# Crypto wallet and whale tracking tools Following an address, naming its owner and reading your own balance are three different products. Which cards do which, on what chains, and what is free. *https://cryptomarkets.tools/collections/wallet-tracking* ## Following an address is not knowing whose it is Twenty-two cards carry the wallet-tracking flag, each for a different reason. A chain is public, so following an address — what it holds, what it sent and to whom — is the cheap part. A reader who types "whale tracker" usually wants one of three things that are not. **A name is a judgement, not a fact.** An address has no owner field. When a product says a wallet belongs to an exchange, a fund or a named person, somebody made that attribution from clustering, behaviour and off-chain evidence, and nothing on the chain confirms it. The label set is what you pay for, and most label sets carry no date. Why that matters is argued on the [on-chain analytics](https://cryptomarkets.tools/categories/onchain-analytics) page rather than repeated here. **"Smart money" is a cohort somebody defined.** A list of wallets that did well is a threshold a vendor chose, over a set it chose, and membership cannot be checked from outside. **Your own wallet in a portfolio tab is a different job.** Several cards carry the flag because you can paste in a read-only address and see its balance beside your exchange accounts. That is bookkeeping about yourself, and it stops at balances. The groups below sort what the flag cannot. ## Who owns this address: the labelled platforms [Nansen](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/nansen) and [Arkham](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/arkham) are bought for this, which is why on-chain analytics is the first group in the listing. Nansen resolves addresses to entities and to its own Smart Money cohorts and builds every screen on that attribution; it puts the count at 500 million labelled addresses, documents 38 chains and accepts 20 of them on the labels endpoint. Its labels are undated and the endpoint has no look-back, so re-running last week's query can return different numbers because a label moved underneath it. Arkham lets you search a person, company or fund and shows the wallets it has attributed to them, graded: verified at 98% confidence or better, predicted at 80% or better — a badge that does not survive a screenshot. The two side by side are [Nansen vs Arkham](https://cryptomarkets.tools/compare/nansen-vs-arkham). Labels also come as columns rather than screens. [Allium](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/allium) has identity tables over 400M+ curated addresses inside a SQL warehouse, with no published price and no revision date for the set. [Bitquery](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/bitquery) sells labels as a 99-dollar-a-month add-on — 169M addresses on 12 chains, each row carrying a `RecordedAt` timestamp, which is more than most label sets will tell you. [Santiment](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/santiment) and the API under it, [SanAPI](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/sanapi), label exchange, fund and whale addresses on Ethereum only. The [Etherscan API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/etherscan-api) has an address name-tag endpoint, on its Pro Plus plan and nowhere below it. ## Which wallets move together: one token's holders [Bubblemaps](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/bubblemaps) answers a narrower question, and its output is the one here you can check yourself. It draws a token's top 250 holders and a line between any two that have transferred to each other. A line is a transaction, verifiable on an explorer; whether it means one owner, an exchange withdrawal, a payroll or an airdrop, the picture does not say. The map is recomputed within six hours rather than live, and the card records it as delayed. Fifteen chains, no Bitcoin. The app is free; P&L, cross-chain analysis and the top-1,000 map are held for holders of the vendor's own token at no published threshold — [a token threshold is not a price](https://cryptomarkets.tools/guides/a-token-threshold-is-not-a-price) — and the API starts at 170 dollars a month with no free tier. There are no webhooks, so no alert. ## What a wallet holds and made: address data by API For a developer building a portfolio view, a token dashboard or an agent, the flag means endpoints that take an address and return balances, transfers, positions or PnL. No name comes back. Where each one stops is mostly a question of chains: - [Birdeye Data API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/birdeye-data) marks every holder, balance, portfolio, net-worth and PnL endpoint Solana-only. Wallet endpoints are in beta at 5 requests a second on every package, and PnL for several wallets in one call is Business, at 499 dollars a month. - [Mobula API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/mobula-api) covers EVM chains and Solana, and bills portfolio, history and position calls one credit per chain queried — the wider the lookup, the faster the credits go. - [Etherscan API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/etherscan-api) is 33 EVM mainnets and nothing else, with no websockets and no webhooks. Its free, Lite and Standard plans are licensed for personal and research use; anything run by or for a business starts at Advanced, 299 dollars a month. - [CoinGecko API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coingecko-api) adds