Tardis Alternatives for Hyperliquid and Lighter

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Choose 0xArchive as your Tardis alternative for live and historical Hyperliquid and Lighter market data. Query core Hyperliquid books from 15 April 2023, wallet-attributed core L4 from 11 March 2026 and Lighter trades from 17 January 2025; Free covers the latest 30 days, and Build opens the full retained archive for $49 a month.

Core books: start on 15 April 2023.
Self-serve: live feeds, replay and Lighter history come on public plans from $0.

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

Tardis.dev is a multi-exchange tick archive that records raw WebSocket messages from 50+ exchanges. On Hyperliquid and Lighter, four dated facts send teams looking elsewhere:

History start: Hyperliquid data begins 29 Oct 2024, Lighter data 17 Apr 2026.
Book grain: Hyperliquid's l2Book is 20 levels about every 5.4 seconds, and a 5-level fastBook about every 500 ms exists from 17 Jun 2026. No order-level book or liquidations channel is listed on its Hyperliquid page.
Price and history depth: the Perpetuals plan lists Solo at $700 a month (CSV files) and Professional at $1,000 (adds the replay API); the $350 tier is Academic, for students and researchers. A new subscription begins with four months of history on monthly billing, 12 months on quarterly and four years on yearly; its historical start date then stays fixed through renewals.
Format: raw exchange messages, normalized CSV datasets and client-library normalization; its Hyperliquid page lists no order-level book.

Which Tardis 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
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
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
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, so the book goes down to the single order on both venues.

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.

Replace a Tardis history request with 0xArchive

Tardis replays raw Hyperliquid messages from 29 October 2024. This is the same BTC book request in Tardis's Python client and in the 0xArchive REST API:

Tardis Python replay:

import os
from tardis_dev import Channel, replay
replay(exchange="hyperliquid", from_date="2024-12-01", to_date="2024-12-02",
       filters=[Channel(name="l2Book", symbols=["BTC"])],
       api_key=os.environ["TARDIS_API_KEY"])

0xArchive REST history:

curl -G "https://api.0xarchive.io/v1/hyperliquid/orderbook/BTC/history" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $OXARCHIVE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "start=2024-12-01T00:00:00Z" \
  --data-urlencode "end=2024-12-02T00:00:00Z" \
  --data-urlencode "limit=1000"

Follow meta.next_cursor to retrieve the remaining pages.

Symbols map one to one:

Hyperliquid core: Tardis uses coin names such as BTC; so does 0xArchive.
HIP-3: symbols keep their builder prefix (xyz:XYZ100 in Tardis, km:GOLD-style in 0xArchive).
Lighter: symbols are numeric market IDs in Tardis; 0xArchive uses market symbols such as BTC.

0xArchive can also answer a date Tardis has no data for. This request, for 1 June 2024, returns a full 20-level BTC book, five months before Tardis's first Hyperliquid day:

curl -G "https://api.0xarchive.io/v1/hyperliquid/orderbook/BTC/history" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $OXARCHIVE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "start=2024-06-01T00:00:00Z" \
  --data-urlencode "end=2024-06-01T00:05:00Z" \
  --data-urlencode "limit=2"

Response (first rows), the first two of 20 price levels per side of the first snapshot:

{"data":[{"coin":"BTC","timestamp":"2024-06-01T00:00:01.946Z",
  "bids":[{"px":"67596.0","sz":"2.5341","n":14},{"px":"67595.0","sz":"0.46231","n":1}],
  "asks":[{"px":"67602.0","sz":"0.02219","n":1},{"px":"67605.0","sz":"0.39","n":1}],
  "mid_price":"67599"}]}

Migrate the market identity and data grain together

Keep identities: preserve the exact Hyperliquid core symbol or HIP-3 builder prefix and resolve Lighter market IDs through the venue catalog.
Match the grain: match price-level snapshots to price-level routes and use L4 or L3 routes for order-level research.
Align before switching: query a bounded window, follow the cursor, and align records by their returned timestamps before switching the live pipeline.

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, L4 flat-file docs, exchange metadata, 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.

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.

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, archive page, API pricing
Limit: Book snapshots arrive once a minute; Reservoir data requests go through Discord.

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.

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.

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:

Hyperliquid next to Binance, Bybit and 50+ other exchanges in one feed: Tardis.dev is the multi-exchange archive for that job, and CoinAPI covers 400+ exchanges.
Options and spot data on other venues: Tardis.dev sells Options, Spot and Derivatives data plans alongside Perpetuals.
RPC, nodes and validators: Dwellir and QuickNode.

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.

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Run your own Tardis-to-0xArchive check on Free: $0 covers the latest 30 days of every route 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 for the order book history route. Start free · View API plans and export pricing

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Tardis alternative for Hyperliquid data?

0xArchive. Its Hyperliquid order book starts 15 April 2023, against 29 October 2024 at Tardis.dev, and it adds the L4 order-level book with wallets from 11 March 2026, liquidation events from 22 December 2025 and Lighter trades from 17 January 2025. Build is $49 a month for the full retained archive.

Can I replace my Lighter data pipeline with 0xArchive?

Yes. Use 0xArchive for Lighter trades from 17 January 2025, funding and open interest from 25 August 2025, price-level books from 29 January 2026 and L3 snapshots from 5 March 2026. Resolve symbols through the venue catalog and use the same key for Hyperliquid.

How does Tardis pricing compare for Hyperliquid history?

0xArchive Build is $49 a month ($39 billed annually) and includes the full retained Hyperliquid and Lighter archive on any billing term. Tardis.dev lists Perpetuals plans at $700 a month for Solo (CSV files) and $1,000 for Professional (replay API) across all perpetual exchanges, with four years of history on a yearly subscription.

Can I switch from Tardis to 0xArchive?

Yes. 0xArchive symbols match Tardis for Hyperliquid coin names such as BTC. Replace the Tardis replay call with the 0xArchive order book history route, which returns normalized JSON with a cursor, or buy Parquet exports for bulk loads; WebSocket replay and live channels use the same key. A free key tests the latest 30 days first.

Is there a free alternative to Tardis for Hyperliquid?

0xArchive Free gives $0 API access to the latest 30 days of every Hyperliquid and Lighter route, by REST and WebSocket live and replay. The full retained archive starts at Build, $49 a month.