Funding Finder vs Coinglass

A transparent comparison from someone who uses both. live scanner · pricing · API docs

TL;DR

Coinglass is the most comprehensive crypto derivatives data provider on the market and the right choice if you need a broad surface (liquidations, ETF flows, on-chain data, options, more). Funding Finder is a niche-focused alternative that does only cross-exchange funding-rate arbitrage, costs 5-6x less, and is open-source-friendly. Both are valid. Pick based on what you actually need.

Funding Finder ships with: 20 perpetual futures exchanges (~6,800 USDT-margined symbols), free tier with no signup, an autonomous hourly signals feed, an autonomous daily research blog, 10 free trader calculators, downloadable OSS data collector under MIT, and a single-glance ★ Now dashboard. Pricing starts at €5/mo.

If you spend <25% of your Coinglass usage on funding-rate data, stay on Coinglass. If you spend >75% of your usage on funding-rate data, Funding Finder will save you about $24-25 per month — or $0 if the free tier covers your needs.

Feature comparison

FeatureFunding FinderCoinglass
Free tier ✓ Free forever, 60 req/min, no signup Limited preview only, Hobbyist tier $29/mo
Cross-exchange funding-rate arbitrage ✓ Built-in main feature, ranked + filtered ✓ Standalone tab
Per-symbol funding interval correctness (4h, 1h) ✓ Fetched per-symbol from each venue ✓ Documented
Liquidity filter on both legs ✓ Default $1M, configurable Manual filter, no default safety
Slippage estimation per notional size ?notional=X param returns net APY Not exposed
Number of exchanges covered 20 (Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, MEXC, Hyperliquid, Gate.io, dYdX v4, Bitfinex, Kraken Futures, BingX, BitMEX, KuCoin, HTX, Phemex, BTSE, Coinbase International, Deribit, WhiteBit, Backpack) ~30 exchanges
Total perpetual symbols indexed ~6,800 USDT-margined perps (refreshed every 5 min) ~10,000+ across all derivatives
Cross-venue divergence (stddev-based, not just spread) /api/funding/divergence?signed=true ranks by std-dev with persistence filter Spread-based only
Autonomous hourly signals feed /signals + JSON + Atom RSS, no signup Manual / dashboard only
Autonomous daily research posts /research auto-generated, archive grows daily Manual blog updates
Free trader calculators ✓ 10 tools: funding fee, position size, liquidation, Kelly, etc. Not provided
Single-glance "Now" dashboard /now server-rendered, auto-refresh, OG dynamic for sharing Multi-tab interface
Liquidations data Roadmap only ✓ Full coverage
Open interest Not yet ✓ Per exchange + aggregated
ETF flows Not in scope
On-chain data Not in scope ✓ Selectable subset
Historical funding-rate data 24h free, 30 days Trader, 12 months Pro 180 days Hobbyist, more on higher tiers
REST API ✓ JSON + OpenAPI 3.1 spec, no key for free tier ✓ Documented, requires API key
CSV export ✓ Direct download endpoints
Telegram alerts ✓ Per-key, paid tier (€5+/mo) ✓ Premium tiers
Webhooks Pro tier (€15/mo)
Open-source data collector ✓ MIT license, self-hostable Closed-source
Self-host option ✓ Use the OSS collector + your own SQLite Hosted-only

Pricing

TierFunding FinderCoinglass
Free / Preview €0/mo · 60 req/min · 24h history · all exchanges Limited preview, no API access
Entry paid €5/mo (Trader) · 600 req/min · 30d history · alerts $29/mo (Hobbyist) · 30 req/min · 180d history
Mid tier €15/mo (Pro) · 3000 req/min · 12mo history · webhooks $79/mo (Startup) · 80 req/min · 360d history
Top tier Custom (DM for enterprise) $299+/mo (Standard) · 300 req/min · 720d history

The Trader tier on Funding Finder is roughly 1/6 the price of the Hobbyist tier on Coinglass while delivering 20x the rate limit on a narrower data surface. If your use case is funding-rate arbitrage or sentiment monitoring, the math is straightforward. If you need the broader Coinglass surface, the math is the opposite.

When you should pick Coinglass

When you should pick Funding Finder

An honest disclaimer

I built Funding Finder. I am not neutral. But I also subscribe to Coinglass and have for over a year — it's a great product for what it does, and I built Funding Finder because I wanted a focused alternative for one specific use case, not because Coinglass is bad. This page is intended to help you make the right decision for your workflow, not to dunk on the competition.

Verdict

If you're a retail trader or small quant team focused on funding-rate arbitrage and you find Coinglass's $29/mo entry plan painful, give Funding Finder's free tier a try. The free tier is genuinely free forever (no signup, no email) and covers 95% of what most traders need: 20 exchanges, ~6,800 perpetual symbols, divergence scanner, autonomous signals feed, daily research, 10 calculators. If you upgrade later, €5/month gets you the API access and history that the Hobbyist tier on Coinglass provides at 6x the price.

★ See Now Live dashboard Pricing