The score, by dimension
- the same for all 7
- #4 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
Kaiko
Institutional market data and reference rates
#4 of all 7 worldwide70
- Rank
- #4 of all 7 worldwidere-runs: scores 68–72 and stays #4
- Your cost
- $12,000 a year$1000 monthly price · read
- 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
Kaiko is #4 of 7 published market-data APIs; it scores 9/10 on coverage and granularity, the category best. Its widest gap is cost at production volume: 5/10, where Coinpaprika API scores 9. Choose Coinpaprika API if cost at production volume matters most.
Is Kaiko right for you?
Suits you if
- Coverage and documented granularity9/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if
- Published cost at production call volume5/10 here; Coinpaprika API scores 9
- What the free tier actually survives2/10 here; CoinGecko API scores 6
Not yet tested for your country. Markets it lists: Global.
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 Kaiko cost you?
$12,000 your cost/yr
- Transactions per year
- 1k
- Monthly price
- $1000
How safe is Kaiko?
- 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 Kaiko 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- 2CoinGecko APIIf entry tier durability matters most: 67 points above · stronger on entry tier durability (6 against 2)77$0.00 a year · read
- 3Coinpaprika APIIf cost at production volume matters most: 96 points above · stronger on cost at production volume (9 against 5)76$0.00 a year · read
- 5Messari APIIf entry tier durability matters most: 54 points below · stronger on entry tier durability (5 against 2)66no verified pricing
Provider at a glance
- Category
- Market-Data APIs
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- kaiko.com
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 70 out of 100 under methodology 2026.11.1, from the evidence read in September 2026.
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Find out if Kaiko fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Kaiko 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 Kaiko ranks #4
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (16.0 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 2 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
305+4.805.09#4/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10284+3.584.04#1/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10202+1.285.07#5/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10229+6.347.09#1/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−6behind Coinpaprika API, #3 of all 7 worldwide, on the published score
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 68–72 and stays #4
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 Kaiko’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 5 → 9 on its ladder · passes Coinpaprika API+477#4 → #2
Redistribution and licensing rights 4 → 8 on its ladder · passes Coinpaprika API+477#4 → #3
What the free tier actually survives 2 → 8 on its ladder · passes Coinpaprika API+677#4 → #2
Published cost at production call volume 5 → 2 on its ladder · Messari API passes it−364#4 → #5
Redistribution and licensing rights 4 → 1 on its ladder · Messari API passes it−365#4 → #5
Coverage and documented granularity 9 → 6 on its ladder · Messari API passes it−366#4 → #5
Smallest climb: published cost at production call volume 5 → 9 passes Coinpaprika API, #3.
Strengths
2 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Coverage and documented granularity — 9/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
2 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Published cost at production call volume — 5/10 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
- Two gaps sit behind the four published numbers. The figures are floors with an open ceiling and no unit attached — no tier publishes a call quota, rate limit or the variable that drives the uplift, so "From $1,000 per month." tells you the minimum and nothing about your bill. And the headline "History since 2010" does not cover the Level 2 data you would pay $2,000-$2,500/month for: raw order book snapshots start 2015, best bids and asks December 2022, all bids and asks August 2023, and market depth is a "1-month rolling history". Separately, the BMR benchmark-administrator status that justifies buying Kaiko for valuation or index use is vendor-stated and was not independently confirmed here.
Competitive position
How Kaiko 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 70 · gap 9.0Why CoinMarketCap API ranks above Kaiko
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 9.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisCoinMarketCap APIGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight12.015.5−9.1, 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 · w3058−2.88, worse
What the free tier actually survives · w2027−3.20, worse
Coverage and documented granularity · w2297+1.41, better
Net7079−9.0
Your scenario
What Kaiko costs on your 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
Monthly price · published rate$1000
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.
$12,000
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 APIKaiko costs +$12,000 more · 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 #4 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 5 · 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 4 · weight 28Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 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 9 · 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 the Kaiko Level 1 & Level 2 Data product page (HTTP 200) and confirmed in the raw served HTML; https://
www .kaiko .com /products /market-data still redirects to this page. Four tiers with published floors, verbatim and unchanged from 2026-08-06: "Level 1 Aggregations Tier From $1,000 per month."; "Level 1 Tick-Level Tier From $1,500 per month."; "Level 2 Aggregations Tier From $2,000 per month."; "Level 2 Tick-Level Tier From $2,500 per month." A separate Pricing and Licenses page (https:// www .kaiko .com /about-kaiko /pricing-and-contracts, HTTP 200) states what drives the uplift without pricing it: "Kaiko creates custom data plans for our enterprise clients dependent on: number of assets/instruments, data type, granularity, historical vs. live access, and usage. Contact us to learn more or request a quote." and links a standard data licensing agreement ("See Standard Terms") at https:// www .kaiko .com /terms. NORMALISATION (10 November 2026): not computable to a per-call unit. Kaiko publishes no call quota, credit allowance or requests-per-minute figure against any tier, so the price cannot be converted to cost per 1,000,000 calls. What the page does establish is a hard floor (worked example): the entry price for tick-level Level 1 data is $1,500/month, 7.5x Coinpaprika Pro ($199) — before any uplift implied by the word "From".Kaiko — official pricing page ↗ · 10 November 2026 - Prices published in
- USDKaiko — 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
- Kaiko standard data licensing agreement (https://
www .kaiko .com /terms, the "Standard Terms" linked from the Pricing and Licenses page), read 2026-11-10: "8.4 Each Party represents and warrants that neither it nor any of its subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates, or any other person acting on its behalf is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("OFAC") or any similar sanctions imposed by the European Union, United Nations, or other applicable authorities." The agreement names no country or region.
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 70, #4 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:kaiko:2026.11.1:0b86b656e1b2
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