0xArchive comparison · Tardis vs CoinAPI
Use 0xArchive for Hyperliquid and Lighter data, ahead of both Tardis and CoinAPI: live feeds, historical queries, order-level books, replay and Parquet exports share one product. Core Hyperliquid books start on 15 April 2023, trades in April 2023 and every fill on 22 March 2025.
- Build: opens each dataset's full retained archive for $49 a month.
- One API: covers live Hyperliquid and Lighter feeds, retained history and reconstructed L4 books.
How do Tardis, CoinAPI and 0xArchive compare on Hyperliquid and Lighter?
| You need | Tardis | CoinAPI | 0xArchive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyperliquid history start | 29 Oct 2024 | 27 Sep 2024 (exchange history) | Core order book 15 Apr 2023; trades from Apr 2023, every fill from 22 Mar 2025; funding and open interest 20 May 2023 |
| Hyperliquid order book | l2Book: 20 levels, one snapshot about every 5.4 s; fastBook: 5 levels from 17 Jun 2026 | Order book listed for Hyperliquid; no depth or cadence listed | Native L2, up to 20 levels per side, from 15 Apr 2023; full-depth L2 derived from L4, from 11 Mar 2026 |
| Order-level book with wallets | None listed in its Hyperliquid channels | Hyperliquid L4 over WebSocket DS (six streams including wallet attribution) and CSV.gz flat files (hourly from 9 Jun 2026, daily before that); no L4 start date listed | L4 with order ID and wallet on every resting order from 11 Mar 2026, by timestamp over REST, WebSocket replay and Parquet |
| Liquidations | None listed | None listed | Liquidation events from 22 Dec 2025, with liquidated and liquidator wallets |
| Funding and open interest | activeAssetCtx messages | Funding rate, mark price, index price and open interest amount listed for Hyperliquid | Dedicated funding and open-interest routes from 20 May 2023 |
| Wallets on trades | Buyer and seller addresses on trades from 1 Dec 2024 | Wallet attribution on trade_l4 in the L4 feed | Every Hyperliquid trade row carries user_address, fee and closed PnL |
| HIP-3, Spot, HIP-4 | HIP-3 from 2 Dec 2025; Spot pairs by index; HIP-4 none listed | Spot and perpetual markets, 700+ active symbols | HIP-3 trades from 13 Oct 2025 and book from 16 Feb 2026; Spot trades from 22 Mar 2025; HIP-4 from 2 May 2026 |
| Lighter | From 17 Apr 2026; numeric market IDs | Lighter trades listed from 5 May 2025 in its exchange table | Trades from 17 Jan 2025; funding and open interest from 25 Aug 2025; book from 29 Jan 2026; L3 from 5 Mar 2026; plain tickers |
| How you receive it | Raw exchange messages through a replay API (Professional and up) or CSV files; local normalized replay through Tardis Machine | REST, WebSocket, FIX, flat files, MCP, JSON-RPC; Hyperliquid L4 on a dedicated WebSocket DS endpoint | Normalized JSON over REST, live and historical-replay WebSocket, Parquet through the Data Catalog, Python, TypeScript and Rust SDKs, CLI, hosted MCP server |
| Price for Hyperliquid and Lighter history | Perpetuals plan: Solo $700, Professional $1,000, Business $3,000 a month; a new subscription starts with 4 months of history on monthly billing, 12 on quarterly and 4 years on yearly (Business yearly includes all available data); the start date stays fixed | Metered: Startup $79 ($69 billed annually), Streamer $249 ($199), Pro $599 ($499) a month, plus usage above daily quotas; flat files priced per GiB | Build $49 a month ($39 billed annually) with the full retained archive; Free $0 for the last 30 days |
Tardis facts from its Hyperliquid, Lighter and billing docs; CoinAPI facts from its pricing, Hyperliquid blog and Hyperliquid L4 docs. 3 November 2026.
Start dates are the earliest stored date across symbols; each symbol's own start is in venue coverage.
- Sources: Tardis Hyperliquid, Tardis Lighter, Tardis billing FAQ, Tardis pricing, CoinAPI pricing, CoinAPI Hyperliquid, CoinAPI exchange table L
Which provider has the longest Hyperliquid history?
0xArchive. Its Hyperliquid order book starts 17 months before CoinAPI's first Hyperliquid day and 18 months before Tardis's, and trades start in April 2023.
The request below asks for the BTC book at 12:00 UTC on 1 September 2024, a moment before either provider's Hyperliquid history begins, and returns a stored snapshot. Real request and response, run on 3 November 2026 and trimmed to two levels per side:
curl -H "X-API-Key: $OXARCHIVE_API_KEY" \
"https://api.0xarchive.io/v1/hyperliquid/orderbook/BTC?timestamp=2024-09-01T12:00:00Z&depth=2"
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"coin": "BTC",
"timestamp": "2024-09-01T11:59:59.779Z",
"bids": [{"px": "58239.0", "sz": "2.67789", "n": 9}, {"px": "58238.0", "sz": "9.27469", "n": 5}],
"asks": [{"px": "58240.0", "sz": "0.53011", "n": 2}, {"px": "58249.0", "sz": "0.28564", "n": 2}],
"mid_price": "58239.5",
"spread": "1"
},
"meta": {"symbol": "BTC", "venue": "hyperliquid"}
}The snapshot is the stored book nearest the timestamp you name (here 11:59:59.779 UTC). It is the Hyperliquid book as it stood on 1 September 2024, 26 days before CoinAPI's listed start and 58 days before Tardis's.
