Alchemy vs ARPA

How Alchemy vs ARPA compare on our ratings, infrastructure provider specs, funding, pros and cons.

Alchemy4.3/5
VS
ARPA3.5/5
Feature
Ratings
Our score4.3/53.5/5
User ratingNo reviews yetNo reviews yet
Reliability4.53.5
Chain coverage4.53.5
Pricing4.03.5
Developer experience4.54.0
Support4.03.0
Specs
ServicesRPC / nodes, Data APIs, Wallet APIs, Account abstraction, Developer toolingOracle, Developer tooling, Staking infrastructure
Chains supported100Not disclosed
Free tier Yes No
Pricing from$0.525 per 1,000,000 compute units0.000002 ETH per request
Enterprise SLA YesNot disclosed
Open sourceNot disclosed Yes
TokenNot disclosedARPA
Uptime SLA99.99%Not disclosed
Free tier limits30M compute units per month, up to 15 RPS, 5 apps, 5 webhooksNot disclosed
Company
Founded20172018
HeadquartersUnited States—
InvestorsArchetypeDeFiance Capital, Laser Digital, Animoca Brands, ArkStream Capital +2
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
  • On-chain verification supports auditable randomness results
  • Ethereum requests have a listed 0.000002 ETH flat fee
  • Supports Ethereum, BNB Chain and ARPA Chain
  • Mainnet has completed more than 224,000 computation tasks
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
  • Randomness requests require both protocol fees and blockchain transaction funds
  • Applications depend on ARPA node participation and threshold coordination
  • Staking rewards expose participants to ARPA token economics
  • Cross-chain and custody uses add smart-contract and counterparty risk
Best forMultichain application teams, Solana developers, Account-abstraction productsOn-chain game developers, Lottery and raffle applications, Solidity teams needing verifiable randomness

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