# Glassnode A curated metric set in a charting studio, with the API on a separate annual plan. *https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/glassnode · On-chain Analytics Platforms* ## Facts ### At a glance | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | Glassnode | | Category | On-chain Analytics Platforms | | Job | onchain_metrics | | Website | https://glassnode.com | | Pricing model | subscription | | Free tier | true | | Open source | false | | Licence | none | | Self-hosted | false | | KYC required | false | | Tested hands-on | false | | Last updated | 2026-09-21 | ### Pricing | Tier | USD | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Standard | 0 USD | month | | Advanced | 99 USD | month | | Professional — On-Chain Data | 9000 USD | year | | Professional — Market Data | 7000 USD | year | ### Coverage | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Asset classes | spot, futures, perpetuals, options, defi, stablecoins, indices | | Chains | bitcoin, ethereum, solana, arbitrum, base, bnb, multi | | Venues | cex, dex, derivatives | | Data latency | delayed | | Platforms | web, cli | | AI features | research | ### Interfaces | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | API | true | | Webhooks | false | | Scripting | none | | MCP server | true | | Export | csv, json, xlsx, parquet, api | ### Capabilities Yes: charting, screening, alerts, onchain_data, derivatives_analytics No: backtesting, automation, live_trading, paper_trading, portfolio_tracking, exchange_import, tax_reporting, news, wallet_tracking *Verified: pricing 2026-09-19.* ## What it is A charting studio over a curated set of on-chain and market metrics, sold by the metric set rather than by the query. You do not write anything; you pick an asset, pick a metric from a catalogue the vendor maintains, and read a chart. The catalogue is the product: MVRV, SOPR, NUPL, realized cap, coin days destroyed, HODL waves, long- and short-term holder supply, exchange balances, miner flows, plus a large derivatives and TradFi side — futures and options open interest, funding, basis, liquidations, ETF and macro series. Glassnode says the whole thing normalises to 1,500+ metrics across 1,500+ assets. That shape is the opposite of a query engine. You cannot ask a question the catalogue does not already answer, and you cannot see the code behind a number. What you get instead is that someone has defined the number, defended the definition in writing, and computes it the same way across every asset — which is what makes two Glassnode charts comparable and two hand-rolled indexer queries not. Alpha Lab, in beta, is the one piece that does something other than draw: it searches the metric set for trading rules and reports return, Sharpe, drawdown and an equity curve for each. It has an agent mode of its own. Vector — a directional allocation product built with Swissblock, from $749/mo — is a separate purchase and is not covered by this card. ## Pricing There are three things to price here and they are priced very differently. **Standard (free)** still exists — the vendor's own FAQ says a lapsed subscription reverts to it, and basic metrics render at 24-hour resolution. Charts are readable with no account at all. It does not appear on the pricing page's comparison table, which lists only the two paid plans. **Advanced** is **$99/mo month to month, or $49/mo billed annually**, VAT excluded. It buys 300+ metrics, four years of history, 24-hour resolution, one seat, ten alerts and a **personal-use** licence. Note that the docs FAQ still describes Advanced as reaching one-hour resolution and the catalogue as 800 metrics split into three tiers; the pricing page supersedes it. **Professional** is annual and configured rather than listed, but the configurator is public and prints real numbers: - **On-Chain Data**, 570+ metrics: **$9,000/yr**, or **$6,300/yr** bought together with Market Data. **Market Data**, 180+ metrics: **$7,000/yr**, or **$4,900/yr** in the bundle. Both together come to **$11,200/yr** against a $16,000 list. Signals is sales-served. - **Access level.** Base is included: four years of history, daily resolution, no Point-in-Time. **Full** is **+$3,000/yr** and is what buys 15+ years of history, 10-minute and hourly resolution, and the immutable Point-in-Time metrics. Glassnode states that downgrades are not possible after the first year. - **Seats.** One included, **$2,500/yr** each after that. - Professional is also where the prebuilt research dashboards live — BTC Engine Room, Cost Basis Distribution, Profitability Map and a Token Screener among them. Advanced gets none of them. - **Data credits.