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 51M+ assets
Websockets
Unlimited, included
vs beta, metered
Rate Limits
1000+ RPS
vs 0.8-27 RPS
Data Availability
1 second
vs 60+ seconds REST

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, included in your plan. CoinMarketCap's WebSocket is beta, starts at their $79/mo tier, and bills per message received.

700M+ Indexed Wallets

Access comprehensive wallet data, including PnL tracking and trading history across 700M+ wallets. CoinMarketCap exposes holder analytics per token, but not wallet-level portfolio state across every token an address holds.

On-chain to API in 1 second

Get enriched blockchain data within 1 second of on-chain confirmation, for every token. CoinMarketCap's REST endpoints refresh on roughly a 60-second cycle, and its stream pushes about every 5 seconds for the top 500 assets and 15 seconds for the rest.

DeFi Focused

CMC added on-chain DEX endpoints, but the data is still aggregated from market sources. Codex indexes on-chain transactions directly, giving you DeFi data, including DEX trades and wallet activity, as they confirm.

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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 (REST)
Requests Per Second
How many times your app can query data per second.
1,000+
0.8-27 (by plan)
Verifiable Accuracy
Visit Defined.fi to verify our data in real time.
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. Codex includes these in every plan; CoinMarketCap's are beta, start at $79/mo, and bill per message.
Launchpads
We support both Queries and Websockets for the most popular memecoin launchpads like Pump.fun.
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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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Simple, scalable pricing

Pricing to fit builders and teams of all sizes.

almost Free plan

For personal & hobby projects

$0

for 10,000 requests/month after a $1 verification fee

  • 10,000 requests/month
  • 5 requests per second
  • 1 API key
  • Community support
growth plan

For teams & startups

$350

billed monthly

  • 1,000,000 requests/month
  • 300 requests/second
  • 5 API keys
  • Priority support
  • Websockets
  • Webhooks
Requests per month
$350 per million
1M
2M
3m
5M
7M
10M
Overages billed at $350 USD per 1 million requests
enterprise plan

Tailored solutions for large companies

Custom

per million requests

  • Unlimited* requests/month
  • Custom requests/second
  • Unlimited API keys
  • Dedicated support
  • Websockets
  • Webhooks
  • High concurrency
  • Custom SLAs
  • Custom packaging

Run a network, protocol, or launchpad and want it to be indexed? Contact us.

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), centralized exchange data (e.g., volumes on Binance), or rankings and long-run market cap history.

However, for real-time DeFi data they are often too slow. REST endpoints refresh on roughly a 60-second cycle, and their WebSocket is beta, starts at the $79/mo tier, bills per message received, and pushes about every 5 seconds for the top 500 assets and 15 seconds for everything else. Which is totally fine if your application only needs to pull data infrequently.

Codex indexes on-chain events in less than a second, for every token rather than the ranked ones, and supports 1,000+ requests per second across 80+ chains, 400M+ wallets, and 90M+ tokens with query, websocket, and webhook support included.

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 quick, and has a $1 verification fee to unlock 10,000 free request per month. 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 90 chains. You can see a complete list here.

If we’re missing one, or you'd like us to index your chain, launchpad, or DEX, let us know.