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CoinGecko

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Service page:Blocked to automated checksDocumentation:Not found at a conventional addressTerms:Not found at a conventional addressCorporate entity:Not established at this checkRubric:v2.0 · verified 9 Aug 2026

Kayla PetersonDeFi Research Analyst· Last verified August 9, 2026

Confidence CRubric v2.0Verified August 9, 2026

2.3

out of 10

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Scorecard

How it rates

Counterparty & operator risk · 25%3.0

Cost transparency · 25%2.0

Product transparency · 25%2.0

Operator transparency · 15%1.0

Public documentation surface · 10%4.0

Pros

Tracked and verifiable from public sources at this check

Cons

Terms not found at a conventional public address
No documentation or FAQ found at a conventional address
Corporate entity not established from public sources

How this score was built

Each indicator scores 2, 1 or 0. A pillar is the points earned over the points available; the overall score is the weighted sum. Every source below is public — check any of them yourself.

Counterparty & operator risk · 25% weight3/10 points · 3.0/10

Partial
Service reachable at a public address
Published at a documented URL; automated retrieval blocked at this check.
www.coingecko.com/
Not met
Terms and conditions published
Not found at a conventional address at this check.
Not met
Documentation or FAQ published
Not found at a conventional address at this check.
Partial
Operator identifiable from published material
Service published under its own domain; corporate entity not established at this check.
www.coingecko.com/
Partial
No custody of user funds claimed in this assessment
Custody arrangements are not verifiable from the desk and are not scored.
www.coingecko.com/

Cost transparency · 25% weight2/10 points · 2.0/10

Not met
Pricing or fee information published
Not found at a conventional address at this check.
Partial
Information readable without an account
Published at a documented URL; automated retrieval blocked at this check.
www.coingecko.com/
Not met
Rates displayed publicly
Not available at this check.
www.coingecko.com/
Not met
Terms describe charges
Not found at this check.
Partial
Service address published
Published at a documented URL; automated retrieval blocked at this check.
www.coingecko.com/

Product transparency · 25% weight2/10 points · 2.0/10

Partial
Public service page
Published at a documented URL; automated retrieval blocked at this check.
www.coingecko.com/
Not met
Documentation or FAQ
Not found.
Not met
Terms published
Not found.
Partial
Independent verification possible without an account
Automated access blocked at this check.
www.coingecko.com/
Not met
Operator entity disclosed
Not established from public sources at this check.

Operator transparency · 15% weight1/10 points · 1.0/10

Partial
Service resolves to automated verification
Published at a documented URL; automated retrieval blocked at this check.
www.coingecko.com/
Not met
Terms documentation published
Not found.
Not met
Support or FAQ published
Not found.
Not met
Corporate entity identifiable
Not established from public sources at this check.
Not met
Regulatory status published
Not established from public sources at this check.

Public documentation surface · 10% weight4/10 points · 4.0/10

Partial
Service reachable
Published at a documented URL; automated retrieval blocked at this check.
www.coingecko.com/
Not met
Documentation reachable
Not found.
Not met
Terms reachable
Not found.
Partial
No account required to read the above
Automated access blocked.
www.coingecko.com/
Met
Service published under its own domain
Confirmed.
www.coingecko.com/

A widely used independent reference for crypto prices, market data and exchange rankings, including a trust-score methodology for evaluating venues.

Our assessment

CoinGecko provides the same core service as the market's largest price reference and is not owned by an exchange. In a sector where the most-read exchange ranking belongs to an exchange, independent ownership is the point rather than a detail.

Trust score, and why we use it

CoinGecko publishes a trust score for exchanges built from order-book depth, spreads, reported-versus-estimated volume and other observable inputs. It is imperfect and it is a published, reproducible methodology applied uniformly — which is why we use its ranking to select which exchanges enter our comparison rather than choosing them ourselves.

The limits of aggregated market data

Reported volume is self-reported by venues, supply figures depend on issuer disclosure, and a market capitalisation on a thin token is last price times a number somebody supplied. Aggregators mitigate this with estimation methods rather than solving it. Read any single figure for a small-cap asset as an approximation.

Free, with paid API tiers

The web product is free and the API has free and paid tiers. Fourteen of our indicators found nothing published at conventional addresses and ten more returned automated-verification blocks, producing a low documentation score for a product most of the industry uses daily.

Who it suits

CoinGecko fits anyone who wants prices and market data from a source with no exchange affiliation, and anyone comparing venues who wants a published methodology behind the ranking. For on-chain and protocol-level data, DefiLlama and Dune are the right tools.

Reference

Frequently asked

Does this score mean CoinGecko is trustworthy?

No. It measures what is published and reachable before use: the service, its terms and its documentation. Custody, routing and corporate structure are not tested by us.

Why do all providers score zero on corporate entity?

Because this class of service rarely publishes it. The indicator is identical for every provider in the category, so the comparison stays fair.

Are rates or spreads compared here?

No. Verifying quoted rates requires live transactions, which we do not perform. The rubric covers disclosure, not execution.