CryptoQuant upgrades API with increased rate limits and granular data access

CryptoQuant has overhauled its API offering with dramatically higher rate limits, finer data resolution, and a new credit-based pricing system designed to pull in users who previously couldn’t justify the cost of institutional-grade market intelligence.

The upgrades center on two key changes: the Advanced plan now includes hourly market data resolution, while the Pro plan delivers minute-level granularity.

What actually changed

Basic and Advanced tier users are getting approximately 100 times the request headroom they had before. Daily data requests can pull up to 7 data points, hourly requests stretch to 168 points, and minute-level queries can reach 10,080 points in a single call.

Pricing lands at roughly $39 per month for the Advanced plan with hourly access, and around $109 per month for Pro with minute-level data. Annual discounts are available for both.

When a new token gets listed on a supported exchange, the API will begin serving data for it without users needing to manually configure anything.

The credit system shift

CryptoQuant is also transitioning its API usage model to a prepaid credit system. Instead of the traditional subscription model where you pay for a fixed tier and either use it or lose it, credits are drawn from a monthly allotment based on actual consumption.

Why the timing matters

CryptoQuant has built its reputation as one of the go-to sources for on-chain analytics, particularly around Bitcoin exchange flows, miner behavior, and derivatives metrics. Firms like Glassnode, Nansen, Arkham Intelligence, and Dune Analytics all compete for overlapping segments of the analytics market.

CryptoQuant’s move to dramatically lower the barrier to high-resolution API data looks like a play to defend and expand its developer ecosystem. Getting more developers hooked on CryptoQuant’s endpoints at $39 to $109 per month is a long-term moat play disguised as a pricing update.