get https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price
This endpoint allows you to query the prices of one or more coins by using their unique Coin API IDs, symbols, or names
Tips
- You may obtain the coin ID (API ID) via several ways:
- refers to respective coin page and find βAPI IDβ.
- refers to
/coins/list
endpoint.- refers to Google Sheets here.
- You can retrieve specific coins using their unique
ids
,names
, orsymbols
.- You may flag to include more data such as market cap, 24hr volume, 24hr change, last updated time etc.
- To verify if a price is stale, you may flag
include_last_updated_at=true
in your request to obtain the latest updated time. Alternatively, you may flaginclude_24hr_change=true
to determine if it returns anull
value.
Notes
- You may cross-check the price on CoinGecko and learn more about our price methodology here.
- When multiple lookup params are provided, the following priority order is applied:
ids
(highest) >names
>symbols
(lowest).- When searching by
name
, you need to URL-encode any spaces (e.g."Binance Coin"
becomes"Binance%20Coin"
).- The
include_tokens=all
param is exclusively for use with thesymbols
lookup and is limited to maximum of 50 symbols per request.- Wildcard searches are not supported for lookup params (
ids
,names
,symbols
).- Cache/Update Frequency: every 60 seconds for Public API.
- Every 20 seconds for Pro-API (Analyst, Lite, Pro, Enterprise).