Onchain Analytics
On-chain Analytics evaluated across whether your queries and data can leave with you, whether attribution and its methodology can be audited, the chains and data covered, and whether pricing and the free tier are published honestly.
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What this ranks
Ranked here: onchain analytics platforms where a reader queries and charts onchain data themselves, rather than just watching balances.Not ranked here: wallet screening, DeFi dashboards (Nansen is on both: its analytics here, Nansen Portfolio there), trading tools and sentiment analytics, each on its own page, and brands closed, absorbed or unpriced.7 of the 15 assessed are ranked; 8 were turned away by name. Who, and whyRequirements narrow the list; they never change a published ChainChoice Score. How the ranking works
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Dune
How Dune was chosen
Leads this ranking on Query & data portability (lock-in)SQL workbench over indexed raw and decoded blockchain data
82 / 100 out of 100published score, #1 of all 7 worldwide
Evidence
High
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.Chain & data coverageQuery & data portability (lock-in)Attribution & methodology auditability
Why it leads
- Dune is 12 points ahead of Token Terminal, mainly because it scores higher on its query portability and its attribution auditability.
- Best in this ranking on query portability and attribution auditability
- Ahead of Token Terminal on query portability (+3.7 points) and attribution auditability (+3.1 points)
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Standardized financial metrics
70 / 100 out of 100
3
Chain and protocol metrics through the Analyst...
61 / 100 out of 100
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ME
Crypto research
58 / 100 out of 100
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Wallet-label and Smart Money dashboards across...
55 / 100 out of 100
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Same score, not joint · ordered by weighted total (39.60 against 39.40)GL
Deep Bitcoin and major-asset onchain metrics
55 / 100 out of 100
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Entity-attribution explorer
45 / 100 out of 100
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Pricing honesty
Published pricing & free-tier honesty
20% of the published criteria weight. Scored 0–10 from the published evidence; the order below is by this criterion, then the published ranking.
| Provider | Pricing honesty (0–10) | ChainChoice Score |
|---|---|---|
| Dune | 8 | 82 |
| Nansen | 8 | 55 |
| Artemis | 7 | 61 |
| Token Terminal | 6 | 70 |
| Messari | 6 | 58 |
| Glassnode | 6 | 55 |
| Arkham | 4 | 45 |
Attribution auditability
Attribution & methodology auditability
25% of the published criteria weight. Scored 0–10 from the published evidence; the order below is by this criterion, then the published ranking.
| Provider | Attribution auditability (0–10) | ChainChoice Score |
|---|---|---|
| Dune | 9 | 82 |
| Token Terminal | 7 | 70 |
| Glassnode | 6 | 55 |
| Artemis | 5 | 61 |
| Messari | 5 | 58 |
| Nansen | 2 | 55 |
| Arkham | 2 | 45 |
Coverage depth
Chain & data coverage
25% of the published criteria weight. Scored 0–10 from the published evidence; the order below is by this criterion, then the published ranking.
| Provider | Coverage depth (0–10) | ChainChoice Score |
|---|---|---|
| Dune | 10 | 82 |
| Token Terminal | 8 | 70 |
| Nansen | 7 | 55 |
| Artemis | 6 | 61 |
| Messari | 5 | 58 |
| Arkham | 5 | 45 |
| Glassnode | 3 | 55 |
Query portability
Query & data portability (lock-in)
30% of the published criteria weight. Scored 0–10 from the published evidence; the order below is by this criterion, then the published ranking.
| Provider | Query portability (0–10) | ChainChoice Score |
|---|---|---|
| Dune | 9 | 82 |
| Token Terminal | 7 | 70 |
| Artemis | 5 | 61 |
| Messari | 5 | 58 |
| Glassnode | 4 | 55 |
| Nansen | 3 | 55 |
| Arkham | 2 | 45 |
All 4 published criteria
Every ranked row’s score on each criterion, in the published order. Choose a column to order by it.
| Provider | ChainChoice Score | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dune | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 82 |
| 2 | Token Terminal | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 70 |
| 3 | Artemis | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 61 |
| 4 | Messari | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 58 |
| 5 | Nansen | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 55 |
| 6 | Glassnode | 4 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 55 |
| 7 | Arkham | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 45 |
How this ranking works
How firm the #1 is, the per-criterion arithmetic behind each score, who pays ChainChoice, and which onchain analytics were assessed and left out.
