Coinpaprika API

Name: Coinpaprika API API
Brand: Coinpaprika API
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For Agents

Look up live and historical cryptocurrency prices, market capitalisations, exchange listings, and OHLCV candles for thousands of coins via 30 read-only endpoints.

Quickstart

Get started with Coinpaprika API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"get current cryptocurrency price"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Coinpaprika API API.

Retrieve live ticker prices, 24h volume, and market cap for any listed coin via /tickers/{coin_id}

Pull historical OHLCV candles at intervals from 5 minutes to daily via /coins/{coin_id}/ohlcv/historical

Look up token metadata by smart-contract address using /contracts/{platform_id}/{contract_address}

Convert prices between any two coins or fiat currencies through /price-converter

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View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Coinpaprika API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Coinpaprika API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. Coinpaprika delivers cryptocurrency market data covering coin prices, volumes, market caps, all-time highs, supply figures, and historical OHLCV across thousands of digital assets, exchanges, and contract platforms. The API exposes 30 endpoints spanning tickers, coin detail records, exchange listings, smart-contract address lookups, tag taxonomies, person profiles, and a price converter. Free-tier access requires no credentials while paid plans authenticate via the Authorization header against api-pro.coinpaprika.com.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Coinpaprika API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Crypto Portfolio Valuation

Value a portfolio of cryptocurrency holdings by pulling current prices and 24h changes from /tickers for every coin on the user's watchlist. Coinpaprika returns prices, market caps, and volumes for thousands of assets so a portfolio dashboard can refresh totals on demand without paying for an enterprise data feed. The free tier covers 20,000 calls per month, enough for hourly refreshes of a 25-coin portfolio.

Call GET /tickers with a list of coin IDs (btc-bitcoin, eth-ethereum, sol-solana) and sum the price * holdings for each to return total portfolio USD value

Historical Backtesting Data

Backtest trading strategies against years of OHLCV history pulled from /coins/{coin_id}/ohlcv/historical. Coinpaprika supports intervals from 5 minutes to daily candles, enabling intraday and swing-trading research. A strategy researcher can pull a year of hourly Bitcoin candles in a single paginated request flow and feed them into pandas or a vectorised backtester.

Fetch GET /coins/btc-bitcoin/ohlcv/historical with start=2025-01-01 and interval=1h, then return the closing price series as a CSV

Token Discovery by Contract Address

Resolve unknown tokens encountered on-chain by looking them up via /contracts/{platform_id}/{contract_address}. Coinpaprika maintains contract mappings across major chains so an agent investigating a wallet's holdings can convert raw addresses into named coins with prices and metadata. This bypasses the need to maintain a private contract-to-symbol registry.

Call GET /contracts/eth-ethereum/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48 to identify the token at that address and return its symbol and current price

Exchange Market Intelligence

Map where a specific coin trades and at what volume by pulling exchange profiles from /exchanges and per-coin exchange lists from /coins/{coin_id}/exchanges. A research agent can rank exchanges by liquidity for a target token before recommending where to route an order. Coinpaprika tracks hundreds of exchanges and their trading pairs.

Get all exchanges listing sol-solana via GET /coins/sol-solana/exchanges and return the top 5 ranked by reported 24h USD volume

AI Agent Crypto Research

Embed live crypto market context into an AI agent via Jentic by issuing a single search query for the operation an agent needs (price lookup, OHLCV pull, contract resolution). Jentic returns the matching Coinpaprika operation with its parameter schema so the agent can call it directly without browsing docs. Credentials for paid tiers are isolated in the Jentic vault and never enter the agent's prompt.

Use Jentic to search 'get current cryptocurrency price', load the matching Coinpaprika /tickers/{coin_id} schema, and execute it for coin_id=btc-bitcoin

Key Endpoints

30 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for coinpaprika api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/tickers/{coin_id}

Get live ticker for a specific coin

GET

/coins/{coin_id}/ohlcv/historical

Retrieve historical OHLCV candles

GET

/contracts/{platform_id}/{contract_address}

Resolve a token by contract address

GET

/exchanges/{exchange_id}/markets

List markets on a specific exchange

GET

/price-converter

Convert amounts between two coins or fiat

GET

/search

Search coins, exchanges, tags, and people

GET

/global

Get global crypto market overview

GET

/tickers/{coin_id}

Get live ticker for a specific coin

GET

/coins/{coin_id}/ohlcv/historical

Retrieve historical OHLCV candles

GET

/contracts/{platform_id}/{contract_address}

Resolve a token by contract address

GET

/exchanges/{exchange_id}/markets

List markets on a specific exchange

GET

/price-converter

Convert amounts between two coins or fiat

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Coinpaprika API keys (for paid tiers) are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and injected into the Authorization header at execution. Free-tier calls require no key. Raw secrets never enter the agent's context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'get current cryptocurrency price') and Jentic returns the matching Coinpaprika operation with its parameter schema so the agent can call the right endpoint without browsing docs.

Time to first call

Direct integration: 1-2 days to wire up auth, paginate, and handle plan-tier base URLs. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

CoinGecko API

Broader free crypto data feed with social and developer metrics in addition to prices

Choose CoinGecko when you need community/developer score data or trending coin lists that Coinpaprika does not expose

Alternative

CoinMarketCap API

Commercial crypto market data with stricter free-tier limits but deeper historical archives

Choose CoinMarketCap when long-tail historical coverage and the listing-rank endpoint matter more than free-tier breadth

Complementary

Binance API

Live order books and trade execution to pair with Coinpaprika's market context

Pair with Coinpaprika when an agent needs both market analytics and the ability to actually place spot trades

Alternative

CoinAPI

Tick-level crypto market data across hundreds of exchanges

Choose CoinAPI when sub-second tick data and order-book depth across many venues are required

FAQs

Specific to using Coinpaprika API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Coinpaprika API?

Coinpaprika does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Coinpaprika API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the Coinpaprika API use?

Coinpaprika uses an API key passed in the Authorization header. The free tier on api.coinpaprika.com accepts unauthenticated requests, while Starter, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers require a key sent against api-pro.coinpaprika.com. Through Jentic the key is stored in the encrypted vault and injected at execution time so it never appears in agent prompts.

Can I get historical OHLCV data with the Coinpaprika API?

Yes. GET /coins/{coin_id}/ohlcv/historical returns historical candles at 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 6h, 12h, and daily intervals. The 5-minute interval was added in version 1.7.10. Pass start and end timestamps and the desired interval as query parameters.

What are the rate limits for the Coinpaprika API?

Limits are enforced as monthly call quotas: 20,000 on Free, 200,000 on Starter, 500,000 on Pro, 3,000,000 on Business, and unlimited on Enterprise. HTTP 429 is returned when the quota is exhausted.

How do I look up a token by contract address with the Coinpaprika API through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'lookup token by contract address', load the schema for GET /contracts/{platform_id}/{contract_address}, and execute it with platform_id (e.g. eth-ethereum) and the address. Jentic returns the matching ticker payload without any manual auth setup.

Is the Coinpaprika API free?

The Free plan covers 20,000 calls per month with access to most endpoints and requires no API key. Paid plans (Starter, Pro, Business, Enterprise) unlock higher quotas and the api-pro endpoint via the Authorization header.