Hardhat
A professional-grade toolkit for building, testing, and deploying Ethereum smart contracts
- Vendor
- Nomic Foundation
- Also known as
- hardhat
What is Hardhat?
A development environment that enables engineers to write, test, deploy, and debug Ethereum smart contracts using Solidity and TypeScript, with support for fuzzing, code analysis, and multi-chain simulation.
Hardhat pricing
We don't have Hardhat's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Hardhat 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
- Framework
- 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- CLI
- Self-hosted
Integrations (4)
Independently observed- Optimism OP Stack
- Base
- Mocha
- OP Stack•
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
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Compare Hardhat
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 Hardhat, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development activity | 63 | 0.12 | 7.6 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.08 | 6.7 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 76 | 0.08 | 6.1 | ✓ |
| Stars | 74 | 0.03 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 0.05 | 0.7 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.17 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
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.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-10-14 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Open source: Yes · Tooling type: framework · Trace debugger: Yes · Mainnet forking: Yes · Local dev network: Yes · Maintenance status: active | mediumsource · 2026-10-14 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-09-11 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | TypeScript | highsource · 2026-10-14 · 90% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| History | 20 items | mediumsource · 2026-10-14 · 70% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=hardhat&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
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