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Coinlayer

Coinlayer — free tier with API key

🪙 Crypto & Web3HEALTHYchecked 4h ago
AUTH APIKEYCORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

Coinlayer exposes a free-tier JSON API. Register for an API key if required; we verified a public or demo endpoint.

95HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
▶ Run liveDocs ↗
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 95 · healthy
Uptime history
99.44%90 days
100%30 days
337P50 · ms
1716P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 55 ms, slowest 932 ms, most recent 299 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.coinlayer.com/live

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": 101,
    "type": "missing_access_key",
    "info": "You have not supplied an API Access Key. [Required format: access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY]"
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.coinlayer.com/live"
const res = await fetch("https://api.coinlayer.com/live");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.coinlayer.com/live")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 2HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /live337 mschecked 4h ago
GET/livePROBED

Coinlayer — free tier with API key

GET/live?limit=5

Paginated variant with limit parameter.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Coinlayer: common questions

Is Coinlayer free to use?

Yes — Coinlayer is a free crypto & web3 API. Free tier: Free tier — key may be required. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Coinlayer need an API key?

Yes — Coinlayer needs a free API key, which you pass on each request. Rate limits: Unpublished.

Can I call Coinlayer from the browser?

Yes — Coinlayer returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Coinlayer up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Coinlayer is healthy with 99.44% uptime over 90 days and a 337 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.