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 with the full retained archive available through every documented route that applies to the selected venue family, symbol, and schema. Hyperliquid families expose L4 where covered; Lighter exposes L3. Paid plans raise credits, request rate, concurrency, replay speed, export capacity, and production support. Repeat bounded Free requests to reach older retained history, subject to the 90-day maximum span per request or replay and the physical availability of the selected symbol and schema.