The CFGI alternative with social-first per-coin Fear & Greed

CFGI is the closest competitor on per-coin granularity, and its intraday timeframes are a genuine advantage. A good alternative is honest about that.

Sub-daily timeframe granularity

CFGI publishes Fear & Greed on 15-minute, 1-hour and 4-hour intervals alongside the daily reading. If you scalp or trade short-term reversals and need intraday sentiment that refreshes within the hour, that depth is CFGI's real strength — Nebula's social index is built for the daily horizon, not the 15-minute one.

Established composite methodology

CFGI applies a market-data composite across crypto, equities, and indices. Nebula also covers equities and digital assets, but derives its signal from the language, attention, and actors inside market conversations. Which is more useful depends on whether you prefer a technical composite or a social-intelligence methodology.

Curated major-asset focus

For the roughly 100 large-cap assets CFGI tracks, its multi-timeframe composite is a clean, focused reference. If your universe is only the majors and you want intraday precision on them, CFGI's narrower, deeper approach is a reasonable fit.

Nebula approaches per-coin Fear & Greed from the opposite direction: it reads the conversation with large language models, then wraps each score in the wider attention picture around a token.

Fear & Greed for 100,000+ tokens

Where CFGI curates around 100 assets, Nebula computes a Fear & Greed Index across 100,000+ tokens — including long-tail and freshly launched coins that never reach a curated major-asset list. Drill into any one on the token sentiment page.

A social-first, LLM methodology

Instead of a market-data composite, Nebula reads every relevant post with large language models and scores it across a 15-emotion model — so the index reflects how bullish or bearish the crowd truly is. See the live read on Market Sentiment and bullish vs bearish.

Mindshare & narrative context

A Fear & Greed number is more useful with context. The Mindshare Leaderboard shows which tokens own the conversation, and narrative clusters reveal which themes are heating up around a coin — context CFGI's standalone index does not provide.

Smart-money signals & an open API

Nebula surfaces the top callers and influencers whose posts move attention first (a social signal, not on-chain wallet flow). The same intelligence — including per-token Fear & Greed — is available through the Nebula API for trading systems and agents.