Best free crypto price APIs
Public spot-price endpoints that work without a key. Ranked by measured 7-day uptime, then speed. Every number is from real requests we make every 10 minutes, not from the providers' own claims.
On the last 26 checks, CoinGecko leads on both reliability (100.00% uptime) and speed (80 ms median from Sweden).
| # | API | Now | Uptime 7d | p50 24h | p95 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CoinGecko bitcoin.usd > 0 | Operational | 100.00% | 80 ms | 216 ms |
| 2 | Coinbase Spot Price BTC-USD amount > 0 | Operational | 100.00% | 186 ms | 312 ms |
| 3 | Binance Ticker BTCUSDT price > 0 | Operational | 100.00% | 360 ms | 801 ms |
Latency is measured from a single server in Sweden including DNS and TLS. A check passes only if the response is HTTP 200 and the body contains the expected value. Live page, updated every 10 minutes.
Try them
CoinGecko docs
curl -s "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids=bitcoin&vs_currencies=usd"
Coinbase Spot Price docs
curl -s "https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/BTC-USD/spot"
Binance Ticker docs
curl -s "https://api.binance.com/api/v3/ticker/price?symbol=BTCUSDT"
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