Hydromancer Alternatives for Hyperliquid and Lighter

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Choose 0xArchive as your Hydromancer alternative for live and historical Hyperliquid and Lighter market data. Query core books from 15 April 2023 and core L4 with wallets from 11 March 2026, stream live markets, replay history or buy Parquet exports; Free covers the latest 30 days and Build opens the full retained archive for $49 a month.

Book history: starts on 15 April 2023.
Same key: live streams, wallet-attributed L4 from 11 March 2026 and Lighter.

Why do teams look beyond Hydromancer for Hyperliquid and Lighter data?

Hydromancer is Hyperliquid-focused data infrastructure with two products: Reservoir, a free S3 archive, and a paid REST and WebSocket API. For historical Hyperliquid and Lighter work, four dated facts send teams looking elsewhere:

Book grain and start: Reservoir's 20-level book is one snapshot a minute, from 15 Dec 2025; its fills start 28 Jul 2025.
Order-level history: no stored order-level book is listed for Reservoir.
Lighter: Hydromancer lists no Lighter data.
Paid API price: Starter $300 a month with 500k tokens and $60 per 100k tokens of overage; Growth $1,200; Scale $2,500. Reservoir itself is requester-pays S3, updated daily.

Which Hydromancer alternatives cover Hyperliquid and Lighter?

Provider	Hyperliquid order book from	Order-level book stored	Lighter	Price for Hyperliquid history	Delivery
0xArchive	Core native L2 from 15 Apr 2023, up to 20 levels per side	Core and HIP-3 L4 with wallets from 11 Mar 2026; Lighter L3, account-attributed individual resting orders, from 5 Mar 2026	Lighter trades from 17 Jan 2025; price-level books from 29 Jan 2026	Free: latest 30 days, 50,000 monthly API credits; Build: full retained archive, $49 monthly	REST, live WebSocket, historical replay, separately metered Parquet exports, Python/TypeScript/Rust SDKs, CLI, MCP
CryptoHFTData	29 Sep 2025 (20 levels per side)	None (L2 book)	From 30 Dec 2025	$0 with a free key	Hourly Parquet, Python SDK
Bitquery	Book updates and orders about 7 days; trades about 30 days	Per-order updates with wallets inside that window; older ranges on request	Lighter GraphQL and WebSocket documented; deep backfills on Enterprise	API from $49 a month; latest 30-day Parquet $600; older ranges on request	GraphQL, WebSocket, Kafka (Enterprise), Parquet files
Dwellir	Generated snapshots 14 Apr 2026; raw diffs 22 Jan 2026	Raw diffs you rebuild	None listed	API from $49 a month; S3 quoted per dataset	S3 node files, gRPC, WebSocket
GoldRush	None listed	Live l4Book	None listed	$10 and $250 a month plans	REST, WebSocket, streams
Hyperliquid native S3	None listed (docs example path is 16 Sep 2023)	Not provided	Lighter publishes its own trade files	Free; you pay AWS transfer	Requester-pays S3 files

Provider facts from each provider's own documentation and pricing, 3 November 2026.

0xArchive coverage and access

0xArchive is built for Hyperliquid and Lighter, and keeps the book at a grain you can replay.

What it is: A market-data API and archive built for Hyperliquid (core perps, Spot, HIP-3, HIP-4) and Lighter: live feeds, historical queries, order-level books, replay and exports under one key.
Hyperliquid coverage: Order book (native L2, up to 20 levels per side) from 15 Apr 2023. Trades from Apr 2023, every fill from 22 Mar 2025. Funding and open interest from 20 May 2023. Liquidation events from 22 Dec 2025, with liquidated and liquidator wallets. L4 order-level book (every resting order with order ID and wallet), L4 diffs, order events and full-depth L2 from 11 Mar 2026 on core and HIP-3; HIP-4 L4 from 2 May 2026; Spot L4 from 5 May 2026.
Lighter coverage: Trades from 17 Jan 2025. Funding and open interest from 25 Aug 2025. Price-level order book from 29 Jan 2026. L3 order-level book (individual resting orders, account-attributed by Lighter account index) from 5 Mar 2026. Liquidations from 10 Jun 2026.
Delivery: REST, WebSocket (live channels and historical replay), Parquet exports from the Data Catalog, Python, TypeScript and Rust SDKs, CLI, hosted MCP server.
Price: Free $0: the latest rolling 30 days, 50,000 credits a month, REST and WebSocket live and replay. Build $49 a month ($39 billed annually): the full retained archive, 80 million credits a month and $50 of export credits. Pro $199, Scale $799. REST trades meter at 1,000 rows per credit, so one million rows retrieved in 1,000-row pages use 1,000 credits; credits round up for each request. Parquet exports are metered per GB.
Source: pricing, venue coverage
Plan detail: Free covers the latest 30 days; Build opens each dataset's full retained archive from its own first served date. Downloads are for your own use, not redistribution.

