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CryptoDataDownload · Since 2017 data refreshed continuously

Crypto data, any format, unique depth.

Free OHLCV downloads. Browser-based analytics for working analysts. A full programmatic API with the first commercial ML feature store for crypto markets. All sourced from the same cleaned, reconciled warehouse — major exchanges, spot through derivatives, on-chain through US macro — delivered as CSV, JSON, or XLSX. Pick how you want to work.

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20+
data sources
1,500+
tradeable instruments
17+ yrs
on-chain history
112+
live API endpoints
26+
ML feature signals
The platform

Three ways to consume.

One canonical data warehouse, three modes of access. Pick the surface that matches how you work — a free CSV download, a browser-based analytics dashboard, or a programmatic API call. Same underlying tape, same quality checks, same daily refresh.

01.  Free downloads

CSV & XLSX, for everyone

Spot OHLCV from major exchanges since 2017 — Binance for the deepest pool, plus a historical archive across Bitstamp, Gemini, Bitfinex, and more. Daily, hourly, and 1-minute granularity. No login, no rate limits, no surprise paywall when you reach 10 MB. Drag the CSV straight into Excel; paste a URL into Python.

Best for academic research · one-off backtests · Excel users · students learning the tape
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02.  Plus+ web tools

Browser dashboards, no code

Pre-built analytics tools running off the same warehouse — no-code strategy backtester, asset risk profiles, options activity tracker, CFTC COT analysis, correlation heatmaps, market-pulse dashboards. Plus a curated data-science code library you can copy-paste straight into a notebook.

Best for working analysts · discretionary traders · anyone who lives in a browser
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Flagship 03.  Programmatic API

112 endpoints, ML feature store

A full REST API across markets, derivatives, on-chain, risk metrics, funding, US macro — plus 26 model-ready ML feature signals (regime tags, momentum cohorts, microstructure features) productized for the first time at this price point. Three output formats. Browser-friendly query strings. No SDK required.

Best for engineers · quants · research desks · ML pipelines
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Pricing

Pick the surface, not the cleanup.

Four tiers. Flat monthly pricing. We did the scraping, the validation, the reconciliation — you just pick the surface and start working. Cancel from your profile whenever; resume whenever.

Intro
Free

For new analysts getting their feet wet with the historical exchange tape.

  • All free historical data
  • Daily, hourly & 1-minute CSVs
  • Top exchanges & majors
  • Community support
  • No credit card required
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Plus+
$39.99/ month

For the analyst who wants the curated web tools alongside the data.

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Most popular CDD API
$79.99/ month

Programmatic access to the full data surface — markets, derivatives, risk, on-chain, and the ML feature store.

  • 112+ live endpoints · no held-back tier
  • 1,500+ instruments across spot, futures, options
  • ML feature store · 26 signals, growing
  • Options analytics, Greeks, IV surfaces
  • Risk indicators, correlations, multi-VaR
  • Cross-venue funding rates
  • On-chain data features (BTC + ETH)
  • US macro · Treasury · CFTC
  • JSON · CSV · XLSX outputs
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$99.99/ month

The complete bundle — Plus+ web tools and the full API surface, plus priority lanes for serious operators.

  • Everything in Plus+ & API
  • Custom data requests built to spec
  • Priority API rate limits
  • Direct developer support
  • Commercial-use license
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TRUSTED BY THE COMMUNITY

40,000+ Traders, Researchers & Students
Featured in 20+ published research studies on SSRN and arXiv

"CryptoDataDownload has been invaluable for my research. The quality and accessibility of their data is unmatched - I can find and download exactly what I need in minutes, not hours."

-Dr. Sarah M., Financial Researcher

"As a quantitative trader, having reliable, clean data is everything. This platform delivers exactly that - comprehensive crypto data that's easy to access and integrate into my trading systems."

-Marcus Chen, Quantitative Trader

"I've used this data for multiple academic papers. The convenience of having historical data from major exchanges in one place has saved me countless hours of data collection and cleaning."

-Prof. James Liu, Economics Department

"The user experience is fantastic - intuitive interface, fast downloads, and the data quality is consistently excellent. It's become an essential tool for my crypto analysis workflow."

