Prices, market caps and volume for a crypto side project, on a free Demo plan. CoinGecko API serves crypto market data: coin prices, market caps, volume, history, exchanges, derivatives, NFTs and onchain data. The free Demo plan includes 10,000 call credits a month, 100 calls per minute, 60+ endpoints, one API key and one year of daily and hourly history, with no credit card and attribution required. Paid plans start at Basic for $35 a month, or $29 on the yearly toggle, with 100,000 credits and 300 calls per minute, and go up to Pro at $999 with 5 million credits and 1,000 calls per minute. Overage is $0.0005 per call. G2 shows 4.7 from 16 reviews, and the paid plans carry the commercial license. Older posts quote a lower Demo rate limit.
Free tier quotas
Plan
Demo, free
Call credits
10,000 a month
Rate limit
100 calls per minute
Endpoints
60+
API keys
1
Team size
2 users
Data freshness
From 60 seconds
History
1 year of daily and hourly coin data
Credit card
Not required
Attribution
Required
Last sniffed Oct 6, 2026. Always confirm on the official pricing page.
👍 Good boy
+The Demo plan is a real working plan: 100 calls per minute and 10,000 credits a month cover a price widget, a portfolio tracker or a bot polling a few dozen coins.
+Coverage is wide for a free plan: 60+ endpoints across coins, categories, exchanges and derivatives, with coin history of one year at daily and hourly granularity.
+A G2 reviewer called the plan structure and the docs clear and said the rate limits are generous even on the free tier. G2 shows 4.7 from 16 reviews.
+Paid plans have no hidden steps: Basic $35, Analyst $129, Lite $499 and Pro $999 a month, with overage at $0.0005 per call so a spike does not stop the service.
+Paid tiers add WebSocket and webhook support from Basic and real-time data freshness from Analyst, which suits products that cannot poll.
+The page says one credit covers requests that other providers charge several credits for, such as 500 coin prices in 10 currencies, though this is the vendor's own comparison.
+Yearly billing lowers the price by about 20%: Basic drops to $29 a month, Analyst to $103.20, Lite to $399.20 and Pro to $799.20.
👎 Watch out
−The Demo plan requires attribution, and the page lists a commercial license only under the paid plans, so I read Demo as not covering commercial use. Confirm with CoinGecko before you ship a paid product.
−Older posts quote different Demo limits. A CoinGecko representative post in r/coingecko gave 10,000 calls a month at 30 calls per minute at launch, while the current page says 100 per minute.
−The keyless Public API is described by an r/coingecko commenter as deprecated and shared-rate limited, so code written against it can break. Use a Demo key instead.
−Free history is limited to 1 year of daily and hourly data. Full history from 2013 for daily and 2018 for hourly starts at Analyst, $129 a month.
−The Demo plan has one API key and two users, so a team that wants separate keys per service has to pay for Basic with 5 keys or Analyst with 10.
−Resale and redistribution of the data are not permitted, and paid plans require a 'Data provided by CoinGecko' credit, which limits some product ideas.
−The pricing page lists $35 with a 'Billed Yearly' label in its comparison table but also shows $29 as the yearly figure, so confirm the billing period at checkout.
The catch
The Demo plan is free, needs no credit card and requires attribution. It gives 10,000 call credits a month, 100 calls per minute, 60+ endpoints, one API key, two users, data freshness from 60 seconds and one year of daily and hourly coin history.
Commercial use is the open question. The comparison table lists a commercial license under Basic, Analyst, Lite and Pro and leaves the license row empty for Demo, so I marked commercial use as restricted. Confirm the terms with CoinGecko before you build a paid product on Demo.
Paid plans are Basic $35 a month, Analyst $129, Lite $499 and Pro $999, with lower figures of $29, $103.20, $399.20 and $799.20 a month on the yearly toggle. Pro offers 5, 8, 10 or 15 million credits at higher prices. Overage is $0.0005 per call on all paid plans. The page also advertises 10% off the first plan with a code. Resale and redistribution of data are not permitted.
An older CoinGecko post in r/coingecko quoted 30 calls per minute for Demo at launch. The current page says 100, and I used the current page.
What’s included
✓Coin prices, market cap and volume
✓Coin metadata
✓Asset search
✓Daily and hourly history
✓OHLC charts
✓Exchanges and derivatives data
✓Public treasuries
✓NFT data
✓Real-world asset data
✓WebSocket on paid plans
✓Webhooks on paid plans
✓Commercial license on paid plans
Free tier value
Generosity
B
Estimated value
10,000 call credits a month; Basic from $35 a month
Feature parity
Demo has 60+ endpoints, Analyst and above 90+. Real-time data and long history cost extra.
Screenshots
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Paid plans
Basic, $35 per month
100,000 credits, 300 calls per minute, 60+ endpoints, 5 API keys, 5 sockets, 1 webhook endpoint, 2 years of daily and hourly history. $29 a month on the yearly toggle.
Analyst, $129 per month
500,000 credits, 500 calls per minute, 90+ endpoints, real-time data, 10 API keys, 10 sockets, 5 webhook endpoints, daily history from 2013 and hourly from 2018. $103.20 a month on the yearly toggle.
Lite, $499 per month
2 million credits, 500 calls per minute, 90+ endpoints and the same data depth as Analyst. $399.20 a month on the yearly toggle.
Pro, $999 per month
5 million credits, up to 15 million on higher options, 1,000 calls per minute. $799.20 a month on the yearly toggle.
Enterprise, custom
Custom credits and rate limits, 100+ endpoints, 20 users per team and minute-level history from June 2026.
Common questions
Is the CoinGecko API free?
Yes. The Demo plan gives 10,000 call credits a month and 100 calls per minute, with no credit card and attribution required.
Can I use the Demo plan commercially?
The page lists a commercial license under the paid plans and leaves it blank for Demo. Confirm with CoinGecko before you use Demo in a paid product.
What does it cost to go over my credits?
Paid plans charge $0.0005 per extra call.
How much history does the free plan include?
One year of daily and hourly coin data. Analyst and above go back to 2013 for daily and 2018 for hourly.
What happened to the keyless Public API?
An r/coingecko commenter says it is deprecated and shared-rate limited. Use a Demo key for stable access.
Change history
Checked October 22, 2026
Pricing page shows Demo at 10,000 credits and 100 calls per minute, four paid tiers from $35 to $999 with yearly-toggle prices, and overage at $0.0005 per call. G2 shows 4.7 from 16 reviews. An older r/coingecko post quotes 30 calls per minute for Demo.
