CoinPaprika API

What it is

An aggregated market-data API from CoinPaprika, the coin-ranking site. What you are buying is the asset layer: one price, volume and market-cap figure per coin, computed across the exchanges CoinPaprika tracks, plus the reference data around it — coin profiles, team members, events, tags, exchanges and their markets, contract addresses by platform, and a price converter. The docs claim more than 60,000 assets in the database, over 11,000 of them active, and more than 350 active exchanges; the API's own /global endpoint reported 11,887 cryptocurrencies on 2026-10-04, and /contracts listed 312 contract platforms. The landing page's "3x higher market coverage" than CoinGecko counts the 60,000-plus including inactive coins; against CoinGecko's 18,000 the active count is the smaller of the two.

The buyer is a developer who wants a CoinGecko- or CoinMarketCap-shaped feed — tickers, market caps, daily OHLCV, a coin ID scheme — at a lower entry price and without a key for the first 20,000 calls. It is not a trading feed: no order books, no trade tape, no derivatives.

The same company publishes DexPaprika, a separate API for DEX pools, swaps and on-chain token prices. That is a different product with its own host and SDKs, and this card does not describe it.

Pricing

Six plans on the pricing page: Free, then $99, $199, $799 and $1,499 a month, and Enterprise on contract. The listed figures are monthly. Annual billing takes 10% off, but only on Ultimate and Enterprise and only by contacting sales. The table marks payment in crypto as available from Business up; the FAQ says payments are taken in fiat through Stripe, so ask before relying on it.

The unit is a plain call, not a weighted credit — 400,000 calls on Starter are 400,000 requests. That makes the allowance easy to plan against, and it also means one /tickers call returning every active coin costs the same as a single-coin lookup.

What the price ladder mostly buys is history, not throughput. Daily history runs 1 year on Free, 5 years on Starter and full from Pro up. Hourly history is 1 day, 1 month, 3 months, 1 year, then unlimited from Ultimate. OHLCV history follows the same 1 day / 1 month / 3 months / 1 year / unlimited ladder, and the OHLCV interval is fixed at 24 hours until Business, which adds 1, 6 and 12 hours; 5-, 15- and 30-minute candles are Enterprise-only. The 5-minute price series runs 1 week on Starter, 1 month on Pro and 1 year on Business; the free plan has none, and no circulating supply.

The free plan's licence is personal, not commercial. Every paid plan is commercial use inside your company; redistribution — showing the data to your users as part of a product — is Enterprise-only. Subscriptions are non-refundable; a monthly plan can be cancelled at the end of the period.

Data & coverage

A price is a volume-weighted average across the markets CoinPaprika tracks, after outlier filtering and exchange confidence scoring described in its published methodology. It will differ slightly from any one venue's quote, and it is not reconcilable against an order book.

Freshness is the field to read before buying, and CoinPaprika's own pages give three figures for it. The pricing table says up to every 10 minutes on Free and up to every 3 minutes on Starter through Ultimate; the /tickers documentation says "on average 5 minutes" free and 60 seconds paid; the API FAQ says "up to 3 minutes, or up to 5 minutes". All three were read on 2026-10-04. Up to every minute is Enterprise-only, which is also the only plan with websockets. Poll last_updated on your own plan before building on the faster figure. On 2026-10-05 the free /v1/tickers response carried max-age=5, so the cache is not what holds a price back.

Rate limits come in two layers: a global 10 requests a second per IP on every plan, and the monthly call allowance. Hitting either returns 429 or 402. On the free plan the monthly allowance is counted per IP rather than per account — on 2026-10-04 the ratelimit-remaining header on a first request from our address already read 17,190 of 20,000, which is what a shared IP looks like. The free plan also sees only 2,000 assets.

The ID-mappings endpoint, which maps other providers' coin IDs to CoinPaprika's, is Business and above.

Integrations

The MCP server is hosted and keyless, at mcp.coinpaprika.com with SSE and JSON-RPC transports. An unauthenticated tools/list returned 31 tools on 2026-10-04, from getCoins and getTickersHistoricalById to resolveId, getMappings and keyInfo. The coinpaprika GitHub organisation carries the MCP code under MIT.

Also first-party: a coinpaprika-cli terminal client, a Claude Code plugin, and client libraries under the same organisation — the Node.js client was pushed to on 13 September 2026 and the Go client on 1 September 2026. The FAQ lists SDKs for Python, PHP, Go, JS/TS, Swift and Kotlin and warns that some are community-maintained, so check who publishes the one you install.

Limitations

No order books, trades, funding, open interest or options — this is an asset-level aggregate.

"Real time" is minutes, not seconds, on every self-serve plan — up to three by the pricing table, and the docs disagree on the exact figure. Anything that needs a price within seconds of a trade needs Enterprise or a different vendor.

Intraday history is the expensive part. A year of hourly OHLCV is $799 a month, and 1-minute candles are not on the price list at all.

The free plan is personal-use only and capped at 2,000 assets, and its quota is shared with everyone behind the same IP — from a cloud host or office NAT the 20,000 calls may already be partly spent.

No on-chain or DEX pool data on this API; that is DexPaprika.

Alternatives

The CoinGecko API and the CoinMarketCap API sell the same shape of aggregated asset data. Both answer some requests without a key too — CoinGecko under an unpublished per-IP limit, CoinMarketCap through its public API — and both put websockets lower down the ladder and onchain endpoints alongside. For a venue-level tape rather than an aggregate, CoinAPI and CoinDesk Data are the usual step up.