0xArchive comparison · Native venue APIs
Hyperliquid's own API is free, and it is where you trade: it places orders, reads your account, and shows the market as it is right now. Its history is short. Candles stop at the most recent 5,000 per interval, the order book endpoint has no past, and older data sits in raw S3 files you download and parse yourself. 0xArchive records the market and serves its past by time range: order books since April 2023, funding and open interest, liquidations, and the order-level book with wallets.
Use both: the native API to trade, an archive to research. Facts about Hyperliquid's API come from its own documentation, checked on 24 October 2026.
What each one gives you on Hyperliquid
| You need | Hyperliquid API | 0xArchive |
|---|---|---|
| Place and cancel orders | Yes | No |
| The book right now | 20 levels a side | 20 levels, plus every order (L4) |
| The book at a past moment | Raw S3 snapshots, uploaded about monthly | By timestamp, since 15 April 2023 |
| Every resting order with its wallet | Run your own node | Since 10 March 2026 |
| Candles | Most recent 5,000 per interval | Any range since 22 March 2025 |
| Funding history | Yes, by time range | Since 20 May 2023 |
| Open interest history | Daily S3 files of asset contexts | Since 20 May 2023 |
| Trades for a market | Recent trades, or raw fills in S3 | Complete since 22 March 2025 |
| Price | Free, you pay S3 transfer | Last 30 days free, full history on Build |
Use Hyperliquid's API to trade and to read the market now
The exchange endpoint signs and sends orders, cancels and transfers. The info endpoint returns the current book, mids, your positions, your open orders and your recent fills. Its WebSocket streams the book, trades and your own events live.
No data vendor replaces that. An archive can tell you what the book looked like, but only the venue takes your order.
Hyperliquid's API keeps 5,000 candles and no past book
The book endpoint answers for this moment only, so a backtest that needs the book at 14:32 last March has nothing to ask. Candle requests return the most recent 5,000 per interval, which is three and a half days of one-minute bars.
Your own fills stop at the 10,000 most recent. Every request also draws on a shared budget of 1,200 weight a minute per IP, so backfilling years of anything through the info endpoint is slow by design.
Hyperliquid's S3 archive is raw files you parse yourself
Hyperliquid publishes historical data in requester-pays S3 buckets. L2 book snapshots and daily asset contexts land in one bucket about once a month, and the docs warn: “There is no guarantee of timely updates and data may be missing.” Fills and node data sit in another, in formats that changed over time.
That is enough to build your own archive. It is not an archive: you download LZ4 files by date, hour and coin, decompress them, reconcile the formats, and fill the gaps.
0xArchive serves the past by time range, ready to query
Ask for a market, a data type and a UTC window, and the rows come back in order with a cursor for the next page. Hyperliquid core, Spot, HIP-3 builder perps and HIP-4 outcome markets each have their own routes, and Hyperliquid trades before 22 March 2025 are kept but partial.
From 10 March 2026, 0xArchive also keeps every resting order with its order ID and wallet (L4). Replay a checkpoint and its changes, and you have the exact book at any moment since then.
Lighter's own API keeps more history than Hyperliquid's
Lighter publishes every trade back to its mainnet launch on 17 January 2025 as Parquet files, through a paid export or a requester-pays S3 bucket, plus hourly open interest for every market. Candles come 500 per call.
0xArchive adds Lighter's order book history: price levels from 29 January 2026 and every resting order (L3) from 5 March 2026, with funding and open interest from August 2025, in the same API as Hyperliquid.
Route references
Use the REST reference for order books, trades, funding and liquidations, the Hyperliquid L4 reference for order-level books with wallets, the Lighter L3 reference for Lighter's order-level book, and venue coverage for each market's start dates.
For current API availability and plan details, use the Hyperliquid data API, data catalog, pricing, and status.