# Bitcompare API Docs

> Developer documentation for the Bitcompare API and MCP server. Crypto rates, prices, coin metadata, market stats, stablecoin stability, and symbol resolution.

## Agents & MCP

The Bitcompare MCP server is the recommended surface for Claude, Claude Code, Claude.ai, and any Model Context Protocol-compatible agent. Same data, same auth, native tool-use.

- MCP Server overview: https://docs.bitcompare.net/mcp
- MCP marketing & registry badges: https://bitcompare.net/mcp
- Hosted MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP): https://api.bitcompare.net/mcp
- Machine-readable tool catalog: https://api.bitcompare.net/mcp/tools.json
- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitcompare/mcp-server
- Auth: Bearer `ck_live_*` from https://pro.bitcompare.net/dashboard/keys

## Getting started

- Quickstart (cURL + JavaScript): https://docs.bitcompare.net/quickstart
- Authentication: https://docs.bitcompare.net/authentication
- API keys: https://docs.bitcompare.net/api-keys
- Errors: https://docs.bitcompare.net/errors
- Rate limiting: https://docs.bitcompare.net/rate-limiting
- WebSocket streams: https://docs.bitcompare.net/websockets

## Market data endpoints

- Rates (lending, borrowing, staking, savings): https://docs.bitcompare.net/rates
- Prices (aggregated across providers): https://docs.bitcompare.net/prices
- Coins (metadata, history, similar): https://docs.bitcompare.net/coins
- Charts (OHLC, intervals): https://docs.bitcompare.net/charts
- Global stats (market cap, dominance, Fear & Greed): https://docs.bitcompare.net/global-stats
- Stablecoin index (stability, peg deviation): https://docs.bitcompare.net/stablecoin-index
- Symbols (exchange → canonical id): https://docs.bitcompare.net/symbols
- Fiat currencies: https://docs.bitcompare.net/fiat

## Content endpoints

- Articles: https://docs.bitcompare.net/articles

## Enterprise

- Ad network & earnings: https://docs.bitcompare.net/ad-network

## Conventions

- All endpoints are read-only (`GET`).
- All endpoints return JSON.
- Authentication via `Authorization: Bearer ck_live_*` header.
- Rates updated every 15 minutes; prices every 30 seconds.
- 500+ cryptocurrencies, 100+ providers tracked.