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# Kaiko Alternatives for Hyperliquid and Lighter: Coverage and Cost (2026)

By

[0xArchive Team](https://0xarchive.io/authors/0xarchive-team)

Published November 4, 2026

18 min read

- [Lighter](https://0xarchive.io/resources?topic=lighter)
- [Historical data](https://0xarchive.io/resources?topic=historical-data)
- [Hyperliquid](https://0xarchive.io/resources?topic=hyperliquid)

*0xArchive comparison · Alternatives · Kaiko*

Choose 0xArchive as your Kaiko alternative for live and historical Hyperliquid and Lighter market data. Hyperliquid core books start on 15 April 2023, trades in April 2023, every fill on 22 March 2025 and core L4 on 11 March 2026; Free covers the latest 30 days and Build opens the full retained archive for $49 a month.

- **Public prices:** sign up and the key works at once.
- **Start free:** the latest 30 days of Hyperliquid and Lighter.
- **Full archive:** from $49 a month, with no custom institutional agreement.

## Why do teams look beyond Kaiko for Hyperliquid and Lighter data?

Kaiko sells institutional market data, indices and reference data across 175 exchanges in its reference-data API. On Hyperliquid and Lighter, four dated facts send teams looking elsewhere:

- **History start:** Hyperliquid perps trades begin 4 Dec 2025 (220 instruments) and Spot trades 1 Dec 2025 (81 instruments).
- **Data types:** Its public Hyperliquid listing is trades by instrument; no order book, funding or open interest dataset is listed.
- **Lighter:** Kaiko's exchange list has no Lighter entry.
- **Price:** custom plans quoted by assets, data type, granularity, historical vs live access and usage; no self-serve price.

## Which Kaiko 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 |
| Tardis.dev | 29 Oct 2024 (20 levels about every 5.4 s) | None listed | From 17 Apr 2026 | Perpetuals plan: Solo $700 a month; Professional $1,000 | CSV, replay API, local server |
| CoinAPI | 27 Sep 2024 | L4 live and as S3 files; hourly files for data published from 9 Jun 2026, earlier daily files undated | Trades listed from 5 May 2025; no book history listed | Pay as you go; Startup $79 a month with daily quotas | REST, WebSocket, FIX, S3 files, 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 |
| Hydromancer | Books from 15 Dec 2025 (20 levels, once a minute); fills from 28 Jul 2025 | None listed for Reservoir | None listed | Reservoir free; API from $300 a month | S3 files, REST, WebSocket |

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 starts with a free key instead of a sales process.

- **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](https://0xarchive.io/pricing) , [venue coverage](https://docs.0xarchive.io/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.

### Kaiko's own public instrument data, 3 November 2026

Kaiko publishes its instrument reference data openly. A request for the Hyperliquid perpetuals exchange code `hldv` returns 220 instruments with trades starting 4 December 2025:

```
curl "https://reference-data-api.kaiko.io/v1/instruments?exchange_code=hldv&page_size=1000"
# 220 instruments; earliest trade_start_time 2025-12-04T00:13:18Z; class: perpetual-future
```

The 0xArchive archive reaches earlier. One hour of BTC trades on 1 June 2025 (00:00 to 01:00 UTC), six months before that date, paged through 15 requests of up to 1,000 rows and returned 14,766 fills, each with price, size, direction, fee and the trader's wallet.

REST trades meter at 1,000 rows per credit, so the full hour cost 15 credits; follow `meta.next_cursor` while more pages are available. Response (first row):

```
curl -G "https://api.0xarchive.io/v1/hyperliquid/trades/BTC" -H "X-API-Key: $OXARCHIVE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode start=2025-06-01T00:00:00Z --data-urlencode end=2025-06-01T01:00:00Z --data-urlencode limit=1000

{"data":[{"coin":"BTC","side":"B","price":"104585","size":"0.25978",
  "timestamp":"2025-06-01T00:00:04.324Z","direction":"Open Long",
  "user_address":"0x26d3...aad5","fee":"9.780872","fee_token":"USDC"}]}
```

## Move the selected instrument and window to 0xArchive

- **Map identifiers:** confirm the same venue, market family and instrument on both sides.
- **Query the window:** query a bounded UTC window from the corresponding 0xArchive route, follow every cursor, and compare timestamps and row grain before importing the result.
- **Access and cost:** Build opens the retained history immediately on monthly billing; Data Catalog Parquet exports are priced per GB.

