Every new account starts on the Free tier described here, no card required. Use it for fit checks and ongoing no-cost building; upgrade to Build or Pro when you need higher limits. For the fastest first request, see Free Crypto Data API.
What to confirm first
Starter workflow
1
Create a key
Use the dashboard key flow and keep the key in an environment variable or secret store.
2
Run the quickstart
Make one authenticated request and confirm
success, data, and meta.request_id.3
Choose the real route family
Move from the quickstart example to the route family your actual job needs.
4
Add quality and limit gates
Before looping, add data-quality preflight, rate-limit handling, and a bounded output plan.
Plan envelope
Free is a fit-check lane that includes every market, route, schema, and served depth, with history limited to the most recent rolling 30 days and a maximum 30-day span per request or replay. Hyperliquid families expose L4 where covered; Lighter exposes L3. Published route access is not a higher-tier feature. Plans gate capacity and Free’s 30-day history window, not route families, schemas, or served depth. Build and above keep the full retained archive, and paid plans also raise credits, request rate, concurrency, standard replay speed, export capacity, request-window capacity, and production support. History older than the rolling 30-day window is out of range for Free requests and replays, subject on any plan to the physical availability of the selected symbol and schema.