CoinMarketCap API pricing: plans, call credits and x402
Checked Nov 9, 2026 on CoinMarketCap API’s official pages (sources below). Prices change often: confirm with the provider before you buy.
CoinMarketCap sells its crypto and DEX market data API on monthly plans priced by call credits, endpoints and history depth. It also runs an x402 endpoint that agents can pay per request.
Figures below are quoted from coinmarketcap.com/api/pricing, checked Nov 9, 2026. The page shows monthly prices with the yearly totals next to them.
API plans
- Basic
- Price shownFree
- Yearly total shown—
- Call credits / month15,000
- Rate limit50 requests / minute
- Builder
- Price shown$29 / mo
- Yearly total shown$348 / year (struck-through $420)
- Call credits / month150,000
- Rate limit300 requests / minute
- Startup
- Price shown$79 / mo
- Yearly total shown$948 / year (struck-through $1,140)
- Call credits / month450,000
- Rate limit600 requests / minute
- Growth
- Price shown$299 / mo
- Yearly total shown$3,588 / year (struck-through $4,500)
- Call credits / month2,000,000
- Rate limit750 requests / minute
- Professional
- Price shown$699 / mo
- Yearly total shown$8,388 / year (struck-through $10,500)
- Call credits / month5,000,000
- Rate limit1,200 requests / minute
- Enterprise
- Price shownContact sales
- Yearly total shown—
- Call credits / month30,000,000 (custom)
- Rate limit1,600+ requests / minute
The pricing page has a Monthly / Yearly toggle and says yearly saves up to 20%. Confirm which billing period a price applies to at checkout.
What changes between plans
- Basic
- Endpoints60+
- Historical data1 year of daily quotes
- WebSocketNo
- API keys1
- Builder
- Endpoints60+
- Historical data3 years
- WebSocketNo
- API keys1
- Startup
- Endpoints80+
- Historical dataAll time
- WebSocket10 connections
- API keys10
- Growth
- EndpointsAll (90+)
- Historical dataAll time
- WebSocket10 connections
- API keys15
- Professional
- EndpointsAll (90+)
- Historical dataAll time
- WebSocket10 connections
- API keys25
- Enterprise
- EndpointsAll (90+)
- Historical dataAll time
- WebSocketCustom
- API keysCustom
From the "Compare editions" table on the same page. Update frequency is listed as 15 seconds on Basic and Builder and real-time from Startup up.
CoinMarketCap API over x402: what our daily check saw
We call CoinMarketCap API’s x402 endpoint every day without paying and read the HTTP 402 reply. Data as of Nov 9, 2026, 10:50 AM ET.
- Status
- Up
- Price in the 402
- No fixed price in the 402 (set per request)
- Networks listed
- Base, BNB Chain
- x402 grade
- D (50/100)
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Paying CoinMarketCap per call with x402
CoinMarketCap also exposes an x402 route: an unpaid request returns HTTP 402 with payment terms instead of asking for an API key. Our check found terms on Base and BNB Chain, with USDC among the listed tokens. The box above shows what our latest daily check saw. A plan is still the better fit if you make thousands of calls a month; x402 suits agents that only need a few quotes.
CoinMarketCap API pricing FAQ
How much does the CoinMarketCap API cost?
Basic is free with 15,000 call credits a month. Paid plans shown on Nov 9, 2026: Builder $29/mo, Startup $79/mo, Growth $299/mo, Professional $699/mo; Enterprise is priced by sales.
Is there a free CoinMarketCap API?
Yes. The Basic plan is free (15,000 call credits a month, 50 requests per minute), and the page also mentions a keyless public API.
Can an agent pay CoinMarketCap without an API key?
Yes, through its x402 endpoint: our unpaid check got HTTP 402 payment terms on Base and BNB Chain. See the CoinMarketCap listing for the latest result.
Sources (official pages, read Nov 9, 2026)
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