Listed expiries with aggregate OI
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Crypto Options Max Pain & Open Interest API
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Where the crypto options market is positioned, and the strike toward which an expiry's open interest exerts the most "pain" — computed live from Deribit's public option book, no key, nothing stored. Max pain is the strike at which the total value of all open options is lowest at expiry: the price at which the greatest dollar amount of option open interest expires worthless and option writers keep the most premium. Traders watch it because price often gravitates toward max pain into a large expiry. The maxpain endpoint takes a currency (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP) and an expiry and returns the max-pain strike, the spot/underlying, how far spot sits from max pain, and the call and put open-interest totals with the put/call OI ratio. The oi endpoint returns the full open-interest-by-strike distribution for an expiry — which strikes hold the most open interest, the magnets and walls (support & resistance) traders watch. The expiries endpoint lists every listed expiry with its aggregate open interest, contract count and call/put split. This is the aggregate options-positioning / max-pain analytics cut for crypto — distinct from the raw per-contract option chain (greeks/IV), from US equity options and from the crypto-volatility APIs in the catalogue. Currency is BTC, ETH, SOL or XRP; expiry is a Deribit code like 26JUN26.
api.oanor.com/maxpain-api
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Pricing
Pick a tier — billed monthly, cancel anytime.
Free
Free
- 400 calls / month
- 2 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 400 calls/month
- 2 req/sec
- Max pain + OI + expiries
- No credit card
Starter
€11.66 /month
- 9,500 calls / month
- 6 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 9,500 calls/month
- 6 req/sec
- All four currencies
- Email support
Pro
€35.56 /month
- 58,000 calls / month
- 16 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 58,000 calls/month
- 16 req/sec
- Options-positioning dashboards
- Priority support
Business
€81.90 /month
- 310,000 calls / month
- 40 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 310,000 calls/month
- 40 req/sec
- Derivatives-desk scale
- Dedicated SLA
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Deribit API
Live market data from Deribit — the leading crypto options and futures exchange. A keyless, no-account JSON wrapper over Deribit's public v2 API. Read the spot index price for any settlement currency (BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT), pull a full ticker for any instrument — last / mark / index price, best bid-ask, open interest and 8-hour funding for perpetuals, plus mark implied volatility and the greeks (delta, gamma, vega, theta, rho) for options — list the entire active instruments catalog by currency and kind (future, option, spot, combos) with strikes, expiries and contract sizes, and fetch per-currency order-book summaries across all live instruments. The raw exchange feed for derivatives desks, options dashboards, volatility models and trading bots — distinct from analytics products: this is Deribit's own ticker, instrument and book data, decoded into clean JSON.
api.oanor.com/deribit-api
Paradex Perps & Options DEX API
Live market data for Paradex, the Starknet-appchain perpetuals and options DEX, with no key. List every instrument (perpetual futures, dated options and spot) with full contract specs; pull a per-market summary with mark price, 24h volume, open interest, funding rate and — for options — implied volatility and full greeks (delta, gamma, vega, theta); read the live order book; and stream recent public trades. Paradex is one of the few venues exposing on-chain options greeks over a keyless feed — ideal for derivatives dashboards and options analytics.
api.oanor.com/paradex-api
Variance Risk Premium API
How much more volatility the options market is pricing in than the market has actually delivered — the carry that every short-volatility strategy harvests — computed live from Yahoo Finance, no key, nothing stored. Implied volatility (the VIX and its cousins) is almost always richer than the volatility that subsequently shows up: investors pay up for protection, and that gap, the variance risk premium, is one of the most persistent paid-for risks in markets. This API measures it directly across the major asset classes that publish an implied-vol index: for the S&P 500 (VIX), the Nasdaq 100 (VXN), crude oil (OVX) and gold (GVZ), it takes the live implied-vol index and subtracts the realised volatility actually delivered by the underlying over the matching ~30-day window (annualised standard deviation of daily log returns), and returns the premium in volatility points, the implied/realised ratio and a rich/cheap read. A large positive VRP means options are expensive relative to what the market has been doing (sellers are well paid); a negative VRP — implied below realised — is rare and flags that options are cheap, often during or right after a stress event. The premium endpoint returns all four markets ranked; the asset endpoint returns one market with 21- and 30-day realised legs; the history endpoint returns the VRP time series. This is the implied-minus-realised / variance-risk-premium cut for equities and commodities — distinct from the implied-vol level board (no realised leg), the realised-volatility dashboard (no implied leg) and the crypto-only DVOL/VRP API.
api.oanor.com/vrp-api
VIX Term Structure API
The shape of the equity volatility curve — the single most-watched regime signal in the options world — computed live from Yahoo Finance, no key, nothing stored. A VIX level tells you how scared the market is right now; the term structure tells you whether that fear is short-term panic or a calm, persistent state, and which way it is rolling. This API reads the S&P 500 implied-volatility curve across four tenors — the 9-day VIX, the headline 30-day VIX, the 3-month VIX and the 6-month VIX — and turns it into a regime. When the curve slopes up (VIX < VIX3M < VIX6M) the market is in contango: calm, with near-term vol cheaper than far, the state short-vol strategies harvest. When it inverts to backwardation (VIX above VIX3M) the front end is bid above the back: acute stress, fear spiking, historically near capitulation. The structure endpoint returns the live curve, the contango ratio (VIX / VIX3M), the short-end ratio (VIX9D / VIX), the roll yield a short-vol position would earn, the slope classification and a regime read, with VVIX (the vol of the VIX) for context. The history endpoint returns the daily time series of the contango ratio and flags every backwardation day. The percentile endpoint places today's contango ratio in its one-year range. This is the volatility term-structure / contango-backwardation cut — distinct from the cross-asset VIX-family level board, the crypto DVOL index and the realised-volatility APIs. It is the shape of fear, not its level.
api.oanor.com/vixterm-api
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How do I get an API key for Crypto Options Max Pain & Open Interest API?
Sign up for free at oanor.com, generate an API key from the developer dashboard, and call Crypto Options Max Pain & Open Interest API with the x-oanor-key header. No credit card needed for the free tier.
What's the rate limit for Crypto Options Max Pain & Open Interest API?
Free tier allows 1 request per second. Paid plans scale up to 50 requests per second on the Mega tier. Hard limits return HTTP 429 above the quota — no surprise overage charges.
How much does Crypto Options Max Pain & Open Interest API cost?
Crypto Options Max Pain & Open Interest API has a free tier with 100 calls / month. Paid plans start at €11.66 / month with higher quotas and faster rate limits.
Can I cancel my subscription anytime?
Yes. Plans are billed monthly and you can cancel anytime from your billing dashboard. No long-term contracts and no cancellation fee.
Is Crypto Options Max Pain & Open Interest API GDPR-compliant?
All requests to Crypto Options Max Pain & Open Interest API go through our EU-based gateway. Your upstream API key never leaves our server and no personal data is shared with the upstream provider beyond the request you send.
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});
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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);import requests
r = requests.get(
"https://api.oanor.com/maxpain-api/SOME_PATH",
headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."},
)
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