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CoinMarketCap pricing
CoinMarketCap publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, CoinMarketCap pricing is free across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
CoinMarketCap plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keyless (Trial) | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Basic (Free Authenticated) | Free | 4 | +$0/month, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Keyless (Trial)
FreeThe entry tier. It covers no signup required, access to selected api endpoints, market listings, quotes, global metrics.
Basic (Free Authenticated)
FreeOver Keyless (Trial), this tier adds:
- 15,000 monthly call credits
- 50 requests per minute
- Historical data access
- Commercial use allowed
Where CoinMarketCap stops being free
Keyless (Trial), Free
- No signup required
- Access to selected API endpoints
- Market listings, quotes, global metrics
No paid tier on record
CoinMarketCap lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full CoinMarketCap feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Price Tracking
- Market Cap Rankings
- Portfolio Tracker
- Crypto News
- API Access
Integrations
- Binance
- Exchanges
Platform
- Web support
- Ios support
- Android support
People bring CoinMarketCap in for real-time cryptocurrency market tracking and analysis, historical price data retrieval for research, exchange tracking and aggregation, token information and metadata access, portfolio monitoring integrations. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to CoinMarketCap are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Crypto
Too few crypto tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoinMarketCap (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| FTX | Free | freemium | - | vs CoinMarketCap |
| Huobi | Free | transaction | - | vs CoinMarketCap |
| Etherscan | Free, then $49/month | freemium | - | vs CoinMarketCap |
| Curve Finance | Free | free | - | vs CoinMarketCap |
| Bybit | Free | - | - | vs CoinMarketCap |
| Gemini | Free | - | - | vs CoinMarketCap |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the CoinMarketCap badges page.
Before you pay for CoinMarketCap
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and Free, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
CoinMarketCap runs on web, ios, android, and is published by CoinMarketCap (Binance) of Dover, Delaware. The full record is on the CoinMarketCap review, and the rest of the category is under best crypto tools.
CoinMarketCap pricing questions
- How much does CoinMarketCap cost?
- CoinMarketCap publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Keyless (Trial) up to Free for Basic (Free Authenticated). The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does CoinMarketCap have a free plan?
- Yes. The Keyless (Trial) tier costs nothing and covers no signup required, access to selected api endpoints, market listings, quotes, global metrics.
- What is the difference between Keyless (Trial) and Basic (Free Authenticated) on CoinMarketCap?
- Basic (Free Authenticated) costs Free against Free, and adds 15,000 monthly call credits, 50 requests per minute, historical data access, commercial use allowed.
- Which crypto tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 crypto tools listed alongside CoinMarketCap have a free tier: FTX, Huobi, Etherscan, Curve Finance, Bybit.
- What am I actually paying for with CoinMarketCap?
- The record lists 10 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for real-time cryptocurrency market tracking and analysis, historical price data retrieval for research, exchange tracking and aggregation.
- Does CoinMarketCap charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these CoinMarketCap prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare CoinMarketCap against before paying?
- The closest crypto tools in this directory are FTX, Huobi, Etherscan, Curve Finance. Each has a side-by-side comparison with CoinMarketCap covering price, platforms and features.