#variance-risk-premium

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

The crypto market's "fear gauge" and the premium option sellers earn, read live from Deribit's public DVOL index and Binance's candles — no key, nothing stored. DVOL is Deribit's 30-day forward implied-volatility index for BTC and ETH, the crypto equivalent of the VIX: the single number that says how much volatility the options market is pricing in. The index endpoint returns the latest DVOL, the session open/high/low/close, the 24-hour change and a plain-language regime label (low, normal, high, extreme). The vrp endpoint computes the variance risk premium — implied vol (DVOL) minus the realised volatility actually delivered over the last 30 days (annualised standard deviation of daily log returns from Binance candles): when implied sits well above realised, option sellers are being paid a premium and the rich/cheap signal flags it; when implied is below realised, options are cheap relative to what the market has been doing. The history endpoint returns the DVOL index time series. This is the implied-volatility-index / variance-risk-premium cut — distinct from the realised-volatility API (which has no implied leg), the equity VIX-family indices and the option-chain, skew and gamma APIs in the catalogue. Currency is BTC or ETH (the assets Deribit publishes DVOL for).

api.oanor.com/dvol-api