Sonarcast or CoinGlass: how they differ
Both show crypto futures derivatives data: funding, open interest, liquidations. The difference is not the set of numbers but what happens after you have seen them.
CoinGlass
CoinGlass is a derivatives data aggregator. It collects funding, open interest, liquidations and long/short ratios from dozens of exchanges and lays them out as tables, maps and charts. The job of the tool is to give you the number, for the whole market, in one place.
Sonarcast
Sonarcast is a single-coin terminal. The same derivatives numbers, but gathered around one ticker together with market structure, candle analysis and the order book, and with a written read: what is unusual right now and how these numbers relate to each other.
| What we compare | CoinGlass | Sonarcast |
|---|---|---|
| Unit of work | The whole market: a table of every coin | One coin: a card with everything known about it |
| Funding and open interest | Yes, across many exchanges | Yes, plus per-coin history and a written read |
| Liquidations | Yes, including heatmaps and price-level clusters | Yes, aggregated across six exchanges, longs and shorts apart |
| What to do with the number | You read and interpret it yourself | Text alongside: what is unusual and what it lines up with |
| Watching a coin | Alerts on conditions you define | Guardian: watches structural change on coins you put under watch |
| Interface languages | English and others | English and Russian |
Where CoinGlass is stronger
Breadth and depth of market-wide views. If the task is to see the entire market at once, compare one metric across hundreds of coins and dozens of exchanges, or read a liquidation heatmap by price level, CoinGlass does it better and has done it for years. We are not trying to replace it there: our own funding, open interest and liquidation boards exist as a way into a single coin, not as a fuller market shop.
Where Sonarcast fits
Once the coin is chosen and the question becomes "what is going on with it right now". Instead of keeping a chart, a derivatives shop and a news feed open and assembling the picture in your head, you get those numbers on one card — with structure, the order book, and text that names the disagreements between them. We do not tell you to buy or sell: we describe the situation and the scenarios, and the decision stays yours.
Which to pick
These are different jobs, and plenty of people use both. Need the widest market view and the deepest derivatives coverage — CoinGlass. Need to understand one coin quickly without assembling the picture from five tabs — try Sonarcast: seven days of Premium, no card.