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.cs-twrap{overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;max-width:100%;}\n  .cs-swipe{display:block;}\n  .cs-cta{padding:28px 20px;}\n  .cs-cta a{padding:14px 28px;}\n  .cs-faq summary,.cs-article details summary{padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:48px;}\n  .cs-article p,.cs-article li,.cs-article td{overflow-wrap:anywhere;}\n  #site-content .cs-cat .lbl,#site-content .cs-nl,#site-content .cs-eyebrow,\n  #site-content .cs-ck,#site-content .cs-ul{font-size:13px !important;}\n  #site-content .cs-swipe,#site-content .cs-figcap{font-size:13px !important;}\n}\n@media (max-width:600px){\n  #site-content .cs-table td,#site-content .cs-table th{font-size:15px !important;}\n  #site-content .cs-disc{font-size:13px !important;}\n  #site-content .cs-cd,#site-content .cs-ud{font-size:16px !important;}\n  #site-content .cs-cat p,#site-content .cs-cat .rec{font-size:16px !important;}\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<p class=\"cs-updated\">Written by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigran_mk\" rel=\"noopener\">Tigran Mkrtchyan<\/a> &middot; Reviewed and fact-checked by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/narek_gevorgyan\" rel=\"noopener\">Narek Gevorgyan<\/a> &middot; Published September 4, 2026 &middot; Last updated September 4, 2026 &middot; Pricing and limits verified September 2026<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs-toc\">\n  <div class=\"cs-toc-title\">In this guide<\/div>\n  <ol>\n    <li><a href=\"#s1\">What each API actually covers<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"#s2\">What you bolt on around a market data API<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"#s3\">Pricing compared<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"#s4\">Free tiers, rate limits, and the license<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"#s5\">Coverage compared<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"#s6\">One call or several<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"#s7\">AI, MCP, and streaming<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"#s8\">What developers actually rate them<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"#s9\">Which one should you pick?<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"#s10\">Conclusion<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"#s11\">FAQ<\/a><\/li>\n  <\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Four invoices render one portfolio screen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Nobody tells you that on day one. Here is how it happens.<\/p>\n\n<p>You ship prices first. One key, one API, one schema. It feels easy, because it is.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then a user asks what is in their wallet.<\/p>\n\n<p>CoinGecko API cannot answer that. Not on Demo, not on Enterprise. So you add an indexer. Second key, second schema, second invoice.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then someone stakes into a protocol. Your app shows their wallet as nearly empty. So you add a DeFi positions provider. Third key.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then they want cost basis and profit. Almost nobody sells that as data. You write it yourself.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then a user buys a honeypot and blames your app. So you add a token security provider. Fourth key.<\/p>\n\n<p>Four rate limits. Four status pages you now watch. Four schema migrations you never planned for.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>The problem was never price. It was scope.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Some credit before we go further. Most crypto products start on <strong>CoinGecko API<\/strong>, and ours did too. 44 million tokens. 240 networks. Twelve years of price history. Over 10 billion API requests served a month. That is not an accident, and this is not a takedown.<\/p>\n\n<p>This guide compares the two on scope. Pricing, free tiers, rate limits, coverage, and what each one actually returns. Where CoinGecko API is the better pick, we say so plainly. Two of the six use cases below go its way.<\/p>\n\n<p>You should leave knowing which one fits your build. Want the wider field first? Start with our roundup of the <a href=\"https:\/\/coinstats.app\/blog\/best-crypto-api\/\">best crypto API providers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs-note\">\n  <div class=\"cs-nl\">Our bias, up front<\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs-nt\">We make CoinStats API, so yes, we are biased. We know it. This guide sticks to plain facts. Published pricing, documented limits, endpoint behavior we checked. Two of the six use cases below go to CoinGecko API. The verdict is yours.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"cs-uc\" style=\"background:#FFF9F5;border:1px solid #E8DFD7;margin:28px 0;\">\n  <div class=\"cs-ul\">How we compared them<\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs-ud\">\n    <p style=\"margin:0 0 12px 0;\">Every number here came from a public source we opened ourselves. Pricing pages, API docs, terms of service, and review-platform listings.