wallet balances and token transfers by address to its price data, with no alerts. - [Amberdata](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/amberdata) serves current and historical balances, transfers and batch portfolio lookups, fully on Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin and with no Base, from 600 dollars a month. - [Coin Metrics](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coin-metrics) goes down to balance updates for a single account in Atlas, across 358 assets. The query engines return the same thing as rows to join. Bitquery's self-service plans keep raw on-chain data four hours on EVM chains and eight on Solana, with transfer and balance history a per-chain add-on; [Footprint Analytics](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/footprint-analytics) has wallet pages that profile an address rather than name it. ## Positions on one perpetual DEX On a derivatives product, "whale" usually means a wallet's open position on Hyperliquid, which publishes positions by address. [0xArchive](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/0xarchive) serves account positions by wallet and order history; its Free plan reaches every route over a 30-day window, and webhooks on activity by watched wallets start at Build, 49 dollars a month. The [CoinGlass API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinglass) has Hyperliquid whale alerts and positions above 1 million dollars notional from its 95-dollar Startup plan, with no webhooks and no free tier. The [Laevitas API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/laevitas) has wallet positions by address on its HyperCore surface, and no free tier. [CoinAnk](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinank) is a website that lists Hyperliquid positions by address with entry time and running profit; the free version is a preview, and the real-time feed is VIP at no published web price. None of it reaches past the venue: a position on a centralised exchange is visible to none of these cards. ## Your own wallet beside your exchange accounts [Altrady](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/altrady) attaches read-only addresses — no API key, no private key — on BTC, LTC, ETH, BSC, TRX, XRP and EGLD, with tokens only on the two EVM chains: a portfolio line item, not a chain explorer. [Coinigy](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinigy) tracks wallets beside connected exchange accounts, and its own upgrade prompt lists unlimited wallet tracking among what the free tier lacks. [GoCryptoTrader](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/gocryptotrader) looks up Ethereum and ERC-20 balances through Ethplorer, Ripple through XRPScan and other coins through CryptoID, each with a key you supply. [DEXTools](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dextools) sells wallet info and a positions tracker on its paid tiers. These live in [trading terminals](https://cryptomarkets.tools/categories/trading-terminals), [trading bots](https://cryptomarkets.tools/categories/trading-bots) and [charting platforms](https://cryptomarkets.tools/categories/charting-platforms), and the reasons a total comes out short are in [tracking one portfolio across exchanges and a wallet](https://cryptomarkets.tools/how-to/track-a-portfolio-across-exchanges-and-a-wallet). ## Real time, alerts and where the free tier stops **Latency.** Most of these cards record real-time data; Allium, Bubblemaps and Footprint Analytics record delayed. On a labelled dashboard "real-time" means what Nansen says of its own: seconds to a couple of minutes behind the chain. Santiment's free dashboard runs 30 days behind. **Alerts.** Nansen, Arkham and 0xArchive alert on wallet activity as described above. Santiment has alerts too — three on the free tier, expiring after 30 days, with webhooks from Pro. Etherscan has to be polled, Bubblemaps has no webhooks, and Allium's SQL product schedules nothing. Footprint's alerts fire on a chart's threshold, not on an address. **The free tier.** Following is often free; naming rarely is. Nansen's free plan buys exactly one labels lookup and then never refills far enough for another. Arkham's platform is free and its API starts at 100 dollars a month, or 0.20 dollars a credit by the call. Allium, Bitquery, CoinGlass, Laevitas and Amberdata have no free tier at all. ## What is not here A list of wallets worth following. A leaderboard of profitable addresses is a vendor's definition, not a dataset, and CoinAnk's card flags its Smart Money Radar and AI modules for selling calls. Copy-trading, wallets themselves and tax services are outside this catalogue's scope: this page lists software that reads addresses, never a reason to act on what one does. ## Cards ### On-chain Analytics Platforms (9) - [Allium](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/allium.md) — Institutional SQL over 85+ indexed chains, with labels and no published price. - [Arkham](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/arkham.md) — Address explorer where wallets already carry a named owner and a confidence grade. - [Bitquery](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/bitquery.md) — GraphQL over indexed chains — self-service plans are a real-time window, not history. - [Bubblemaps](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/bubblemaps.md) — Token holder graphs that show which wallets have been sending funds to each other. - [Etherscan API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/etherscan-api.md) — The