BCA · Crypto Brain
pricing · 5 tiers · scale when you ship

Free to start. Scale when you ship.

Every tier uses the same endpoint and envelope. Upgrade unlocks more tools, not a different product. Install as MCP or CLI in 30 seconds.

CoinGecko Analyst$129CoinGecko Lite$499Messari Pro$500Kaito Pro$1k+→ BCA Pro $49
Free
$0
2,000 calls / mo

Kick the tires with 2,000 calls/month. No card, no clock.

  • Core read tools (market, news, entities)
  • 30-day history depth
  • Community support (Discord)
  • Attribution required on responses
  • Rate limit: 1 req/sec
Get free API key →
Starter
$9/mo
25,000 calls / mo

Enough headroom for a side project agent running 24/7.

vs CoinGecko Analyst $129/mo — 93% less
  • Everything in Free
  • OHLC candles + DEX pair data
  • 90-day history depth
  • Risk Score indicator
  • Email support (48h)
  • Rate limit: 5 req/sec
Start Starter →
Pro
$49/mo
250,000 calls / mo

The one 95% of agent workloads want. All 6 indicators, all 11 agent-backed tools, time-travel included.

vs CoinGecko Lite $499/mo — 90% less · vs Messari Pro $500/mo
  • Everything in Starter
  • All 6 proprietary indicators
  • Agent-backed tools (deep-researcher, pitch-rater, academy-builder)
  • 1-year history + as_of time-travel
  • Webhooks + batch calls
  • Email support (24h) · 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Rate limit: 30 req/sec
Go Pro →
Team
$199/mo
1,500,000 calls / mo

5 seats, 50 agent jobs/day, custom indicator weights. For teams who need the output tomorrow.

vs Kaito Pro $1k+/mo — 80% less · vs CoinGecko Pro $999/mo
  • Everything in Pro
  • 5 seats included · $20/seat after
  • 50 agent jobs/day
  • Custom indicator weights
  • 3-year history depth
  • Slack support (4h response)
  • Rate limit: 100 req/sec
Go Team →
Enterprise
Custom
Unlimited

Negotiated call volume, data residency, contractual SLA, dedicated engineer. Usually 80% less than Messari Enterprise.

Under Messari Enterprise — typically 80% less
  • Everything in Team
  • Unlimited calls (negotiated)
  • Data residency + custom retention
  • 99.99% contractual SLA
  • Dedicated engineer + Slack Connect
  • Bulk Parquet export
  • Private custom tools
Contact us →

All prices USD · billed monthly via Stripe · cancel anytime, no contract lock-in on Starter / Pro / Team

install · two paths · one api key

Run it as an MCP or as a CLI.

Same endpoint, same auth, same envelope. Pick whichever fits your workflow — or use both. Your API key works identically across the JS MCP, the Python CLI, and direct HTTP.

01 · MCP · Claude · Cursor · any client
npm
npx -y @blockchainacademics/mcp
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bca-crypto-brain": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@blockchainacademics/mcp"],
      "env": { "BCA_API_KEY": "your-key-here" }
    }
  }
}
npm →GitHub →Setup docs →
02 · CLI · scripts · agents · shell
PyPI · bca-mcp 0.2.0
pip install bca-mcp
First three commands
$ bca login
$ bca news search "bitcoin etf"
$ bca agent summarize-whitepaper https://example.com/paper.pdf
PyPI →GitHub →CLI docs →

Also works as plain HTTP / SSE — see api.blockchainacademics.com/docs for the OpenAPI spec.

tools · 99 across 19 categories

One API key. Ninety-nine tools.

CoinGecko, DefiLlama, Etherscan, Helius, DexScreener — plus our own editorial corpus, indicators, and agent jobs — unified behind a single endpoint and envelope.

Content
07tools
News search, entities, explainers, topic graph.
Market
04tools
Spot prices, OHLC candles, DEX pair data.
On-chain
04tools
Wallet profiles, tx lookups, holder distribution.
Sentiment
03tools
BCA editorial sentiment + social pulse.
Indicators
06tools
6 proprietary signals: risk, coverage, narrative.
Agent jobs
09tools
Async research, memos, theses, tokenomics.
Directories
11tools
MCPs, jobs, conferences, hackathons, exploits.
Fundamentals
30tools
Tokenomics, unlocks, airdrops, TGE calendar.
Meta / ops
32tools
Rate limits, auth, health, attribution envelope.
Browse all 99 tools
baseline · shipped on every tier

What's in every plan.

Attribution, citations, and a global CDN ship at $0. We don't paywall the table stakes.

  • Attribution envelope

    Every response ships with cite_url + source_hash. Your agent's answers have provenance built in.

  • 99 tools · one auth

    CoinGecko, DefiLlama, Etherscan, Helius, DexScreener plus our corpus — unified behind a single API key.

  • Citation tracking

    BCA articles cited in AI answers are tracked via llms.txt + cite_url. Publishers see where their work lands.

  • Global CDN

    Responses cached at edge in Redis + Cloudflare. p50 latency under 180ms anywhere in the world.

  • 99.9% uptime SLA

    Pro and above get an uptime commitment; Enterprise gets a contractual one. Status at /status, live.

pricing faq · billed honestly

Billing questions, answered directly.

If it's not here, email hello@blockchainacademics.com — same-day reply during weekdays.

  • Paid tiers: checkout through Stripe, the webhook mints a key and emails it within ~30 seconds. Free tier: request via the form on /api-key-request (coming soon) — we email you a key without a card.
enterprise · on-prem · sla

Above $199/mo? Let's talk.

Funds, banks, exchanges, and research firms get negotiated call volume, contractual SLAs, data residency, on-prem deployment, and time-travel snapshots. Typically 80% less than Messari Enterprise or Kaito Pro.

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Pricing — BCA Crypto Brain