Alchemy vs Chainlink

Alchemy4.3/5

VS

Chainlink4.0/5

Feature	AlchemyVisit	ChainlinkVisit
Ratings
Our score	4.3/5	4.0/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Reliability	4.5	4.5
Chain coverage	4.5	4.5
Pricing	4.0	3.0
Developer experience	4.5	4.0
Support	4.0	3.5
Specs
Services	RPC / nodes, Data APIs, Wallet APIs, Account abstraction, Developer tooling	Oracle
Chains supported	100	35
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	LINK
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	2017
Headquarters	United States	—
Investors	Archetype	Chainlink community participants, Framework Ventures
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	35 chains supported by CCIP as of March 2026 Proof of Reserve can automate minting safeguards Adopters include Swift, Mastercard, UBS and Aave CCIP processed more than $18 billion in Q1 2026
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	Oracle applications depend on external data sources and node infrastructure CCIP adds cross-chain messaging and smart-contract risk LINK token economics affect network payments and security
Best for	Multichain application teams, Solana developers, Account-abstraction products	DeFi protocol developers, Cross-chain applications, Tokenized asset issuers

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