Their price is minutes old.
Ours is live.
Big price aggregators cache and refresh every 1–5 minutes. PythFeeds streams the Pyth oracle — the same feed DeFi protocols settle on — tick by tick. Pick an asset and watch the two charts split.
PythFeedsSTREAMING…
oracle stream
updated 0.0s ago · 0 updates
…
no confidence interval — just a number
updated 0s ago · next in 60s
Updates this session
0vs0
Avg update interval
—vs60s
Price gap right now
$0.00
Biggest gap this session
$0.00
Raw tick feed— every oracle update, as it lands
waiting for the first tick…
Head to head
Same market. Different honesty.
| PythFeeds | Typical aggregator | |
|---|---|---|
| Update cadence | Sub-second oracle stream (SSE) | Cached pages, 1–5 min refresh |
| Price source | First-party publishers (exchanges, market makers) via the Pyth oracle | Scraped & averaged exchange APIs |
| Uncertainty shown | ± confidence interval on every price | None — a single number |
| Asset coverage on one screen | Crypto + US equities + metals + commodities + FX | Crypto only |
| Paid listings | Never — oracle-verified feeds only | Common (listing fees) |
| Display ads | None | Heavy |
| Historical depth | Back to feed inception (oracle archive) | Free tier capped (~1 year) |
Why it matters
When minutes-old prices burn you
Liquidation watch
Your position's health is computed on live oracle prices — the same feed DeFi protocols actually liquidate against. A delayed site shows you safe while you're already gone.
Fast markets
CPI prints, ETF headlines, depegs: prices move 1–2% inside a minute. A 5-minute-old number isn't "roughly right", it's a different market.
Honest reads
The ± confidence interval shows when publishers disagree — wide bands = thin or stressed markets. A single bare number hides exactly the moments that matter.
Fair-play note: both charts read the exact same Pyth oracle stream — the right one just only looks at it once a minute, simulating the refresh cadence of cached aggregate sites. No competitor API is queried, and no competitor is named: open your favorite one side-by-side and judge for yourself.