** 50 per month and 5 requests per minute are included. Beyond that: 5,000/mo at **$2,000/yr**, 50,000/mo at **$4,000/yr**, 500,000/mo at **$6,000/yr**, 5,000,000/mo at **$9,500/yr**, unlimited sales-served. Rate limits climb with the tier, 50 to 600 requests per minute. A credit is spent per request per asset — one for Bitcoin, two for anything else — by any export route: API, Studio download, CLI, Excel add-in or MCP. Browsing Studio spends none. **The gap worth planning around**: the dashboard and the API are not the same purchase. Advanced gets only the Light API — 14 days of history, 1d resolution, 50 calls per day, no bulk endpoints. The vendor does not agree with itself on even that much: the comparison table gives Advanced "API Light" at 50 calls or downloads a day and the API documentation names Advanced as the Light API's audience, while the FAQ further down the same pricing page says "API access is not included in the Advanced plan". Pulling the series you can see on screen into your own storage means Professional, an annual commitment, plus a credit tier, and most likely the +$3,000 Full access level if you want history or anything finer than a daily bar. Budget the sum, not the $99. ## Data & coverage **The definitions are published, and they are the reason to buy this.** Every metric page in Studio carries a definition and a technical note, and the documentation carries long-form guides for the load-bearing ones — MVRV and its long- and short-term holder variants, SOPR and aSOPR, NUPL, coin days destroyed, dormancy, liveliness, NVT, URPD, HODL waves. Exchange metrics get a transparency notice of their own naming the three label sources: addresses the exchanges themselves disclose, public tags that pass QA, and ML clustering. **And history is restated.** Glassnode is explicit that published series mutate — entity clustering improves, off-chain data arrives late, corrections land — and the changelog carries the dated announcements: spot volume for BTC and ETH changing on a named day after a methodology change, circulating supply recomputed, Holder Retention redefined to drop dust balances. The answer to that is the **Point-in-Time** metric set, which freezes each datapoint as it was known and carries a `computed_at` field tracked since 2024 — and which is only on Professional at the Full access level. On anything cheaper, a backtest you ran last quarter will not reproduce. Even the latest datapoint moves. Glassnode waits one block confirmation on Bitcoin and twelve on Ethereum, publishes an initially incomplete last bar, and recommends waiting roughly two hours after first release on Bitcoin, ten minutes on Ethereum, before treating it as final. Chains: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Tron, BNB Chain, Dogecoin, Arbitrum, TON and XRP in the supported-blockchains table, with Base and Optimism named in the data-finalization docs and the pricing FAQ claiming eleven — so the table lags. Non-BTC/ETH chains are ingested in batches every 10 to 20 minutes. The finest resolution on offer anywhere is 10 minutes, and prices are updated every 10 minutes with a nightly backfill that completes by 04:00 UTC: this is a metrics product, not a feed. ## Integrations The API is REST and keyed, documented down to credit costs and rate limits, with bulk endpoints for batching many assets into one call. Around it: a CLI, an Excel add-in, and a documented first-party **MCP server** at `mcp.glassnode.com`, in beta — usable without a key but capped at 30 days of history, uncapped with one, and spending credits either way. Its own documentation lists seven tools while the live server announces eleven, which is the usual state of a beta. Professional adds data shares via Snowflake, BigQuery, CSV and Parquet. No webhook delivery for alerts is documented anywhere — the only channel the docs name is Telegram — so treat alerts as something you read, not something you route. ## Limitations **The cheap plan is a viewing plan.** $99/mo gets you charts and a 50-call-per-day, 14-day, daily API that cannot drive anything. There is no middle rung between that and a five-figure annual contract. **Metrics move between plans, in both directions.** Announced on 14 September 2026 and effective on the 18th, thirteen metrics left Advanced for Professional — Price OHLC, the three regional month-over-month price-change series, five options volume and open-interest series, and CME futures and options open interest and volume — while BTC Dominance moved down into Advanced. If a specific chart is the reason you are subscribing, check that it is still on your plan and know that it may not stay there. **Exchange balances are Bitcoin and Ethereum only, and are lower bounds.