<\/p>\n    <p style=\"margin:0 0 12px 0;\"><strong>What we tested.<\/strong> We ran both free tiers against the same job. Render a wallet screen with balances, live prices, and 24 hour change. We counted the calls, the keys, and the joins each one needed.<\/p>\n    <p style=\"margin:0 0 12px 0;\"><strong>How we priced it.<\/strong> Cost per 1,000 calls uses each provider&#8217;s cheapest paid plan. Credit-weighted endpoints are priced at their documented credit cost, not an average. Annual discounts are noted where they change the answer.<\/p>\n    <p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong>What we did not test.<\/strong> Enterprise contracts, custom rate limits, and uptime over time. Latency benchmarks are absent on purpose. They depend on your region and your caching, so ours would not predict yours.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"cs-verdict\" id=\"speak-verdict\">\n  <div class=\"cs-eyebrow\">Fact<\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs-vtext\">CoinGecko API wins on market data breadth. More tokens, more exchanges, longer history, plus streaming. CoinStats API wins on scope. It returns wallet balances, DeFi positions, and portfolio profit and loss. CoinGecko API returns none of those for an address you choose.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"s1\">What each API actually covers<\/h2>\n\n<p>Both are REST data APIs. Neither runs nodes. Neither broadcasts transactions. That is where the similarity stops.<\/p>\n\n<p>CoinGecko API is a market data API. It answers questions about assets and markets. What is this token worth. Where does it trade. What did it do last year. It answers those at enormous breadth.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coinstats.app\/api\/\">CoinStats API<\/a> is a market data API with a wallet layer attached. It answers the same asset questions. It also answers questions about a person. What does this address hold. What did they pay for it. Where is it staked right now.<\/p>\n\n<p>That split decides your architecture, not just your bill.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs-2up\">\n  <div class=\"cs-concept\">\n    <div class=\"cs-ck\">CoinGecko API covers<\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-ch\">Assets and markets<\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-cd\">Prices, market caps, volumes, OHLC candles, exchange tickers, DEX pools. 12 years of history. Plus WebSocket, webhooks, and an MCP server.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs-concept\">\n    <div class=\"cs-ck\">CoinStats API covers<\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-ch\">Assets, markets, and wallets<\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-cd\">The same market data jobs. Plus wallet balances, transaction history, and DeFi positions. Portfolio profit and loss, token risk, and news. REST and MCP.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"cs-fig\"><img src=\"https:\/\/coinstats.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/coingecko-vs-coinstats-what-each-api-returns.png\" alt=\"Table of what CoinGecko API and CoinStats API each return: prices, wallet balances, transaction history, DeFi positions, portfolio profit and loss, token risk checks\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1000\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><div class=\"cs-figcap\">The bar marks the four layers CoinGecko API does not ship. Its token risk is a honeypot flag and a trust score. Not a full risk report.<\/div><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"s2\">What you bolt on around a market data API<\/h2>\n\n<p>A market data API answers questions about tokens. Products get asked questions about people.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;What do I hold&#8221; is not a market data question. It is a wallet question. CoinGecko API has no endpoint that takes an arbitrary address and returns its holdings. We checked every tier. There is none.<\/p>\n\n<p>The closest thing is a top-holders leaderboard. It ranks the biggest holders of a token you name. Profit and loss come with it. Useful, but you cannot look up a wallet.<\/p>\n\n<p>Here is what that means for a normal portfolio screen.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs-swipe\">Swipe the table sideways to compare &#8594;<\/div>\n<div class=\"cs-twrap\">\n<table class=\"cs-table\">\n<thead><tr><th>What your screen shows<\/th><th>CoinGecko API<\/th><th>What you add<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td>Token prices and charts<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>Nothing<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Balances for a wallet address<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>An indexer<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Transaction history for that address<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>The same indexer, or another<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Staking, lending, and LP positions<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>A positions provider<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Cost basis and profit or loss<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Your own engineering<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Honeypot and contract risk<\/td><td>Partial<\/td><td>A security provider<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Every &#8220;no&#8221; in that middle column is a vendor. Every vendor is a key, a credit model, and a rate limit. Plus a status page you now watch.