CryptoQuant

What it is

A hosted platform for reading the state of a chain as a set of charts. The metrics are the recognisable ones — coins sitting on exchanges, coins leaving them, what miners hold and move, what the average coin last changed hands at — and the product is the pre-built version of those, plus alerts on them and an API under them.

It is bought to look at, which is why it sits under on-chain analytics rather than under market data APIs. The vendor's own navigation says the same: Charts, Insights and Alerts are the top level, and the API lives under Resources. That API is real and separately priced, so the card appears in the market-data listing too, but of the 265 endpoints the docs classify, 205 are on-chain against 60 for market data, and the market-data half is the newer, thinner side of the business.

The company behind it is Team Blackbird Inc.; everything that faces a user says CryptoQuant.

Pricing

Four self-serve plans and an enterprise one. Basic is free, Advanced is $39 a month billed monthly or $29 billed yearly, Professional is $109 or $99, and Premium is $799 a month with no month-to-month option at all. Enterprise is a conversation. Trial is seven days; paid plans are non-refundable unless you ask within 24 hours of an unused one, and every regular plan is capped at one user per account.

The line that decides which plan you need is not the price but the split between the two data classes. Market data — prices, volume, funding rates, open interest, liquidations, ETF flows — is on every plan, and the resolution ladder opens as you climb. On-chain data — exchange flows, miner flows, entity flows, network metrics, MVRV, SOPR — is Professional and above, full stop. Below Professional you cannot call it at any resolution.

Resolution and history then move together: day and 30 days on Basic, hour and one year on Advanced, minute market data and day-resolution on-chain with one year of history on Professional, and only Premium gets block resolution and the full history.

API calls are metered in credits as well as requests, and the credit is not a call: the deduction scales with how many rows come back and varies by data type, so a plan's 500,000 credits cannot be compared against another vendor's request count. Monthly grants are 10,000 on Basic, 300,000 on Advanced, 500,000 on Professional and unlimited on Premium; they reset monthly and do not roll over, and running out returns 402 rather than throttling. Top-ups are $5 per 100,000 credits and can only be bought on Advanced and Professional.

One inconsistency worth knowing before you plan around it. The pricing page's own FAQ still says API keys are issued to Professional and Premium subscribers only, while the API documentation gives Basic a rate limit and a monthly credit grant. The documentation is the page tied to the running service and this card follows it, but confirm against your own account before building on the free tier.

Data & coverage

On-chain coverage is Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, TRON, stablecoins and ERC-20 tokens. Bitcoin is the deep one — exchange flows, miner flows, inter-entity flows, mempool, Lightning, and the valuation indicators. Ethereum adds an ETH 2.0 category, XRP adds DEX and AMM activity, TRON adds DeFi. Every other asset in the list, Solana and BNB included, is an altcoin symbol with exchange price data and nothing underneath it.

Latency is published per metric rather than claimed, which is unusual enough to be the reason to trust the rest. Append /latency to any v1 endpoint and it returns two ISO-8601 durations: the blockchain's own delay and the platform's processing delay, averaged over two windows per resolution. The worked example in the documentation shows roughly 14 minutes of block delay and 26 minutes of processing at day resolution. The same response carries a mutable flag, and it is true for the metrics shown — values you have already been served can be revised later, because the platform deliberately avoids the newest block to survive reorganisations.

A v2 layer arrived during 2026: raw market time series per exchange and as a cross-exchange aggregate in August, and ten community-built Bitcoin indicators in June. Things also leave. Klaytn was removed outright in November 2025, Tether on Omni stopped updating from September 2025, and a batch of dead ERC-20s was deprecated in August 2025.

Alerts fire on metric thresholds and arrive as browser notifications or through Telegram. The count is capped per plan — five on Advanced, twenty on Professional.

Integrations

A REST API authenticated with a bearer token or an api_key query parameter, returning JSON in a uniform status-and-result envelope. There is no official client library for any language; the documentation is built for machines instead, with a Markdown twin of every page, an OpenAPI specification and a machine-readable catalogue of every metric.

There is a hosted MCP server, advertised at 245 or more metrics and still marked beta, plus a documented local install whose client is MIT licensed. Chart and query results export as CSV.

Limitations

The headline metrics are behind a $109 plan. Exchange reserves, netflow, whale ratio, miner outflows, MVRV, SOPR — none of it is callable below Professional. A free key gets prices. This is the most common wrong assumption about the product.

Block resolution and full history are behind a $799 plan that has no monthly option. On Professional the on-chain metrics arrive daily and stop one year back. If the analysis needs intraday flows or a previous cycle, the step is not incremental.

Commercial use needs Premium. The plan table lists the licence as Personal on Basic, Advanced and Professional, and Commercial only on Premium. A dashboard at work is not a personal use, and the cheap plans do not cover it.

Values you have already been served can change. The mutable flag is honest about this and most vendors are not, but a stored series can disagree with a re-fetched one, and any backtest built on the data inherits that.

Not a wallet tracker. The unit is an aggregate — an exchange's reserve, a miner cohort's flow, an entity-to-entity total. There is no way to point it at an address and follow it.

No websockets, no streaming, no webhooks. Minute candles on Professional and above are the finest market-data grain, delivered by polling. Alerts go to a browser or to Telegram, so routing one into your own system means writing the bridge.

One seat per account on every self-serve plan, with multi-user licensing an enterprise conversation.

Alternatives

Glassnode is the direct competitor and the comparison is about where the wall sits. Both put their headline metrics behind roughly a hundred dollars a month; Glassnode's cheap plan is a viewing plan and its API is a separate annual contract in the thousands, where this card puts an API on the same self-serve ladder. Its exchange balances are Bitcoin and Ethereum only.

Santiment is cheaper at 49 dollars and buys a different mix — social and developer activity alongside the on-chain series — and its SanAPI sibling is the programmatic half sold on its own plans.

If the aggregates are not the point and you want the rows, Dune gives you SQL over indexed chains on a free tier that includes the API, and you write the exchange-reserve definition yourself. That is more work and it is the only route where the definition is yours.