# GeckoTerminal CoinGecko's DEX tracker — 228 networks, 1,978 DEXes, free to read, free to query slowly. *https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/geckoterminal · Crypto Charting Platforms & Libraries* ## Facts ### At a glance | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | CoinGecko | | Category | Crypto Charting Platforms & Libraries | | Job | screening | | Website | https://www.geckoterminal.com/ | | Pricing model | free | | Free tier | true | | Open source | false | | Licence | none | | Self-hosted | false | | KYC required | false | | Tested hands-on | false | | Last updated | 2026-09-19 | ### Pricing | Tier | USD | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | GeckoTerminal | 0 USD | — | ### Coverage | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Asset classes | spot, defi | | Chains | ethereum, solana, base, arbitrum, polygon, bnb, multi | | Venues | dex | | Data latency | realtime | | Platforms | web, ios, android | | AI features | none | ### Interfaces | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | API | true | | Webhooks | false | | Scripting | none | | MCP server | false | | Export | json, api | ### Capabilities Yes: charting, screening, onchain_data No: backtesting, automation, live_trading, paper_trading, portfolio_tracking, exchange_import, tax_reporting, alerts, news, wallet_tracking, derivatives_analytics *Verified: pricing 2026-09-19; coverage 2026-09-19.* ## What it is CoinGecko's DEX-side product, built as a separate site with its own domain, its own apps and its own brand. You get pool tables per network and per DEX, a candle chart and trade list per pool, narrative categories, a new-pools feed and a watchlist. Where it separates from the rest of the field is breadth: 228 networks on 2026-09-19, counted out of the API rather than read off a marketing page, against 64 on DEX Screener. Several of the screens are recent and specific rather than generic. Revival Radar, still labelled beta, lists pools showing early signs of renewed demand — a bucket for tokens that already had their run. The Stock APR tracker ranks fee APR, 24-hour fees and TVL across stock-paired pools on Uniswap DEXes on Robinhood Chain, which is a narrow screen that would not have existed a year ago. Categories group pools by narrative with transaction counts attached. Each pool carries a GT Security Score alongside the price data — contract verification, honeypot checks, holder concentration — which is the clearest thing separating this from a plain price table. The chart is an embedded TradingView charting library build, not GeckoTerminal's own renderer; the iframe on a pool page identifies itself as `CL v28.4.0` and passes `clientId=geckoterminal.com`. Nothing wrong with that, but the chart's features are on somebody else's release schedule. ## Pricing The site costs nothing and asks for nothing — no account, no wallet, no key to read a pool page. Login exists for the watchlist and nothing on the site is behind it. The public API is free too, and that is where the pricing question actually lives. It is a beta ("subject to frequent changes", by its own documentation) capped at approximately 10 calls a minute, which the docs note may fluctuate with traffic. Every endpoint is cached for one minute. There is no key and no paid plan on this domain. **Where GeckoTerminal ends and the CoinGecko API begins.** The same on-chain feed is sold as the `/onchain` endpoints of the CoinGecko API, and GeckoTerminal's own developer page says so in plain terms: subscribing to any paid CoinGecko plan raises the limit 25 times over, from 10 calls a minute to 250. The division is not by dataset — it is the same data — it is by rate limit and by a handful of parameters. The beta's trades endpoint marks `trading_period`, `cursor` and `per_page` as "Pro API only", so the free version returns the last 300 trades of the past 24 hours and the paid one pages further back. Prices for those plans belong to that product and are on the [CoinGecko API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coingecko-api) card, not here. The short version: if you are reading, you are on GeckoTerminal; the moment you need throughput or depth, you are buying the other card. ## Data & coverage Everything here is on-chain and spot. Pools, tokens, DEXes and trades — no centralised-exchange tape, no perpetuals, no funding or open interest. CoinGecko's wider market data is the other product; this one only ever reads pools. Freshness comes in two layers that have to be read together. The documentation says data updates as fast as two to three seconds after a transaction confirms, and that every public endpoint is cached for one minute. Both statements are true and the second is the one that binds: near-live data, served up to a minute stale. The API's twenty endpoints cover networks, DEXes, pools by network and by DEX, new pools, trending pools, token metadata, simple token price, pool search, trades and OHLCV. The OHLCV endpoint takes daily candles, hourly at 1, 4 and 12-hour aggregates and minute candles at 1, 5 and 15, returns at most 1,000 rows a call and pages backwards with `before_timestamp`. Top-pools listings page to a maximum of ten. The version is pinned by an `Accept` header, currently `20230203`. Network ids come back carrying a `coingecko_asset_platform_id`, which is the practical reason to prefer this feed if you already key anything off CoinGecko identifiers. ## Integrations The integration surface is the REST API and nothing else — no webhooks, no SDK named in the documentation, no MCP server of its own. CoinGecko does publish an MCP server, but it is a CoinGecko API product and is described on that card; there is no GeckoTerminal MCP endpoint. The iOS app is native. The Android app is a Trusted Web Activity — the Play listing points at `com.geckoterminal.www.twa`, which is the site in an app shell rather than a separate client. ## Limitations **The free API is a demo of a paid one.