Book cadence you can count

Hydromancer's Reservoir book is a 20-level snapshot once a minute. This request asked 0xArchive for one minute of BTC book history on 15 January 2026. It returned 78 snapshots between 00:00:18 and 00:00:59 UTC:

curl -G "https://api.0xarchive.io/v1/hyperliquid/orderbook/BTC/history" -H "X-API-Key: $OXARCHIVE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode start=2026-01-15T00:00:00Z --data-urlencode end=2026-01-15T00:01:00Z --data-urlencode limit=1000

# 78 rows; first timestamp 2026-01-15T00:00:18.234Z; last 2026-01-15T00:00:59.740Z; has_more false

Core L4 starts on 11 March 2026 and holds every order change with its block number and wallet.

The diffs route returns them in order, for example {"oid":459286769807,"diff_type":"new","price":61130.0,"new_size":0.49075} from a two-second window on 5 June 2026; query a bounded window and paginate to inspect the complete result.

Move a historical book study into the API

Page the window: choose a core Hyperliquid symbol and UTC window, then page /v1/hyperliquid/orderbook/BTC/history until the window is complete.
Count timestamps: count the returned timestamps instead of assuming a fixed snapshot cadence.
Add L4: for windows from 11 March 2026 onward, query core L4 separately when the study needs resting orders with wallets.

Each provider's Hyperliquid and Lighter coverage, dated

CryptoHFTData

What it is: A free historical crypto data service: hourly normalized Parquet files across 9+ venues.
Hyperliquid coverage: Hyperliquid futures and spot: order book (20 bid and 20 ask levels per snapshot) and trades from 29 Sep 2025; futures open interest and mark price from 29 Sep 2025.
Lighter coverage: From 30 Dec 2025: order book, trades, ticker, open interest, mark price.
Delivery: Hourly Parquet/Zstd files and a Python SDK.
Price: $0 with a free API key.
Source: Hyperliquid page, order book dataset, Lighter page
Limit: Price-level (L2) books; its own page says L2 cannot show queue position or order counts. Files are hourly.

Bitquery

What it is: A blockchain data company with a Hyperliquid cube (GraphQL, WebSocket, Kafka) and Parquet datasets.
Hyperliquid coverage: HyperCore trades, liquidations, order updates, per-order book updates with wallets, funding, TWAPs. The API keeps about 30 days of trades, liquidations, funding, TWAPs, prices and candles and about 7 days of raw orders and book updates; the Data Store lists the last 30 days as Parquet, with older ranges on request.
Lighter coverage: Lighter order-book stream over WebSocket and GraphQL documented (fills, placements, funding, liquidations); deep backfills are an Enterprise arrangement.
Delivery: GraphQL, WebSocket subscriptions, Kafka, Parquet via cloud export or Data Store.
Price: API from $49 a month, streaming from $99 a month. Data Store Parquet: $600 one-time for the latest 30-day window (2 Oct to 2 Nov 2026); older ranges by request.
Source: product page, Lighter page, docs, Parquet dataset
Limit: Order and book updates reach back about 7 days on the API; older ranges and deep Lighter history go through sales.

Dwellir

What it is: A node and RPC provider that also sells Hyperliquid data: live feeds, an indexed fills API and an S3 archive of node files.
Hyperliquid coverage: S3 archive: replica_cmds from 25 Jan 2025, trades from 22 Mar 2025, fills by block from 27 Jul 2025, raw book diffs from 22 Jan 2026, generated order book snapshots from 14 Apr 2026.
Lighter coverage: Dwellir lists no Lighter data.
Delivery: S3 node files, gRPC and WebSocket streams, fills API.
Price: API plans from $49 a month (Developer). S3 archive prefixes and tick data are quoted per dataset, as a monthly feed or a full-history purchase.
Source: archival data docs
Limit: Its docs state raw diffs alone cannot establish the starting book; you rebuild books from a snapshot seed plus ordered diffs.

GoldRush

What it is: A multichain blockchain data API (from Covalent) with a Hyperliquid indexer: Info API replacement, wallet firehose, HyperEVM.
Hyperliquid coverage: HyperCore fills, orders, trades, funding and ledger events from block 606,858,021 (25 May 2025); HyperEVM from genesis. No stored order book history is listed on its overview page.
Lighter coverage: GoldRush lists no Lighter data.
Delivery: REST, WebSocket, streaming.
Price: 14-day free trial. $10 a month (Vibe Coding), $250 a month (Professional), custom Inner Circle; credit-based.
Source: Hyperliquid overview, pricing
Limit: Wallet and account focus. Its HyperCore index starts at block 606,858,021 on 25 May 2025; GoldRush lists no stored order book history.

