You do not need a hundred dollar a month dashboard to start reading on-chain data.
Funding, open interest and liquidations come free straight from the exchange APIs.
Binance, Bybit, Hyperliquid all hand it over.
The headline on-chain metrics are free on CryptoQuant and Glassnode.
Anything custom you write yourself in Dune for nothing.
Paying buys you finer resolution and deeper history, not secret signals nobody else can see.
So prove the signal works on the free data first.
Upgrade when the edge is real, not before.
The cost was never the thing standing in your way.