-Rachel Torres, Data Analyst

"Thank you for making professional-grade crypto data accessible to students and researchers. Your platform has been crucial for my thesis on cryptocurrency market dynamics."

-Alex Kumar, PhD Student

"I love how easy it is to find specific datasets. The search functionality and organized structure make data discovery a breeze. Quality service that keeps getting better!"

-Nathan Williams, Portfolio Manager

"This platform has transformed how I approach crypto market research. The depth of historical data combined with the user-friendly interface makes complex analysis accessible."

-Elena Rodriguez, Investment Analyst


Differentiators

Tools you won't find anywhere else.

What distinguishes CryptoDataDownload from generic free-CSV sites and from enterprise-priced data terminals — built for the actual work crypto analysts, traders, and engineers do.

Only at CryptoDataDownload
Plus+

The Backtest Vault

Backtesters lose weeks on this — every platform wants a different file format, every exchange leaves gaps, every venue uses different timestamps. We solved it once. Pre-formatted, gapless, timestamp-aligned historical OHLCV files ready to drop directly into MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, TradeStation, AmiBroker, Zipline, and QuantConnect. 100+ cryptocurrencies covered. No other vendor formats for all six platforms at this price point — search the market and you'll find single-platform vendors at five-figure annual fees, or generic CSV that you'll convert yourself anyway. Skip both.

Best for systematic traders · platform-locked backtesters · strategy researchers · quant workflows where data prep is the bottleneck
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Free

Instant CSV downloads

Historical OHLCV from major cryptocurrency exchanges since 2017, downloadable as CSV or XLSX with no login, no rate limits, no paywall on the file size. Daily, hourly, and 1-minute granularity. The on-ramp every crypto analyst should bookmark — drag the file straight into Excel; paste the URL into Python.

Best for academic research · one-off backtests · learning the tape · students
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CDD API

REST API with bespoke aggregations

112 live endpoints across markets, derivatives, on-chain economics, risk metrics, US macro tape, plus 26 model-ready ML feature signals. Includes data layers most APIs omit entirely: CFTC Commitment of Traders, US Treasury yields, blockchain hashrate & difficulty, options Greeks & IV surfaces. JSON · CSV · XLSX. No SDK required.

Best for quants · engineers · research desks · ML pipelines · dashboard builders
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Plus+ analytics

Crypto risk analytics,
priced for the working analyst.

Value at Risk, Expected Shortfall, GARCH volatility forecasts, drawdown analysis — institutional-grade quantitative risk metrics for 400+ cryptocurrency assets, computed daily and presented in a browser dashboard. No quant fund subscription required.

400+
assets covered
6+
risk metrics per asset
Daily
refresh cadence
Browser
no install required
R.01

Value at Risk

Estimated worst-case daily loss at 95% and 99% confidence intervals — the standard quantitative measure of position risk, computed daily for every asset in the universe.

R.02

Expected Shortfall

Average loss in the worst 5% of days. Goes beyond VaR by capturing the depth of tail events, not just the threshold — the metric institutional risk teams quote when VaR alone undersells the danger.

R.03

GARCH volatility modeling

Generalized AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity — forecasts forward volatility from recent observations. Captures volatility clustering that simple historical estimates miss; surfaces regime shifts before they show in headline moves.

R.04

Historical stress testing

Asset performance during specific stress regimes — COVID-19 (March 2020), China mining ban (May 2021), FTX collapse (November 2022), banking turmoil (March 2023). Compare how holdings actually behaved when the tape broke.

R.05

Risk-adjusted returns

Sharpe, Sortino, and Calmar ratios computed daily across the universe — for comparing portfolios on a risk-normalized basis instead of headline returns. The ratios that distinguish smart performance from lucky performance.

R.06

Maximum drawdown

Peak-to-trough decline analysis with recovery-time statistics. Distinguishes assets that bounce back in weeks from those that take quarters to recover — the difference between a position you sit through and a position you shouldn't have taken.

Get the edge

Know your risk before it costs you.

Identify hidden portfolio risk before it impacts capital. Find the assets with the best risk-adjusted returns; avoid the ones built to devastate a quarter.

