Chainstack vs R3

Chainstack4.3/5

VS

R33.6/5

Feature	ChainstackVisit	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, Indexing	Developer tooling
Chains supported	70	2
Free tier	Yes	Yes
Pricing from	$49/month	Not disclosed
Enterprise SLA	Yes	Yes
Open source	Not disclosed	Yes
Uptime SLA	99.99%	Not disclosed
Free tier limits	3M request units/month, up to 25 RPS	Not disclosed
Server regions	10+ global data centers	Not disclosed
Company
Founded	2018	2014
Headquarters	Singapore	United States
Investors	Not disclosed	Not disclosed
Strengths and weaknesses
Pros	70+ supported chains, including Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin and X Layer Free tier includes 3 million monthly request units Global Nodes route requests across 10+ data centers Self-Hosted keeps node deployment on customer-owned infrastructure	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	Paid plans begin at $49 per month after the free tier Managed endpoints create dependence on Chainstack routing and node operations Dedicated Nodes start at $678 per month Global routing can add infrastructure and provider concentration 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, RPC-heavy trading systems, Enterprise blockchain infrastructure	Institutions tokenizing private credit, Solana DeFi protocols seeking collateral, Enterprises running permissioned ledgers

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