Elgon vs CoinMarketCap API

How Elgon beats CoinMarketCap API for apps like Solana wallets, Tensor, and Solana builders

See how Elgon compares to CoinMarketCap API for speed and on-chain capabilities

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Token Coverage
60M+ tokens
vs 2.4M assets
Websockets
Unlimited
vs None
Rate Limits
1000+ RPS
vs 0.5-2 RPS
Data Availability
1 second
vs 60+ seconds

Why Teams Choose Elgon

See how Elgon stacks up against CoinMarketCap across key metrics like speed and coverage.

Real-Time WebSockets Subscriptions

Build high-performance apps with unlimited WebSocket connections. CoinMarketCap doesn't support WebSockets.

700M+ Indexed Wallets

Access comprehensive wallet data, including PnL tracking and trading history across 700M+ wallets. CoinMarketCap's API focuses solely on market data.

On-chain to API in 1 second

Get enriched blockchain data within 1 second of on-chain confirmation. CoinMarketCap's data updates every 1-2 minutes at best.

DeFi Focused

Unlike the CMC API, which focuses on centralized exchange data, Elgon indexes on-chain transactions, giving you DeFi data, including DEX trades and wallet activity.

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Compare Elgon vs CoinMarketCap API

See how Elgon stacks up against CoinMarketCap across key metrics like speed and coverage.

Elgon
CMC API
Data Availability
How long it takes for blockchain data to be available in the API.
1 second
60+ seconds
Requests Per Second
How many times your app can query data per second.
1,000+
0.5-2
Verifiable Accuracy
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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.
Launchpads
We support both Queries and Websockets for the most popular memecoin launchpads like Pump.fun.
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Elgon powers industry-leaders

Learn more about how Elgon saves industry-leaders time, money, and development resources.

Solana ecosystem teams need fast token, wallet, and pair data without maintaining their own indexers.

"Elgon gives builders a clean data layer for discovery, charts, holder activity, and market context across high-throughput Solana apps."

Solana ecosystem use case

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Launchpad apps need reliable memecoin discovery, token metadata, and trading signals the moment markets move.

"Elgon keeps launchpad experiences responsive with realtime token context, holder signals, and market data built for fast-moving communities."

Launchpad data use case

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NFT marketplaces rely on token, wallet, and collection context to make discovery feel immediate.

"Elgon helps marketplace interfaces combine wallet activity, token data, and market context without forcing teams to stitch together fragmented pipelines."

Marketplace data use case

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Solana DeFi products need lending, vault, and liquidity data that stays usable under heavy market activity.

"Elgon turns raw on-chain activity into product-ready data for dashboards, risk views, portfolio screens, and trading workflows."

DeFi analytics use case

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Trading apps need fresh market data, wallet context, and pair analytics for active users.

"Elgon gives perps and DeFi interfaces a unified source for token prices, trading context, and historical data without a custom indexing stack."

Trading data use case

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Market-data products need fast context around tokens, wallets, and realtime trading activity.

"Elgon complements oracle and market-data workflows with indexed token intelligence, charts, and wallet-level context for crypto applications."

Market-data use case

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Simple, scalable pricing

Pricing to fit builders and teams of all sizes.

Free plan

For personal & hobby projects

$0

for 10,000 requests/month

  • 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.

Elgon vs CMC FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Elgon’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) or centralized exchange data (e.g., volumes on Binance).

However, for DeFi data, they are often too slow for many applications. They support only ~0.5-2 requests per second, update data once every 60 seconds, and can't stream real-time data. Which is totally fine if your application only needs to pull data infrequently.

Elgon indexes on-chain events in less than a second and supports 1,000+ requests per second across 80+ chains, 400+ wallets, and 65M+ tokens with query, websocket, and webhook support.

Yes. Elgon offers a GraphQL API with a TypeScript SDK and comprehensive documentation, making migration straightforward.

Many teams find that Elgon's richer dataset (wallets, holders, webhooks) actually simplifies their architecture by consolidating multiple data sources.

Connecting a wallet is free and quick. Once you've connected your wallet, review our documentation for instructions on how to integrateElgon into your application.

If you still have questions, contact support for more help.

The Elgon 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 Elgon.

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, Elgon 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! Connect wallet for our wallet access, which includes 10,000 requests per month. No account form required. Upgrade when you're ready to scale.

Elgon 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.