A Coinglass Alternative That Publishes Its Own Scorecard

What Coinglass does

Coinglass is a crypto derivatives data platform. Its best-known surface is the aggregate liquidation heatmap: an estimate of where leveraged positions would be force-closed, drawn as colored bands across price, built from data aggregated across major exchanges and offered in several models. Around it sit the adjacent dashboards derivatives traders use daily: open interest, funding rates, long/short ratios, a real-time liquidation feed, and more.

The core heatmap is free; deeper history, more timeframes and API access sit on its paid plans. For raw breadth of derivatives data in one place, it is the established reference, and we think that reputation is earned.

Described from Coinglass's public pages as of August 2026. Their product and plans change; check coinglass.com for the current state.

The question most heatmaps leave unanswered

Every liquidation heatmap, ours included, is an estimate: no exchange publishes where its open liquidation levels sit, so every platform models them. The colors tell you where the modeled clusters are. What they do not tell you is whether those levels meant anything afterward: did price actually trade through them, how often, and over how many observations?

As of our last check (August 2026), we could not find a per-level measured accuracy record for the Coinglass heatmap on its public pages. That is normal for the category, not a criticism of one vendor: modeled levels are usually sold on coverage, not on a graded track record. It is also the specific gap Hunter Killer was built to close.

What Hunter Killer does differently

We log published levels before scoring their outcomes. The public record retains misses and compares with simple baselines, including when a baseline does as well or better. Only evidence cleared for public release is shown. The method and the dated record are available on /proof.

• The public record is free on /proof: published-level scoring, dated evidence and the method are available to inspect.
• The autopsy library on /autopsies posts a public post-mortem for every major cascade: what the map said before it started, which levels price reached, misses included.
• The methodology is published on /methodology, with the frozen metric contract and a changelog.
• Five free calculators (liquidation price, P&L, position size, Kelly, funding rate) need no signup at all.
• Cascade alerts fire only at high severity, rate-capped, and cite the observed wall, time and source data. See how the alerts work.

Side by side

Coinglass cells are described from their public pages as of August 2026 and may be out of date; where we were not sure, the cell says to check their site. Hunter Killer cells link their evidence on this page.

Plans at a glance

Coinglass prices and plan limits are quoted from their public pricing page at our last check and can change; their site governs. Hunter Killer terms are the ones on our pricing page and in our terms.

Where Coinglass is the better fit

Honesty cuts both ways. If you want the widest set of derivatives dashboards in one place, a long-established interface, many assets and long history, Coinglass is a reasonable default and plenty of traders will stay there happily. Many of our own users keep both open.

If the question you actually care about is "can I trust these levels, and how would I know?", that is the question Hunter Killer exists to answer, in public, with the misses on the record.

How to judge any liquidation map, ours included

• Can you inspect the record and its method? Check when levels were logged, how outcomes are scored, which simple baselines are used and whether misses stay in the record.
• Does it show its misses? A vendor that only screenshots wins is telling you how it sells, not how it measures. Our autopsies include the misses by design.
• Does it separate estimates from observations? A heatmap describes where forced orders are estimated to sit. It is market context, not a forecast.