this basis
- Evidence
- High4 of 4 criteria sourced
- Licence
- No MiCA record on file
- Freshness
- Read September 2026checked · re-read in progress
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The verdict
CoinDesk Data API is #7 of 7 published market-data APIs; it scores 8/10 on coverage and granularity, where the category best is 9. Its widest gap is cost at production volume: 1/10, where Kaiko scores 5. Choose Kaiko if cost at production volume matters most.
Is CoinDesk Data API right for you?
Suits you if
- Coverage and documented granularity8/10; the category best is 9
Look elsewhere if
- Published cost at production call volume1/10 here; Kaiko scores 5
- What the free tier actually survives0/10 here; Messari API scores 5
Not yet tested for your country. Markets it lists: Global.
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best market-data API shows where it lands for you.
What will CoinDesk Data API cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Transactions per year
- 1k
How safe is CoinDesk Data API?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Entity: not verified. No hand-confirmed record on file ties CoinDesk Data API to the company that runs it, so this page cannot say which other products that company operates. Read the legal entity in its terms before you deposit. How we read the evidence
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Compare all 4- 4KaikoIf cost at production volume matters most: 513 points above · stronger on cost at production volume (5 against 1)70$12,000 a year · read
- 5Messari APIIf entry tier durability matters most: 59 points above · stronger on entry tier durability (5 against 0)66
- 6Dune APIIf cost at production volume matters most: 44 points above · stronger on cost at production volume (4 against 1)61
Provider at a glance
- Category
- Market-Data APIs
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- developers.coindesk.com
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 57 out of 100 under methodology 2026.11.1, from the evidence read in September 2026.
For your setup
Find out if CoinDesk Data API fits you
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Why this rank
Why CoinDesk Data API ranks #7
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (9.3 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
301+0.965.09#7/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10283+2.694.04#5/7
Third party
Third party · read 2026-11-10200+0.005.07#7/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10228+5.637.09#2/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−4behind Dune API, #6 of all 7 worldwide, on the published score
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 55–59 and stays #7
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of CoinDesk Data API’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Published cost at production call volume 1 → 4 on its ladder · passes Dune API+362#7 → #6
Redistribution and licensing rights 3 → 6 on its ladder · passes Dune API+362#7 → #6
What the free tier actually survives 0 → 4 on its ladder · passes Dune API+462#7 → #6
Smallest climb: published cost at production call volume 1 → 4 passes Dune API, #6.
Strengths
2 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Coverage and documented granularity — 8/10, category best 9/10
Tradeoffs
2 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Published cost at production call volume — 1/10 against a category best of 9/10
- What the free tier actually survives — 0/10 against a category best of 7/10
Record watch-outs
- This is the same product a buyer will find in years of tutorials under the CryptoCompare and CCData names — developers.ccdata.io/pricing returns HTTP 301 Moved Permanently to developers.coindesk.com/pricing (verified 2026-08-06) — but neither the free tier nor any published pricing survived the rebrand. Any code sample, blog post or Stack Overflow answer referencing a free CryptoCompare key stopped returning data on 2026-05-21, and there is no published price to replace it with.
Competitive position
How CoinDesk Data API places on each criterion
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Against the leader
79 vs 57 · gap 22.0Why CoinMarketCap API ranks above CoinDesk Data API
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 22.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisCoinMarketCap APIGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight7.015.5−22.1, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisCoinMarketCap APIPoints
Published cost at production call volume · w3018−6.72, worse
Redistribution and licensing rights · w2834−0.90, worse
What the free tier actually survives · w2007−4.48, worse
Coverage and documented granularity · w2287+0.70, better
Net5779−22.0
Your scenario
CoinDesk Data API is not priced for this scenario
The cheapest published tier that covers your usage. List price before any discount; add-ons priced separately are excluded. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Transactions per year · your input1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 10 November 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDTypical costNot statedFewer than 5 priced rows: no typical cost is named · 4 of 7 rows priced
Lowest fee, priced rows$0.00 · Coinpaprika APIDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filterCompare with Coinpaprika API
3 of 7 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the typical, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 27 September 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessHoldsrank #7 across every one-point re-run
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 10 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 27 September 2026.
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Published cost at production call volumestrength 1 · weight 30Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Redistribution and licensing rightsstrength 3 · weight 28Report an errorThird-party page10 November 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.What the free tier actually survivesstrength 0 · weight 20Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Coverage and documented granularitystrength 8 · weight 22Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.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%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Fetched 10 November 2026. NO PRICE IS PUBLISHED AT ANY TIER, and this was verified rather than inferred: developers.coindesk.com/pricing returns HTTP 200 (redirecting to /pricing/) with a 7,680-byte Nuxt application shell carrying data-ssr="false", whose body contains no plan name, no price and no quota — stripping tags from the served markup yields an empty string and the character "$" does not occur anywhere in the file; developers.ccdata.io/pricing still redirects to the same shell. A client without JavaScript receives a pricing page with no pricing on it. The free tier no longer exists. CoinDesk's own announcement (published 17 April 2026) still states: "As of May 21, 2026 , we will be retiring our free API tier and accounts without a subscription will no longer have API access." and "If your account does not have an API subscription applied, after May 21,2026, your current access will stop returning data." The only published route to a number is the homepage's "Book a call with our team to trial our data and find out more about our market-leading solutions." NORMALISATION (10 November 2026): impossible. No published figure exists to convert. This is the finding, not a gap in research.CoinDesk Data API — official pricing page ↗ · 10 November 2026
- Prices published in
- USDCoinDesk Data API — official pricing page ↗ · 10 November 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Multi-chain
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- CoinDesk's Terms of Use (https://
www .coindesk .com /terms, "Effective Date: October 30, 2026"), read 10 November 2026 by hand in a browser, hand data subscribers to a separate contract: "IF YOU SUBSCRIBE TO CERTAIN DATA SERVICES THE PROVISION THEREOF SHALL NOT BE GOVERNED BY THESE TERMS AND SHALL INSTEAD BE GOVERNED BY THE TERMS LOCATED HERE: https:// data .coindesk .com /data-contract". That contract, CoinDesk Data's "Data Supply Terms and Conditions" ("Version July 2025", the PDF offered on that page), read the same day, names no country, region or sanctions list; it "shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales".
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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Reviewed Methodology v2026.11.1
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The published cadence is 45 days; this page's next read was due on 11 November 2026.How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category 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.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
9 methodology entries
- 27 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.11.1Score 57, #7 of 7. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
- 16 September 2026
2026.09.15Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
Methodology 2026.11.1, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt market_data_apis:coindesk_data_api:2026.11.1:0b86b656e1b2
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