How is this cryptocurrency & blockchain ranking decided?

Mechanically. The 20 approved cryptocurrency & blockchain listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.

Is this list re-ordered for students?

No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the students framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Students want the $0 column. Anything on this page with a published free plan or an open-source licence is usable without a purchase decision at all.

How much does cryptocurrency & blockchain software cost?

Across the 20 cryptocurrency & blockchain tools listed here, paid plans start between $0.02 and $349 a month, with a median entry price of $87.50. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $399 a month (Etherscan). 17 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.

What is the cheapest cryptocurrency & blockchain software?

10 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Bybit has the lowest published entry price at $0.02 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.

Is there free cryptocurrency & blockchain software?

Yes, 17 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 10 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.

What features should cryptocurrency & blockchain software have?

Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are spot trading (4 of 16 tools that publish plan detail), staking (4) and portfolio (3). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as advanced charting and order types or copy trading, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.

How is cryptocurrency & blockchain software usually billed?

freemium (11), free (4), counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 1 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.

What does cryptocurrency & blockchain software actually cover?

The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are exchange (8), crypto (7), analytics (6), defi (5), api (3). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under cryptocurrency & blockchain may overlap on very little.

How many pricing tiers do cryptocurrency & blockchain tools offer?

17 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 2 tiers. 4 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.

How many cryptocurrency & blockchain tools are listed on Softwr?

20 approved cryptocurrency & blockchain listings appear on this page, including Alchemy, Argent, Binance, Bitfinex. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/cryptocurrency-blockchain, which ranks the same set by published rating.

Cryptocurrency & Blockchain · ranked shortlist

Best Cryptocurrency & Blockchain software for Students in 2026

20 approved cryptocurrency & blockchain listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed. Students want the $0 column. Anything on this page with a published free plan or an open-source licence is usable without a purchase decision at all.

Tools ranked: 20
Entry price range: $0.02-$349
Publish a $0 plan: 17 of 20

How this ranking is derived

The sort key

Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.

Where the ratings come from

No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.

What the pool is

Approved cryptocurrency & blockchain listings, capped at 20 per page; 20 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the cryptocurrency & blockchain category page.

The ranking

Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.

#1
Alchemy
Highest rated here
The web3 development platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $49 a month.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $199.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
3 tiers
Tags
infrastructure, node, API, developer
Alchemy breakdown Compare with Argent
#2
Argent
The smart wallet for DeFi and NFTs
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
Billing
free
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
wallet, smart-contract, social-recovery, layer2
Argent breakdown Compare with Binance
#3
Binance
The world's leading cryptocurrency exchange
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
crypto, exchange, trading, binance
Binance breakdown Compare with Bitfinex
#4
Bitfinex
Professional cryptocurrency trading platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
Billing
Model not published
Tags
crypto, exchange, professional, margin
Bitfinex breakdown Compare with Bitget
#5
Bitget
Trade smarter with copy trading
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
crypto, exchange, copy-trading, futures
Bitget breakdown Compare with Bitstamp
#6
Bitstamp
The original crypto exchange since 2011
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
crypto, exchange, european, regulated
Bitstamp breakdown Compare with BscScan
#7
BscScan
BNB Smart Chain explorer
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $199 a month.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
explorer, bnb-chain, bsc, transactions
BscScan breakdown Compare with Bybit
#8
Bybit
Where crypto traders come to win
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $0.02 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $0.10.
Billing
Model not published
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
crypto, exchange, derivatives, futures
Bybit breakdown Compare with CoinGecko
#9
CoinGecko
The world's largest independent crypto data aggregator
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $7.99 a month.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $129.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
3 tiers
Tags
data, analytics, prices, research
CoinGecko breakdown Compare with CoinMarketCap
#10
CoinMarketCap
The world's most-referenced price-tracking website
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $79 a month.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
data, analytics, prices, rankings
CoinMarketCap breakdown Compare with Compound
#11
Compound
Autonomous interest rate protocol
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
Model not published
Tags
defi, lending, borrowing, ethereum
Compound breakdown Compare with Curve Finance
#12
Curve Finance
Efficient stablecoin trading
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
Billing
free
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
defi, dex, stablecoins, low-slippage
Curve Finance breakdown Compare with DeBank
#13
DeBank
The real Web3-native messenger & best Web3 portfolio tracker
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $96 a month.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
portfolio, analytics, defi, social
DeBank breakdown Compare with Dune Analytics
#14
Dune Analytics
Crypto's data platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $349 a month.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
analytics, data, sql, dashboards
Dune Analytics breakdown Compare with dYdX
#15
dYdX
Decentralized perpetual trading
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
Billing
free
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
defi, dex, perpetuals, decentralized
dYdX breakdown Compare with Etherscan
#16
Etherscan
The Ethereum blockchain explorer
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $199 a month.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $399.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
3 tiers
Tags
explorer, ethereum, transactions, analytics
Etherscan breakdown Compare with Exodus
#17
Exodus
Secure, manage, and swap cryptocurrency
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
Billing
free
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
wallet, multi-chain, exchange, desktop
Exodus breakdown Compare with FTX
#18
F
FTX
Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
crypto, exchange, derivatives, futures
FTX breakdown Compare with Gate.io
#19
Gate.io
Your gateway to crypto
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
Model not published
Tags
crypto, exchange, altcoins, ieo
Gate.io breakdown Compare with Gemini
#20
Gemini
Google's most capable AI model
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
Billing
Model not published
Published tiers
3 tiers
Tags
ai, google, gemini, multimodal
Gemini breakdown

What cryptocurrency & blockchain software costs

Counted from the published pricing of the 20 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.

