CryptoCompare
CryptoCompare (now CoinDesk Data / CCData, acquired by CoinDesk in late 2024) is a long-standing crypto market data aggregator covering 300+ exchanges, 10,000+ assets, and 300,000+ trading pairs. The platform exposes two REST API surfaces — the legacy min-api.cryptocompare.com (Price, Historical OHLCV, Top Lists, News, Social, Order Book, Exchanges, Blockchain) and the modern data-api.cryptocompare.com / CoinDesk Data API (Spot, Index / Reference Rates including CADLI and CCIX, Asset, News, On-Chain, Futures, Options, Overview) — plus a unified WebSocket streamer at wss://streamer.cryptocompare.com/v2 that multiplexes Trade, Ticker, CCCAGG aggregate index, Order Book L2 updates and snapshots, Full Volume, Top Tier Full Volume, OHLC Candles, and Top of Book channels. Authentication uses an API key supplied as the api_key query parameter or as an `Authorization: Apikey {key}` header. Access is metered by monthly call credits with per-second / per-minute / per-hour / per-day ceilings; the Free tier issues 100,000 monthly credits and commercial Starter / Professional / Enterprise tiers escalate credit budgets, history depth, and surface coverage (news, social, on-chain, derivatives, full streamer, on-demand bulk exports, reference-rate licensing).
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
API Evangelist profiles CryptoCompare the way a machine reads it — 82 machine-readable artifacts across 18 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 — CryptoCompare scores 71.9/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 82/100 (agent native). 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile CryptoCompare
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CryptoCompare. 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 18
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.
CryptoCompare Streaming WebSocket
Single secure WebSocket endpoint multiplexing every subscription via tilde-delimited subscription strings (e.g. 5~CCCAGG~BTC~USD). Channel types: Trade (0), Ticker (2), Aggregat...
CryptoCompare Exchange Benchmark
Quantitative ranking of integrated exchanges across Legal, KYC and Transaction Risk, Team, Data Provision, Asset Quality and Diversity, Market Quality, Security, and Negative Re...
CryptoCompare Asset API
Asset metadata, overview, supply, and reference data.
CryptoCompare Blockchain API
On-chain blockchain data including history and balance distribution.
CryptoCompare Coins API
General coin listing, mapping, and reference metadata.
CryptoCompare Exchanges API
Exchange metadata and exchange-pair listings.
CryptoCompare Futures API
Futures market data across integrated derivatives venues.
CryptoCompare Historical API
Historical OHLCV candle data by day, hour, and minute.
CryptoCompare Index API
CoinDesk Indices (CADLI, CCIX, CCIXBE) latest tick, historical values, and composition.
CryptoCompare News API
Crypto news articles, sources, categories, and search.
CryptoCompare On-Chain API
On-chain blockchain metrics aggregated across chains.
CryptoCompare Options API
Options market data across integrated derivatives venues.
CryptoCompare Order Book API
Top-of-book order book data across integrated exchanges.
CryptoCompare Overview API
Cross-cutting overview endpoints (market cap, dominance).
CryptoCompare Price API
Real-time and historical price endpoints for single and multi-symbol queries.
CryptoCompare Social API
Social statistics for coins and assets.
CryptoCompare Spot API
Spot market data including latest tick, historical OHLCV, trades, order book L1, and instrument metadata.
CryptoCompare Top Lists API
Top list endpoints by 24h volume, market cap, exchange volume, and pair volume.
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Postman Collections 2
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
CoinDesk Data API (CCData)
POSTMANOpen Collections 2
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).
CoinDesk Data API (CCData)
OPEN COLLECTIONCryptoCompare min-api (Legacy)
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo Workflows 8
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
CryptoCompare Asset Research
Rank assets, read one asset's detail and supply history, then search news.
ARAZZOCryptoCompare Coin Price Snapshot
Resolve a coin, read its live price, full ticker, and daily OHLCV history.
ARAZZOCryptoCompare Coin Social Pulse
Read latest and historical social stats for a coin alongside its live price.
ARAZZOCryptoCompare Exchange Discovery
List exchanges, read general info, then rank top exchanges for a pair.
