Coinlore
- Free allowance
- Open API with no registration and no key; no strict rate limit, about one request per second recommended; more than 14992 coins and 300+ exchanges
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rateno strict limit; about 1 request per second recommended
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | Open API with no registration and no key; no strict rate limit, about one request per second recommended; more than 14992 coins and 300+ exchanges unit unlimited; metered on none; The base is api.coinlore.net/api. Tickers return up to 100 coins a request with a start offset; daily OHLCV covers 365 days per coin. A keyless global-stats call answered HTTP 200. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Bulk path: page /api/tickers/ in steps of 100 using info.coins_num. Storage terms: unverified, the terms page answered HTTP 404. History is 365 days of daily OHLCV. |
| Binding | request-rate Only a soft request rate of about 1 a second is stated, so it is the one ceiling that applies. |
| Identity | anonymous No registration and no key: the vendor page says the API requires no registration and a keyless call answered HTTP 200. |
| Egress | not metered; no quota is stated |
| Per-object cap | 100 coins per tickers request, paged with start |
| Interface | rest GET https://api.coinlore.net/api/global/, /api/tickers/?start=N&limit=100, /api/ticker/?id=ID, /api/coin/ohlcv/?coin=ID and others, JSON, no key endpoint: https://api.coinlore.net/api |
| Tooling | curl or any HTTP client |
| Composes with | Keyless crypto tickers and a year of daily candles; it pairs with CoinPaprika for a second source and with FRED for macro series. |
| Reliability | No strict limit is published; the vendor asks for about one request per second. |
| Notes | Keyless with a soft rate. Bulk path: paged tickers in steps of 100. Storage terms: unverified. |
| Evidence note | documented The terms of access are read from the vendor page and a keyless call answered HTTP 200; the soft rate was not stress-tested. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | www.coinlore.com/cryptocurrency-data-api | the API is open and needs no registration |
| 2026-11-02 | www.coinlore.com/cryptocurrency-data-api | no key and no strict rate limit, about one request per second |
| 2026-11-02 | www.coinlore.com/cryptocurrency-data-api | 365 days of daily OHLCV per coin |
| 2026-11-02 | www.coinlore.com/cryptocurrency-data-api | tickers return at most 100 coins a request and page with start |
| 2026-11-03 | probe: https://api.coinlore.net/api/global/ | a keyless global-stats call answered HTTP 200 |
More fields 2
| bulk path | tickers paged 100 at a time |
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| history depth | 365 days of daily OHLCV per coin |
Unknown values 1
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer