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Market-data API evaluation should decide whether 0xArchive, a native venue API, a broad data vendor, a node provider, or an analytics platform is the right primitive for the job. Do not start with a vendor logo. Start with the record the product needs, the venue family, the history window, the depth requirement, and the evidence path.

Evaluation Checklist

1

Classify the record

Decide whether the product needs venue market data, chain state, wallet/contract indexing, execution, analytics, or raw file exports.
2

Classify the venue

For 0xArchive, choose Hyperliquid core, Hyperliquid Spot, HIP-3, HIP-4, or Lighter.
3

Name the data family

Order books, trades, liquidations, candles, funding, OI, L3, L4, order events, replay, and exports are different jobs.
4

Demand route and schema evidence

A credible API should show exact routes, auth, parameters, examples, response envelope, error behavior, and request IDs.
5

Gate reliability

Check coverage, freshness, incidents, latency, rate limits, and data gaps before production or model usage.
6

Check agent and codegen support

Prefer OpenAPI, Markdown docs, examples, SDKs, CLI, MCP, or Skills when coding agents or generated clients are part of the workflow.
7

Check rights and delivery

Internal research and Parquet exports are permitted. Materially transformed derived products and ordinary customer-facing use are permitted when they do not expose or allow reconstruction of original records. Benchmarks, indices, financial products, standalone or substitute market-data products, raw redistribution, and white-label or OEM delivery require prior written permission.

Fit Matrix

API Evaluation Checklist

Use this checklist when comparing vendors or asking an agent to score an API.

Evidence To Request

For 0xArchive, evidence means a generated OpenAPI route, a bounded request, a response envelope with meta.request_id, a schema or export definition, and a data-quality check. For another provider, ask for the same evidence in its own terms. If a provider cannot show route, schema, freshness, gap behavior, and rights boundaries for your exact workflow, the evaluation is not complete.

Next Step

Use Best Market Data API, Crypto Data Vendors Vs Venue Archives, and Market Data APIs For Backtesting for more specific buying contexts.
Last modified on August 13, 2026