<\/p>\n\n<p>The joins are the part nobody budgets for. Your indexer returns a contract address. Your market data API keys on its own coin id. Those two namespaces do not match. So you build a mapping table and maintain it forever.<\/p>\n\n<p>Reliability compounds the wrong way too. Assume each of four services runs at 99.9%. Chained, that is 99.6% together. 44 minutes of monthly downtime becomes nearly three hours. No single vendor got worse. You just chained four of them.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs-fig\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 700 628\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Animated. What chaining does to uptime. Four vendors in a row, prices, indexer, positions and security, each at 99.9 percent. A request passes through all four and the end-to-end uptime steps down, 99.9, 99.8, 99.7, 99.6 percent, while the monthly downtime bar grows from 44 minutes to nearly 3 hours. 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Or one.<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"background:#FFF9F5;border:2px solid #F355BD;border-radius:14px;padding:24px 26px;margin:22px 0 26px 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',sans-serif;text-align:center;overflow-wrap:anywhere;\">\n  <div style=\"font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#0E0E10;margin-bottom:14px;\">All-in-one crypto API<\/div>\n  <div style=\"font-size:18px;font-weight:700;color:#0E0E10;line-height:1.5;letter-spacing:-0.2px;\">CoinStats API &#8776; CoinGecko API + wallets + DeFi + portfolio analytics + token security<\/div>\n  <div style=\"font-size:13px;font-weight:500;color:#1F2024;margin-top:14px;opacity:0.7;\">+ one key &#128521;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>CoinStats API collapses those four vendors into one. Same key, same schema, same invoice. Balances come back already priced, so there is no join to maintain.<\/p>\n\n<p>That is the whole argument. Not that CoinGecko API is bad at its job. That its job is one layer of four.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"s3\">Pricing compared<\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>CoinGecko API pricing<\/strong> is simpler on paper. Read the credit models before the prices. They work differently. That difference decides which one is cheaper for you.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs-swipe\">Swipe the table sideways to compare &#8594;<\/div>\n<div class=\"cs-twrap\">\n<table class=\"cs-table\">\n<thead><tr><th>&nbsp;<\/th><th>CoinGecko API<\/th><th>CoinStats API<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td>Free tier credits<\/td><td>10,000 a month<\/td><td>20,000 a month<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Free tier rate limit<\/td><td>100 calls a minute<\/td><td>2 requests a second<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Free tier endpoints<\/td><td>60+, several gated above Demo<\/td><td>Same data as the paid plans<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Entry paid plan<\/td><td>Basic, $35 a month<\/td><td>Starter, $49 a month<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Entry plan credits<\/td><td>100,000<\/td><td>1,000,000<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Entry plan rate limit<\/td><td>300 calls a minute<\/td><td>30 requests a second<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Credit model<\/td><td>Flat. 1 REST request costs 1 credit<\/td><td>Weighted. 1 to 5,000 by endpoint<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Cost per 1,000 market calls<\/td><td>~$0.35<\/td><td style=\"font-weight:800;\">~$0.05 &#128201;<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Next tier up<\/td><td>Analyst, $129, 500,000 credits<\/td><td>Standard, $199, 5,000,000 credits<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Overage<\/td><td>$0.0005 a call<\/td><td>Not publicly listed<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"cs-disc\">Pricing checked September 3, 2026. Cost per 1,000 calls uses each provider&#8217;s cheapest paid plan and a single-credit market data call. Credit-based APIs vary by endpoint, so wallet and DeFi calls cost more. CoinGecko API annual billing lowers Basic to roughly $0.29 per 1,000.<\/div>\n\n<p>CoinGecko API is flat. Each successful REST request generally costs one credit. A simple price lookup and a full market chart cost the same. WebSocket responses cost 0.1 credit and webhook events cost 10. That is easy to forecast, and it is a genuinely good design.<\/p>\n\n<p>CoinStats API is weighted. A coin price costs 1 credit. A wallet balance costs 40. DeFi positions cost 400, and that endpoint needs a paid plan. Token Risks costs 5,000.<\/p>\n\n<p>So the honest comparison depends on what you call.