🪙 Crypto MCP Server — CoinGecko Prices, Market Caps, OHLCV & DEX Data for AI Agents

MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for cryptocurrency market data. Live prices, market caps, 24h volume, OHLCV history, and trending coin data — sourced from CoinGecko-grade endpoints and surfaced as MCP tools for Claude, Cursor, Cline, and any MCP-compatible agent. Built as a drop-in alternative to CoinMarketCap Pro, CryptoCompare paid tiers, Messari Enterprise, and base-LLM hallucinated crypto prices.

Why Crypto MCP Beats CoinGecko Pro, CoinMarketCap Pro, CryptoCompare & Generic LLMs

Feature	NexGenData Crypto MCP	CoinGecko Pro API	CoinMarketCap Pro	CryptoCompare Paid	Generic LLM (no tools)
Cost	$0.002 / event, pay-per-event	$129+ / month base	$79+ / month base	$79+ / month base	Free (hallucinated prices)
MCP-native	Yes — drop into Claude / Cursor	No	No	No	No tools
Live prices (10k+ coins)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Stale, hallucinated
Market cap + 24h volume	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	None
OHLCV history (1d / 7d / 30d / 1y / max)	Yes	Plan-gated	Plan-gated	Plan-gated	None
Trending coins + categories	Yes	Yes	Plan-gated	Plan-gated	None
AI-agent integration	Native MCP — any client	Build it yourself	Build it yourself	Build it yourself	N/A
Auth	Apify token	API key + plan	API key + plan	API key + plan	None
Monthly minimum	None	$129+	$79+	$79+	None

Most crypto-product teams pick this MCP server because it is cheaper than CoinGecko Pro for low-volume agent traffic, the only MCP-native alternative to building a CoinMarketCap API wrapper, and ships live OHLCV that base Claude / GPT-4 cannot fetch (and notoriously hallucinates). A trading-research agent answers "what's BTC, ETH, and SOL doing today vs their 30-day high?" with verified live data instead of guesses.

Tools Exposed via MCP

• get_coin_price — current price, market cap, 24h volume, change %
• get_coin_history — OHLCV history (1d / 7d / 30d / 1y / max)
• search_coins — fuzzy search by name / symbol
• get_trending_coins — top trending in last 24h
• get_global_market_data — total market cap, dominance, fear & greed
• get_coin_details — categories, links, social, dev activity
• get_exchange_data — top exchanges by volume

Use Cases

• AI trading research agents — answer multi-coin price questions with real data
• Crypto newsletters — auto-generate daily market wraps with verified prices
• Portfolio dashboards — back AI portfolio analysis with live MCP-sourced data
• Quant strategy backtests — pull historical OHLCV for any coin via tool call
• Sentiment-driven trade ideas — combine with Reddit / news MCPs for cross-signal
• Crypto tax tools — historical cost-basis lookups at tool-call latency
• DeFi research — quick token + protocol metadata lookups for agent flows

Connect to Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nexgendata-crypto": {
      "url": "https://nexgendata--crypto-mcp-server.apify.actor/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

Quick Start (Python)

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/crypto-mcp-server").call(run_input={
    "tool": "get_coin_price",
    "params": {"coin_ids": ["bitcoin", "ethereum", "solana"]}
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Pricing — Pay Per Tool Call

• Actor start: $0.0001
• Tool call: $0.0020

1,000 price lookups = $2.00. A daily 100-coin dashboard refresh = $0.20/day. No monthly minimum.

Related NexGenData MCP Servers & Finance Actors

Use case	Actor
Finance & markets MCP (stocks + ETFs + crypto)	finance-mcp-server
News MCP (crypto headlines)	news-mcp-server
Reddit MCP (r/cryptocurrency sentiment)	reddit-mcp-server
YouTube media MCP (crypto channel videos)	youtube-media-mcp-server
Social content MCP (X crypto chatter)	social-content-mcp-server
Web-scraping MCP (any URL, AI agents)	web-scraping-mcp-server
Premium B2B data MCP (crypto-fund enrichment)	premium-data-mcp-server
Developer tools MCP (GitHub repo activity)	developer-tools-mcp-server
26-server gateway (crypto + 25 more)	enterprise-mcp-gateway
Yahoo Finance MCP (crypto on Yahoo)	yahoo-finance-mcp-server

FAQ

Q: How fresh is the price data? A: Every tool call hits live upstream feeds — typical lag 30-60 seconds vs the source exchange.

Q: Does it cover stablecoins, meme coins, and long-tail altcoins? A: Yes — coverage tracks the underlying source (10,000+ coins, including most CoinGecko-listed assets).

Q: Can my agent place trades? A: No — this is read-only market data. Trade execution belongs in your exchange's own API for legal / KYC reasons.

Q: How does this compare with the free CoinGecko public API? A: The free CoinGecko API is rate-limited and lacks an MCP front. This actor wraps it (and adds fallback sources) with MCP-native ergonomics and Apify proxy rotation.

Q: Is OHLCV granular enough for trading models? A: Daily granularity is broadly available; hourly + minute granularity is exchange / coin dependent.

Q: Is there a free tier? A: Apify gives every new account free monthly credits — enough for several thousand free tool calls before any payment.

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How NexGenData Pricing Works

Every NexGenData actor uses pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for results that actually land in your dataset. No monthly minimum, no seat fees, no surprise overage bills.

• Actor Start: a single-event charge each time you spin the actor up (scaled to memory size)
• Result / tool call: charged per item written to the default dataset or per MCP tool call
• No charge for retries, internal proxy rotation, or failed sub-requests — those are absorbed by the platform

Apify Platform Bonus

New to Apify? Sign up with the NexGenData referral link — you get free platform credits on signup (enough for several thousand free results) and you help fund the maintenance of this actor fleet.

Integration Surface

Every actor in the NexGenData catalog can be triggered from:

• Apify console — point-and-click run
• Apify API — REST + webhooks
• Apify Python / JS SDKs — programmatic batch
• Zapier, Make.com, n8n — official integrations
• MCP — many actors are exposed as MCP tools for Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor agents
• Schedules — built-in cron for daily / weekly / monthly runs
• Webhooks — POST results to any HTTPS endpoint on dataset write

Support

NexGenData maintains 260+ Apify actors and ships updates regularly. Bug reports via the Apify console issues tab get a response within 24 hours. Roadmap requests are welcome — high-demand features ship in the next version.

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