Cryptocurrency & Blockchain · head to head
CoinMarketCap vs QuickNode
CoinMarketCap
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
The world's most-referenced price-tracking website
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- Free
- Rated
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The short version
- Each has a real cost: CoinMarketCap the free Basic plan gives historical data going back only 60 seconds, so it cannot answer any question about the past; QuickNode rate limited by plan in requests per second, at 15 on the free trial, 50 on Build and 125 on Accelerate, so throughput is a paid feature separate from volume
- They diverge on capability: CoinMarketCap covers Price Tracking, QuickNode covers Node APIs.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which CoinMarketCap and QuickNode actually diverge.
| Attribute | CoinMarketCap | QuickNode |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Web, Ios, Android | Api, Web |
| Founded | 2013 | 2017 |
Identical on both: starting price (Free), pricing model (freemium), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Cryptocurrency & Blockchain).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in CoinMarketCap
- Price Tracking
- Market Cap Rankings
- Portfolio Tracker
- Crypto News
- API Access
- Binance
- Exchanges
- Ios support
Only in QuickNode
- Node APIs
- NFT API
- Token API
- Streams
- Functions
- 25+ blockchains
- Marketplace add-ons
- Api support
Both cover
- Web support
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
CoinMarketCap
- Cryptocurrency price and market capitalisation data over an APInot QuickNode
- Historical market data for analysis and backtestingnot QuickNode
QuickNode
- Running blockchain node infrastructure without operating nodesnot CoinMarketCap
- Querying chain data and broadcasting transactions over an APInot CoinMarketCap
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
CoinMarketCap
- The free Basic plan gives historical data going back only 60 seconds, so it cannot answer any question about the past
- Three years of history requires the $29 Builder plan and all time history the $79 Startup plan
- Free is capped at 15,000 credits a month and 50 requests a minute
- Rate limits are tiered separately from credits, from 50 a minute on free to 1,200 on Professional
- Enterprise pricing is custom despite listing 30,000,000 credits
QuickNode
- Rate limited by plan in requests per second, at 15 on the free trial, 50 on Build and 125 on Accelerate, so throughput is a paid feature separate from volume
- Endpoints are also rationed, at 1 on the free trial and 10 on Build
- Credit overage is charged per million and only falls with plan, from $0.62 on Build to $0.50 on Business
- Support response time is sold as a tier, from a 24 hour SLA on Build down to 8 hours on Scale
- SSO and RBAC are Enterprise only
- The free offering is a trial rather than a standing free tier
Pricing, plan by plan
CoinMarketCap
Free- FreeFree
- Price data
- Charts
- Portfolio
- API Basic$79/month
- 10K credits/month
- Historical data
QuickNode
Free- FreeFree
- 10M API credits
- 1 endpoint
- Core add-ons
- Starter$49/month
- 100M API credits
- 3 endpoints
- All add-ons
- Growth$299/month
- 750M API credits
- 10 endpoints
- Priority support
Which should you pick?
Choose CoinMarketCap if
- You need price tracking.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Web, Ios, Android.
- You also want market cap rankings.
Choose QuickNode if
- You need node apis.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Api, Web.
- You also want nft api.
Questions people ask
- Is CoinMarketCap or QuickNode better?
- Neither clearly leads. CoinMarketCap starts at Free and QuickNode at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, CoinMarketCap or QuickNode?
- CoinMarketCap starts at Free and QuickNode at Free.
- Does CoinMarketCap or QuickNode run on more platforms?
- CoinMarketCap runs on Web, Ios, Android. QuickNode runs on Api, Web.
- Can I use CoinMarketCap for free?
- Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
- What is CoinMarketCap best used for?
- CoinMarketCap is most often used for cryptocurrency price and market capitalisation data over an api, historical market data for analysis and backtesting. Of those, cryptocurrency price and market capitalisation data over an api and historical market data for analysis and backtesting are not what QuickNode is typically brought in for.
- What can CoinMarketCap do that QuickNode cannot?
- CoinMarketCap covers Price Tracking, Market Cap Rankings, Portfolio Tracker, Crypto News. QuickNode covers Node APIs, NFT API, Token API, Streams. Both handle Web support.