ARAZZOCryptoCompare Market Cap Leaders
Rank coins by market cap, read full multi-symbol prices, then daily history.
ARAZZOCryptoCompare News Feed Filter
Resolve news categories and sources, then pull a filtered latest-news feed.
ARAZZOCryptoCompare Spot Instrument Analysis
Confirm a market, read instrument metadata, latest tick, then daily OHLCV.
ARAZZOCryptoCompare Top Volume Deep Dive
Rank coins by 24h volume, pull full data, then branch into the news feed.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
cryptocompare-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERPricing 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.
Cryptocompare Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Cryptocompare Finops
FINOPSFeatures 7
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Cross-exchange aggregate index (CCCAGG)
Default price source aggregating across 300+ integrated exchanges with outlier filtering.
Institutional reference rates (CADLI, CCIX)
Regulated index methodology suitable for derivatives settlement and institutional mark-to-market.
Real-time WebSocket streamer
Single secure socket multiplexes Trade, Ticker, CCCAGG, Order Book L2, OHLC, and Top of Book channels.
News aggregation with sentiment
Crypto-native news across hundreds of sources with category tagging and POSITIVE / NEUTRAL / NEGATIVE sentiment.
Per-coin social statistics
Aggregated Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and source-repo engagement metrics.
On-chain blockchain data
Transaction count, active addresses, hashrate, difficulty, and balance distribution across 30+ chains.
Exchange Benchmark grading
Quantitative exchange ranking (AA / A / B / C / D / E / F) across Legal, KYC, Security, and Market Quality dimensions.
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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.
CryptoCompare Streaming API
AsyncAPI 2.6 description of the CryptoCompare (now CoinDesk) WebSocket streaming API. Clients open a single secure WebSocket to `wss://streamer.cryptocompare.com/v2` and multipl...
ASYNCAPISemantic 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.
Cryptocompare Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
JSON Schema 10
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.
CCData Asset
JSON SCHEMACryptoCompare Blockchain Data Point
JSON SCHEMACryptoCompare Coin List Entry
JSON SCHEMACryptoCompare Exchange
JSON SCHEMACryptoCompare Full Ticker
JSON SCHEMACoinDesk Index Tick (CADLI / CCIX / CCIXBE)
JSON SCHEMACryptoCompare News Article
JSON SCHEMACryptoCompare OHLCV Candle
JSON SCHEMACryptoCompare Order Book Top
JSON SCHEMACryptoCompare Social Stats
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JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Cryptocompare Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 5
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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.
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.
Use Cases 7
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Retail price ticker and portfolio dashboard
Aggregate CCCAGG prices into consumer apps and dashboards.
Trading strategy backtest
Pull minute / hour / day OHLCV history for systematic strategy research.
Institutional mark-to-market
Value digital-asset books against CADLI reference rates.
Derivatives settlement
Settle futures and options against CCIX index family.
Crypto news aggregator
Build sentiment-tagged news products and research dashboards.
On-chain analytics
Drive treasury, supply, and address dashboards across major chains.
Exchange selection and risk monitoring
Use the Exchange Benchmark to qualify integrated venues.
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Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Apipheny / Google Sheets
Pull CryptoCompare data into spreadsheets via the Apipheny add-on.
Chainlink External Adapters
Community Chainlink adapter wraps CryptoCompare endpoints for oracle consumption.
TradingView
Charting libraries and React TradingView integrations consume the CryptoCompare WebSocket for live charts.
Node-RED
Community Node-RED nodes wrap CryptoCompare endpoints for low-code automation.
Apache Kafka / streaming pipelines
WebSocket streamer is commonly fanned out into Kafka topics for analytics.
Solutions 5
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Real-time market data
Price, Ticker, Order Book, and OHLC streaming for live trading interfaces.
Historical and reference data
Minute / hour / day OHLCV history plus tick-level history for institutional tiers.
Indices and reference rates
CADLI / CCIX / CCIXBE for regulated mark-to-market and settlement.
News and research
Aggregated crypto news with sentiment, source feeds, and category taxonomy.
On-chain and analytics
Chain-level supply, address, and transaction metrics for analytics platforms.
Resources
Every other property we hold for CryptoCompare — 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 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 18
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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