Keyless by default · runs locally. No API key required — an optional CoinGecko Demo key raises the rate ceiling. Runs as a local stdio/HTTP server; there is no public hosted instance, since CoinGecko's terms do not permit redistributing their data. Data provided by CoinGecko.

Tools

Eight tools covering the crypto market-data spine — slug resolution first, then prices, ranked markets, deep coin profiles, historical series, trending, and global macro stats. CoinGecko keys all data by slug (bitcoin, ethereum), not ticker (BTC, ETH), so coingecko_search_coins is the entry point that feeds every ID-keyed tool.

| Tool | Description | |:---|:---| | coingecko_search_coins | Resolve a coin name or ticker symbol to a CoinGecko ID (slug). The required first step before any ID-keyed tool. | | coingecko_get_prices | Current price and core market stats for one or more coins in one or more currencies. Batch up to 250 slugs; reports unresolved ids in a missing field. | | coingecko_list_markets | Ranked market table — top coins by market cap, volume, or 24h change, optionally filtered to a category. | | coingecko_get_coin | Deep single-coin profile — description, links, market data, developer activity, community, sentiment. sections trims the large record. | | coingecko_get_market_chart | Historical price, market cap, and volume series. recent (last N days, auto-granularity) or range (explicit Unix-second window) mode. | | coingecko_get_trending | Coins trending on CoinGecko in the last 24 hours, by search volume. | | coingecko_get_global | Global crypto market snapshot — total market cap and volume, BTC/ETH dominance, active counts, ongoing ICOs, 24h change. | | coingecko_list_categories | Coin categories (category_id + display name) — the valid slugs for coingecko_list_markets's category filter. |

coingecko_search_coins

Resolve a name or ticker to the CoinGecko slug every other tool keys on.

• Tickers are not unique (many coins share ETH/USDC) — returns ranked candidates with id, symbol, name, and market_cap_rank to disambiguate
• Returns the top 25 matches by relevance; discloses truncation when the list is capped
• An empty result is a normal outcome (not an error), with guidance to broaden the query

coingecko_get_prices

Current price and core market stats (market cap, 24h volume, 24h change) for a batch of coins in a batch of currencies.

• Batch-friendly — pass a whole portfolio of up to 250 slugs in one call
• One row per (id, currency) that returned a price
• A wrong/unknown slug returns an empty 200 upstream rather than an error; this tool diffs requested-vs-returned ids and lists the gaps in a missing field, so a typo reads as "unresolved", not "nonexistent"
• Unsupported currency codes are silently dropped upstream and surfaced as a notice
• Throws all_missing only when no requested id resolved

coingecko_list_markets

The entry point for "top 20 DeFi coins" or "biggest gainers today".

• Sort by market cap, volume, or 24h price change (ascending or descending)
• Optional category filter — pass a category_id from coingecko_list_categories
• Pagination via page and per_page (up to 250 rows); discloses when a page is full
• Per-coin market fields: price, cap, volume, 1h/24h/7d change, supply, ATH/ATL
• Detects an unrecognized category (CoinGecko returns empty rather than erroring) and maps it to unknown_category

coingecko_get_coin

The full picture for "tell me everything about Ethereum".

• Six sections — profile, market, links, developer, community, sentiment; pass sections to fetch only what you need (the full record is large)
• Market figures denominated in a chosen vs_currency
• categories here are display names (e.g. "Layer 1 (L1)"), distinct from the category_id slugs returned by coingecko_list_categories
• Upstream is sparse — absent fields are omitted rather than fabricated

coingecko_get_market_chart

Historical series for trend and charting questions (use coingecko_get_prices for the current snapshot).

• recent mode: last N days, with granularity auto-scaling by span (≤1 day → ~5-min, 2–90 → hourly, >90 → daily); pass days (or "max")
• range mode: an explicit window via from/to as Unix seconds
• Returns timestamped point arrays for price, market cap, and volume
• Chart timestamps are Unix milliseconds (note: coingecko_get_prices last-updated is in seconds)

coingecko_get_trending

A heartbeat for "what's hot in crypto right now". No parameters.

• Coins trending by 24-hour search volume, with rank, USD price, and 24h USD change
• Upstream reports market cap and volume as pre-formatted display strings, not numbers — those are omitted rather than presented as numeric data

Resources and prompts

| Type | Name | Description | |:---|:---|:---| | Resource | coingecko://coin/{id} | Deep coin record by slug — same data as coingecko_get_coin (full record, USD market figures). | | Resource | coingecko://global | Global crypto market snapshot — same data as coingecko_get_global. | | Prompt | coingecko_coin_research | Guides a full single-coin research pass through the search → get_coin → get_market_chart → get_global chain. |

All resource data is also reachable via tools — the resources mirror coingecko_get_coin and coingecko_get_global exactly, so tool-only clients lose nothing. Large collections (markets, categories) are not exposed as resources; use coingecko_list_markets and coingecko_list_categories instead.

