DropsTab API vs Tokenomist vs CryptoRank API: what one token's vesting schedule costs

The cheapest key and the cheapest schedule are different plans

All three are bought for the same thing: when locked tokens are released, to whom, and how much supply that adds. All three sell it on a ladder whose bottom rungs do not carry it. The template above prints each vendor's entry price, and none of the entry prices buys a vesting schedule.

• DropsTab API starts at 19 dollars a month. Basic has six endpoints: coins, search, the fear index and charts. No unlock data at all. Advanced, at 59, adds the unlock overview across tokens and the list of tokens that have unlock data. A single token's schedule and its unlock chart start at Pro, 299 a month.
• CryptoRank API has a free Sandbox and a 29-dollar Basic, and neither carries unlocks. Advanced, at 149, has a per-coin tokenomics summary and market-wide unlock dynamics, by the endpoint badges in its docs read on 24 October 2026. Unlock events, vesting allocations and the vesting schedule start at Pro, 475 a month.
• Tokenomist is the specialist, and the only one whose cheapest paid plan already has the schedules. Pro, at 99 a month, includes the API at 1,000 calls a month with unlock events a year back and a year forward.

So the price of one token's vesting schedule by API is 99, 299 or 475 dollars a month. On annual billing it is 828, 2,988 or 4,750 a year. Tokenomist's pricing page opens on the annual tab, so the first figure it shows for Pro is 69. DropsTab's yearly figures are 17% lower than monthly, and CryptoRank's annual price is ten months of the monthly one.

What 1,000 calls covers

The headline order holds only for a small watchlist, because the three plans meter very different amounts of the same thing. Tokenomist Pro carries 1,000 calls a month. DropsTab Pro carries 2 million requests, and CryptoRank Pro 2 million credits, at one credit a call. Both cap you at 100 requests a minute.

If each token's schedule is one request, a once-a-day refresh costs about 30 calls per token per month. Tokenomist Pro then covers roughly thirty tokens refreshed daily. Tokenomist's own coverage is 500 to 600 tokens, so keeping all of them current is around 15,000 to 18,000 calls a month. That is Tokenomist's Standard API plan, 50,000 calls a month, which costs:

• 749.95 a month month-to-month, against 299 for DropsTab Pro, so DropsTab is cheaper by two and a half times;
• 2,999.40 a year on annual billing, against 2,988 for DropsTab Pro billed yearly. That is a difference of 11.40 dollars a year, for 50,000 calls against 2 million.

The quota on Tokenomist is per account and shared across every key on it. The CryptoRank card also records a daily credit cap, whose size the docs do not state, on top of the monthly one. Neither changes the arithmetic at this scale.

The API history window is the other thing Tokenomist meters by plan: one year of unlock events back and forward on Pro, two on Standard, three on Elite. Its web plans show all of history, so the same subscriber sees less through the key than on the screen. The DropsTab and CryptoRank cards record no history window for unlock endpoints, which is not the same as having none.

The funding rounds ride on different rungs

All three sell fundraising data beside the unlocks. Each puts it on a different step of its ladder, which matters for a reader who wants both under one key:

• DropsTab has the funding-rounds list from Advanced at 59. Round detail and rounds by coin come at Pro, 299, the same plan as the schedules.
• CryptoRank has the funding-rounds feed from Pro at 475. The detail of a round, with lead investors, comes at Business, 949.
• Tokenomist keeps its fundraising and burn-and-buyback endpoints off Pro. They start at Standard API, 749.95 a month, or 249.95 a month on annual billing.

So schedules plus round detail cost 299 at DropsTab, 949 at CryptoRank, and 749.95 at Tokenomist month to month. On this axis DropsTab is the cheapest of the three by a wide margin, and CryptoRank the dearest.

Whose schedule it is

The three datasets are not compiled the same way, and only one of the APIs tells you how a given record was made.

