Chainstack vs Succinct

Chainstack4.3/5

VS

Succinct4.0/5

Feature	ChainstackVisit	SuccinctVisit
Ratings
Our score	4.3/5	4.0/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Reliability	4.5	4.0
Chain coverage	4.5	4.0
Pricing	4.0	4.0
Developer experience	4.5	4.5
Support	4.0	3.5
Specs
Services	RPC / nodes, Indexing	Developer tooling
Chains supported	70	1
Free tier	Yes	Yes
Pricing from	$49/month	Not disclosed
Enterprise SLA	Yes	Not disclosed
Open source	Not disclosed	Yes
Token	Not disclosed	PROVE
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	2022
Headquarters	Singapore	—
Investors	Not disclosed	Paradigm, Bankless Ventures, Geometry, Robot Ventures +1
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	Compiles native Rust programs into ZK proofs without custom circuit logic Secures over $13.5B across rollups and bridges including Base and Chainlink Audited by firms including KALOS, Cantina, and Zellic Aggregated verification reduces onchain gas requirements below 200K gas
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	Frozen mainnet verifier routers were required to patch January 2025 vulnerabilities On-demand proving market depends on decentralized prover node liveness and the PROVE token Complex multi-GPU setups are required for self-hosted real-time block proving
Best for	Multichain application teams, RPC-heavy trading systems, Enterprise blockchain infrastructure	Rollup teams implementing ZK validity proofs, Developers writing Rust verifiable computing applications, Bridges requiring trustless cross-chain state verification

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