Codex vs CoinMarketCap API

How Codex beats CoinMarketCap API for apps like Coinbase, fomo, and TradingView

See how Codex compares to CoinMarketCap API for speed and on-chain capabilities

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Token Coverage
60M+ tokens
vs 2.4M assets
Websockets
Unlimited
vs None
Rate Limits
1000+ RPS
vs 0.5-2 RPS
Data Availability
1 second
vs 60+ seconds

Why Teams Choose Codex

See how Codex stacks up against CoinMarketCap across key metrics like speed and coverage.

Real-Time WebSockets Subscriptions

Build high-performance apps with unlimited WebSocket connections. CoinMarketCap doesn't support WebSockets.

400M+ Indexed Wallets

Access comprehensive wallet data, including PnL tracking and trading history across 400M+ wallets. CoinMarketCap's API focuses solely on market data.

On-chain to API in 1 second

Get enriched blockchain data within 1 second of on-chain confirmation. CoinMarketCap's data updates every 1-2 minutes at best.

DeFi Focused

Unlike the CMC API, which focuses on centralized exchange data, Codex indexes on-chain transactions, giving you DeFi data, including DEX trades and wallet activity.

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Compare Codex vs CoinMarketCap API

See how Codex stacks up against CoinMarketCap across key metrics like speed and coverage.

Codex
CMC API
Data Availability
How long it takes for blockchain data to be available in the API.
1 second
60+ seconds
Requests Per Second
How many times your app can query data per second.
1,000+
0.5-2
Verifiable Accuracy
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USD Pricing
We translate raw blockchain data into USD pricing.
Charting Endpoint
Get charts for token price and wallet activity.
Aggregates
Data aggregated over various timeframes, such as volume or transactions over last 4 hours.
Search with Filters
Search and filter our 60M+ indexed tokens.
Wallets Data
Search and filter our 400M indexed wallets.
Holders Data
Lists of holders of a token.
Webhooks
Have your app react to specific onchain events.
Websockets
A stream of real-time updates. For example, real time price changes or transactions.
Launchpads
We support both Queries and Websockets for the most popular memecoin launchpads like Pump.fun.

Codex powers industry-leaders

Learn more about how Codex saves industry-leaders time, money, and development resources.

TradingView, and their 50 million users, rely on Codex as the sole source of truth for all on-chain data.

“Codex has been instrumental in our efforts to support high quality DEX data via the TradingView interface. We were using 3-4 data providers previously, including the Graph, and have now consolidated everything to Codex.”

Alex T., Head of Product, Crypto

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Sudoswap rely on Codex as their definitive single source of truth for historical data, significantly reducing engineering and AWS costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“Working with the Codex team has been a game-changer. Codex seamlessly provides all the data we need, when we need it. If the data we want isn't currently available, the development team makes it available for us. I wish all of our integrations went this smoothly.”

Owen, Co-Founder of Sudorandom Labs

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RICKBOT PROVIDES MULTI-CHAIN TOKEN DATA TO OVER 100,000 MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS WITH CODEX AS THEIR PREFERRED BLOCKCHAIN DATA SOLUTION

"Codex has always been very supportive and quick with any changes or features requested. But by far the most solid difference for me is the support of the many available launchpads these days and their extensive token filter endpoints."

RickBot Developer

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Codex vs CMC FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Codex’s enriched blockchain data API.

See our full list of FAQ in our docs.

CoinMarketCap API is best if you need aggregated token data (e.g., Bitcoin's current market cap and trade volume) or centralized exchange data (e.g., volumes on Binance).

However, for DeFi data, they are often too slow for many applications. They support only ~0.5-2 requests per second, update data once every 60 seconds, and can't stream real-time data. Which is totally fine if your application only needs to pull data infrequently.

Codex indexes on-chain events in less than a second and supports 1,000+ requests per second across 80+ chains, 400+ wallets, and 65M+ tokens with query, websocket, and webhook support.

Yes. Codex offers a GraphQL API with a TypeScript SDK and comprehensive documentation, making migration straightforward.

Many teams find that Codex's richer dataset (wallets, holders, webhooks) actually simplifies their architecture by consolidating multiple data sources.

Signing up for the Codex API is free and quick. Once you've signed up, review our documentation for instructions on how to integrateCodex into your application.

If you still have questions, contact support or join our Discord for more help.

The Codex API has a variety of use cases, including trading terminals, analytics platforms, DEXes, wallets, crypto tax software, LLMs, social networks, and trading bots. Visit our case studies for examples of applications using Codex.

Pricing plans start at $350 for 1 million API requests. Cost per 1M requests scales down with larger plans.

Our growth plan is active until 10 million monthly requests. After that, Codex will work with you to create a custom plan that best fits your needs.

Check our pricing table for more details.

Every time you request data, or we send it to you via webhook or websocket, it counts as a request.

We often create custom plans for customers that require lots of WebSockets as those are less computationally intensive for us.

If that's you, contact us to discuss more.

Yes! Sign up for our free tier, which includes 10,000 requests per month. No credit card required. Upgrade when you're ready to scale.

Codex currently supports dozens of EVM chains and Solana. Adding new EVM chains is straightforward; if we’re missing one, or you'd like us to index your chain, launchpad, or DEX, let us know.