Chainalysis vs CoinGecko

Chainalysis4.1/5

VS

CoinGecko4.4/5

Feature	ChainalysisVisit	CoinGeckoVisit
Ratings
Our score	4.1/5	4.4/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Data quality	5.0	4.5
Features	4.5	4.0
Pricing	2.0	4.0
Ease of use	4.0	4.5
Coverage	4.5	5.0
Specs
Tool type	On-chain analytics	Market data, Portfolio tracker
Free plan	Not disclosed	Yes
Paid plans from (per month)	Not disclosed	$29
Chains covered	Not disclosed	360
API access	Yes	Yes
Alerts	Yes	Yes
Mobile app	Not disclosed	Yes
Wallet tracking	Yes	Not disclosed
NFT data	Not disclosed	Yes
Company
Founded	2014	2014
Headquarters	United States	Singapore
Investors	Archetype, Digital Currency Group	Not disclosed
Strengths and weaknesses
Pros	Used by over 50 global regulatory agencies and 1,500 institutions Assisted in seizing, freezing, or recovering over $34 billion in illicit assets Reactor clustering methodology has withstood Daubert evidentiary review in federal court Real-time transaction alerts integrate directly into exchange compliance pipelines	Tracks more than 22,000 tokens and 1,500 exchanges globally Covers onchain activity across more than 360 blockchain networks Free web and mobile portfolio tracking without mandatory account KYC SOC 2 Type 2 compliant enterprise API with 99.9% uptime SLA
Cons	No free plan or self-serve individual tier available Requires enterprise demo and custom sales contract pricing Probabilistic clustering heuristics have faced scrutiny regarding reproducible court evidence Not built for retail portfolio tracking or personal yield analytics	Paid API plans start at $35 per month Free API plan enforces strict rate limits that restrict heavy usage DEX and low-volume pairs are vulnerable to bad ticks or lagged reporting Portfolio tracker relies on manual entry rather than automated wallet syncing
Best for	Centralized exchange AML teams, Law enforcement investigators, Financial regulators and tax agencies	Traders tracking multi-chain market trends, Developers building apps requiring token pricing, Researchers monitoring crypto market capitalization

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