Alchemy vs Parity Technologies

Alchemy4.3/5

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Parity Technologies3.4/5

Feature	AlchemyVisit	Parity TechnologiesVisit
Ratings
Our score	4.3/5	3.4/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Reliability	4.5	4.0
Chain coverage	4.5	2.5
Pricing	4.0	3.0
Developer experience	4.5	4.0
Support	4.0	3.0
Specs
Services	RPC / nodes, Data APIs, Wallet APIs, Account abstraction, Developer tooling	RPC / nodes, Developer tooling
Chains supported	100	2
Free tier	Yes	Yes
Pricing from	$0.525 per 1,000,000 compute units	Not disclosed
Enterprise SLA	Yes	Not disclosed
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	Not disclosed
Company
Founded	2017	2015
Headquarters	United States	United Kingdom
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	Over a decade of foundational engineering experience since 2015 Open-source core client implementations for the Polkadot ecosystem JAM design spanning 341 parallel compute cores Simplifies testnet deployment workflows for ecosystem developers
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	Protocol tooling is tightly focused on Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems JAM and core protocol architectures require steep engineering specialization
Best for	Multichain application teams, Solana developers, Account-abstraction products	Polkadot parachain developers, Polkadot protocol engineers, Decentralized infrastructure architects

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