CoinPaprika MCP: crypto market data in your AI app

Add CoinPaprika to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect CoinPaprika free. There's no sign-in, so its tools are ready at once.
2. 2CoinPaprika's tools look up market data. To keep your AI app focused, switch off the ones you don't use, such as `getPeopleById`, or `getTickerByContract` if you never look up tokens by address.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app for yesterday's daily candle for BTC, then open Activity to see the `getCoinOHLCVLatest` call.

Crypto market questions you can ask

• Get the current price, market cap and 24-hour change of a coin with `getTickersById`.
• Find where a coin trades, with per-market price and volume, using `getCoinMarkets`.
• Pull a coin's price at a past date with `getTickersHistoricalById`.
• Price a token by its contract address with `getTickerByContract`.
• Rank exchanges by volume and trust score with `getExchanges`.

CoinPaprika's server has 27 tools; these are a few. The full list is in ContextGate as soon as you add the connection.

Market data calls, on record

• Switch off any of the 27 tools; it's hidden from AI apps and refused if called.
• Policies check every call, so a wallet's private key pasted by mistake can be blocked.
• Activity records each CoinPaprika lookup your team makes.

What you get with CoinPaprika and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use CoinPaprikaClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach CoinPaprika through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any CoinPaprika tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

CoinPaprika tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in CoinPaprika. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• getCoinsList all available coins with id, name, symbol and rank. Use to discover coins or map a name to an id. Does NOT include prices; for prices use getTickers or get
• getCoinByIdGet descriptive project information about a coin: description, links, team and tags. Use for 'tell me about Uniswap', 'what is this project'. Does NOT include p
• getCoinEventsGet the timeline of events for a coin (launches, partnerships, hard forks, conference talks) with dates and descriptions. Use for 'what is happening with X', 'u
• getCoinExchangesList the exchanges that LIST a specific coin (venue names only). Use for 'which exchanges list X', 'is X on Coinbase', 'where is X listed'. For where to BUY wit
• getCoinMarketsGet the specific markets and trading pairs where a coin trades, with per-market price and 24h volume. Use for 'where can I buy X', 'X price on Binance', 'best m
• getCoinOHLCVLatestGet the latest full-day OHLC candle (open, high, low, close and volume) for a coin. Use for 'yesterday's candle for BTC'. For the live spot price use getTickers
• getCoinOHLCVTodayGet today's in-progress OHLC candle for a coin. Use for 'today's high and low for ETH'. For the current spot price use getTickersById; for yesterday's full cand
• getTickersGet current prices, market caps and 24h changes for the top cryptocurrencies ranked by market cap. Use for 'top 5 coins', 'top crypto today', 'biggest cryptocur
• getTickersByIdGet the current price, market cap, 24h change and volume of one cryptocurrency in USD or another quote currency. Use for 'what is the price of X', 'how much is
• getTickersHistoricalByIdGet a coin's price, market cap and volume at past times as point-in-time snapshots (not OHLC candles). Use for 'price of BTC last Tuesday', 'ETH market cap on 2
• getExchangesList exchanges tracked by CoinPaprika as a list ranked by rank, each with id, name, trust score, active market count and 24h volume. Use for 'top exchanges by v
• getExchangeByIDGet details for a specific exchange: 24h volume, market count, trust score, links and fiat support. Use for 'tell me about Binance', 'Coinbase exchange stats',
• getExchangeMarketsList the trading pairs (markets) on one exchange as a list, each with the pair, base and quote coin ids, latest price, 24h volume and category. Use for 'what pa
• getPeopleByIdGet the profile of one person in crypto by id: name, description or bio, teams_count, positions held, and linked projects plus social and code accounts. Use for
• getTagsList all CoinPaprika tags (categories such as 'defi', 'stablecoin', 'memecoin', 'ai') used to group coins, returned as a list with each tag's id, name, coin_cou
• getTagByIdGet details for one CoinPaprika tag (a category such as 'defi' or 'stablecoin'): its id, name, description, coin_counter, ico_counter, and optionally the coins
• getPlatformsList the smart-contract platforms (blockchains such as ethereum, bnb, polygon) for which CoinPaprika indexes token contracts. Use for 'which chains are supporte
• getContractsList the token contract addresses tracked on one platform as a list, mapping each contract to its CoinPaprika coin id. Use for 'contracts on ethereum', 'what to
• getTickerByContractGet the current price and market data of a token by its contract address (for on-chain and DeFi tokens). Use when you have a contract address (0x...) rather tha
• getHistoricalTickerByContractGet a token's price and market history by its contract address, as a time series. Use for 'token price on 2024-01-01 by address', 'hourly history for a contract