BitMEX Historical Market Data — Every Tick, €1 a Day
Every message of the BitMEX market-data feed — tick-by-tick trades, Level-2 order-book updates at full depth and quotes, not candles — for 7 instruments (spot), captured co-located with nanosecond timestamps and normalized into one schema, with 1-minute OHLCV derived from it. Any instrument-day is €1 — buy as a guest, download instantly.
BitMEX has ceased operations — the last recorded day is 2026-09-16. The complete archive (October 2023 – September 2026) remains available to browse and download; nothing has been removed and purchased files stay yours.
Every BitMEX message type, one schema
Every BitMEX print — price, size, side and exchange timestamp — at full resolution, not sampled.
Every Level-2 snapshot and update at the venue's full book depth, plus top-of-book where the venue publishes it — nanosecond venue and receive timestamps, so BitMEX liquidity and slippage replay exactly.
Open/high/low/close, volume and VWAP per minute — ready for backtests and BitMEX signal research.
Bid-ask spreads in bps and ticks, normalized into one schema across every venue for apples-to-apples BitMEX comparison.
How to download BitMEX historical data
- Open the Data Shop — it lands on the most-recorded BitMEX instrument; every other instrument on this page links straight to its own day calendar.
- Pick a UTC day in the calendar. Each day is one file with every trade, order-book update and quote the venue published — the shop shows the day's candle and file size before you buy.
- Try a free sample day first — one complete day, same schema, no sign-up.
- Check out as a guest — pay by card, no account, no sales call — and the file downloads immediately at €1 per instrument-day. Buying many days? Select them across the calendar or use the scanner bulk-add.
- Need CSV or Parquet instead of the native tick file? Append
?format=to any download — see the formats overview. Coding agents can do all of this through the MCP server.
Most-recorded BitMEX instruments
Ranked by archive size. Open any instrument for live analytics, or download its full history.
| Instrument | Type | Coverage | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XBT_USDT | Spot | October 2023 – September 2026 | 46.2 GB | Download |
| ETH_USDT | Spot | October 2023 – September 2026 | 19.9 GB | Download |
| XRP_USDT | Spot | March 2024 – September 2026 | 19.0 GB | Download |
| SOL_USDT | Spot | October 2023 – September 2026 | 11.6 GB | Download |
| BMEX_USDT | Spot | October 2023 – September 2026 | 705 MB | Download |
| XAUT_USDT | Spot | April 2026 – September 2026 | 139 MB | Download |
| RLUSD_USDT | Spot | May 2025 – September 2026 | 9.31 MB | Download |
Market structure & coverage
BitMEX historical data spans October 2023 – September 2026 — over 3 years across spot. The archive holds 7 instruments over 7 base assets, for 1.90 TB of recorded market data.
BitMEX trading activity — turnover, trades and trend
What our tick archive recorded on BitMEX: whole-venue USD turnover and trade counts per window, the month-by-month development and the split by instrument class.
Over the 30 days to 2026-09-18, our tick capture recorded 49,368 trades and $219.9M of USD turnover on BitMEX across 7 active instruments — an average of $7.3M per day, −80.8 % versus the 30 days before.
Whole-venue totals from every trade print in our own co-located tick capture (365 recorded days in the last 365, window ending 2026-09-18) — not venue-reported volume. Averages are over recorded days only.