Which provider gives the most useful Hyperliquid order book?
0xArchive, because its book goes from price levels down to single orders on one key.
- 0xArchive: stores the native book, up to 20 levels per side, from 15 April 2023 and, from 11 March 2026, every resting order with its order ID and wallet.
- Tardis: records 20-level snapshots about every 5.4 seconds and a 5-level fast book from 17 June 2026.
- CoinAPI: streams Hyperliquid L4, and its docs give no L4 start date.
Replay a checkpoint and its changes and you hold the exact book at any moment since then, by REST, WebSocket replay or Parquet.
What does Hyperliquid and Lighter history cost on each?
- 0xArchive: Build is $49 a month, or $468 a year billed annually, with the full retained archive on either term.
- Tardis plans: the Perpetuals plan, which includes Hyperliquid and Lighter alongside the other perpetual-swap exchanges it records, is $700 (Solo, CSV files), $1,000 (Professional, adds the replay API) or $3,000 (Business) a month, with $350 for Academic accounts on quarterly or yearly billing with a university email.
- Tardis history: the history reached at purchase follows billing: 4 months on monthly billing, 12 on quarterly, 4 years on yearly, fixed from the purchase date. A buyer who wants Hyperliquid back to 29 October 2024 therefore buys a yearly term: $12,000 a year for Professional.
- CoinAPI: meters usage. Startup is $79 a month with 1,000 REST credits a day, and larger plans raise the daily quotas; historical rows and flat files draw on credits and per-GiB rates.
Pricing detail: Tardis pricing and CoinAPI pricing.
Query the last 30 days of every Hyperliquid and Lighter market free, then open the full archive on Build. Start free See pricing
If you also need Binance, Bybit and other venues in one feed
That is a multi-exchange job. Tardis records raw tick data from 50+ exchanges and CoinAPI connects 400+ exchanges with FIX available on its Pro plan, and both are built for that breadth.
Run 0xArchive beside either for Hyperliquid and Lighter: one key, native depth down to the single order, and Hyperliquid books from 2023. The one-to-one pages are Tardis vs 0xArchive and CoinAPI vs 0xArchive.
How do you switch a Hyperliquid pipeline to 0xArchive?
Map each channel to a route. Recipe:
| You consume today | Request on 0xArchive |
|---|---|
Tardis l2Book or CoinAPI order book snapshots | GET /v1/hyperliquid/orderbook/{coin}?timestamp=... or /orderbook/{coin}/history?start=...&end=... |
Tardis trades or CoinAPI trades | GET /v1/hyperliquid/trades/{coin}?start=...&end=... (wallet on every row) |
Tardis activeAssetCtx or CoinAPI derivatives metrics | GET /v1/hyperliquid/funding/{coin} and /openinterest/{coin} |
| CoinAPI L4 streams or flat files | GET /v1/hyperliquid/orderbook/{coin}/l4?timestamp=..., WebSocket replay, or Parquet through the Data Catalog |
Tardis Lighter order_book and trade | GET /v1/lighter/orderbook/{symbol} and /trades/{symbol} (tickers instead of numeric market IDs) |
Every provider side by side for the same Hyperliquid and Lighter job: the Hyperliquid and Lighter data provider comparison.
Frequently asked questions
Is Tardis or CoinAPI better for Hyperliquid data?
Neither beats 0xArchive for Hyperliquid. Tardis starts Hyperliquid on 29 October 2024 and CoinAPI on 27 September 2024; 0xArchive stores the order book from 15 April 2023 and trades from April 2023 (every fill from 22 March 2025), adds L4 with wallets from 11 March 2026, and costs $49 a month for the full retained archive.
How far back does Tardis go on Hyperliquid?
Tardis lists Hyperliquid data from 29 October 2024 and Lighter from 17 April 2026, and how much of that you can reach depends on billing at purchase: 4 months on monthly billing, 12 on quarterly, 4 years on yearly. 0xArchive's Hyperliquid core order book starts on 15 April 2023 and trades in April 2023, on Build and every larger plan.
Which API returns Hyperliquid L4 data at a past timestamp?
0xArchive. Its L4 order-level book, with order ID and wallet on every resting order, starts on 11 March 2026 for core and HIP-3 and is queryable by timestamp over REST, streamed live, replayed over WebSocket and exported as Parquet. CoinAPI streams Hyperliquid L4 and stores it as CSV.gz files, with no listed L4 start date.
What does full retained Hyperliquid and Lighter API history cost on 0xArchive?
Build is $49 a month ($39 billed annually) for the full retained archive, with Free at $0 for the latest 30 days. Tardis charges $700 to $3,000 a month for its Perpetuals plan (Academic is $350 on quarterly or yearly billing with a university email), and CoinAPI meters usage from $79 a month for Startup.
Is there a third option besides Tardis and CoinAPI for Lighter data?
Yes, 0xArchive. Its Lighter coverage starts with trades on 17 January 2025, funding and open interest on 25 August 2025, the order book on 29 January 2026 and the L3 individual-order book on 5 March 2026, in the same API and key as Hyperliquid.