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Kaiko

Kaiko is tracked as a market data source for multichain coverage. Institutional crypto market data provider for trades, order books, reference rates, and exchange analytics

Indexed onlyIntegration requested
Market dataMultichain
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At a glance

Decision summary

Best for
Institutional market data evaluation
Watch out for
No-auth public market snapshots
Auth
API key
Pricing
Contact sales
Agent actionability
Not actionable
PubFi gateway
PubFi gateway not routeable yet
Last verified

Provider-sourced facts

Primary coverage
Institutional crypto trades, order books, reference rates, and exchange analytics Source
Fixture coverage
Market data coverage for the multichain fixture target Source

Best fit and tradeoffs

Best for

  • Institutional market data evaluation
  • Trade and order book analytics workflows
  • They need institutional market data such as trades, order books, reference rates, or exchange analytics.
  • They are evaluating paid data feeds rather than broad free market metadata.
  • They need a contrast against CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, or CryptoCompare for deeper market data.

Watchouts

  • No-auth public market snapshots
  • RPC infrastructure workloads
  • The capability state requires paid approval, so Discovery must not imply live PubFi access or automatic procurement.
  • Commercial status is contact-sales, which blocks public price and quota projections.
  • Kaiko can be overkill for products that only need broad asset prices or simple market-cap context.

Why teams choose it

Kaiko is an institutional crypto market data provider focused on trades, order books, reference rates, and exchange analytics. Discovery tracks it as multichain market data with a paid-requires-approval capability state.

Kaiko is a strong fit when market-data quality, institutional feeds, and exchange microstructure matter more than broad retail metadata. The page must keep procurement and paid-access language explicit because the fixture does not authorize live use.

Capability summaries

Institutional market data feed

Current
Category
Market data
Public status
Requested
Auth requirement
Paid Account
Procurement state
Paid Requires Approval
Coverage
Multichain
Output contracts
Market Data Snapshot

Quick-start entry

GETEndpoint 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

Demand or roadmap interest exists for this integration, 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
Contact sales
Free tier
Contact sales
Starting price
Contact sales
Free rate limit
Contact sales
Paid rate limit
Contact sales

Protocols and outputs

Data types
Trades, Order Books, Reference Rates, Exchange Analytics
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
Provider status
Public fixture status
Current
Raw claim-safe status
Integration requested
Page tier
Tier 2

Implementation notes

Pricing

High

Treat Kaiko as paid and contact-sales scoped; do not publish a starting price or flat quota without official public evidence.

Coverage

Medium

Define whether the product needs trades, order books, reference rates, or analytics before comparing Kaiko with broader market-data APIs.

Gotcha

High

Paid-requires-approval capability state means route planning should create review work rather than a callable route assumption.

Use case candidates

  • Compare institutional exchange data coverage
  • Evaluate paid market feeds before provider selection

Comparison snapshot

Kaiko is the institutional market-data candidate in the seed catalog. CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap are better for broad asset metadata, while Amberdata is the closer comparison when institutional market and DeFi datasets both matter.

PubFi friction reduction

Paid Approval

Source friction
The capability fixture marks Kaiko procurement as paid_requires_approval and commercial metadata as contact_sales.
PubFi relief
Discovery keeps Kaiko request/review language separate from callable gateway claims.

FAQ

What is Kaiko used for?

Kaiko is a candidate source for institutional crypto market data such as trades, order books, reference rates, and exchange analytics.