Tokenomist labels every schedule twice. The first label is its source: public project data verified on-chain, public data alone, a vesting contract, private data from the team, or its own inference from on-chain behaviour. The second is precision, from the second to "to be determined". It also publishes a freeze policy. For an unlock worth more than 10 million dollars, inside 14 days of the date it will not apply a privately sourced or ambiguous change until afterwards. So a schedule close to its unlock can knowingly lag what a team has said in private, and the policy says so.

DropsTab and CryptoRank compile their schedules rather than read them off a chain. CryptoRank works from announcements and token documentation, and DropsTab's reference says its rounds come from "publicly available sources". Neither API marks which records came from where. A round that was never announced, or an allocation a project never published, is missing from both, and neither can tell you it is missing. DropsTab also warns that the slugs keying its unlock endpoints "may change over time".

Whether you may show it to anyone

This is the question a product team should settle before the arithmetic, and none of the three settles it in writing for a self-serve buyer.

• Tokenomist says no. The pricing matrix marked Commercial License "No" in all four columns when its card was verified on 4 October 2026. That included the two API plans it markets to funds. The API terms grant use "solely for your personal or non-commercial use". The key-setup page in its docs, read on 24 October, still sends "commercial terms" to the consulting address.
• DropsTab says nothing about the API. The product is called the Commercial API, and its page addresses startups, enterprises and high-frequency traders. The only terms on the site, the Terms of Use last updated 6 February 2026, grant "a limited, personal, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license" to the site "solely for personal, non-commercial purposes". They define the site as dropstab.com and its apps and do not mention the API. The API reference, read the same day, has no terms either.
• CryptoRank lists a licence per plan on a page we could not read. Its pricing page put a Cloudflare challenge in front of the card's check on 4 October and returned 403 on 24 October. An archived copy from 28 August put the free Sandbox under a non-commercial Creative Commons licence.

For an internal research desk none of this changes the choice. For anything a customer sees, the cheapest written yes on any of the three is an email.

The free keys

CryptoRank's Sandbox is free and has none of the unlock data. It is useful for wiring up authentication, ID maps and coin profiles before paying for the datasets.

Tokenomist may now have a free key. On 24 October 2026 the docs' key-setup page says Free accounts "can also create and use an API key", with data coverage and credits depending on plan, and the changelog dates that to 17 September. The pricing page, as archived on 2 October, still greys out "API" on the Free card and in every API row of the matrix. No page states how many calls a free key gets or which endpoints it reaches. The free web plan itself shows three past unlocks and one future unlock per token. A free trial key for the paid plans is still offered by application.

DropsTab has no free plan. Its unlock calendar is free to read on the website, which is the site and not the API.

Two have MCP servers. Tokenomist's hosted server needs an API key at sign-in and exposes sixteen read-only data tools. CryptoRank's needs Pro or above. DropsTab lists none.

Which one, and when

Take Tokenomist Pro if the data is for your own research, you follow up to about thirty tokens closely, and you want to know whether a date came from a vesting contract or from a team's message. At 99 dollars a month it is a third of the next-cheapest schedule, and it is the only one of the three that labels its sources.

Take DropsTab Pro the moment you need the whole list refreshed daily on monthly billing, or you want funding-round detail under the same key. At 299 a month it does what Tokenomist charges 749.95 for, with forty times the calls. If an upcoming-unlocks calendar is all you need, DropsTab Advanced at 59 is the cheapest published price here, unless Tokenomist's free key turns out to reach upcoming unlocks. Before you build anything customers will see, ask DropsTab in writing what "Commercial API" licenses.

If you will commit for a year, Tokenomist Standard costs what DropsTab Pro costs. Then the choice is between the source labels, burns and buybacks and an MCP server with 50,000 calls, and 2 million calls with none of those. Both carry funding rounds.

Take CryptoRank Pro only if the same key also has to serve OHLCV with enforced history windows, labelled token holders and a cross-coin unlock feed, and you would be paying 475 a month for those anyway. As a way to buy vesting schedules, it is the dearest of the three.