** Glassnode says so plainly: the data covers assets housed on those two chains, it declines to make claims about other L1s and L2s, it optimises against false positives so reported balances understate the truth, and the balances are subject to retrospective revision when an address is added to an exchange cluster. **Personal use only on Advanced.** Commercial use starts at Professional, and redistribution is "Custom" even there — meaning negotiated, not granted. **Point-in-Time is a paid fix for a problem the product has.** Immutable history is the correct default for anyone backtesting, and here it is an upsell sitting behind both the Professional plan and its $3,000/yr access level. **Downgrades within a Professional year are not possible**, by the configurator's own wording, so the access level you pick at signature is the one you keep for twelve months. **It reads chains; it does not read your wallet.** There is no address tracking, no portfolio and no per-wallet view. Everything is aggregate or entity-adjusted, which is the design, but it makes this the wrong tool if the question is about a specific counterparty. ## Alternatives [CryptoQuant](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/cryptoquant) is the closest match and the cheaper route to an API: its headline metrics sit behind a 109-dollar plan and programmatic access is on the same self-serve ladder, where here it is a separate annual contract in the thousands. Its own walls are real — block resolution and full history are a 799-dollar plan with no monthly option. [Santiment](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/santiment) is the 49-dollar option and buys social and developer series this card does not carry, with [SanAPI](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/sanapi) as its programmatic half. [Coin Metrics](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coin-metrics) is the institutional version of the same job, with no published price at all. For anyone whose metric is not in a catalogue, [Dune](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dune) sells SQL over indexed chains and hands you the definition problem along with it. ## FAQ ### Can I get Glassnode metrics into my own code on the cheap plan? Barely. The Advanced plan at $99/mo gets the Light API — 14 days of history, daily resolution only, 50 calls per day and no bulk endpoints. The full API that matches what you see in Studio is a Professional feature, and Professional is an annual contract that starts in the thousands. ### Does Glassnode restate history when it changes a metric? Yes, and it says so. Entity clustering, late-arriving data and corrections all revise published series, and the changelog announces the larger ones by date. The immutable variant is the Point-in-Time metric set, which sits behind the Professional plan's Full access level. ### Is there an official Glassnode MCP server? Yes — a documented, first-party server at mcp.glassnode.com, in beta. Without a key it works but caps you at 30 days of history; with a key the cap lifts and every call spends data credits like any other export. ### Does looking at a chart cost credits? No. Viewing data in Studio is free of credits. Credits are spent only when data leaves — API calls, CSV and JSON downloads, the CLI, the Excel add-in and the MCP server. One credit for Bitcoin, two for any other asset. ## Also worth comparing - [Artemis](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/artemis.md) — Chain and protocol fundamentals — fees, revenue, users — one definition everywhere. - [CryptoQuant](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/cryptoquant.md) — Exchange reserves, miner flows and MVRV for four chains, as charts, alerts and an API. - [growthepie](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/growthepie.md) — Ethereum L2 economics, CC BY licensed, on an API with no key — and chains pay for depth. - [SanAPI](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/sanapi.md) — The GraphQL API under Sanbase, sold on its own plans with its own call budget. - [Santiment](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/santiment.md) — On-chain, social and developer metrics for a few thousand assets, on one set of axes. - [Token Terminal](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/token-terminal.md) — Protocol fundamentals as an income statement — fees, revenue, earnings, multiples. ## Named as a replacement for - [IntoTheBlock](https://cryptomarkets.tools/alternatives/intotheblock.md)