At a glance
Decision summary
- Best for
- Asset price and ranking lookups
- Watch out for
- Raw on-chain state reads
- Auth
- API key
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Agent actionability
- Not actionable
- PubFi gateway
- PubFi gateway not routeable yet
- Last verified
CoinMarketCap API
CoinMarketCap API is tracked as a market data source for multichain coverage. Crypto market data API for asset prices, market capitalization, rankings, and metadata
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Best fit and tradeoffs
Best for
- Asset price and ranking lookups
- Applications that need crypto market capitalization context
- They need rankings, market capitalization context, and broad asset metadata.
- They want a familiar market-data taxonomy for consumer or analytics products.
- They are comparing CoinMarketCap with CoinGecko on plan limits and dataset fit.
Watchouts
- Raw on-chain state reads
- RPC endpoint hosting
- Ranking and market-cap familiarity does not answer institutional freshness or exchange-depth requirements.
- Quota limits are plan-specific and should be cited from official commercial evidence.
- Teams should check licensing and redistribution constraints before using market data in user-facing products.
Why teams choose it
CoinMarketCap API is a crypto market data API for asset prices, market capitalization, rankings, and metadata. Discovery tracks it as a multichain market-data source and a direct comparison partner for CoinGecko.
Its practical value is familiar ranking and market-cap taxonomy. Teams should use it when those concepts are central to the product, while checking official quota and plan limits before assuming it fits high-frequency agent workflows.
Capability summaries
CoinMarketCap API market data coverage
- Category
- Market data
- Public status
- Requested
- Auth requirement
- API key
- Procurement state
- Free Requires Auth
- Coverage
- Multichain
- Output contracts
- Market Data Snapshot
Quick-start entry
GET
Endpoint path not listed- Style
- REST
- Language
- HTTP
- Method
- GET
- Path
- Not listed
- Requires auth
- Yes
- Provider docs
- Documentation
PubFi gateway status
PubFi gateway not routeable yet
This Discovery source is available for source evaluation and comparison, but PubFi does not publish a production-callable gateway route for it yet. Use this page to compare the provider, signal demand, or start a procurement/integration review instead of attempting a PubFi gateway call.
- PubFi gateway call
- Not published for this source
- Direct gateway examples
- Not available
- Next step
- Request integration or start supplier procurement review
- Do not infer a PubFi gateway path from this Discovery page.
- Use the official provider docs for direct provider integration until a PubFi readiness entry marks this source gateway_available.
- Use the Discovery request or demand-signal CTA to register integration interest with PubFi.
- Supplier procurement, paid-plan approval, and upstream credential setup require explicit review before PubFi can route the source.
Access, pricing, and protocol metadata
Access and pricing
- Auth methods
- API key
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Free tier
- Basic plan includes 15K call credits/month and 50 requests/minute.
- Starting price
- $29 / month
- Pricing URL
- Official pricing
- Free rate limit
- Basic 50 requests/minute
- Paid rate limit
- Hobbyist 300, Startup 600, Standard 750, Professional 1200, Enterprise 1600+ requests/minute
Protocols and outputs
- Data types
- Prices, Market Cap, Rankings, Asset Metadata
- Protocols
- REST
- REST support
- Yes
- GraphQL support
- Not listed
- WebSocket support
- Not listed
- Streaming support
- Not listed
- Webhook support
- Not listed
- Feature flags
- Not listed
- SDKs
- Not listed
Provider and review status
- Documentation
- Provider docs
- Doc quality score
- Not listed
- Status page
- Not listed
- Public fixture status
- Current
- Raw claim-safe status
- Public source profile
- Page tier
- Tier 1
Implementation notes
Rate limits
Use Basic, Hobbyist, Startup, Standard, Professional, and Enterprise request-minute labels when planning usage.
Coverage
Distinguish market ranking and metadata needs from DeFi protocol metrics or order-book analytics.
Pricing
Keep plan comparisons tied to public pricing evidence because call credits and rate limits vary by tier.
Use case candidates
- Add market-cap rankings to research workflows
- Normalize asset price context for portfolio views
Comparison snapshot
CoinMarketCap is the stronger fit when ranking and market-cap context are the product language. CoinGecko is often the broader developer benchmark, while Kaiko and Amberdata fit more specialized data needs.
PubFi friction reduction
Quota Planning
- Source friction
- The fixture records plan-specific call credits and requests-per-minute values for CoinMarketCap API.
- PubFi relief
- Discovery emits plan labels in exports instead of turning them into unsupported universal throughput claims.
Official source links
Agent-readable resources
Alternatives and hubs
FAQ
What is CoinMarketCap API used for?
CoinMarketCap API is a candidate source for crypto prices, market capitalization, rankings, and asset metadata.