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"speak-take\"><strong>For basic market data, CoinStats API runs about $0.05 per 1,000 calls. CoinGecko API runs about $0.35. That is roughly 7x cheaper at entry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>For wallet calls the flat model wins per call. A CoinStats wallet balance works out near $1.96 per 1,000 requests. That is more than CoinGecko charges for a call. But CoinGecko API cannot make that call at all. You would pay a second vendor for it anyway.<\/p>\n\n<p>That ratio is per call, not per invoice. Under about 100,000 calls a month, CoinGecko Basic is the smaller bill. The CoinStats advantage shows up as volume climbs.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs-fig\"><img src=\"https:\/\/coinstats.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/coingecko-vs-coinstats-cost-per-1000-calls-sep-2026.png\" alt=\"Cost per 1,000 calls by call type on CoinGecko API and CoinStats API entry plans, September 2026\" width=\"1400\" height=\"860\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><div class=\"cs-figcap\">The 7x gap holds on single-credit market calls. On the two rows CoinGecko cannot serve, there is no price to compare.<\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>Compare stacks, not line items. One key at $49 against $35 plus an indexer plus a positions provider.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs-fig\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 700 628\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Animated. Monthly bill by call volume, grouped bars on one shared scale. At 100,000 calls CoinGecko API is 35 dollars and CoinStats API 49. At 500,000 they are 129 and 49. At 2 million, 499 and 199. At 5 million, 999 and 199. 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The gap flips and widens above roughly 128,000 calls a month. Pricing checked September 3, 2026.<\/div><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"s4\">Free tiers, rate limits, and the license<\/h2>\n\n<p>Free tiers decide whether you can prototype. Licenses decide whether you can ship. They are not the same question.<\/p>\n\n<p>CoinGecko API Demo gives 10,000 credits a month at 100 calls per minute. That limit more than tripled on 17 May 2026, up from 30. Any guide still quoting 30 is out of date.<\/p>\n\n<p>There is also a keyless public API with 50+ endpoints. No account, no key, roughly 10 to 30 calls a minute. CoinGecko&#8217;s own docs call it unsuitable for production workloads.<\/p>\n\n<p>Licensing is messier than either pricing page suggests. On CoinGecko&#8217;s pricing page, the commercial license row is a cross for Demo. The API terms read differently. Section 4.1.6 says you may charge for products that integrate the API. Section 4.3 asks for a &#8220;Powered by CoinGecko&#8221; credit. That attribution clause carries no tier carve-out. It applies on paid plans too.<\/p>\n\n<p>CoinStats API free gives 20,000 credits a month at 2 requests per second. Commercial use attaches to paid plans. Read the terms before shipping on free.<\/p>\n\n<p>What free does give you is the full dataset. It is not a feature-gated demo. The free plan returns the same data as Starter, Standard, and Business.<\/p>\n\n<p>CoinGecko Demo works differently. It exposes 60+ endpoints and gates a long list above them. WebSocket, webhooks, and top gainers and losers all sit higher. So does custom-range OHLC.<\/p>\n\n<p>The rate limits are shaped differently, so compare them carefully. 100 calls a minute averages 1.7 a second. 2 requests a second is 120 a minute. Those land close enough that credits and licensing decide it, not throughput.<\/p>\n\n<p>Be honest about where that leaves you. Need 300 calls a minute on a tight budget? CoinGecko Basic at $35 is the cheaper door.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"s5\">Coverage compared<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"cs-swipe\">Swipe the table sideways to compare &#8594;<\/div>\n<div class=\"cs-twrap\">\n<table class=\"cs-table\">\n<thead><tr><th>&nbsp;<\/th><th>CoinGecko API<\/th><th>CoinStats API<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td>Assets<\/td><td>44,000,000+ tokens<\/td><td>100,000+ coins<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Exchanges<\/td><td>1,900+<\/td><td>200+<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Networks<\/td><td>240+<\/td><td>120+, 74 of them EVM<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>DeFi<\/td><td>1,800+ DEXs tracked<\/td><td>10,000+ protocols, positions resolved<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Price history<\/td><td>12+ years, gated by tier<\/td><td>Up to 10 years<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Endpoints<\/td><td>60+ to 90+ by tier<\/td><td>80+ documented<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Wallet layer<\/td><td>None<\/td><td>Balances, transactions, DeFi, profit and loss<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>CoinGecko API wins this table, and it is not close. On raw breadth, nothing in this comparison competes.<\/p>\n\n<p>Read the DeFi row carefully though. Those two numbers measure different things. CoinGecko tracks DEX pools and their prices. CoinStats resolves positions inside protocols for a given wallet. Both are useful. Neither replaces the other.