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 423 instruments (spot, perpetual swaps and futures), 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XBTUSD | Perpetuals | October 2023 – September 2026 | 293 GB | Download |
| XBTUSDT | Perpetuals | October 2023 – September 2026 | 202 GB | Download |
| ETHUSDT | Perpetuals | October 2023 – September 2026 | 158 GB | Download |
| ETHUSD | Perpetuals | October 2023 – September 2026 | 130 GB | Download |
| SOLUSDT | Perpetuals | October 2023 – September 2026 | 87.3 GB | Download |
| DOGEUSDT | Perpetuals | October 2023 – August 2026 | 82.1 GB | Download |
| XRPUSDT | Perpetuals | October 2023 – September 2026 | 73.6 GB | Download |
| SOLUSD | Perpetuals | October 2023 – September 2026 | 54.0 GB | Download |
| XRPUSD | Perpetuals | October 2023 – September 2026 | 48.2 GB | Download |
| LINKUSDT | Perpetuals | October 2023 – July 2026 | 45.9 GB | Download |
| SUIUSDT | Perpetuals | October 2023 – September 2026 | 40.7 GB | Download |
| BCHUSDT | Perpetuals | October 2023 – August 2026 | 38.7 GB | Download |
BitMEX tick size, lot size and contract rules
The trading rules BitMEX publishes for its most-recorded instruments — tick size, lot size, minimum order, contract size and funding interval.
| Instrument | Tick size | Lot size | Min order · notional | Contract size | Funding | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XBTUSD Perpetual · inverse · stats | 0.1 | 100 | 100 · — | 1 USD | 8 h | 2016-05-13 |
| XBTUSDT Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.1 | 100 | 100 · — | 0.000001 BTC | 8 h | 2021-11-10 |
| ETHUSDT Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.01 | 1000 | 1000 · — | 0.00001 ETH | 8 h | 2021-11-10 |
| ETHUSD Perpetual · quanto · stats | 0.01 | 1 | 1 · — | 0.000001 ETH | 8 h | 2018-08-01 |
| SOLUSDT Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.001 | 100 | 100 · — | 0.0001 SOL | 8 h | 2021-11-10 |
| DOGEUSDT Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.00001 | 1000 | 1000 · — | 0.01 DOGE | 8 h | 2021-11-10 |
| XRPUSDT Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.0001 | 100 | 100 · — | 0.01 XRP | 8 h | 2021-11-10 |
| SOLUSD Perpetual · quanto · stats | 0.01 | 1 | 1 · — | 0.000001 SOL | 8 h | 2021-10-20 |
| XRPUSD Perpetual · quanto · stats | 0.0001 | 1 | 1 · — | 0.0002 XRP | 8 h | 2020-02-04 |
| LINKUSDT Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.001 | 100 | 100 · — | 0.001 LINK | 8 h | 2023-10-03 |
| SUIUSDT Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.0001 | 100 | 100 · — | 0.001 SUI | 8 h | 2023-05-03 |
| BCHUSDT Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.01 | 1000 | 1000 · — | 0.00001 BCH | 8 h | 2021-11-10 |
Exchange-published instrument rules as synced on 2026-10-09: tick size = smallest price step, lot size = smallest quantity step, minimums as order quantity in base units · notional in quote currency, contract size per contract, funding = settlement interval of the perpetual. Every day file carries the same fields in its first line. Venues change these rules — check the venue before trading.
Market structure & coverage
BitMEX tick data was recorded from October 2023 to September 2026 — over 3 years of history across spot, perpetual swaps and futures. The archive holds 423 instruments over 247 base assets, for 54.4 TB of recorded market data. Each day is one complete tick file — not a snapshot or candle feed — at €1 per instrument-day, self-service, with no subscription.
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 2026-10-08, our tick capture recorded 2,664 trades and $16.8M of USD turnover on BitMEX across 7 active instruments — an average of $1.3M per day.
