Trading
CoinAPI MCP connector
The CoinAPI connector brings live and historical crypto market data, including exchange rates, quotes, trades, order books and candles across exchanges, into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP client through one governed endpoint.
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How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
50 tools
How to connect
How to connect CoinAPI to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect CoinAPI once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick CoinAPI.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste a CoinAPI API key. One person generates a token in CoinAPI and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
CoinAPI MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
CoinAPI MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
CoinAPI MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Connect CoinAPI to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
Use cases
What teams do with CoinAPI through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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Trading
Check a price before placing an order
Ask for the current quote, recent trades and order book depth for a symbol on a specific exchange, then compare it with the same pair elsewhere before you act.
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Research
Pull candles for a backtest
Fetch daily or hourly open, high, low, close and volume history for a symbol over any date range, and have the agent summarize the trend or export the series for your model.
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Finance
Value crypto holdings at a set date
Look up the historical exchange rate for each asset on the reporting date and produce a valuation table in your reporting currency without opening a spreadsheet of CSV downloads.
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Treasury
Compare rates across exchanges
Get the exchange rate for a pair across every venue CoinAPI covers and spot where the spread is wide enough to matter before moving funds.
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Product
Keep asset and chain lists current
List the assets, chains, symbols and exchanges CoinAPI tracks, along with their icons, so a listing page or picker stays in step with what is actually traded.
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Risk
Monitor market metrics on a venue
Pull volume, open interest and other exchange metrics for the venues you rely on and get a plain language read on anything that has changed since last week.
Try asking
- “Show me today's BTC/USD exchange rate movement.”
- “Summarize order book depth for the top exchanges.”
- “List OHLCV trends for ETH over the last week.”
Compare
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for CoinAPI
All three can connect CoinAPI to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over CoinAPI tools | Allow or restrict single CoinAPI tools, per role or user. | App and action restrictions on the account. | Role permissions, down to the action. |
| Record of calls | One audit entry per CoinAPI call. | A History tab of tool calls. | A log of every tool call. |
| Single sign-on | SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. | SAML on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC on Enterprise. |
| Price | $15 per user per month. | 2 tasks per successful call. | Billed per tool call. |
Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.
Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.
AI tools
CoinAPI tools for your AI agents
50 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect CoinAPI, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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What connecting CoinAPI gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your CoinAPI account.
The agent
Ask CoinAPI questions, get live market answers.
Type a plain language question and get answers pulled from live CoinAPI records.
- exchange rates
- order books
- trades
- quotes
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Show me today's BTC/USD exchange rate movement.
Summarize order book depth for the top exchanges.
List OHLCV trends for ETH over the last week.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
One CoinAPI endpoint, every MCP client connects.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach CoinAPI through one governed org endpoint, no shared keys.
ElaichiMCP clientsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
50 CoinAPI tools, zero custom code.
Browse exchange rates, order books, trades and metrics without writing any code.
- List all CoinAPI exchange rates
- Get single CoinAPI exchange rate by ID
- List all CoinAPI ohlcv
- List all CoinAPI options
ElaichiToolsToolboxes
Every team gets its own CoinAPI toolbox.
Trading, research and risk teams each work from a toolbox scoped to their needs.
- Trading desk
- Research
- Risk
- Quant
ElaichiToolboxesShared connections
Share CoinAPI access, never share the credential.
See who connected each CoinAPI account and how many teams and members use it.
- Spot Trading
- Derivatives
- Market Data
- Research Feed
ElaichiConnectionsAudit log
Every CoinAPI call, logged and attributable.
See when, who and what happened on every CoinAPI call in one audit log.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
ElaichiAudit logLaunching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
CoinAPI data moves, a person still approves.
A schedule fetches CoinAPI records, drafts a digest, and waits for approval before posting back.
CoinAPI digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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Fetch exchange rates
CoinAPI
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
CoinAPI
Queued
Collections and dashboards
CoinAPI numbers, refreshed without a prompt.
A health dashboard tracks CoinAPI metrics and record volume by team on a schedule.
CoinAPI health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the exchange rates collection
Exchange rates
1,284 ↓ 12%
Order books
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Exchange rates created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Spot Trading 34%
Derivatives 27%
Market Data 21%
Research Feed 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect CoinAPI to Claude?
Two steps. In Elaichi, add the CoinAPI connector and paste in the API key from your CoinAPI account, which is the only sign-in CoinAPI needs, with no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in with your Elaichi account and CoinAPI market data is available in the conversation.
Does CoinAPI work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once CoinAPI is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect CoinAPI once and every client your team uses picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my CoinAPI data?
With CoinAPI connected, an agent can look up current and historical exchange rates, quotes, trades and order books for any symbol on any covered exchange, pull candle history for a date range, and list the assets, chains, symbols and exchanges CoinAPI tracks along with exchange metrics. It is a read connector, so the agent answers questions and builds tables from market data rather than placing trades. Because CoinAPI covers a lot of ground, short concrete asks such as "hourly candles for BTC on Coinbase last week" get better results than long sentences.
Does connecting CoinAPI give the AI everything in my CoinAPI plan?
An agent working through CoinAPI in Elaichi sees exactly what the API key you connected is entitled to, no more. If your CoinAPI plan limits certain exchanges, history depth or request volume, those limits apply to every call the agent makes. Elaichi can narrow that access further, for example to exchange rates only, but it can never widen what your CoinAPI key allows.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in CoinAPI?
The CoinAPI connector is read only, so an agent can look up rates, trades, order books and history but cannot place orders or change anything in your CoinAPI account. You can still restrict individual actions in Elaichi, for example hiding order book or historical data from a team that only needs exchange rates. A blocked action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other client, so no prompt can reach it.
What happens to a CoinAPI connection when someone leaves?
When you offboard someone in Elaichi, their access to CoinAPI through the endpoint ends at once, in every client they had set up. If they were using a shared CoinAPI connection, it keeps working for everyone else on the team. If the connection was theirs alone, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes CoinAPI from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client at the same time.
Does the CoinAPI MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. CoinAPI is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for CoinAPI?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use CoinAPI. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every CoinAPI call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for CoinAPI?
Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to CoinAPI: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put CoinAPI in front of your team
14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
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and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
- When the trial ends
- Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.