<\/p>\n\n<p>The question is whether breadth is your actual constraint. List long-tail tokens? Need exchange reference data across 1,900 venues? Then CoinGecko API wins, and this guide is over. Most consumer apps price the top few thousand assets and never touch the tail.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"s6\">One call or several<\/h2>\n\n<p>Breadth is one question. Response shape is another, and it costs more engineering time.<\/p>\n\n<p>Say you render a wallet screen. Balances with token names, live prices, and 24 hour change.<\/p>\n\n<p>On CoinStats API that is one call. A wallet balance request returns holdings with prices, metadata, and change already attached. It costs 40 credits for a single chain. 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1,200 USDC<\/text><text x=\"513\" y=\"547\" font-size=\"22\" fill=\"#FFFFFF\" text-anchor=\"middle\">1.1 ETH staked on Lido<\/text><\/g>\n<circle class=\"csv-e-pl\" cx=\"44\" cy=\"172\" r=\"9\" fill=\"#A8A4B8\"\/>\n<circle class=\"csv-e-pr\" cx=\"336\" cy=\"172\" r=\"9\" fill=\"#FF4F7C\"\/>\n<\/svg><div class=\"cs-figcap\">Both ship MCP. Only one answers wallet questions.<\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>Both meter per call onchain now. CoinGecko charges $0.01 USDC per request through x402. CoinStats starts at $0.001 for market calls, settled on Base.<\/p>\n\n<p>Streaming goes the other way, and we lose that one. CoinGecko API ships WebSocket from Basic up, across four channels. Webhooks landed in May 2026. CoinStats API is REST only. No sockets, no push, no event stream.<\/p>\n\n<p>Need sub-second price pushes? That is a real reason to pick CoinGecko API.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"s8\">What developers actually rate them<\/h2>\n\n<p>Review platforms barely cover crypto APIs. What exists is thin on both sides. Read it as signal, not proof.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs-2up\">\n  <div class=\"cs-concept\">\n    <div class=\"cs-ck\">CoinGecko API<\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-ch\">4.7 out of 5 on G2<\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-cd\">From 15 reviews. This is the only API-specific rating either product has anywhere. Worth knowing: G2 marks 6 of those 15 as incentivized. Product Hunt shows 4.2 from 6 reviews.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs-concept\">\n    <div class=\"cs-ck\">CoinStats API<\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-ch\">No review listing exists<\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-cd\">The API is younger than the app. What gets rated is the consumer product: 4.8 on the App Store from 85,214 ratings, 4.5 on Google Play from 105,245. That measures the tracker, not the API.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>We could borrow that app store number and call it an API score. We are not going to. It rates a portfolio app that a million people use monthly. It says nothing about endpoint behavior under load.<\/p>\n\n<p>The G2 reviews are worth reading for what developers praise. Documentation clarity, response times, and support turnaround come up repeatedly. One CTO on G2 wrote that &#8220;the documentation is clear, the response times are fast, and the rate limits are generous.&#8221; A Product Hunt reviewer called it &#8220;the most reliable crypto price data api I have had the pleasure of working with.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Those are fair descriptions. CoinGecko API is a mature product with a long track record.<\/p>\n\n<p>The honest read is that neither score should decide your integration. Fifteen reviews cannot tell you whether an API fits your architecture. Both free tiers are open and neither asks for a card. Build the same screen twice and count the calls.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs-disc\">Ratings observed September 3, 2026. Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.g2.com\/products\/coingecko-api\/reviews\" rel=\"nofollow\">G2 CoinGecko API reviews<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.producthunt.com\/products\/coingecko\/reviews\" rel=\"nofollow\">Product Hunt<\/a>, and the Apple App Store and Google Play listings for CoinStats. Ratings change, and small review counts move fast.<\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"s9\">Which one should you pick?<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"cs-ucs\">\n  <div class=\"cs-uc\">\n    <div class=\"cs-ul\">Top pick: CoinGecko API<\/div>\n    <h3 class=\"cs-uh\">Price tickers and market dashboards<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"cs-ud\">Breadth wins here. 44 million tokens and 1,900 exchanges cover any asset a user names. Pick CoinStats API instead if wallets are on your roadmap.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs-uc\">\n    <div class=\"cs-ul\">Top pick: CoinGecko API<\/div>\n    <h3 class=\"cs-uh\">Live price streaming<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"cs-ud\">WebSocket ships from Basic, with webhooks on paid plans. CoinStats API has no streaming at all. This one is not close.