# CryptoCompare

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cryptocompare/  
**Website:** https://data.coindesk.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 18

CryptoCompare (now CoinDesk Data / CCData, acquired by CoinDesk in late 2024) is a long-standing crypto market data aggregator covering 300+ exchanges, 10,000+ assets, and 300,000+ trading pairs. The platform exposes two REST API surfaces — the legacy min-api.cryptocompare.com (Price, Historical OHLCV, Top Lists, News, Social, Order Book, Exchanges, Blockchain) and the modern data-api.cryptocompare.com / CoinDesk Data API (Spot, Index / Reference Rates including CADLI and CCIX, Asset, News, On-Chain, Futures, Options, Overview) — plus a unified WebSocket streamer at wss://streamer.cryptocompare.com/v2 that multiplexes Trade, Ticker, CCCAGG aggregate index, Order Book L2 updates and snapshots, Full Volume, Top Tier Full Volume, OHLC Candles, and Top of Book channels. Authentication uses an API key supplied as the api_key query parameter or as an `Authorization: Apikey {key}` header. Access is metered by monthly call credits with per-second / per-minute / per-hour / per-day ceilings; the Free tier issues 100,000 monthly credits and commercial Starter / Professional / Enterprise tiers escalate credit budgets, history depth, and surface coverage (news, social, on-chain, derivatives, full streamer, on-demand bulk exports, reference-rate licensing).

## Kin Score — 54.8 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 54.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 74.3 |
| Governance | 43.2 |
| Contract Governance | 43.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 29.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 52.6 |
| Access Clarity | 52.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 38.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 57.4 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | verified |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (18)

- **CryptoCompare Streaming WebSocket** — Single secure WebSocket endpoint multiplexing every subscription via tilde-delimited subscription strings (e.g. 5~CCCAGG~BTC~USD). Channel types: Trade (0), Ticker (2), Aggregat...
- **CryptoCompare Exchange Benchmark** — Quantitative ranking of integrated exchanges across Legal, KYC and Transaction Risk, Team, Data Provision, Asset Quality and Diversity, Market Quality, Security, and Negative Re...
- **CryptoCompare Asset API** — Asset metadata, overview, supply, and reference data.
- **CryptoCompare Blockchain API** — On-chain blockchain data including history and balance distribution.
- **CryptoCompare Coins API** — General coin listing, mapping, and reference metadata.
- **CryptoCompare Exchanges API** — Exchange metadata and exchange-pair listings.
- **CryptoCompare Futures API** — Futures market data across integrated derivatives venues.
- **CryptoCompare Historical API** — Historical OHLCV candle data by day, hour, and minute.
- **CryptoCompare Index API** — CoinDesk Indices (CADLI, CCIX, CCIXBE) latest tick, historical values, and composition.
- **CryptoCompare News API** — Crypto news articles, sources, categories, and search.
- **CryptoCompare On-Chain API** — On-chain blockchain metrics aggregated across chains.
- **CryptoCompare Options API** — Options market data across integrated derivatives venues.
- **CryptoCompare Order Book API** — Top-of-book order book data across integrated exchanges.
- **CryptoCompare Overview API** — Cross-cutting overview endpoints (market cap, dominance).
- **CryptoCompare Price API** — Real-time and historical price endpoints for single and multi-symbol queries.
- **CryptoCompare Social API** — Social statistics for coins and assets.
- **CryptoCompare Spot API** — Spot market data including latest tick, historical OHLCV, trades, order book L1, and instrument metadata.
- **CryptoCompare Top Lists API** — Top list endpoints by 24h volume, market cap, exchange volume, and pair volume.

## MCP servers (1)

- **CryptoCompare MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cryptocompare Agentic Access** — 54 operations

## Security (2)

- **Cryptocompare Authentication** — apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes
- **Cryptocompare Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cryptocompare Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (7)

- **Retail price ticker and portfolio dashboard** — Aggregate CCCAGG prices into consumer apps and dashboards.
- **Trading strategy backtest** — Pull minute / hour / day OHLCV history for systematic strategy research.
- **Institutional mark-to-market** — Value digital-asset books against CADLI reference rates.
- **Derivatives settlement** — Settle futures and options against CCIX index family.
- **Crypto news aggregator** — Build sentiment-tagged news products and research dashboards.
- **On-chain analytics** — Drive treasury, supply, and address dashboards across major chains.
- **Exchange selection and risk monitoring** — Use the Exchange Benchmark to qualify integrated venues.

## Tags

Cryptocurrency, Market Data, Reference Rates, News, Social, Blockchain, Onchain, Order Book, Streaming, Index

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cryptocompare/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.