Alchemy
Low-cost blockchain infrastructure for web3 developers
- Vendor
- Alchemy
- Also known as
- alchemy
Available worldwide
What is Alchemy?
A platform providing infrastructure APIs and tools for building blockchain applications, with flexible pay-as-you-go pricing and a generous free tier.
Alchemy pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier: 30M Compute Units/month. Pay-as-you-go pricing (rates not detailed). Enterprise custom plans available.
Free
FreeProvides 3x the compute capacity of competitor free tiers up to a usage limit
- compute_units
- 30M/month
- Node API
- Data APIs
- 60+ chain support
Pay As You Go
Usage-based pricing with volume discounts. No minimum fees, no commitment required.
- Node API
- Data APIs
- Account Kit
- 60+ chains
- 99.99% reliability
- Volume-based discounts
Enterprise
Contact salesCustom infrastructure and support for large-scale applications
- Custom pricing
- Custom throughput (no fixed caps)
- Dedicated 1-hour response support
- Direct engineering team access
What Alchemy does
The capabilities that matter for blockchain dev tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Tooling type
- Rpc node infra
- Evm compatible only
- ✗
- Local dev network
- -
- Native fuzzing invariant testing
- -
- Mainnet forking
- -
- Contract verification integration
- -
- Trace debugger
- -
- Gas profiling
- -
- Archive node access
- -
- Graphql indexing
- -
- Static analysis security tool
- -
- Open source
- -
- Maintenance status
- Active
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (11)
Independently observed- Hexagate•
- Hypernative
- API3
- Privy
- Ethereum
- Starknet
- Stellar
- Cronos
- Sei
- Mode
- Flare
Alchemy FAQ
Common questions about Alchemy, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Alchemy?
A platform providing developers with blockchain infrastructure APIs, node access, transaction data, and wallet tools to build and scale applications across 60+ blockchain networks. Supports millions of users with 99.99% uptime. It is indexed under Blockchain Dev Tools.
Is Alchemy free?
Alchemy offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Free, Pay As You Go and Enterprise. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Alchemy support?
Alchemy supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Alchemy be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Alchemy, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
What does Alchemy integrate with?
We have confirmed 10 integrations for Alchemy, including Hypernative, API3, Privy, Ethereum, Starknet, Stellar, Cronos and Sei, plus 2 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Alchemy alternatives
Other blockchain dev tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- QuickNodeBlockchain infrastructure platform supporting 75+ chains with RPC, real-time event streaming, and data indexingmedium · 73%
- HardhatA professional-grade toolkit for building, testing, and deploying Ethereum smart contractsmedium · 59%
- FoundryA rapid Ethereum smart contract development toolkithigh · 75%
- InfuraInfrastructure APIs for Ethereum and IPFS blockchains and distributed storage networkslow · 48%
- BlockscoutA multichain blockchain explorer for searching and analyzing transaction data across EVM and non-EVM networksmedium · 65%
- Reown (WalletConnect)Developer tools for integrating blockchain capabilities into applicationslow · 46%
Compare Alchemy
Side by side against other blockchain dev tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Alchemy, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.2 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.05 | 2.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 0.04 | 0.5 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.03 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Tooling type: rpc-node-infra · Maintenance status: active · Evm compatible only: No | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-04 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sla pct | 99.99 | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 60% |
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