Alchemy vs UMA

Alchemy4.3/5

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UMA3.7/5

Feature	AlchemyVisit	UMAVisit
Ratings
Our score	4.3/5	3.7/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Reliability	4.5	4.0
Chain coverage	4.5	3.5
Pricing	4.0	4.0
Developer experience	4.5	4.0
Support	4.0	3.0
Specs
Services	RPC / nodes, Data APIs, Wallet APIs, Account abstraction, Developer tooling	Oracle
Chains supported	100	4
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	UMA
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	—
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	Records arbitrary natural-language statements that standard numeric oracles cannot handle Historically low dispute frequency with roughly 1.5% of proposals contested OpenZeppelin security audits conducted in multiple years from 2020 through 2026 Native support across major networks including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Polygon
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	Data settlement is delayed by the required challenge window duration Resolution finality depends on tokenholder voting participation and governance distribution Staking voter yields rely on protocol token emissions rather than fixed fiat revenues
Best for	Multichain application teams, Solana developers, Account-abstraction products	Prediction market settlement, Cross-chain bridge relayers, DeFi protocols requiring arbitrary data

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