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NFT Floor Prices provide a collection-level snapshot of the lowest-priced NFT currently listed for sale. This gives a fast, comparable baseline for what it would cost to acquire the cheapest item in a collection right now. Floor prices are best suited for:
  • Market overviews and dashboards
  • Collection comparisons
  • Entry-price signals and alerts
They are intentionally different from NFT Sale Prices, which are based on completed onchain trades.

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What a Floor Price Represents

The floor price is the lowest active listing price for an NFT in a given collection. Important characteristics:
  • Based on active listings, not completed sales
  • Represents seller intent, not executed market price
  • Calculated at the collection level, not per token
Because listings can be added or removed at any time, floor prices are inherently volatile and should be treated as indicative, not authoritative trade prices.

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Supported Chains

NFT floor prices are currently supported on:
  • Ethereum
  • Base
  • Monad
  • Arbitrum
  • Ronin
  • Flow
  • Sei
Coverage may expand over time. For trade-based pricing with broader chain support, see NFT Sale Prices.

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Data Sources

Floor prices are sourced from a combination of marketplace and aggregation APIs:
  • OpenSea API (primary source)
  • Magic Eden API
    Magic Eden aggregates floor prices across multiple marketplaces, including OpenSea, Blur, X2Y2, and Magic Eden itself
  • CoinGecko (fallback / enrichment)
These sources provide listing-level market data that cannot be derived purely from onchain events. Important distinction:
  • NFT Sale Prices → derived from onchain marketplace trades
  • NFT Floor Prices → derived from offchain marketplace listing data
Related pages:

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Refresh Frequency

Floor prices are refreshed every 60 minutes. This cadence balances:
  • Marketplace rate limits
  • Data freshness
  • Platform-wide performance and stability
Floor prices are not real-time and should not be treated as tick-level market data.

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First-Time Requests (Warm-Up Behavior)

If a collection’s floor price has never been requested before, the first request will return:
  • HTTP status: 202
  • Message: 
    {
    "message": "This contract is currently being processed. Floor price data will be available shortly. Please try again later."
}
During this warm-up period:
  • The collection is registered for tracking
  • Floor price data begins syncing
Once processing completes, subsequent requests return floor price data normally.

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Inactivity Handling

If a collection has no trading activity for 7 days:
  • Floor price updates are paused
  • No new floor price snapshots are recorded
Once trading activity resumes:
  • Floor price updates automatically resume
  • No manual action is required
This prevents stale or misleading prices from being continuously refreshed for inactive markets.

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Historical Floor Price Data

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Backfilling

Historical floor prices are not backfilled. Reason:
  • Marketplace APIs do not currently expose historical listing data
  • Historical tracking can only begin after the first request
Moralis starts saving floor prices in 60-minute intervals from the moment a collection is first requested.

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Supported Historical Intervals

When requesting time-series floor price data, the interval determines the data resolution:
  • 1 day
    Data points every 60 minutes
  • 7 days
    Hourly data points
  • 30 days
    Hourly data points
  • Greater than 30 days
    Daily data points
This adaptive resolution keeps queries efficient while preserving meaningful trends.

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Inactive Collections and Historical Access

If a collection becomes inactive:
  • Floor prices stop updating
  • Previously saved historical data remains accessible
This allows you to:
  • Analyze past market conditions
  • Build long-term charts
  • Compare historical floors even for dormant collections

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When to Use Floor Prices (and When Not To)

Use NFT Floor Prices when you need:
  • A quick market baseline
  • Collection-to-collection comparisons
  • Entry price signals
Do not rely on floor prices for:
  • Valuation of a specific NFT
  • Profitability or realized value calculations
  • Historical execution accuracy
For executed market prices and provenance, use NFT Sale Prices.