Pros & Cons
- Liquidation heatmaps and funding rates aggregated across many exchanges
- Core features usable without an account
- Open interest and long-short ratios in one place
- iOS and Android apps with liquidation and price alerts
- Clear presentation even for newcomers
- Commercial data use only permitted from the third API tier
- Limited historical depth on the free tier
- The free liquidation heatmap covers only BTC and ETH; all coins and auto refresh require Prime (US$28 a month, web only)
- Billing in US dollars
- Data describes market activity, it does not forecast it
- Millions of labelled wallets as the standout feature
- Tracking of movements by large market participants
- Token, NFT and DeFi analysis in one interface
- Alerts on larger movements
- Detailed wallet profiles
- No permanently free tier
- Pricing at the upper end of the comparison
- Address labels are the provider's attributions, not confirmed identities
- No mobile app
Score Comparison
Features
- Derivatives data specialist
- Liquidation heatmaps as the standout feature
- Free core features
- Four API tiers plus enterprise
- Coinglass Prime subscription from US$28 a month or US$268 a year
- Part of CoinMarketCap since September 2026, with brand, app, API and pricing unchanged
- Labelled wallets in the millions
- Tracking of large capital movements
- Wallet profiler
- Real-time notifications
The five areas head to head
AI AnalysisFees & Costs
The central dashboards are free and usable without an account, with historical depth the main limitation, and the free liquidation heatmap only covers BTC and ETH. The Coinglass Prime subscription unlocks it for all coins with longer time ranges and automatic refresh: US$28 a month, US$78 a quarter or US$268 a year, currently on the website only. API access is tiered at 29, 79, 299 and 699 US dollars a month, or 348, 948, 3,588 and 8,388 US dollars a year when billed annually, plus an enterprise tier on request. Important for commercial use: only the 299-dollar tier and above covers it. As of 1 November 2026.
There is no permanently free tier; entry runs through demo or trial access. The paid tiers sit at the upper end of this comparison, and API access and custom data feeds are reserved for enterprise plans. Plan tiers and pricing change several times a year in practice and should be checked directly with the provider before subscribing. As of August 2026.
Usability & User Experience
The dashboards stay legible despite the data density and are navigable without prior knowledge; the heatmaps are immediately intuitive. As of August 2026.
The dashboard is professionally built and offers numerous specialised views with extensive filters; the range takes some getting used to at first. There is no mobile app. As of August 2026.
Features & Offering
The core is liquidation heatmaps, funding rates, open interest and long-short ratios, each aggregated across several exchanges. Options data, exchange inflows and outflows, a fear and greed index and large-transaction notifications round this out. iOS and Android apps deliver liquidation and price alerts. As of August 2026.
The foundation is labelled wallet addresses that attribute transactions to economic actors. On top sit token analysis dashboards, an NFT suite, DeFi insights, a wallet profiler, alerts on larger movements and detection of conspicuously active contracts. As of August 2026.
Details
Verdict
In our overall rating CoinGlass leads with 4.4 against 4.1 for Nansen.
For most investors CoinGlass is therefore the better choice.
Coinglass occupies a clear niche. Where the large aggregators cover prices and market capitalisation, this is about what happens in the derivatives market. Liquidation heatmaps, funding rates, open interest and long-short ratios are consolidated across numerous exchanges: data that would otherwise have to be assembled venue by venue. In September 2026, CoinMarketCap acquired Coinglass; according to the announcement, the brand, team, website, app, API and pricing remain unchanged.
For most retail users the free tier is already workable: the central dashboards are viewable without an account, with historical depth the main limitation. The free liquidation heatmap, however, only covers BTC and ETH; all coins, longer time ranges and automatic refresh come with the Coinglass Prime subscription at US$28 a month, US$78 a quarter or US$268 a year, currently on the website only. API access is tiered from 29 to 699 US dollars a month plus an enterprise tier on request.
Two points matter for usage. Commercial use of the data is only permitted from the third API tier, so anyone embedding the data in their own product cannot use the cheaper plans. And the data describes market activity rather than forecasting it: liquidation heatmaps show where positions cluster, not where prices will go.
Nansen's distinguishing feature is labelled wallets. Millions of addresses are attributed to actors — funds, exchanges, protocols, conspicuously successful traders. That turns an anonymous transaction into readable information: not that address 0x… is buying, but what kind of actor is moving.
The remaining features build on that: token analysis, NFT analytics, DeFi insights, alerts on larger movements and a wallet profiler. For users who want to follow capital flows of large addresses, this is the most specialised preparation in the comparison.
Access is the biggest hurdle: there is no permanently free tier, and entry runs through demo or trial access. Plan tiers and pricing change several times a year in practice and should be checked directly with the provider before subscribing. There is also a methodological limitation worth knowing: address labels are the provider's attributions, not confirmed identities — and the fact that a successful address is buying is not a recommendation to act.