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Risk dashboards · daily refresh · browser-based · part of Plus+
Data Integrity

The minute-bar tape, without the holes.

Every cryptocurrency exchange has outages, maintenance windows, and bad timestamps. The 1-minute bars you don't notice missing are the ones that quietly break your backtest — false signals, broken slippage models, performance numbers that don't survive paper trading. We reconciled, filled, and validated the tape so your script doesn't have to.

The Problem

The minute you didn't notice missing. That's the one.

Pull 1-minute OHLCV for any major exchange and you'll find missing bars. Sometimes 30 seconds. Sometimes 30 minutes. Sometimes a full hour where the matching engine was offline. Your backtester silently interpolates the last close forward, or worse, returns the next available row as if no time passed. The model that looked profitable in research dies in paper trading, and you spend a week tracking down where the divergence started — usually buried in a row you never opened.

The Fix

Every minute accounted for. Every gap explained.

We rebuilt the 1-minute timeline. Every venue. Cross-validated against alternate sources. Filled where the upstream had a verifiable equivalent; flagged at the row level where it didn't. You always know whether a bar is raw exchange data, reconciled from an alternate venue, or interpolated — so your model can choose what to trust and your audit trail survives the next compliance review.

Stop chasing data ghosts. Subscribers download year-partitioned zero-gap files for every supported symbol — or stream the same series via the programmatic API.

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Plus+ analytics Beta

Strategy hypothesis in, equity curve out.

Describe a trading strategy in plain English — Buy when RSI < 30, sell when RSI > 70 — and the backtester runs it against 10+ years of Bitcoin spot history. No Python. No backtesting framework setup. Just the idea, the historical tape, and an equity curve.

A strategy that prints money in one regime can break in another. The backtester sweeps the full BTC tape — the 2020 COVID crash, the 2022 deleveraging, the long sideways stretches in between — so you see how the idea actually behaves across regimes, not just the one that's recent in your memory.

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Plus+ analytics

What the big players bought last Tuesday.

CFTC Commitment of Traders positioning data for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin futures listed on the CME, plus coverage of major crypto-related futures contracts traded elsewhere. Weekly snapshots of how dealers (market makers), asset managers (hedge funds, RIAs), and leveraged funds are positioned in regulated crypto derivatives.

The data lags four days by design — CFTC publishes Friday for the prior Tuesday snapshot — but it's the only authoritative source for what large institutional players actually held when retail saw the tape move. We pull every release, track the deltas across categories, and surface the trend before next week's headlines explain it.

BTC Bitcoin futures
ETH Ethereum futures
LTC Litecoin futures
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About CryptoDataDownload

Built before most exchanges did.

In late 2017, before the crypto data industry existed, we needed historical OHLCV for a research project and discovered no one was making it available — not the exchanges, not the data vendors, not the academic archives. So we built it ourselves: a daily archive of cryptocurrency prices, downloadable as CSV, free. Many of today's most popular exchanges did not exist yet; venues that mattered then are gone now.

Almost a decade later, that archive still ships every day at 00:00 UTC, plus everything we've built since: a quantitative risk-analytics surface, an ML feature store, a 112-endpoint programmatic API, pre-formatted backtesting files for six retail platforms, and a research blog with first-hand code. We are still the place analysts bookmark first when they need a clean cryptocurrency timeseries — and increasingly, the place they come back to when they need depth the cheap APIs don't carry.

Since 2017

First in free crypto data

One of the very first sources to publish free historical cryptocurrency OHLCV in downloadable CSV — daily, hourly, and 1-minute granularity across major exchanges. No login wall. No rate limits. No paywall on file size. The on-ramp a generation of crypto analysts learned the tape on.

Since 2020

Depth in quantitative analytics

Expanded into the analytics layer the cheap APIs skip — Value at Risk, Expected Shortfall, GARCH volatility forecasts, correlation grids, options Greeks, an ML feature store. Institutional-grade quant tools, priced for the working analyst rather than the desk that already has Bloomberg.

Frequently Asked

The questions analysts actually ask.

What our data covers, how it differs from the cheap APIs, how often it refreshes, and whether you can use it in commercial research.

