Coinpaprika
- Free allowance
- Free plan: 20,000 calls a month per IP, 2,000 assets, 1 year of daily prices, no key, no account, no card; 10 requests a second per IP
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate20,000 calls a month per IP on the Free plan; 10 requests a second per IP on every plan
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | Free plan: 20,000 calls a month per IP, 2,000 assets, 1 year of daily prices, no key, no account, no card; 10 requests a second per IP unit requests; metered on request-count; The free host is api.coinpaprika.com/v1; paid plans use api-pro.coinpaprika.com with a key. Free updates arrive within 10 minutes; intraday history is hourly for the last 24 hours and OHLCV is the latest full day. The first paid plan is Starter at USD 99 a month for 400,000 calls. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Bulk path: none stated on the pricing page; redistribution needs the Enterprise plan. Storage terms: the API terms page captured as an empty shell, so unverified. |
| Binding | request-rate 20,000 calls a month is spent in about 33 minutes at 10 requests a second, so the monthly count binds first. |
| Identity | anonymous The Free plan needs no key, no account and no card: the pricing page says so and a keyless call answered HTTP 200. |
| Egress | not metered in bytes; the 20,000 calls a month bound what one IP can pull |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Interface | rest GET https://api.coinpaprika.com/v1/... with no key; paid plans send the key as the bare Authorization header value to api-pro.coinpaprika.com endpoint: https://api.coinpaprika.com/v1 |
| Tooling | curl or any HTTP client; official Go, PHP, Python, TypeScript, Swift and Kotlin clients exist |
| Composes with | Keyless crypto prices for a year of daily history; it pairs with a macro source such as FRED when a model mixes asset classes. |
| Reliability | Past a limit the API answers 429 or 402 with a message naming the limit. |
| Notes | Keyless with a monthly count per IP. Bulk path: none stated. Storage terms: unverified. |
| Evidence note | documented A keyless ticker call answered HTTP 200; the limits are documented on the pricing page, which was reviewed by the vendor on 2026-10-27. |
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | coinpaprika.com/api/pricing/ | Free is 20,000 calls a month per IP with no key, account or card |
| 2026-11-02 | coinpaprika.com/api/pricing/ | Free calls, assets and history |
| 2026-11-02 | coinpaprika.com/api/pricing/ | the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-02 | coinpaprika.com/api/pricing/ | Free update interval and intraday depth |
| 2026-11-02 | coinpaprika.com/api/pricing/ | the first paid plan is USD 99 a month for 400,000 calls |
| 2026-11-02 | coinpaprika.com/api/pricing/ | hitting a limit answers 429 or 402 |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.coinpaprika.com/api-reference/rest-api/introduction | most endpoints work without a key; the free base URL |
| 2026-11-03 | probe: https://api.coinpaprika.com/v1/tickers/btc-bitcoin | part of the text of Evidence note, above |
More fields 2
| bulk path | none stated; redistribution is Enterprise only |
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| history depth | 1 year of daily prices on Free |
Unknown values 1
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer