Alchemy vs Ordinals

Alchemy4.3/5

VS

Ordinals3.5/5

Feature	AlchemyVisit	OrdinalsVisit
Ratings
Our score	4.3/5	3.5/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Reliability	4.5	4.0
Chain coverage	4.5	2.0
Pricing	4.0	5.0
Developer experience	4.5	4.0
Support	4.0	2.5
Specs
Services	RPC / nodes, Data APIs, Wallet APIs, Account abstraction, Developer tooling	Indexing, Developer tooling
Chains supported	100	1
Free tier	Yes	Yes
Pricing from	$0.525 per 1,000,000 compute units	0
Enterprise SLA	Yes	No
Open source	Not disclosed	Yes
Uptime SLA	99.99%	Not disclosed
Free tier limits	30M compute units per month, up to 15 RPS, 5 apps, 5 webhooks	Unlimited open-source self-hosted access
Company
Founded	2017	—
Headquarters	United States	United States
Investors	Archetype	Not disclosed
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	Fully open source under the CC0-1.0 public domain license Direct indexing from local Bitcoin Core nodes without reliance on third-party APIs Free self-hosted software with no vendor licensing costs
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	Requires a fully synced Bitcoin Core node with txindex enabled to run Inscriptions can be accidentally spent if cardinal and ordinal wallets are mixed Self-hosted explorer runs untrusted HTML and JavaScript, creating script execution risks No commercial enterprise SLA
Best for	Multichain application teams, Solana developers, Account-abstraction products	Bitcoin node operators, Developers indexing Bitcoin digital artifacts, Engineers running self-hosted blockchain explorers

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