What makes your data different from other crypto data providers?

We carry the analytics layer most APIs skip — tick-level OHLCV, on-chain blockchain metrics for Bitcoin and Ethereum, CFTC Commitment of Traders positioning, US Treasury yields, options Greeks & IV surfaces, multi-confidence Value at Risk, GARCH volatility forecasts, 70+ pre-calculated technical indicators, and a commercially-available ML feature store. Plus pre-formatted backtesting files for six retail platforms (MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, TradeStation, AmiBroker, Zipline, QuantConnect) that no other vendor packages together at this price.

Translation: the work other crypto-data vendors leave to you — cleaning, reconciling, formatting, computing the derived metrics — we already did.

How can I backtest trading strategies without programming knowledge?

Our no-code backtester lets you describe a strategy in plain English — e.g. "Buy when RSI drops below 30, sell when it rises above 70" — and runs it against a decade of Bitcoin history. No Python, no framework setup. Returns trade log, equity curve, and signal markers. Try the no-code backtester →

What is CFTC COT data and why should I care about it?

CFTC Commitment of Traders (COT) data shows positioning of large institutional players in regulated cryptocurrency futures markets — dealers (market makers), asset managers (hedge funds), and leveraged funds. Tracking when smart-money categories add or trim positions surfaces sentiment shifts before they show up in spot price. We carry COT for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and other major crypto futures contracts, updated weekly (Friday for prior Tuesday).

What's the difference between Plus+, API, and PRO subscriptions?

Plus+ gives you the browser-based analytics surface — risk profiles, COT tracker, no-code backtester, premium downloads, code library. For analysts who work in a browser.

CDD API gives you programmatic access to 112 endpoints across markets, derivatives, risk, on-chain, US macro, plus the ML feature store. For engineers, quants, and ML pipelines.

PRO is the bundle of both at a 17% discount — for shops that need the dashboards and the API.

Quick test: if you live in a browser, Plus+. If you write code, API. If both, PRO.

How frequently is your data updated?

OHLCV refreshes daily at 00:00 UTC. The delay buys us time to review, sanitize, gap-check, and enrich the data with derived layers (technical indicators, summaries, risk metrics) before it ships. CFTC COT updates Friday evening for the prior Tuesday — that's how the government provides it. API subscribers see data the moment it lands in the warehouse.

Can I use your data for commercial purposes or academic research?

Yes — both. Hedge funds, prop-trading firms, academic researchers, and fintech companies use our data in production. Build applications, design strategies, publish research, integrate into commercial products. We only ask that you don't redistribute raw datasets to third parties. For high-volume commercial use or vendor redistribution, contact us for enterprise licensing.

What format does the data come in? Can I convert it?

Free historical downloads ship as CSV. The API returns JSON, CSV, or XLSX — choose with the format= parameter. CSV opens directly in Excel; pandas.read_csv() reads the URL in one line; read.csv() in R handles the same. For programmatic conversions between formats, both Python and R have one-line converters built in.

What exchanges and cryptocurrencies do you cover?

20+ data sources with Binance as the deepest spot pool and Deribit as the derivatives leader. Historical archive includes Bitstamp, Gemini, Bitfinex, FTX (pre-collapse, for backtesting), Bittrex, KuCoin, OKX, Bybit, and others. Coverage spans 1,500+ tradeable instruments across spot, futures (USDT-M and COIN-M), and options. On-chain data covers Bitcoin since 2009 and Ethereum since 2015. US macro adds Treasury yields and CFTC COT.

Do you offer support for integrating your data?

Yes — comprehensive documentation, code examples in Python and R, and direct email support. Plus+ and PRO subscribers get priority response times. The Data Science Code Library ships ready-to-use scripts for common tasks: pulling data, computing risk metrics, building model features. For corporate clients we also offer consultations and bespoke data packages billed at an hourly development rate plus an ongoing subscription.

Can I cancel my subscription anytime?

Yes. Cancel from your profile any time — no long-term contracts, no cancellation fees, no minimum commitments. You keep access until the end of your current billing period, and any files you downloaded stay yours.

Still have questions?

Our team replies within one business day — same humans who built the platform.

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