DexPaprika

What it is

A DEX data API from CoinPaprika, the Polish company behind the coin-ranking site of the same name. Where the CoinPaprika API sells one aggregated price per coin, this sells the pool layer underneath it: liquidity pools and the DEXes they sit on, token prices computed from those pools, individual swaps, pool reserves and OHLCV candles, keyed by chain and contract address.

The coverage page, regenerated from the live API, listed 36 chains and 244 DEXes on 4 October 2026, with more than 42 million pools and 38 million tokens indexed. Solana, Base, Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain led on 24-hour volume; the list also runs to Robinhood Chain, HyperEVM, Monad, Sui, Tron, Aptos and TON.

The buyer is a developer building a token-price feed, a pool screener, a trading bot's data layer or an agent that needs on-chain prices without running indexers. The website at dexpaprika.com is a DEX tracker on the same data; this card is about the API.

The endpoints. Networks; DEXes on a network; pools on a network, on a DEX or filtered across networks by liquidity, volume, age and similar; a single pool; pool OHLCV; pool transactions, paged up to 100 pages; token details, the pools a token trades in, top tokens and token filtering; batch prices for up to ten tokens per call; token OHLCV; search across tokens, pools and DEXes; global stats; and a call that reports your own plan and credit usage.

Pricing

Four self-serve levels and a contract. Keyless and Free cost nothing and differ by allowance: 10,000 credits per IP against 100,000 per key, both over a rolling 30-day window that returns credits 30 days after they were spent rather than resetting on the first of the month. Dev is 30 dollars a month and Pro 99, or 86 a month billed annually; Dev showed the same 30 on both billing tabs. Prices exclude VAT.

The unit is a plain credit — one request, one credit, no compute units — with two multipliers that are not obvious: a batch price call costs one credit per token in it, and every update a stream delivers costs one credit. Running out returns HTTP 402, not 429; a 429 means the per-minute cap and carries a Retry-After. On Free access stops at the limit; Dev and Pro auto-recharge at 20 dollars per extra million credits, and Pro's monthly spend is hard-capped at 2,000 dollars.

What the ladder buys, beyond credits and rate: freshness — up to 60 seconds old on Free, no added delay from Dev up; pool OHLCV depth — 24 hours of hourly-and-longer candles keyless, 7 days of 10-minute-and-longer on a free key, 30 days of 1-minute on Dev, unlimited on Pro; the transactions endpoint and transaction streams, from Dev; and token OHLCV, whose plan the pricing page states two ways — the Dev card and the comparison table say Pro, the FAQ says Dev and above.

The free tiers are non-commercial. The API terms grant commercial use only on paid plans, and every plan carries a mandatory "Powered by DexPaprika" attribution.

Data & coverage

Prices are derived from DEX pools, not from centralised exchanges. A pool is re-indexed when a swap moves it, so an idle pool simply has nothing new — a stale-looking price may be an accurate one.

Freshness is stated two ways by the vendor. The pricing page and its FAQ say the free tier is capped at 60 seconds and give the reason — CPU under scraping load. The homepage FAQ says "at most 15 seconds old". The documentation defers to the pricing page, and that is the figure on this card.

Streaming runs over Server-Sent Events, not WebSockets, at streaming.dexpaprika.com for keyless and free-key use and streaming-pro.dexpaprika.com for paid plans. The documentation names four feeds: token prices, pool reserves, swap transactions and sealed token candles at 1, 5 or 60 seconds. Keyless, prices stream on 35 showcase tokens only — one per chain, except Arc. A free key opens prices and reserves on any token, ten streams at a time. Transactions need Dev; candles are paid-plan only. The vendor measured price streams at between about 1 and 52 updates a minute per token, which at one credit an update is what decides the bill.

Integrations

MCP, hosted and keyless, at mcp.dexpaprika.com over SSE, streamable HTTP and JSON-RPC. On 4 October 2026 an initialize request answered as "DexPaprika MCP Server" version 2.9.1, and an unauthenticated tools/list returned 18 tools, from getNetworks and getPoolOHLCV to getTokenMultiPrices and search. Keyless MCP use draws on the same 10,000 credits per IP. A local server is published on npm as dexpaprika-mcp, MIT-licensed, at version 2.7.2.

SDKs, first-party and MIT-licensed under the coinpaprika GitHub organisation: TypeScript, Python, Go and PHP, plus a Rust client whose last commit was on 1 July 2026. The TypeScript and Python clients had a run of versioned releases on 28 and 29 September 2026, the latest adding token OHLCV; the Python package on PyPI is dexpaprika-sdk at 0.12.2. Also first-party: dexpaprika-cli, a LangChain integration and n8n nodes.

The vendor also publishes an OpenAPI specification and an llms.txt index, and its documentation pages are served as Markdown on request.

Limitations

Keyless is shared, and it was already spent. The 10,000 keyless credits are counted per IP, so from a cloud host, an office NAT or a VPN they belong to everyone on that address. Our first keyless call on 4 October 2026 came back 402. Get the free key before judging the product.

DEX-only. No centralised-exchange order books, trades or funding; for an asset-level price across exchanges the same company sells the CoinPaprika API. A token with thin or manipulated pools gets a price from those pools.

Streaming is metered by the market, not by you. By the vendor's own arithmetic a token averaging one update a minute costs about 43,000 credits a month and one averaging ten about 432,000 — so a free key's 100,000 covers two quiet tokens, and not one busy one. Enterprise is the only unmetered tier.

History is the paid part. Free keys get a week of 10-minute candles; unlimited history needs Pro.

The attribution clause binds every plan. "Powered by DexPaprika", prominently, in your product. If your interface cannot carry it, ask before building on the API.

Alternatives

Birdeye Data and Mobula sell the same shape — DEX-derived token prices and pools by API — with wallet and portfolio endpoints this API does not have. Bitquery is the choice when you need to query raw on-chain events rather than a curated pool model. GeckoTerminal and DEX Screener are screeners first, with APIs behind them. For one aggregated price per coin instead of per pool, CoinPaprika's own API and the CoinGecko API are the other shelf.