About CryptoMarkets.tools
A catalogue of the software and data that people use to manage their own money — what it costs, what the free tier allows and what it actually covers, in the same blocks on every card.
What is catalogued
6 categories, each opened once there was enough in it to be worth reading end to end:
- Crypto Market Data APIs — Price, order-book, trade and reference APIs for people who write their own code.
- On-chain Analytics Platforms — What the chains themselves say — wallets, flows, protocol metrics and the queries behind them.
- Crypto Charting Platforms & Libraries — Chart and screen the market from a product — and what draws the candles inside one you ship.
- Crypto Trading Terminals — One front-end over several venues: order entry, order flow and the position behind it.
- Crypto Trading Bots & Execution SDKs — Automation that keeps running after you close the laptop — and the libraries it is built on.
- Backtesting & Research Libraries — Simulate a strategy against real fills, fees and funding, and find out whether the edge survives.
Every card in every category also sits in one flat, filterable list of all tools; the ones that speak MCP are collected separately under tools with MCP.
A category answers “what is this bought for”. The collections cut the same catalogue the other way, by a property that runs across every category — open source, self-hosted, priced on request, solana, options, defi — so a reader who has already decided how a tool must run can start there instead. A card’s home stays its category; a collection is a selection, not a second address.
Some products are deliberately not catalogued at all, and what to use instead is for the reader holding one of them: 10 pages on products that shut down, priced themselves out of reach, or closed the terms you were building on, each listing what in here replaces it.
And some of what stops a reader is not a product at all. The guides are 8 reference pages on how the industry works — what an exchange charges for its own prices, who owns the identifier on a security, what an index licence covers — each claim carrying the document it came from. They are corrected in place rather than dated, and they recommend nothing.
Where the boundary runs
By product type, not audience. Inside: programs, data, APIs, libraries. Outside: exchanges themselves, wallets, custody, and anything sold as signals, calls or managed allocation. That is a deliberate choice to stay out of advice and stay in tools — and a product you cannot evaluate without first funding an account on one venue is a product with nothing to put in the price field.
The unit is a product, not a company. One vendor can appear more than once — a web terminal and the API behind it have different prices, different buyers and different competitors, so each gets its own card rather than one entry that describes neither.
How a card is made
Every card fills in the same blocks, whatever its category, and each block carries its own verification date — pricing goes stale in weeks, asset coverage in years. A field nobody checked is left blank rather than guessed. The methodology page covers what tested hands-on means here and how sponsorship and affiliate links are handled; the affiliate disclosure covers the links themselves.
Three catalogues, one author
The same person builds two more catalogues on the same plan, for two markets this one does not cover: StockMarketStack for stock-market software and data, and PredictionMarkets.tools for prediction markets and event contracts.
They are separate sites rather than sections of one because the reader is different. What decides a purchase here is funding rates, exchange terms and whether a backtester knows what a perpetual is; on the equities side it is exchange display fees, adjusted closes and survivorship bias. A card written to serve both would answer neither well, and a listing holding both would be a listing nobody can scan.
A handful of products are bought for two of those markets, and those cards say so and link across: the TradingView card here is about crypto coverage, and points at the equities one for the part it does not cover. Nothing else is shared between the three sites except the software that renders them.