Features

Built on @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core:

• Declarative tool, resource, and prompt definitions — single file per primitive, framework handles registration and validation
• Unified error handling — handlers throw, framework catches, classifies, and formats
• Pluggable auth: none, jwt, oauth
• Swappable storage backends: in-memory, filesystem, Supabase, Cloudflare KV/R2/D1
• Structured logging with optional OpenTelemetry tracing
• STDIO and Streamable HTTP transports

CoinGecko-specific:

• Type-safe client for the CoinGecko v3 REST API, with one service method per endpoint
• Runs keyless on the public tier; an optional Demo API key (x-cg-demo-api-key) raises the rate ceiling with no other config change
• Calibrated retry/backoff on the rate-limited public tier — 429s, 5xx, and timeouts retry; Retry-After is honored
• Three distinct upstream error shapes mapped to typed reasons (404 → coin_not_found, 429 → rate_limited, the /simple/price silent miss handled as a missing field, not an error)

Agent-friendly output:

• Search-before-query enforced through descriptions — every ID-keyed tool states slugs-not-tickers and points back to coingecko_search_coins
• Provenance and graceful degradation — coingecko_get_prices reports unresolved ids and dropped currencies instead of failing; truncation and applied filters are disclosed via enrichment
• Units made explicit — timestamp fields document seconds vs. milliseconds so callers don't misread them
• Required CoinGecko attribution carried on every tool, resource, and prompt output

Getting started

Add the following to your MCP client configuration file. No API key is required — set COINGECKO_API_KEY only to attach the higher CoinGecko Demo tier (see Configuration).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "coingecko-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "bunx",
      "args": ["@cyanheads/coingecko-mcp-server@latest"],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE": "stdio",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "info"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or with npx (no Bun required):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "coingecko-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@cyanheads/coingecko-mcp-server@latest"],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE": "stdio",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "info"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or with Docker:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "coingecko-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run", "-i", "--rm",
        "-e", "MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE=stdio",
        "ghcr.io/cyanheads/coingecko-mcp-server:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

To attach a CoinGecko Demo key, add "COINGECKO_API_KEY": "your-demo-key" to the env block (or -e COINGECKO_API_KEY=your-demo-key for Docker).

For Streamable HTTP, set the transport and start the server:

MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE=http MCP_HTTP_PORT=3010 bun run start:http
# Server listens at http://localhost:3010/mcp

Refer to "your MCP client configuration file" generically — different clients use different config paths and this server isn't client-specific.

Prerequisites

• Bun v1.3.2 or higher (or Node.js v24+).
• No account or API key required to run. Optionally, a free CoinGecko Demo API key for a higher rate ceiling (10k calls/month, 100 req/min) over the shared keyless public pool.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/cyanheads/coingecko-mcp-server.git

2. Navigate into the directory:

cd coingecko-mcp-server

3. Install dependencies:

bun install

4. Configure environment (optional):

cp .env.example .env
# the server runs with no .env at all; edit only to set COINGECKO_API_KEY

Configuration

The server runs with zero configuration. The one server-specific variable is optional:

| Variable | Description | Default | |:---|:---|:---| | COINGECKO_API_KEY | Optional CoinGecko Demo API key. When set, it is sent as the x-cg-demo-api-key header for the dedicated Demo tier (10k/mo, 100 req/min); the base URL is unchanged. Absent → keyless public tier (shared, IP-throttled). | — | | MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE | Transport: stdio or http. | stdio | | MCP_HTTP_PORT | Port for the HTTP server. | 3010 | | MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH | HTTP endpoint path. | /mcp | | MCP_AUTH_MODE | Auth mode: none, jwt, or oauth. | none | | MCP_LOG_LEVEL | Log level (RFC 5424). | info | | LOGS_DIR | Directory for log files (Node.js only). | <project-root>/logs | | STORAGE_PROVIDER_TYPE | Storage backend. | in-memory | | OTEL_ENABLED | Enable OpenTelemetry instrumentation (spans, metrics, completion logs). | false |

See .env.example for the full list of optional overrides.

Rate limits and freshness. The keyless public tier shares an IP-throttled pool, so bursty multi-tool workflows can hit 429s under light load; the server backs off and retries, but cannot raise the ceiling — a free Demo key does. CoinGecko data refreshes roughly every 60 seconds and is not tick-level.

Running the server

Local development

• Build and run:

  # One-time build
  bun run rebuild
  
  # Run the built server
  bun run start:stdio
  # or
  bun run start:http

• Run checks and tests:

  bun run devcheck   # Lint, format, typecheck, security
  bun run test       # Vitest test suite
  bun run lint:mcp   # Validate MCP definitions against spec

Docker

docker build -t coingecko-mcp-server .
docker run --rm -e MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE=http -p 3010:3010 coingecko-mcp-server

The Dockerfile defaults to HTTP transport, stateless session mode, and logs to /var/log/coingecko-mcp-server. OpenTelemetry peer dependencies are installed by default — build with --build-arg OTEL_ENABLED=false to omit them.

Project structure

| Directory | Purpose | |:---|:---| | src/index.ts | createApp() entry point — registers tools/resources/prompts and inits the CoinGecko service. | | src/config | Server-specific environment variable parsing and validation with Zod. | | src/mcp-server/tools | Tool definitions (*.tool.ts). | | src/mcp-server/resources | Resource definitions (*.resource.ts). | | src/mcp-server/prompts | Prompt definitions (*.prompt.ts). | | src/services/coingecko | CoinGecko v3 REST API service — HTTP client, retry/error mapping, response normalization, domain types. | | tests/ | Unit and integration tests mirroring src/. |

Development guide

See CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md for development guidelines and architectural rules. The short version:

• Handlers throw, framework catches — no try/catch in tool logic
• Use ctx.log for request-scoped logging, ctx.state for tenant-scoped storage
• Register new tools and resources via the createApp() arrays in src/index.ts
• Wrap external API calls: validate raw → normalize to domain type → return output schema; never fabricate missing fields

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Run checks and tests before submitting:

bun run devcheck
bun run test

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE for details.