** Ten calls a minute is enough to check a pool and not enough to run anything. The moment a project needs more, the answer is a CoinGecko subscription, and a card that told you the API was free without telling you where the ceiling is would be misleading you about the purchase you are actually making. **Beta, and it says so.** The documentation warns the API is "subject to frequent changes" and recommends pinning the version header. There is no deprecation policy published for the free tier. **No alerts.** The nav, the pool page and the watchlist panel carry a watchlist and no alert control. If a price trigger matters, this is the wrong tool for it — that is where DEX Screener and DEXTools have something GeckoTerminal does not. **The security score is partly self-reported.** GeckoTerminal links a free request form from the pool page whose stated outcomes include a verified badge and a higher GT Security Score, alongside appearing in trending cards and becoming reachable through the API. The on-chain checks are real, but part of what the score measures is how much a project has told GeckoTerminal about itself. A low score on an anonymous token means less than it looks like. **Advertising sits inside the data.** A sponsored row appears in the pool list and an advertising panel sits in the sidebar. This is not hidden and it is the same arrangement as the rest of the category, but the surface being advertised against is a list of very new tokens. **Spot DEX pools only, and no history beyond the candles.** There is no trade tape older than 24 hours on the free tier, no wallet or holder analytics product, and no export beyond the API. ## Alternatives [DEX Screener](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dex-screener) is the comparison most readers are actually making. It covers fewer chains, has no candle endpoint at all, and gives you alerts and a much higher API rate limit without a key — the choice is breadth and OHLCV here against reach and throughput there. [DEXTools](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dextools) adds an in-app swap and a perpetuals screen. If the on-chain feed is what you are after and the rate limit is the problem, the product to buy is the [CoinGecko API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coingecko-api). The rest of the field is in [Crypto Charting Platforms & Libraries](https://cryptomarkets.tools/categories/charting-platforms). ## FAQ ### Is GeckoTerminal the same thing as the CoinGecko API? No, and the split matters if you are going to build on it. GeckoTerminal is the free site and the free beta API at api.geckoterminal.com. The identical on-chain feed is also sold as the /onchain endpoints of the CoinGecko API, where a paid plan raises the rate limit from roughly 10 calls a minute to 250 and unlocks parameters the beta marks "Pro API only". ### How fast is GeckoTerminal data? The API documentation gives two numbers that have to be read together — data is updated as fast as 2 to 3 seconds after a transaction confirms, but every public endpoint is cached for one minute. So the feed is near-live and your view of it is up to a minute old. ### Does GeckoTerminal have an OHLCV endpoint? Yes, which is the main thing it has that DEX Screener does not. You can pull daily, 1/4/12-hour and 1/5/15-minute candles per pool, up to 1,000 results a call, paging backwards with a timestamp. ### How many networks does GeckoTerminal cover? 228 on 2026-09-19, counted from the API's own /networks endpoint rather than taken from the marketing page — three pages of 100, 100 and 28. The site's counters the same day read 1,978 DEXes, 51.11M pools and 46.34M tokens. ### Can I trade on GeckoTerminal? No. The pool page has a Trade panel, but it is a menu of ways to leave — wallets, DEXes and bots — rather than a swap. Nothing executes on GeckoTerminal itself and no wallet connection is needed to read the site. ## Also from CoinGecko - [CoinGecko API](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coingecko-api.md) ## Also worth comparing - [DEX Screener](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dex-screener.md) — DEX pair screener and charts on 64 chains, paid for by token promotion rather than by you. - [DEXTools](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dextools.md) — The original DEX pair explorer, with premium tiers gated on holding its own token. - [Coinalyze](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinalyze.md) — Free futures screener — open interest, funding, basis and liquidations in one table. - [CoinAnk](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinank.md) — Derivatives screener with order-flow footprint, volume profile and Hyperliquid whale data. - [CoinGlass](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinglass-web.md) — Free derivatives screener — liquidation heatmaps, funding and open interest in a browser. - [Hyblock Capital](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/hyblock-capital.md) — Order-book and liquidation metrics with screeners, rankmaps and a backtesting lab.