Hyperliquid native S3

What it is: Hyperliquid's own historical files: L2 book snapshots and asset contexts in hyperliquid-archive; fills and node data in hl-mainnet-node-data.
Hyperliquid coverage: No start date is listed; the docs example path is 16 Sep 2023. Candles and spot asset data are not provided.
Lighter coverage: Lighter publishes its own files: global trades from 17 Jan 2025 and hourly open interest (see its docs).
Delivery: Requester-pays S3; LZ4 files by date, hour and coin.
Price: Files are free; you pay AWS transfer.
Source: Hyperliquid historical data docs
Limit: Hyperliquid's docs: "There is no guarantee of timely updates and data may be missing." Uploaded about once a month.

How fast is 0xArchive Stream next to Hyperliquid's own WebSocket?

In the seven days to 3 November 2026, measured from AWS Tokyo on BTC, ETH, SOL and HYPE, 0xArchive Stream delivered 99.79% of matched trades before Hyperliquid's official WebSocket, with a median lead of 122.5 ms (method on the latency page).

Which alternative fits which Hyperliquid or Lighter buyer?

Buyer type	Provider	Why
Quant backtesting Hyperliquid order books	0xArchive	Book from 15 Apr 2023, replay by WebSocket, full archive from $49 a month
Market-making researcher studying queue position and who rests in the book	0xArchive	L4 with order ID and wallet from 11 Mar 2026, diffs and order events
Researcher on Lighter order flow	0xArchive	Trades from 17 Jan 2025, L3 individual orders from 5 Mar 2026
Data scientist working in notebooks and warehouses	0xArchive	Parquet exports per market and data type, plus REST and Python SDK
Solo developer or student on a budget	0xArchive	Free key for the last 30 days, Build at $49 a month ($39 billed annually) for the full retained archive
Team building agents on market data	0xArchive	Hosted MCP server, CLI, typed SDKs and OpenAPI

What if you also need other exchanges, options or node access?

Some jobs sit outside Hyperliquid and Lighter market data:

HyperEVM token balances, transfers, approvals and NFT data: GoldRush provides onchain indexing for those jobs. Use 0xArchive for Hyperliquid and Lighter market data, including fills, funding, live books and historical order-level queries.
RPC, nodes and validators: Dwellir and QuickNode.
Onchain analytics across many chains: Bitquery.
Hyperliquid next to Binance and Bybit in one feed: Tardis.dev and CoinAPI.

Use 0xArchive for the Hyperliquid and Lighter part of the stack: live feeds, historical queries, order-level books, replay and Parquet exports under one product.

Every provider in one table: Hyperliquid and Lighter data providers compared
Order-level history by provider: Hyperliquid L4 order book data

Skip S3 and test on Free: $0 covers the latest 30 days of every route by REST, live WebSocket and replay, with 50,000 credits a month and no AWS account.

Build at $49 a month ($39 billed annually) opens each dataset's full retained archive with 80 million credits and $50 of export credits. See the REST reference for the order book history route. Start free · View API plans and export pricing

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Hydromancer alternative for Hyperliquid data?

0xArchive. It stores the Hyperliquid order book from 15 April 2023, against one 20-level snapshot a minute from 15 December 2025 in Hydromancer's Reservoir, stores every resting order with wallet from 11 March 2026, and covers Lighter. Build is $49 a month; Free covers the latest 30 days.

How can I query Hyperliquid history for free without S3?

Use 0xArchive Free: it covers the most recent rolling 30 days of every Hyperliquid and Lighter route by REST and WebSocket (live and replay), including native L2, full-depth L2 and L4 with order IDs and wallets, with 50,000 credits a month, 15 requests per second and no AWS account. Build opens the full retained archive for $49 a month.

How does Hydromancer's order book compare with 0xArchive's?

0xArchive stores the book (up to 20 levels per side) from 15 April 2023, with 78 snapshots in the 41 seconds from 00:00:18 on 15 January 2026, and the full L4 order-level book from 11 March 2026. Hydromancer's Reservoir book is 20 levels once a minute, from 15 December 2025.

Can I get Hyperliquid and Lighter data from one API?

Yes. 0xArchive serves Hyperliquid and Lighter under one key: Lighter trades from 17 January 2025, funding and open interest from 25 August 2025, price-level books from 29 January 2026 and the L3 order-level book from 5 March 2026.

How does Hydromancer API pricing compare with 0xArchive?

0xArchive Build is $49 a month ($39 billed annually) with 80 million credits and the full retained Hyperliquid and Lighter archive; pricing lists the limits for every plan. Hydromancer's API starts at $300 a month for 500k tokens, with $60 per 100k tokens of overage.

Is there a free Hydromancer alternative with an API?

Yes. 0xArchive Free gives $0 API access to the latest 30 days of every Hyperliquid and Lighter route, with REST, live and replay WebSocket and SDKs, and no AWS account.