# What to use instead of Skew

Coinbase closed skew.com on 25 September 2022 and moved it inside Coinbase Prime. What in this catalogue draws the derivatives screens it drew.

*https://cryptomarkets.tools/alternatives/skew*

## The subject

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Product | Skew |
| Status | retired |
| Stopped serving | 2022-09-25 |
| Website | https://skew.com |
| Category | Crypto Charting Platforms & Libraries |

The London derivatives analytics platform — 350-plus real-time charts of bitcoin and ether spot, futures and options, on a seat subscription, with the CSV behind each chart.

## Replacements

*Ordered by how much of the original’s job each one covers, closest first. Paid placement does not affect this order.*

1. [Laevitas](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/laevitas-platform.md) — The closest single screen — option chains, Greeks, a vol surface and term structure next to funding and liquidations. Free to look at, 50 dollars to keep.
2. [CoinGlass](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinglass-web.md) — The futures half in a browser for nothing — open interest, funding, liquidation heatmaps and exchange balances, with more venues than options depth.
3. [Coinalyze](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinalyze.md) — The same futures metrics as one sortable table over sixteen venues — open interest, funding, basis, liquidations — free, with a free API behind it.
4. [Hyblock Capital](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/hyblock-capital.md) — The seat-priced version of the job — order-book and liquidation metrics, screeners, rankmaps and a backtest lab, at 99 or 499 dollars a month.
5. [Laevitas API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/laevitas.md) — For people who used the Data Download rather than the dashboards — the same vendor's Greeks, vol surface and funding over REST, WebSocket or MCP.
6. [Amberdata Market Data API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/amberdata.md) — The institutional end — spot, futures and options data sold per exchange and per market, for a desk that was buying seats rather than reading charts.

## The product

Skew was a derivatives analytics platform, founded in London in 2018 and sold under the name
skewAnalytics. The pitch on its own home page was "leading real-time analytics for cryptocurrency
markets — Bitcoin and Ethereum Spot, Futures, Options, and more", and the product behind it was a
dashboard builder: 350-plus charts to choose from, custom dashboards, a set of prepared market-data
dashboards, and a Data Download that handed you the CSV behind any chart. By the end the site
claimed 9,500 dashboards created. It was where a research note's chart of aggregate [open
interest](https://cryptomarkets.tools/glossary/open-interest) or the bitcoin volatility term structure usually came from.

It was never cheap and, at the end, never free. The final pricing was 279 dollars a month for one
seat, 558 for two, 159 for each additional seat, and the page said the platform was for corporates
only, subject to an eligibility check.

Coinbase bought the company in 2021. The cleanest record of that is Coinbase's own Form 10-Q for
the quarter ended 30 June 2021, filed on 11 August 2021, which says plainly: "In May, Coinbase
acquired Skew LTD (Skew), a leading institutional data and analytics platform." The same filing
records the consideration — "In May 2021, we issued 95,628 shares of our Class A common stock to 20
accredited investors in connection with our acquisition of Skew."

The end came fourteen months later. On **25 July 2022** Skew posted "Continuing our journey with
Coinbase Prime", and the operative sentence is one line: "With the recent launch of Prime Analytics,
skew will no longer be available as a stand alone platform after September 25th, 2022." Existing
monthly memberships renewed through 25 August 2022 and then expired at the next renewal. Users were
pointed at Coinbase Prime Analytics, "powered by skew technology", free with a Coinbase Prime
account — which is an institutional brokerage account, not a login to a chart site.

Four years on the shutdown is thorough. Checked on **21 September 2026**: `skew.com` resolves to a
single address, but port 443 never answers and the connection times out; port 80 returns a
MarkMonitor "registered and protected" holding page; `api.skew.com` has no DNS record at all. The
registry lists MarkMonitor as registrar with the delete, transfer and update locks set. That is a
large company sitting on a brand, not a product with a maintenance page.

Two notes on sourcing. The farewell post and the home-page banner were read from Internet Archive
captures taken on 18 August 2022 and 23 September 2022, because the live host now returns a 404 for
every path under it. The acquisition wording is from the SEC filing rather than from the press
release, because the filing is the version Coinbase had to stand behind.

## What to use instead

**The awkward part first — nothing here is skew, and two of its four pieces are simply gone.** The
aggregated cross-venue series computed to one methodology, and the single subscription that covered
futures *and* options *and* the underlying CSV, do not exist in this catalogue at any price. What
does exist is the two halves, sold separately, mostly by companies with a different reader in mind.

**If what you watched was the options screens.** [Laevitas](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/laevitas-platform) is the closest
thing on this list and the reason it is first: option chains, Greeks, term structure and a
calibrated volatility surface, next to funding and liquidations, with a multi-leg builder and an
options backtester on top. It is free to look at and 50 dollars a month to keep a layout, which is
roughly a fifth of a skew seat. The venue set is narrow — Deribit, OKX, Bybit and Hyperliquid —
which is less a limitation of the product than a fact about where crypto options actually trade.
[SignalPlus](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/signalplus) is the other free
options screen worth knowing about; it is built as a trading terminal with a vol lab attached rather
than as an analytics site, so the greeks book expects you to connect an exchange.

**If what you watched was the futures dashboards.** [CoinGlass](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinglass-web) is the default
answer and costs nothing — open interest, [funding](https://cryptomarkets.tools/glossary/funding-rate), liquidation heatmaps,
long/short ratios and exchange balances across roughly thirty futures venues, in a browser, with a
28-dollar Prime tier for the rest. [Coinalyze](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinalyze) does the same job in a different
shape: sixteen venues as one sortable table of open interest, funding, basis and liquidations, with
custom metrics and a free API, which makes it the better fit if what you actually miss is scanning
a list rather than reading a chart. [CoinAnk](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinank) is the third of these and adds
order-flow footprint and Hyperliquid whale positions, with the order-flow charts behind a VIP tier.

**If you had a seat because a desk paid for it.** [Hyblock Capital](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/hyblock-capital) is the
only pick priced like a professional tool — 99 dollars for Advanced, 499 for Professional — and the
only one with a backtesting lab against its own positioning metrics. Charts render inside an
embedded TradingView rather than in a bespoke renderer, which is either a relief or a downgrade
depending on what you liked about skew.

**If what you actually used was the Data Download.** The CSV-behind-the-chart button has no free
equivalent; it is a paid API now. [Laevitas API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/laevitas) sells the options side — Greeks, a
proprietary volatility surface, funding, open interest and liquidations — over REST, WebSocket or
MCP, with a pay-per-request option. [CoinGlass API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinglass) sells the futures side from 35
dollars a month. [Amberdata](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/amberdata) is the institutional version, sold per exchange and
per market from 600 dollars a month, and is the one a former skew customer's procurement department
will recognise. For history rather than live values, [Tardis.dev](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/tardis-dev) has tick
trades, books and options chains from 64 exchange feeds since 2019.

## What you give up

**The single aggregate number, computed one way.** Skew's best-known charts were cross-venue
aggregates — total futures open interest, total options volume — and their value was that one
vendor computed them the same way every day. Every replacement here aggregates differently:
different venue sets, different treatment of coin-margined versus USD-margined contracts, different
decisions about what counts as an option. A series you were quoting will not continue; it will
restart at a different level. Anyone who spliced CoinGlass onto a skew chart and published the join
published an artefact.

**The two halves on one bill.** Skew charged one seat price for futures and options together, plus
the data behind both. Reassembling that costs a Laevitas subscription for the options, a CoinGlass
or Coinalyze tab for the futures, and an API plan on top if you need the numbers rather than the
picture — three logins and three renewal dates where there was one.

**The archive.** Whatever skew held for 2018 to 2022 went dark with the site, and no card here
backfills it. Tardis.dev starts in 2019 and only for the feeds it captured; the free screeners
generally keep a rolling window rather than a history. If a chart of that period matters to you, the
only copies left are the ones people screenshotted into research notes.