explorer's own index over REST — one key across 33 EVM mainnets, licensed by plan. - [Footprint Analytics](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/footprint-analytics.md) — Drag-and-drop charts or SQL over an indexed warehouse, free — with a slowing pulse. - [Nansen](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/nansen.md) — A labelled view of the chain — who is buying, not just which address. - [SanAPI](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/sanapi.md) — The GraphQL API under Sanbase, sold on its own plans with its own call budget. - [Santiment](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/santiment.md) — On-chain, social and developer metrics for a few thousand assets, on one set of axes. ### Crypto Market Data APIs (8) - [0xArchive](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/0xarchive.md) — Hyperliquid and Lighter data down to the single resting order, streamed live or replayed. - [Amberdata Market Data API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/amberdata.md) — Spot, futures and options data — and one exchange's feed you can buy with a card. - [Birdeye Data API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/birdeye-data.md) — Solana-first DEX prices, trades, holders and wallet PnL, metered in compute units. - [Coin Metrics](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coin-metrics.md) — Institutional reference rates, exchange market data and network metrics behind one API. - [CoinGecko API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coingecko-api.md) — Prices, market data and onchain DEX data for 18,000+ coins, via REST, websocket or MCP. - [CoinGlass API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinglass.md) — Funding, open interest, liquidations and L2/L3 order books across thirty futures venues. - [Laevitas API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/laevitas.md) — Options Greeks, a calibrated vol surface and funding data over REST, WebSocket or MCP. - [Mobula API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/mobula-api.md) — Pool-weighted token prices, trades and wallet portfolios across 90+ chains, by credit. ### Crypto Charting Platforms & Screeners (2) - [CoinAnk](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinank.md) — Derivatives screener with order-flow footprint, volume profile and Hyperliquid whale data. - [DEXTools](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dextools.md) — The original DEX pair explorer, with premium tiers gated on holding its own token. ### Crypto Trading Terminals (2) - [Altrady](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/altrady.md) — Multi-exchange trading workspace — smart orders, scanners, bots and a journal. - [Coinigy](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinigy.md) — One of the oldest multi-exchange workspaces — 38 venues charted, 13 of them traded. ### Crypto Trading Bots (1) - [GoCryptoTrader](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/gocryptotrader.md) — A Go trading engine for 22 exchanges that has never cut a release or a tag. ## FAQ ### How does a whale tracker know who owns a wallet? It does not know; it attributes. An address has no owner field, so a name on it is a judgement a vendor made from clustering, behaviour and off-chain evidence. Arkham grades its labels — verified at 98% confidence or better, predicted at 80% or better — while Nansen's labels carry no date and no history, and Santiment's exist for Ethereum only. A transfer between two addresses is a fact you can check on an explorer; the name on either end is not. ### Is there a free wallet tracker? Following an address is free in several places, and naming it mostly is not. Arkham's platform is free to sign up for and much of it reads without an account; Bubblemaps' holder maps are free and need no account. Nansen's free plan gets 100 credits once and 10 a day after that, against 100 credits for one common-labels lookup, so the labels are effectively Pro at 69 dollars a month. On the API side, Etherscan's free plan looks up addresses on EVM chains for personal and research use only. ### Can I get an alert when a wallet moves? On some of these cards. Nansen alerts on token transfers and Smart Money flows to Telegram, Discord, Slack or your own HTTPS endpoint, one active alert on the free plan; Arkham alerts on an entity's movements to Telegram, Slack and webhooks; 0xArchive sends webhooks on activity by watched Hyperliquid wallets from its 49-dollar Build plan. Etherscan has no websockets and no webhooks, so watching an address there means polling it, and Bubblemaps has no webhooks at all. ### What does "smart money" mean on a wallet tracker? A cohort the vendor defined. Nansen's Smart Money is a set of thresholds it chose — minimum win rates, required return, realised-profit floors — over sets smaller than the marketing implies, roughly 850 all-time smart traders on EVM chains. Whether a given wallet belongs is not checkable from outside. This catalogue describes the software and does not assess any wallet list as something to follow. ### Can I track my own wallet next to my exchange accounts? Yes, and that is a different product from watching somebody else's. Altrady attaches read-only addresses on seven chains to its multi-exchange portfolio, Coinigy tracks wallets alongside connected exchange accounts with the unlimited version on its paid tier, and GoCryptoTrader looks balances up through third-party explorers with keys you supply. All three stop at balances; none of them is chain analytics.