Whole-venue totals from every trade print in our own co-located tick capture (348 recorded days in the last 365, window ending 2026-10-08) — not venue-reported volume. Averages are over recorded days only.
| Month | Turnover (USD) | Trades | Avg / day | Days | vs previous month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | $45.7M | 11.3K | $2.2M | 21 | −90.6 % |
| 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 | — |
| Oct 2025 | $17.4B | 9.8M | $758.5M | 23 | — |
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 | $16.4M | 97.5 % | 2.2K |
| Spot | $214.0K | 1.3 % | 375 |
| Dated futures | $203.9K | 1.2 % | 80 |
BitMEX — share of USD turnover by instrument class over the 30 days to 2026-10-08, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 | $4.7K | 5 | +13197.3 % |
| 2026-09-20 | $35.41 | 4 | -99.4 % |
| 2026-09-19 | $5.7K | 9 | +180.2 % |
| 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 | — |
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.
BitMEX futures-curve day bundles
One bundle = every dated contract of an underlying for one UTC day, each expiry — the perpetual stays a separate instrument. Overview on the futures curve data hub.
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.
Agents: /llms.txt · MCP server /mcp · every page as markdown via Accept: text/markdown
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 423 BitMEX instruments across spot, perpetual swaps and futures. Each file is one instrument for one UTC day.
How far back does BitMEX data go?
BitMEX coverage runs October 2023 – September 2026. Each day is one complete tick file — not a snapshot or candle feed — at €1 per instrument-day, self-service, with no subscription. 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 — 423 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 and liquidations (derivatives, 2026 onward) 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 2026-10-08 our tick capture recorded $16.8M of USD turnover on BitMEX, about $1.3M per UTC day across 7 active instruments. Over the last 365 days (348 recorded days) the archive holds $108.0B 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?
2,664 trades in the 30 days to 2026-10-08 — about 204.92 per UTC day, with an average trade size of $6,323. 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 2026-10-08). The busiest full month was Nov 2025 at $17.7B. Any of these days can be downloaded per instrument from the shop.
What is the tick size of the top BitMEX instruments?
The smallest price step per instrument — XBTUSD (perpetual): 0.1; XBTUSDT (perpetual): 0.1; ETHUSDT (perpetual): 0.01; ETHUSD (perpetual): 0.01; SOLUSDT (perpetual): 0.001; DOGEUSDT (perpetual): 0.00001. The smallest quantity step (lot size) — XBTUSD (perpetual): 100; XBTUSDT (perpetual): 100; ETHUSDT (perpetual): 1000; ETHUSD (perpetual): 1; SOLUSDT (perpetual): 100; DOGEUSDT (perpetual): 1000. The instrument-specifications table on this page lists every row. Values as synced from the venues on 2026-10-09; exchanges change these rules, so check the venue before trading.
What is the minimum order size for the top BitMEX instruments?
Minimum order quantity and, where the venue publishes one, minimum notional — XBTUSD (perpetual): 100 BTC; XBTUSDT (perpetual): 100 BTC; ETHUSDT (perpetual): 1000 ETH; ETHUSD (perpetual): 1 ETH; SOLUSDT (perpetual): 100 SOL; DOGEUSDT (perpetual): 1000 DOGE. Values as synced from the venues on 2026-10-09; exchanges change these rules, so check the venue before trading.
What is the funding interval of the top BitMEX instruments perpetuals?
Funding settles XBTUSD (perpetual): every 8 h, contract size 1 USD; XBTUSDT (perpetual): every 8 h, contract size 0.000001 BTC; ETHUSDT (perpetual): every 8 h, contract size 0.00001 ETH; ETHUSD (perpetual): every 8 h, contract size 0.000001 ETH; SOLUSDT (perpetual): every 8 h, contract size 0.0001 SOL; DOGEUSDT (perpetual): every 8 h, contract size 0.01 DOGE. Every funding-rate update is part of the recorded perpetual day files (message type 9), so the full funding history replays from the archive. Values as synced from the venues on 2026-10-09; exchanges change these rules, so check the venue before trading.
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.