**Being the customer.** Skew sold seats to corporates at 279 dollars, which bought support, an
eligibility check and a vendor that answered. Three of the six picks are free consumer products
funded by subscriptions and advertising, with no published methodology, no SLA and no obligation to
tell you when a metric's definition changes. That is a real trade, and it is the one that catches
people who are reproducing a number rather than eyeballing it.

**Anything Coinbase kept.** Prime Analytics exists and is reportedly free, but it is free behind a
Coinbase Prime account, which is an institutional onboarding rather than a signup. If you are not
that customer, the successor to skew is not available to you at all, and none of the above is a
substitute for it — they are substitutes for the site that closed.

## Migration notes

**Expect to rebuild the numbers, not to repoint a chart.** There is no vendor here whose series
line up with skew's, and the mismatches are systematic rather than noise.

- **Open interest is denominated three ways.** Contracts, coin, and notional USD, and a venue can
  report one while a vendor displays another. A coin-margined contract's notional moves when the
  price moves even if nobody trades, so "open interest fell" can mean "bitcoin fell". Check which
  unit each replacement is charting before comparing anything to a remembered level.
- **Aggregates double-count differently.** Some vendors sum every venue's reported open interest;
  some exclude venues they consider unreliable; some net out an exchange's own hedging products.
  None of them publish the full rule. Two "total open interest" charts diverging by 20 percent is
  normal and is not a bug in either.
- **Funding is quoted per interval on some screens and annualised on others**, and the interval
  itself differs by venue — eight hours on most, one hour on some perp DEXes. A funding heatmap is
  not comparable across venues unless the vendor normalised it, and most say whether they did in a
  tooltip rather than in documentation.
- **Implied volatility is a model output, not a measurement.** Each vendor calibrates its own
  surface, interpolates missing strikes its own way and picks its own risk-free rate. Skew's numbers
  and Laevitas's numbers are two models of the same option chain. Do not treat a gap as a signal.
- **The venue set decides the chart.** Skew's aggregates included venues that no longer exist, and
  every current screener covers the venues that exist now. A level from 2021 and a level from today
  are measurements of different markets even where the metric name is identical.
- **Export is a separate purchase now.** If a workflow read skew's CSV download, budget an API plan
  for it, and check the redistribution terms before putting the numbers in anything a client sees.

The rest of the field is in [Crypto Charting Platforms & Libraries](https://cryptomarkets.tools/categories/charting-platforms),
and the options-specific tools are collected in [Crypto options tools](https://cryptomarkets.tools/collections/options).

## FAQ

### When did Skew shut down?

25 September 2022. Skew's own blog post of 25 July 2022, 'Continuing our journey with Coinbase Prime', said that with the launch of Prime Analytics, skew would no longer be available as a stand alone platform after September 25th, 2022, and that existing monthly memberships would automatically renew through 25 August 2022 and then expire at the next renewal date. The same date ran as a banner across the site's home page until the end.

### What does skew.com serve today?

Checked on 21 September 2026 — nothing that answers a request. Port 443 does not respond at all and the connection times out; port 80 returns a MarkMonitor brand-protection holding page, and api.skew.com has no DNS record. The registry record lists MarkMonitor as registrar with the delete, transfer and update locks set, which is a defensive holding rather than a product.

### Did Coinbase replace Skew with anything?

Prime Analytics, inside Coinbase Prime. Skew's farewell post described it as powered by skew technology, said access is free, and invited anyone without a Coinbase Prime account to open one. Prime is an institutional brokerage relationship rather than a public analytics site, so it is not the same product and it is not something this catalogue lists.

### Is there a free replacement for Skew's dashboards?

For the futures half, yes — CoinGlass and Coinalyze both publish open interest, funding, basis and liquidations across many venues in a browser for nothing. For the options half, less so — Laevitas is free to look at but charges to keep a layout, and nothing free here reproduces a calibrated volatility surface.