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CoinGecko

CoinGecko is a cryptocurrency data aggregator providing market data, analytics, and information on thousands of crypto assets, exchanges, derivatives, NFTs, and on-chain decentralized markets worldwide. The CoinGecko Developer Platform exposes three primary APIs: the public Crypto Market Data API (Demo plan and free tier), the commercial Pro API for higher rate limits and exclusive endpoints, and the Onchain DEX API powered by GeckoTerminal for decentralized exchange data across 250+ networks. Authentication uses x-cg-demo-api-key (Demo) or x-cg-pro-api-key (Pro) headers, with rate limits ranging from 30 calls per minute on Demo to 1,000 calls per minute on top Pro tiers.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles CoinGecko the way a machine reads it — 38 machine-readable artifacts across 22 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — CoinGecko scores 63.7/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 63.7/100 · strong
Contract Quality 18.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Securities & Market Data 8.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 54/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile CoinGecko

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CoinGecko. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 22

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

CoinGecko Asset Platforms API

List all asset platforms (blockchains) supported by CoinGecko.

CoinGecko Categories API

List cryptocurrency categories and their market data.

CoinGecko Coins API

Comprehensive coin data including current prices, market data, historical data, tickers, and OHLCV charts.

CoinGecko Companies API

Public company cryptocurrency holdings data.

CoinGecko Contract API

Query coin data by contract address on a specific asset platform.

CoinGecko Derivatives API

Derivatives market data including tickers and exchange information.

CoinGecko DEXes API

List decentralized exchanges on specific networks.

CoinGecko Exchange Rates API

BTC exchange rates against other currencies.

CoinGecko Exchanges API

Exchange data including volumes, tickers, and status updates.

CoinGecko Global API

Global cryptocurrency and DeFi market data.

CoinGecko Networks API

List and query supported blockchain networks.

CoinGecko NFTs API

NFT collection data including floor prices and market information.

CoinGecko OHLCV API

Open, High, Low, Close, Volume candlestick chart data for liquidity pools.

CoinGecko Ping API

Check API server status

CoinGecko Pools API

Query liquidity pool data including specific pools, top pools, new pools, and multi-pool lookups.

CoinGecko Search API

Search for coins, exchanges, and categories.

CoinGecko Simple API

Simple price and token price lookups without the overhead of full coin data responses.

CoinGecko Token Lists API

Token list endpoints for paid plan subscribers providing standardized token lists by asset platform.

CoinGecko Tokens API

Query token data by contract address including price, volume, top pools, and token information.

CoinGecko Trades API

Recent trade data for specific liquidity pools.

CoinGecko Trending API

Trending coins, NFTs, and categories on CoinGecko.

CoinGecko Trending Pools API

Discover trending liquidity pools across networks based on web visits and onchain activity.

Scroll within the panel for all 22 ·

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Coingecko Rate Limits

9 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

CoinGecko WebSocket API

Real-time cryptocurrency price streaming via WebSocket. ## Authentication Required To use this WebSocket, you need a CoinGecko Pro API key.

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Coingecko Context

0 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

CoinGecko API Rules

9 rules · 1 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

CoinGecko API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

CoinGecko API Rules

10 rules · 3 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

CoinGecko Coin

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CoinGecko Onchain Liquidity Pool

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Coingecko Authentication

apiKey · 4 schemes

SECURITY

Coingecko Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Coingecko Agentic Access

68 operations

68 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for CoinGecko — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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