The score, by dimension
- the same for all 7
- #6 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
Dune API
SQL query API over blockchain data
#6 of all 7 worldwide61
- Rank
- #6 of all 7 worldwidere-runs: scores 59–63 and stays #6
- 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
Dune API is #6 of 7 published market-data APIs; it scores 4/10 on cost at production volume, where the category best is 9. Its widest gap is coverage and granularity: 4/10, where Kaiko scores 9. Choose Kaiko if coverage and granularity matters most.
Is Dune API right for you?
Look elsewhere if
- Published cost at production call volume4/10 here; Kaiko scores 5
- Coverage and documented granularity4/10 here; Kaiko scores 9
- What the free tier actually survives2/10 here; Messari API scores 5
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to test where you can use it.
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 Dune API cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Transactions per year
- 1k
How safe is Dune API?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
If it doesn’t fit, choose
Compare all 4- 4KaikoIf coverage and granularity matters most: 99 points above · stronger on coverage and granularity (9 against 4)70$12,000 a year · read
- 5Messari APIIf entry tier durability matters most: 55 points above · stronger on entry tier durability (5 against 2)66
- 7CoinDesk Data APIIf coverage and granularity matters most: 84 points below · stronger on coverage and granularity (8 against 4)57
Provider at a glance
- Category
- Market-Data APIs
- Entity
- All 2 Dune products
- Official website
- dune.com
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 61 out of 100 under methodology 2026.11.1, from the evidence read in September 2026.
For your setup
Find out if Dune API fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Dune API lands for you, which criteria your answers weight up, and which stated needs the record does or does not meet. The published rank stays beside it.
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Why this rank
Why Dune API ranks #6
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (11.5 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
304+3.845.09#5/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-10-28284+3.584.04#1/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-09-27202+1.285.07#5/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10224+2.827.09#7/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−5behind Messari API, #5 of all 7 worldwide, on the published score
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 59–63 and stays #6
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 Dune 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 4 → 7 on its ladder · passes Messari API+367#6 → #5
Redistribution and licensing rights 4 → 7 on its ladder · passes Messari API+367#6 → #5
What the free tier actually survives 2 → 6 on its ladder · passes Messari API+466#6 → #5
Coverage and documented granularity 4 → 8 on its ladder · passes Messari API+467#6 → #5
Published cost at production call volume 4 → 1 on its ladder · CoinDesk Data API passes it−356#6 → #7
Redistribution and licensing rights 4 → 1 on its ladder · CoinDesk Data API passes it−356#6 → #7
Coverage and documented granularity 4 → 0 on its ladder · CoinDesk Data API passes it−456#6 → #7
Smallest climb: published cost at production call volume 4 → 7 passes Messari API, #5.
Strengths
1 from the score dataWhere it leads
Tradeoffs
3 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Published cost at production call volume — 4/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Coverage and documented granularity — 4/10 against a category best of 9/10
- What the free tier actually survives — 2/10 against a category best of 7/10
Record watch-outs
- Dune is not priced per API call and is not a cross-venue market-data feed, so both its cost and its coverage are non-comparable to the rest of this pool. Credits meter compute — "Credits are consumed proportionally to the actual compute resources your queries use" — so one expensive query can consume what a thousand cheap ones would, unused credits "do not rollover to the next month", and credits cannot be bought in bulk. Set the spend limit before you connect anything automated. The terms that govern the API are the SQL API Service Addendum, not the General Terms, and they supersede them — read dune.com/sql-api-terms, which bars any use that could "affect Dune's ability to realize revenue in connection with the Service".
Competitive position
How Dune 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 61 · gap 18.0Why CoinMarketCap API ranks above Dune 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 18.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisCoinMarketCap APIGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight8.615.5−17.9, 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 · w3048−3.84, worse
What the free tier actually survives · w2027−3.20, worse
Coverage and documented granularity · w2247−2.11, worse
Net6179−18.0
Your scenario
Dune 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 27 September 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 #6 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 4 · weight 30Report an errorProvider's own page28 October 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Redistribution and licensing rightsstrength 4 · weight 28Report an errorProvider's own page27 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.What the free tier actually survivesstrength 2 · 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 4 · 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 from Dune's pricing FAQ documentation (the .md rendering, HTTP 200). CHANGED since 2026-10-28: the FAQ no longer prints any dollar rate. The per-credit extra-usage rates quoted then for the Analyst and Plus plans are gone; the page now says "On paid plans, usage beyond your included monthly credits is billed at your plan's extra credit rate, up to your configured extra credit limit." and points to the pricing page for current self-serve plans. That page, dune.com/pricing, returned HTTP 403 (cf-mitigated: challenge) to plain curl on 10 November 2026, and the two other billing pages in the docs print no dollar figure either, so no plan price and no per-credit rate is stated here. The trial is shorter: "New accounts receive a 7-day trial with Plus plan features and 2,500 total credits." (it was 14 days on 28 October 2026). Still stated: "No. Free access is view-only and does not include monthly credits or pay-as-you-go usage.", "Free accounts and trials cannot buy extra credits.", "Free access after the trial is view-only and does not include API access." and "Remaining credits at the end of a billing cycle do not rollover to the next month." NORMALISATION (10 November 2026): not computable. A Dune credit meters compute and data volume, not API calls — "Credits are consumed proportionally to the actual compute resources your queries use-simple queries cost fewer credits while complex ones use more." — and no dollar rate per credit is on any page that could be read today.Dune API — official page at docs.dune.com ↗ · 27 September 2026
- Prices published in
- USDDune API — official page at docs.dune.com ↗ · 27 September 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
- Not published
Legal entity on file: Dune, placed in 2 products. Only confirmed entities are shown; 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
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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 61, #6 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:dune_api:2026.11.1:0b86b656e1b2
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