| Month | Turnover (USD) | Trades | Avg / day | Days | vs previous month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 (month to date) | $45.7M | 11.3K | $2.5M | 18 | — |
| Aug 2026 | $485.3M | 137.7K | $15.7M | 31 | −88.8 % |
| Jul 2026 | $4.3B | 2.3M | $139.8M | 31 | −53.3 % |
| Jun 2026 | $9.3B | 4.4M | $309.5M | 30 | +16.5 % |
| May 2026 | $8.0B | 4.1M | $257.2M | 31 | +2.1 % |
| Apr 2026 | $7.8B | 4.0M | $260.3M | 30 | −9.4 % |
| Mar 2026 | $8.6B | 4.3M | $277.9M | 31 | −17.1 % |
| Feb 2026 | $10.4B | 5.5M | $371.3M | 28 | −8.7 % |
| Jan 2026 | $11.4B | 5.5M | $367.5M | 31 | −8.8 % |
| Dec 2025 | $12.5B | 6.0M | $402.9M | 31 | −29.4 % |
| Nov 2025 | $17.7B | 8.3M | $589.6M | 30 | −23.9 % |
| Oct 2025 | $23.2B | 12.6M | $749.4M | 31 | — |
BitMEX — USD turnover and trade counts summed per calendar month (UTC) from our tick archive. Days = UTC days with recorded activity; a partial month shows no month-over-month change.
| Instrument class | Turnover · 30d (USD) | Share | Trades · 30d |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perpetual swaps | $216.0M | 98.2 % | 47.2K |
| Dated futures | $3.3M | 1.5 % | 756 |
| Spot | $625.5K | 0.3 % | 1.4K |
BitMEX — share of USD turnover by instrument class over the 30 days to 2026-09-18, from our tick archive.
BitMEX — USD turnover per day, last 30 days
Summed over every recorded instrument of the venue, from the trade prints in our tick archive.
| UTC day | Turnover (USD) | Trades | vs previous day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-18 | $2.1K | 16 | +533.6 % |
| 2026-09-17 | $323.7 | 13 | -100.0 % |
| 2026-09-16 | $2.5M | 212 | -15.6 % |
| 2026-09-15 | $3.0M | 306 | +154.6 % |
| 2026-09-14 | $1.2M | 196 | -23.3 % |
| 2026-09-13 | $1.5M | 354 | +1360.1 % |
| 2026-09-12 | $104.5K | 38 | -84.0 % |
| 2026-09-11 | $654.2K | 193 | -78.5 % |
| 2026-09-10 | $3.0M | 405 | -37.3 % |
| 2026-09-09 | $4.8M | 913 | +45.3 % |
| 2026-09-08 | $3.3M | 776 | +2.4 % |
| 2026-09-07 | $3.3M | 683 | +238.1 % |
| 2026-09-06 | $963.0K | 524 | +15.9 % |
| 2026-09-05 | $831.2K | 317 | -87.1 % |
| 2026-09-04 | $6.5M | 1.3K | +2.7 % |
| 2026-09-03 | $6.3M | 1.9K | +97.1 % |
| 2026-09-02 | $3.2M | 1.4K | -29.5 % |
| 2026-09-01 | $4.5M | 1.7K | +13.8 % |
| 2026-08-31 | $4.0M | 1.6K | -6.4 % |
| 2026-08-30 | $4.3M | 1.2K | +207.3 % |
| 2026-08-29 | $1.4M | 769 | -86.6 % |
| 2026-08-28 | $10.3M | 2.5K | +22.9 % |
| 2026-08-27 | $8.4M | 3.5K | -30.5 % |
| 2026-08-26 | $12.1M | 2.2K | -20.3 % |
| 2026-08-25 | $15.2M | 3.8K | -23.4 % |
| 2026-08-24 | $19.8M | 3.5K | +57.5 % |
| 2026-08-23 | $12.6M | 2.6K | +14.8 % |
| 2026-08-22 | $11.0M | 3.8K | -74.3 % |
| 2026-08-21 | $42.7M | 7.3K | +31.8 % |
| 2026-08-20 | $32.4M | 5.4K | — |
USD turnover and trade counts summed over every recorded BitMEX instrument per UTC day, from the trade prints in our tick archive — the same series as the live analytics chart on the exchanges overview.
Guides featuring BitMEX data
Why buy BitMEX data here
Four things every page on this site is built on — and the reason the numbers above exist at all.