Cheapest paid plan: $0.02Bybit
Median entry price: $87.50across 8 priced
Dearest entry price: $349Dune Analytics
Publish a $0 plan: 17of 20

Paid cryptocurrency & blockchain plans in this set start anywhere from $0.02 a month for Bybit to $349 for Dune Analytics. The median entry price across the 8 tools that publish one is $87.50, half of them start below that figure and half above it.

Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Etherscan's at $399 a month. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.

17 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and 10 of those charge nothing at all. 1 tool has no free tier of any kind.

1 of 20 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.

Bybit pricing Dune Analytics pricing Etherscan plans

How these vendors bill

The billing model each of the 20 cryptocurrency & blockchain listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.

freemium: 11
free: 4

Separately, 1 of 20 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.

What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for

Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 16 cryptocurrency & blockchain tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.

Named most often

Spot trading , 4 of 16
Staking , 4 of 16
Portfolio , 3 of 16
Priority support , 3 of 16
Advanced APIs , 2 of 16

Named by fewer

Block explorer , 2 of 16
Charts , 2 of 16
Futures , 2 of 16
Governance , 2 of 16
Historical data , 2 of 16

Named by exactly one vendor: Advanced charting and order types, Copy trading, Exclusive access, Mobile app access, Priority features, Social feed. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.

What “Cryptocurrency & Blockchain” covers in practice

The subject tags that recur across these 20 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.

exchange8
crypto7
analytics6
defi5
API3
data3
derivatives3
futures3
dex2
ethereum2
explorer2
governance2

Carried by a single tool: ai, bnb, copy-trading, developer, infrastructure, market-cap, portfolio, search. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.

How to choose between them

Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.

Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them

17 of 20 cryptocurrency & blockchain tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with spot trading, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.

Read the spread before you read the features

$0.02 to $349 is a $348.98 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $349 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.

Check which tier you actually land on

4 of 20 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 2 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, spot trading, staking, portfolio, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.

The billing model matters more than the headline number

This category splits across 2 billing models: freemium on 11 listings, free on 4, and nothing else. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.

Compare cryptocurrency & blockchain tools directly

Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.

Go straight to the numbers

Build your own comparison See the shortlist instead

Questions people ask about cryptocurrency & blockchain software

Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.

How is this cryptocurrency & blockchain ranking decided?: Mechanically. The 20 approved cryptocurrency & blockchain listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
Is this list re-ordered for students?: No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the students framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Students want the $0 column. Anything on this page with a published free plan or an open-source licence is usable without a purchase decision at all.
How much does cryptocurrency & blockchain software cost?: Across the 20 cryptocurrency & blockchain tools listed here, paid plans start between $0.02 and $349 a month, with a median entry price of $87.50. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $399 a month (Etherscan). 17 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
What is the cheapest cryptocurrency & blockchain software?: 10 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Bybit has the lowest published entry price at $0.02 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
Is there free cryptocurrency & blockchain software?: Yes, 17 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 10 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
What features should cryptocurrency & blockchain software have?: Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are spot trading (4 of 16 tools that publish plan detail), staking (4) and portfolio (3). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as advanced charting and order types or copy trading, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
How is cryptocurrency & blockchain software usually billed?: freemium (11), free (4), counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 1 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
What does cryptocurrency & blockchain software actually cover?: The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are exchange (8), crypto (7), analytics (6), defi (5), api (3). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under cryptocurrency & blockchain may overlap on very little.
How many pricing tiers do cryptocurrency & blockchain tools offer?: 17 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 2 tiers. 4 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
How many cryptocurrency & blockchain tools are listed on Softwr?: 20 approved cryptocurrency & blockchain listings appear on this page, including Alchemy, Argent, Binance, Bitfinex. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/cryptocurrency-blockchain, which ranks the same set by published rating.

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Neighbouring categories

Adjacent in the same taxonomy, not a ranking.

How this ranking is derived

The sort key

Where the ratings come from

What the pool is

The ranking

Alchemy

Argent

Binance

Bitfinex

Bitget

Bitstamp

BscScan

Bybit

CoinGecko

CoinMarketCap

Compound

Curve Finance

DeBank

Dune Analytics

dYdX

Etherscan

Exodus

FTX

Gate.io

Gemini