DeepGyre vs Nansen: A Side-by-Side Comparison, Category by Category

This comparison is written by DeepGyre, so read it with that in mind. To make it useful anyway, we follow three rules:

1. Every DeepGyre figure comes from the product as it runs today.
2. Every Nansen figure comes from Nansen's own published materials as of October 2026, and is labeled with that date.
3. Each category gets a verdict, including the ones Nansen wins.

Short version: Nansen is the more established platform, with far deeper wallet labels and multi-chain profit-based Smart Money. DeepGyre is newer and smaller, but cheaper at the entry tier, publishes its full methodology, and tests whether a token can actually be sold.

Summary table

Nansen figures as of October 2026 from Nansen's published materials; check Nansen's site for current details.

1. Pricing

DeepGyre:

New accounts get a 7-day trial that opens every feature, with no card required.

Plans are paid in crypto from your account's My Wallet, with no bank card involved. You top up in ETH or USDC on Base; see pricing.

Nansen: a Free plan, and Pro at $69/month billed monthly or $49/month billed annually (as of October 2026).

Verdict: DeepGyre on list price.

2. Wallet labels and entity coverage

Nansen describes its platform as built on 500M+ labeled addresses. This is its core strength and the main reason many teams use it.

DeepGyre holds about 40.8 million labelled addresses (about 956,000 curated) and about 2,500 verified entity address claims. These come from exchanges' own proof-of-reserves disclosures, curated research and wallet tracing. Each claim records how it was established, and inferred attributions carry a lower confidence than curated ones. When two sources disagree about who owns a wallet, the conflict is published rather than silently resolved.

Verdict: Nansen, clearly, on depth. DeepGyre's advantage is that it tells you how each label was established.

3. Smart Money

Nansen labels wallets by trading performance, such as profitable traders and funds.

DeepGyre has two Ethereum rankings. Smart Money by Profit measures realized and unrealized PnL, win rate and worst trade from each wallet's own swaps, priced at the wallet's own fill; exits it cannot price are counted, never estimated, and bot-paced wallets are excluded. The second ranks wallets by how early they received tokens that later became widely held. Members must have signed a transaction themselves, which keeps bots and router contracts off both lists.

Verdict: Nansen for profit cohorts across many chains and years. DeepGyre for a profit ranking whose every number shows how it was measured, plus an earliness ranking Nansen does not offer.

4. Token security

DeepGyre's token scanner checks contract permissions, taxes and ownership. On Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base it then simulates a buy and, a few blocks later, a sell against the token's own pool. It reports:

• whether the sale went through;
• the effective round-trip cost;
• whether the token caps how much can be sold at once.

Nothing is signed or sent. When the simulation and the reference check disagree, both answers are shown. When no sell could be tested, the report says "Sell not verified".

Nansen is not primarily a token-safety tool.

Verdict: DeepGyre.

5. Methodology and transparency

DeepGyre's methodology publishes sixteen rules, each with the measured cost of breaking it. A few examples:

• NULL is not zero. A missing value is never shown as zero.
• A partial read cannot erase data. An incomplete refresh never overwrites a complete one.
• A price needs a market to exist. A token with no market for its exact contract is left unpriced.

Each metric in the library states what it measures, how it is built and how to read it. For example, our MVRV page explains exactly where our construction can differ from other providers'.

Verdict: DeepGyre. This is the main reason it exists.

6. Chains

DeepGyre's token scanner registry covers 45 chains, each admitted only after its endpoints were verified to answer as that chain. Nansen lists 21 chains in its Profiler and 37 networks in its API, with coverage varying by feature.

Verdict: it depends on the feature. Compare per feature rather than by headline count, ours included: the buy/sell simulation, for example, runs on three chains, not 45.

7. Market and Bitcoin metrics

DeepGyre includes Bitcoin on-chain metrics (MVRV, SOPR, NUPL, realized price, supply in loss, whale bands), exchange reserves, derivatives and order flow, token unlocks, stablecoin flows and a global macro section.

Verdict: DeepGyre for breadth of market metrics in one subscription. Nansen's focus is wallet and token flows.

8. Maturity and support

Nansen has operated for years and has a large research team. DeepGyre launched in September 2026 and builds in public: its changelog and roadmap are published.

Verdict: Nansen.

What the price difference means over a year

List prices as of October 2026.

At the entry tier, DeepGyre Pro costs under a third of Nansen Pro billed monthly (29%), and about 40% of Nansen billed annually. What the difference buys you depends on which of the categories above you actually use. If label depth is the job, the lower price buys less of it.

How to run your own comparison in one week

The fairest comparison is the one you run on data you already know. A protocol you can follow during DeepGyre's 7-day trial, beside Nansen's free plan:

1. Pick five wallets you know: an exchange hot wallet, a fund, a market maker, a whale you follow and a wallet of your own. Look each one up in both tools and note who each tool says owns it, and with what confidence. Expect Nansen to name more of them.
2. Pick three tokens you know: a blue chip, a token you hold, and one you know was a scam. Run each through DeepGyre's scanner and check the sell result against what you know.
3. Pick one metric you use every week, for example MVRV. Read DeepGyre's construction, compare the latest value with your current source, and see whether the difference can be explained from the published method.
4. Set the same alert in both tools on one whale, and note which one tells you first and with what context.
5. Write down one number from each tool you would be willing to quote publicly, and why.

If DeepGyre does not earn a place in your workflow, the trial ends with no card stored and nothing to cancel.

Moving from Nansen to DeepGyre: what changes

There is no automatic import of Nansen watchlists. Wallets are added by address.

Which should you choose?

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Nansen Pro plan pricing ($49/month billed annually, $69/month billed monthly) and the Free plan: Nansen Academy — About Nansen Pro · Plans & Pricing (accessed October 2026)
• Nansen product site and labeled-addresses figure: nansen.ai (accessed October 2026)
• DeepGyre pricing and methodology, checked at the same time: /pricing · /methodology (accessed October 2026)

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