Alchemy vs Reown (WalletConnect)
No clear leader: Alchemy (57.6) and Reown (WalletConnect) (54.0) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for blockchain dev tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Alchemy
A platform providing infrastructure APIs and tools for building blockchain applications, with flexible pay-as-you-go pricing and a generous free tier.
Reown (WalletConnect)
Reown is a development platform providing SDKs and services to add wallet connectivity, transaction features, and data analytics to applications, enabling users to interact with blockchain systems.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Alchemy
Free tier: 30M Compute Units/month. Pay-as-you-go pricing (rates not detailed). Enterprise custom plans available.
- FreeFree
- Node API
- Data APIs
- 60+ chain support
- Pay As You GoPay-as-you-go with volume discounts
- Node API
- Data APIs
- Account Kit
- 60+ chains
- 99.99% reliability
- +1 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Custom pricing
- Custom throughput (no fixed caps)
- Dedicated 1-hour response support
- Direct engineering team access
Reown (WalletConnect)
From free to $3,500/year. Free tier. 14-day trial on Pro plan.
- StarterFree
- Core analytics including user activity and wallet connection performance
- Email and social embedded wallet
- Onramp
- Swaps
- Onchain automated actions
- +4 more
- Pro$89/month or $890/year with 14-day free trial
- Advanced analytics covering sessions, platforms, countries, connections, and signatures
- 90 days of data retention
- Multi-wallet support
- Headless mode
- Beta program access for new features
- +1 more
- Growth$350/month or $3,500/year
- Analytics on user onchain behavior
- API feed for data export
- CSV export with full history (coming soon)
- Priority support with 24-hour response time Mon-Fri
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Ethereum
Alchemy
- Hypernative
- API3
- Privy
- Starknet
- Stellar
- Cronos
- Sei
- Mode
- Flare
- Hexagate
Reown (WalletConnect)
- WalletConnect
- Solana
- Bitcoin
- EVM chains
- Sign in with Ethereum (SIWE)
- Multichain auth (SIWX)
Alchemy or Reown (WalletConnect): which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.