## Each provider's Hyperliquid and Lighter coverage, dated

### CoinAPI

- **What it is:** A multi-exchange market-data vendor (400+ exchanges connected) with a Hyperliquid source and a separate Hyperliquid L4 source.
- **Hyperliquid coverage:** Trades, quotes, order book and exchange metrics from 27 Sep 2024 (700+ active symbols). L4 order-by-order book with user addresses: live on its WebSocket feed and stored as S3 flat files (hourly files for data published from 9 Jun 2026, daily files before that, earlier files carry no listed start date).
- **Lighter coverage:** Trades listed from 5 May 2025 in its exchange metadata; no Lighter book history listed.
- **Delivery:** REST, WebSocket, FIX (Pro plan), S3 flat files, MCP.
- **Price:** Pay as you go (metered, $25 free credits). Startup $79 a month ($69 billed annually), Streamer $249, Pro $599.
- **Source:** [Hyperliquid data page](https://www.coinapi.io/blog/what-data-is-available-for-hyperliquid) , [L4 flat-file docs](https://www.coinapi.io/products/flat-files/docs/estimation-guide) , [exchange metadata](https://www.coinapi.io/products/market-data-api/docs/metadata-tables/supported-exchanges/exchanges_L) , [pricing](https://www.coinapi.io/products/market-data-api/pricing)
- **Limit:** Plans carry daily data quotas (32 GiB of Tier 1 data a day on Startup). Stored L4 arrives as one file per symbol per hour.

### Tardis.dev

- **What it is:** A multi-exchange tick-data archive: raw exchange WebSocket messages, replayed or downloaded as CSV.
- **Hyperliquid coverage:** From 29 Oct 2024: trades (buyer and seller addresses from 1 Dec 2024), 20-level l2Book snapshots about every 5.4 s, 5-level fastBook about every 500 ms from 17 Jun 2026, derivative ticker. HIP-3 perps from 2 Dec 2025. No order-level book or liquidations channel is listed on its Hyperliquid page.
- **Lighter coverage:** From 17 Apr 2026: order_book, trade, ticker and market_stats channels.
- **Format:** Raw exchange messages, normalized CSV datasets and client-library normalization; its Hyperliquid page lists no order-level book.
- **Delivery:** CSV downloads on every paid type; raw replay HTTP API and Tardis Machine local server on Professional and Business.
- **Price:** Perpetuals data plan (all perpetual-swap exchanges, Hyperliquid among 22): Solo $700 a month (CSV), Professional $1,000 a month (adds replay API), Business $3,000. Academic $350 a month for students and researchers, quarterly or yearly billing.
- **Source:** [Hyperliquid docs](https://docs.tardis.dev/historical-data-details/hyperliquid) , [Lighter docs](https://docs.tardis.dev/historical-data-details/lighter) , [data FAQ](https://docs.tardis.dev/faq/data) , [billing FAQ](https://docs.tardis.dev/faq/billing-and-subscriptions) , [pricing](https://tardis.dev/#pricing)
- **Limit:** A new monthly subscription starts with four months of history, quarterly with 12 months and yearly with four years. The start date stays fixed through renewals; Hyperliquid data begins on 29 October 2024.

### 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](https://www.cryptohftdata.com/exchanges/hyperliquid) , [order book dataset](https://www.cryptohftdata.com/datasets/hyperliquid-orderbook-data) , [Lighter page](https://www.cryptohftdata.com/exchanges/lighter)
- **Limit:** Price-level (L2) books; its own page says L2 cannot show queue position or order counts. Files are hourly.

