Chainstack vs UMA

Chainstack4.3/5

VS

UMA3.7/5

Feature	ChainstackVisit	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, Indexing	Oracle
Chains supported	70	4
Free tier	Yes	Not disclosed
Pricing from	$49/month	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	3M request units/month, up to 25 RPS	Not disclosed
Server regions	10+ global data centers	Not disclosed
Company
Founded	2018	—
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	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	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	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, RPC-heavy trading systems, Enterprise blockchain infrastructure	Prediction market settlement, Cross-chain bridge relayers, DeFi protocols requiring arbitrary data

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