Crypto market data API pricing

Four plans plus pay-per-call over x402. Every plan reads the same market across nine spot venues; what changes is how far back you can look, how fine the windows are, how many columns you can query and how much you can pull. The paid product starts at $29 a month, below the $50 floor most buyers name for order-book data. Agents can skip plans entirely and pay per call, with no account or API key. Building a tool that compares vendors on a buyer's behalf? The same pricing is available machine-readable at /pricing.md.

Pricing

Every plan reads the same market

What changes is how far back you can look, how fine the windows are, how many columns you can query, how much you can pull at once, and how much you can ask the agent.

Free
$0/ month
  • Binance, MEXC and Gate
  • Daily granularity, 2-week window
  • 39 columns per pair
  • Dashboard access
  • A taste of the agent
Pro
$29/ month
$290 / year
  • All 9 venues
  • Hourly granularity, 3-month window
  • 73 columns per pair
  • REST API and MCP connector
  • Agent included
THE FULL PRODUCT
Ultra
$399/ month
$3,990 / year
  • Everything in Max
  • Full archive, 500M rows a month
  • 10 seats
  • Scheduled delivery
  • 20× Pro's agent usage
Pay per call
$0.005/ call
  • No account, no API key
  • Paid in USDC on Base over HTTP 402
  • All 120 columns, up to 100 rows a call
  • 90-day window

History windows are entitlements, not retention. The archive is kept forever. CSV export, the CLI and the agent skill are on every plan, Free included. While BlackForge is in private beta, every plan starts with a request for access.

Where $29 sits among the alternatives

Buyers in this category repeatedly name a $50 to $300 a month ceiling for order-book data. BlackForge Pro is $29, under the floor of that band, and Max is $99 for every column. Here are published entry prices for comparable tools, each checked against the vendor's live pricing page. This is a price comparison, not a ranking: several of these do different jobs, and the honest head-to-heads say where each one wins.

Published entry prices for crypto market-data tools
ToolEntry priceOrder book?Checked
BlackForge Pro$29/moYes, computed, nine venues2026-08-13
CoinMarketCap (Builder)$29/mo (free tier exists)No2026-08-13
Coinglass (Hobbyist)$29/mo, personal-use onlyAggregated2026-08-13
CoinGecko (Basic)$35/mo ($29 annual)No2026-08-13
Laevitas (Premium)$50/moDerivatives-first2026-08-13
CoinAPI (Startup)$79/moYes, raw L22026-08-12
Tardis.dev (Spot)$450/mo ($300 min order)Yes, raw historical2026-08-13
Kaiko / AmberdataFive-figure annual, sales-quotedYes, raw institutional2026-08-12

Prices marked 2026-08-13 were re-verified on the vendor's live pricing page that day. CoinAPI and Kaiko/Amberdata are marked 2026-08-12 from the last live check, because their pages block automated fetches; Kaiko is sales-quoted with no public number. Coinglass Hobbyist and Startup are personal-use only, with commercial rights from $299. See the Kaiko, Tardis and Coinglass alternatives pages for the full picture.

See it on the pairs you actually trade

Tell us which exchanges and pairs you watch. We open a dashboard with your history already loaded. Private beta, no card.

9 exchanges · ~11,800 pairs · 120 columns per pair · 5-minute windows

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