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs-uc\">\n    <div class=\"cs-ul\">Top pick: CoinGecko API<\/div>\n    <h3 class=\"cs-uh\">Long-tail token research<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"cs-ud\">The tail is where breadth pays for itself. Newly listed and thinly traded assets appear far sooner. Depth of exchange reference data helps too.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs-uc\">\n    <div class=\"cs-ul\">Top pick: CoinStats API<\/div>\n    <h3 class=\"cs-uh\">Portfolio trackers and wallet apps<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"cs-ud\">Balances, transactions, DeFi positions, and profit and loss under one key. Across 120+ chains, priced on return. This is the layer CoinGecko API does not ship.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs-uc\">\n    <div class=\"cs-ul\">Top pick: CoinStats API<\/div>\n    <h3 class=\"cs-uh\">Crypto tax and accounting tools<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"cs-ud\">Transaction history arrives classified, with USD value at the time of the trade. Exchange accounts sync with read-only API keys alongside onchain activity.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs-uc\">\n    <div class=\"cs-ul\">Top pick: CoinStats API<\/div>\n    <h3 class=\"cs-uh\">AI agents that read wallets<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"cs-ud\">Both expose MCP, so the tie-breaker is reach. Only CoinStats MCP tools answer wallet, DeFi, and portfolio questions for a given address.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"s10\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n<p>Two products, two jobs.<\/p>\n\n<p>CoinGecko API is a market data API with exceptional breadth and real streaming. Are prices, charts, and exchange coverage the product? It is hard to beat.<\/p>\n\n<p>CoinStats API is a market data API with a wallet layer attached. Balances, DeFi positions, profit and loss, and token risk under one key.<\/p>\n\n<p>The choice is not really which is better. It is how many vendors you want to run.<\/p>\n\n<p>Count the keys before you commit. If one API answers every question your screen asks, that is the win. If it cannot, the second vendor is never the last one.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"s11\">Frequently Asked Questions CoinGecko API vs CoinStats API<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"cs-faq\">\n  <input type=\"radio\" name=\"csfaqset\" id=\"csfq1\" class=\"cs-faq-radio\" checked>\n  <input type=\"radio\" name=\"csfaqset\" id=\"csfq2\" class=\"cs-faq-radio\">\n  <input type=\"radio\" name=\"csfaqset\" id=\"csfq3\" class=\"cs-faq-radio\">\n  <input type=\"radio\" name=\"csfaqset\" id=\"csfq4\" class=\"cs-faq-radio\">\n  <div class=\"cs-faq-tabs\">\n    <label class=\"cs-faq-tab\" for=\"csfq1\">General<\/label>\n    <label class=\"cs-faq-tab\" for=\"csfq2\">Pricing and limits<\/label>\n    <label class=\"cs-faq-tab\" for=\"csfq3\">Data and coverage<\/label>\n    <label class=\"cs-faq-tab\" for=\"csfq4\">Choosing<\/label>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"cs-faq-panel\" data-panel=\"general\">\n    <details><summary>Is CoinGecko API still free?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Partly. The Demo plan gives 10,000 call credits a month at 100 calls per minute. A keyless public API also exists with lower limits. Neither is granted a commercial license on the pricing page.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>Is CoinGecko safe to use?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. CoinGecko says it is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and independently audited. It serves over 10 billion API requests a month. The questions worth asking are about licensing terms and data scope, not safety.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>What is CoinStats API?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">An all-in-one crypto API. It returns market data, wallet balances, and DeFi positions. Portfolio analytics and token security ship under the same key. Coverage spans 120+ blockchains and 200+ exchanges.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>Can I use CoinGecko API and CoinStats API together?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. Some teams use one for long-tail breadth. The other covers the wallet layer. Running a single key is simpler when one provider covers your assets.<\/div><\/details>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"cs-faq-panel\" data-panel=\"pricing\">\n    <details><summary>How much does CoinGecko API cost?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Paid plans start at $35 a month for 100,000 calls. Analyst is $129 for 500,000. Lite is $499 for 2,000,000. Annual billing takes 20% off each tier.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>What rate limits does CoinGecko API have?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Demo allows 100 calls a minute. Basic allows 300. Analyst and Lite allow 500. The Demo limit rose from 30 in May 2026, so older guides understate it.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>Which is cheaper, CoinGecko API or CoinStats API?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">For basic market data, CoinStats API. It runs about $0.05 per 1,000 calls against about $0.35. Wallet and DeFi calls cost more credits. Compare by endpoint, not by plan.