### Hydromancer

- **What it is:** Hyperliquid-focused data infrastructure: Reservoir, a free public archive, plus a paid REST and WebSocket API.
- **Hyperliquid coverage:** Reservoir: fills (trades, liquidations, ADLs, builder and TWAP fills) from 28 Jul 2025, 1-second candles, daily position snapshots, and 20-level L2 book snapshots at 1-minute cadence from 15 Dec 2025 (perps, spot, HIP-3 and HIP-4). No stored order-level book is listed for Reservoir.
- **Lighter coverage:** Hydromancer lists no Lighter data.
- **Delivery:** Reservoir on requester-pays S3 (no API key), updated daily; paid REST and WebSocket API.
- **Price:** Reservoir free (you pay S3 transfer). API: Starter $300 a month (500k tokens, 10 order book streams), Growth $1,200, Scale $2,500.
- **Source:** [Reservoir docs](https://docs.hydromancer.xyz/reservoir) , [archive page](https://hydromancer.xyz/hyperliquid-historical-data) , [API pricing](https://docs.hydromancer.xyz/readme/get-api-keys)
- **Limit:** Book snapshots arrive once a minute; Reservoir data requests go through Discord.

Try Hyperliquid and Lighter history free Create a free key for the last 30 days on every venue, then make your first request with the quickstart. [Create a free key](https://0xarchive.io/signup) [Read the quickstart](https://docs.0xarchive.io/quickstart)

## 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:

- **Indices and reference rates:** Kaiko publishes digital asset indices and reference rates.
- **One enterprise agreement across many venues:** Kaiko sells custom plans for institutions buying across exchanges, and CoinAPI lists an Enterprise tier with custom usage.
- **Hyperliquid next to Binance and Bybit in one feed:** Tardis.dev (50+ exchanges) and CoinAPI (400+).

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 side by side:** [Hyperliquid and Lighter data providers compared](https://0xarchive.io/resources/comparisons/hyperliquid-lighter-data-providers)
- **Order-level history by provider:** [Hyperliquid L4 order book data](https://0xarchive.io/resources/comparisons/hyperliquid-l4-order-book-data)

Skip the sales cycle: the Free plan opens the latest 30 days of every route at $0 by REST, live WebSocket and replay, with 50,000 credits a month.

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](https://docs.0xarchive.io/rest-api) for the trades route. [Start free](https://0xarchive.io/signup) · [View API plans and export pricing](https://0xarchive.io/pricing)

## Frequently asked questions

### What is the best Kaiko alternative for Hyperliquid data?

0xArchive. It stores Hyperliquid books from 15 April 2023 and trades from April 2023 (every fill from 22 March 2025), against 4 December 2025 for Kaiko's Hyperliquid perps trades, adds funding, open interest, liquidation events, L4 order-level books with wallets, and Lighter, and sells a self-serve plan: Build is $49 a month.

### Where do I get Hyperliquid order book history?

From 0xArchive: the native order book (up to 20 levels per side) from 15 April 2023, with full-depth L2 and L4 order-level books from 11 March 2026, by REST, WebSocket replay and Parquet exports.

### Where do I get Lighter data?

From 0xArchive: Lighter trades from 17 January 2025, funding and open interest from 25 August 2025, the order book from 29 January 2026 and the L3 order-level book from 5 March 2026, under the same key as Hyperliquid.

### How much does Kaiko cost compared with 0xArchive?

0xArchive publishes prices: Free $0 for the latest 30 days, Build $49 a month ($39 billed annually) for the full retained archive, Pro $199, Scale $799, Enterprise custom. Kaiko prices by custom quote based on assets, data type, granularity, historical or live access and usage.

### Is there a self-serve Kaiko alternative for Hyperliquid?

Yes. 0xArchive signs up with an email address, issues a key immediately and opens the latest 30 days of every Hyperliquid and Lighter route at $0, by REST and WebSocket live and replay. Build opens the full retained archive.

### Can 0xArchive support institutional requirements?

0xArchive Enterprise adds custom credits, rate limits and concurrency, unlimited WebSocket subscriptions, S3 Parquet delivery, dedicated WebSocket, node and backfill paths, security review, a route-bound SLA from 99.5% uptime and dedicated support. Contact sales through the pricing page.