Data licensing
Measured costs, licensed. Rankings never.
Hourly measurements on dollar books (USD, USDT) since 1 Aug 2026 and euro books since 23 June 2026.
Free site: today’s figures and published months. Licence: every hourly row, filterable, citable, with a contact.
Three licences
01 — Editorial teams and newsletters
Newsroom
€390 / month · €3,900 / year
- Monthly index as CSV, the day it closes
- One custom cut per month (an exchange, a coin, a sell-side question)
- Quote and chart rights with credit, no per-use approval
- Corrections sent to you before they are published
02 — Comparison sites and education platforms
Portal
€890 / month · €8,900 / year
- Everything in Newsroom
- Hourly rows: dollar books (USD, USDT) since 1 August 2026, euro founding series since 23 June 2026 — CSV or API key, your rate limit
- Filter by date, coin, exchange, quote book, side and order size
- Embeddable table without the sponsored-link requirement
- Named contact, replies within one working day
03 — Exchanges and brokers
Exchange
€1,490 / month · €14,900 / year
- Everything in Portal
- Monthly independent cost report for your own pairs, citable
- Early notice of any incident entry affecting your reliability score
- No influence on rankings, scores or methodology — by contract and by code
Sample data room
Sample CSV: seven days (16–22 Aug 2026) — USD and USDT books first, EUR founding series below. Download →
Method and versioning: /true-cost/methodology
Corrections log, dated, on every edition: /research
Questions, answered
Is the public API still free?
Yes — live figures and the published index stay free with credit and data age; a licence adds the hourly rows, history, cuts and a contact.
Can a licence change a ranking or a score?
No — rankings come from measured cost and scores from sourced facts; both are unit-tested to ignore commercial status.
How is billing done?
Invoice from OptiRisk Consulting e.U., Vienna, prices net of VAT: monthly and cancel monthly, or one year in advance for ten monthly prices; no card, no self-serve checkout yet.
What does a custom cut look like?
A dated table or chart answering one question, computed from the same rows as the public index, delivered as CSV and PNG.
What is in the sample?
Seven days of hourly $1,000 and €1,000 buy measurements on dollar and euro books (16–22 Aug 2026), same columns as a licence export.
Start with a sample: email hello@skontro.com with subject “Data licence” and your question — one free cut, then the invoice.
Method and sources: /true-cost/methodology · free API: /developers · Skontro — built in Vienna by OptiRisk Consulting e.U. Not investment advice; Skontro is not a CASP under MiCAR.