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>Can I use CoinGecko API commercially on the free plan?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">CoinGecko&#8217;s pricing page grants no commercial license to Demo. Its API terms say you may charge for products that integrate the API. CoinStats attaches commercial use to paid plans. Read both sets of terms before you ship.<\/div><\/details>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"cs-faq-panel\" data-panel=\"data\">\n    <details><summary>Can I get wallet balances from CoinGecko API?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No. There is no endpoint that takes an arbitrary address and returns its holdings. CoinStats API returns priced balances across 120+ chains, including Solana and Bitcoin xpub keys.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>Does CoinGecko API support WebSocket?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes, from the Basic plan up. Four channels cover prices, token prices, trades, and OHLCV. CoinStats API is REST only and has no streaming.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>How much historical price data does each provide?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">CoinGecko API publishes 12+ years, with depth gated by plan. Demo gets 1 year. Basic gets 2 years. Analyst and above reach back to 2013. CoinStats API provides up to 10 years.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>Do both have MCP servers?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. MCP is a baseline feature now, not a differentiator. The difference is reach. CoinStats MCP exposes wallet, DeFi, and portfolio tools, not market data alone.<\/div><\/details>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"cs-faq-panel\" data-panel=\"choosing\">\n    <details><summary>Which crypto API is the best?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">It depends on the job. For market data breadth and streaming, CoinGecko API. For wallet, DeFi, and portfolio data under one key, CoinStats API. Our roundup of the <a href=\"https:\/\/coinstats.app\/blog\/best-crypto-api\/\">best crypto API providers<\/a> compares the wider field.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>What is better than CoinGecko API?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Nothing beats it on breadth. On scope, CoinStats API adds wallet, DeFi, portfolio, and token security data. CoinGecko API returns none of that for an address you choose. Pick by which layer your product needs.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>What is the best CoinGecko API alternative?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">For most product teams, CoinStats API. It covers the core market data jobs and adds the wallet layer. Our full list of <a href=\"https:\/\/coinstats.app\/blog\/top-coingecko-api-alternatives-for-crypto-data\/\">CoinGecko API alternatives<\/a> ranks seven options.<\/div><\/details>\n    <details><summary>Should I use an API or run my own nodes?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Run nodes when you need to broadcast transactions or read raw chain state. Neither API here does that. Both are data layers built on indexed chain data.<\/div><\/details>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cs-cta\">\n  <div class=\"cs-cta-h\">One key for the whole stack<\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs-cta-p\">Market, wallet, DeFi, exchange, and token security data under one key. Free tier gives 20,000 credits a month, with the same data as paid plans.<\/div>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/coinstats.app\/api\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#FFFFFF;color:#1A1B2E!important;font-weight:800;font-size:14.5px;padding:14px 28px;border-radius:10px;text-decoration:none!important;letter-spacing:0.2px\">Explore CoinStats API &#8594;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"cs-disc\">This article is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not financial or legal advice. APIs evolve fast. Pricing, features, and limits change. Verify each provider&#8217;s docs and terms before integrating.<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"cs-cat\" style=\"margin-top:22px;\">\n  <div class=\"lbl\">Written by<\/div>\n  <div class=\"nm\">Tigran Mkrtchyan<\/div>\n  <p>Tigran is a growth marketer at CoinStats, working across crypto and consumer apps. He has tracked his own crypto since 2017. That spans centralized exchanges, hardware wallets, and DeFi positions. The habit shapes how he tests these products. He connects real accounts rather than reading feature lists.<\/p>\n  <p>He writes about portfolio tracking, wallet data, and crypto market tools.<\/p>\n  <p class=\"rec\">More from <a href=\"https:\/\/coinstats.app\/blog\/author\/tigran\/\">Tigran on the CoinStats blog<\/a> &#183; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mkrtchyantigran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> &#183; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigran_mk\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- JSONLD-PENDING: schema graph held back, blocked by Cloudflare WAF. 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