We record everything
The complete public feed of each venue as it was published: every Level-2 snapshot and update at the venue's full book depth, every trade with its aggressor side, every quote, funding, mark-price and liquidation event — for every instrument the venue lists, every UTC day since we added the venue. Nothing sampled, no top-N cut, no on-demand capture.
Institutional grade
Captured co-located at the venue with the exchange timestamp and our receive timestamp in integer nanoseconds, an event-id chain that makes any gap visible, and one normalized schema across 35+ venues — the same capture our own high-frequency trading engine and enterprise feeds run on.
€1 per instrument-day
Any instrument-day is €1, series-day bundles start at €1 — no subscription, no minimum order, no tiers to unlock. Credit packs lower the effective price and never expire, and every venue has free full-day samples to test against first.
Self-service for everyone
Pick the days in the Data Shop, pay by card as a guest and download immediately — no sales call, no enterprise contract, no KYC. Coding agents buy the same files through the MCP server, and the free Agent Skill teaches them the format.
BitMEX historical data — FAQ
What BitMEX historical market data can I download?
Tick-by-tick trades, Level-2 order-book depth, 1-minute OHLCV/VWAP and bid-ask spreads for 7 BitMEX instruments across spot. Each file is one instrument for one UTC day.
How far back does BitMEX data go?
BitMEX coverage runs October 2023 – September 2026. Availability varies per instrument — check the per-instrument calendar on the analyze page.
Do you provide BitMEX order-book and L2 depth data?
Yes — every file carries the full Level-2 book as the venue published it: one snapshot, then every incremental update at the venue's full depth, plus top-of-book where BitMEX publishes a separate stream, alongside the raw trade stream — one schema across all venues.
Do you record every BitMEX instrument, or only the top pairs?
Every instrument BitMEX lists, every message it publishes, every UTC day since we added the venue — 7 instruments so far. No top-N cut, no sampling, no capture on demand; the archive is the complete feed, recorded co-located with nanosecond timestamps.
What format are the BitMEX data files in?
One zstd-compressed text file per instrument per UTC day, in the schema documented in the market-data specification. Grab free samples on the downloads page.
Can I download BitMEX data as CSV or Parquet?
Yes — every free sample and every purchased tick day also exports as gzipped CSV or Parquet at no extra cost: trades in both formats. BitMEX records full order-book depth without a separate BBO stream — the free reader script converts depth locally. Timestamps are integer microseconds UTC and the columns load straight into pandas, polars or DuckDB — see the formats overview.
How much does BitMEX historical data cost?
€1 per BitMEX instrument-day — no subscription, no minimum order, no account needed: buy as a guest, download instantly, or use credit packs that never expire. Free full-day samples first on the downloads page; details on pricing.
How much volume does BitMEX trade per day?
Over the 30 days to 2026-09-18 our tick capture recorded $219.9M of USD turnover on BitMEX, about $7.3M per UTC day across 7 active instruments. That is −80.8 % versus the 30 days before. Over the last 365 days (365 recorded days) the archive holds $120.5B of BitMEX turnover. The figures are summed from every trade print in the archive, not from venue-reported volume.
How many trades per day happen on BitMEX?
49,368 trades in the 30 days to 2026-09-18 — about 1.6K per UTC day, with an average trade size of $4,455. Every one of these prints is in the BitMEX instrument-day files, with nanosecond exchange timestamps and the order-book state around it.
What was the busiest BitMEX trading day in the archive?
2025-10-10, with $3.0B of USD turnover over 1,040,047 trades (365-day window ending 2026-09-18). The busiest full month was Oct 2025 at $23.2B. Any of these days can be downloaded per instrument from the shop.
Is BitMEX still operating?
No. BitMEX has ceased operations; our last recorded BitMEX day is 2026-09-16. The historical archive is unaffected — every recorded day remains available for €1 per instrument-day, and the status page no longer lists BitMEX because there is no live feed to monitor.