Alchemy vs R3

Alchemy4.3/5

VS

R33.6/5

Feature	AlchemyVisit	R3Visit
Ratings
Our score	4.3/5	3.6/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Reliability	4.5	4.5
Chain coverage	4.5	3.0
Pricing	4.0	2.5
Developer experience	4.5	3.5
Support	4.0	4.0
Specs
Services	RPC / nodes, Data APIs, Wallet APIs, Account abstraction, Developer tooling	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	Yes
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	2014
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	Over $112M in backing from 33 institutional investors Open-source core architecture available through the Corda framework Direct integration of institutional credit and debt instruments into Solana DeFi Long operational track record spanning over a decade with major financial institutions
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	Institutional vaults carry external off-chain borrower and credit default risks Corda Enterprise is a commercial edition separate from the open-source Corda platform
Best for	Multichain application teams, Solana developers, Account-abstraction products	Institutions tokenizing private credit, Solana DeFi protocols seeking collateral, Enterprises running permissioned ledgers

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