Alchemy vs Api3

Alchemy4.3/5

VS

Api33.7/5

Feature	AlchemyVisit	Api3Visit
Ratings
Our score	4.3/5	3.7/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Reliability	4.5	3.5
Chain coverage	4.5	4.0
Pricing	4.0	4.0
Developer experience	4.5	4.0
Support	4.0	3.0
Specs
Services	RPC / nodes, Data APIs, Wallet APIs, Account abstraction, Developer tooling	Oracle
Chains supported	100	19
Free tier	Yes	Not disclosed
Pricing from	$0.525 per 1,000,000 compute units	Not disclosed
Enterprise SLA	Yes	Not disclosed
Open source	Not disclosed	Yes
Token	Not disclosed	API3
Uptime SLA	99.99%	Not disclosed
Free tier limits	30M compute units per month, up to 15 RPS, 5 apps, 5 webhooks	Not disclosed
Company
Founded	2017	2020
Headquarters	United States	—
Investors	Archetype	Accomplice, Buck Stash, Cashican People LLC, CoinFund +8
Strengths and weaknesses
Pros	100+ supported blockchains Free tier includes 30M compute units monthly Enterprise SLAs reach 99.995% availability RPC, indexed data and wallet APIs share one platform	Uses first-party oracles operated directly by API providers Returned over $416,000 in captured OEV rewards to protocols as of October 2026 Open-source smart contract code with audit reports available on GitHub Broad network coverage deployed across more than 15 EVM blockchains
Cons	Applications face centralised provider and outage exposure Proprietary APIs can increase vendor lock-in Pay As You Go charges scale with compute usage Automated agent wallets add transaction-control risk	Total value secured remains under $15 million as of October 2026 Protocol governance is tied to the API3 token
Best for	Multichain application teams, Solana developers, Account-abstraction products	Lending protocols minimizing MEV leakage, Developers needing source-signed data feeds, Autonomous agents purchasing API data

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