FirmThis verdict holds under every one-point re-read
See the arithmetic
Every published criterion was moved up and down by one point and the ranking re-run. The same product came first each time. The published rankings file
Why this score4 published criteria · leads every one
Published criterionWtScore, and the best hereGap/10 out of 10Pts
Query & data portability (lock-in)7.2·98.6
Attribution & methodology auditability6·97.2
Chain & data coverage6·108.0
Published pricing & free-tier honesty4.8·85.1
Σ methodology points29.0/32
Each bar is the score on that criterion’s own 0–10 scale, never rescaled to the pool. The dark line is the best any product here reached on that axis. Wt is the most the criterion can add to the 86-point weighted total. Pts is weight × score × 32; the sum is the methodology score, and each weighted point behind the leader costs 2.6 on the displayed score. how these are weighted
Why it ranks first
Why Dune leads this category right now
SQL workbench over indexed raw and decoded blockchain data. Strongest on chain & data coverage (10/10): Dune's documentation states it indexes raw, decoded and curated data across 100+ blockchains, with raw data defined as block, transaction, log and trace data indexed directly from nodes; it is the only vendor in this comparison documenting all three layers. Weakest on published pricing & free-tier honesty (8/10): Dune publishes every self-serve plan price and per-100-credit overage rate, but its Free access is now view-only with no query execution or API access; new accounts get a 14-day trial with 2,500 credits, and per-query credit cost is shown only after execution. Published price: docs.dune.com/learning/how-tos/credit-system (read 2026-10-22): Free is now "Free (view-only)" with 0 credits a month: "Free access is view-only and includes no monthly credits, query execution, or API access." New accounts get a 14-day trial with Plus…
Best for
Chain & data coverage — 10/10
Main tradeoff
The Free plan cannot keep anything up to date. Dune's own pricing FAQ states "Automated executions (API, scheduling, refreshing) are not available" and "free executions are not supported via the API", with a 120-second timeout and a maximum of "three (3) concurrent executions". Any dashboard that must stay current forces you to $75/month minimum — and credits are consumed by compute, so a badly written query can burn a month's allowance in a handful of runs.
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docs.dune.com/learning/how-tos/credit-system (read 22 October 2026): Free is now "Free (view-only)" with 0 credits a month: "Free access is view-only and includes no monthly credits, query execution, or API access." New accounts get a 14-day trial with Plus features and 2,500 total trial credits. Analyst: 4,000 credits/month at "$75/month", or "$65/month billed annually" ("$780/year"). Plus: 25,000 credits/month at "$399/month", or "$349/month billed annually" ("$4,188/year"). Enterprise: "Favorable Custom Pricing". On paid plans extra credits bill at the plan rate per 100 credits: Analyst "$1.875" (monthly) / "$1.625" (annual), Plus "$1.596" / "$1.396"; "Free accounts and free trials cannot buy extra credits." Exports cost credits per MB (Analyst 10, Plus 2; not available on Free); CSV export is Plus, Enterprise and trial only. Per-query credit use is not quoted in advance: "You'll see costs after execution."
Recommendation summary
What should decide this category
Will you write your own queries, or consume dashboards someone else built?
If you left in a year, could you take your queries and your data with you?
Do you need to defend a label or a metric definition to someone who will challenge it?
Quick picks
Strong options in this category
Start with the lead choice first, then use the shortlist only if you still need a challenger or stronger fit for a specific setup.
Best overall
DU
Dune
SQL workbench over indexed raw and decoded blockchain data
SQL workbench over indexed raw and decoded blockchain data. Strongest on chain & data coverage (10/10): Dune's documentation states it indexes raw, decoded and curated data across 100+ blockchains, with raw data defined as block, transaction, log and trace data indexed directly from nodes; it is the only vendor in this comparison documenting all three layers. Weakest on published pricing & free-tier honesty (8/10): Dune publishes every self-serve plan price and per-100-credit overage rate, but its Free access is now view-only with no query execution or API access; new accounts get a 14-day trial with 2,500 credits, and per-query credit cost is shown only after execution. Published price: docs.dune.com/learning/how-tos/credit-system (read 2026-10-22): Free is now "Free (view-only)" with 0 credits a month: "Free access is view-only and includes no monthly credits, query execution, or API access." New accounts get a 14-day trial with Plus…
Best for: Chain & data coverage — 10/10
Query & data portability (lock-in) · weight 30%9/10Attribution & methodology auditability · weight 25%9/10Chain & data coverage · weight 25%10/10Published pricing & free-tier honesty · weight 20%8/10
Quick pick
Token Terminal
Standardized financial metrics for blockchains and onchain applications
Standardized financial metrics for blockchains and onchain applications. Strongest on chain & data coverage (8/10): Token Terminal's catalog documents standardized blocks, transactions, logs and traces for every EVM chain it covers, 54 chains in its EVM table, plus curated metric tables. Weakest on published pricing & free-tier honesty (6/10): Token Terminal publishes Free ($0) and Pro ($350 a month, $292 on annual billing), but its API and Datashare tiers are custom-priced, and the Free card lists CSV exports and team access that its own comparison table reserves for Pro and above. Published price: tokenterminal.com/pricing (read 2026-10-22): Free "$0" (3 custom dashboards, full historical data). Pro "$350" per month, or "$292" per month on annual billing ("Save 15%"), with a 7-day trial. API: "Custom pricing", "250,000 requests/day".
Best for: Chain & data coverage — 8/10
Query & data portability (lock-in) · weight 30%7/10Attribution & methodology auditability · weight 25%7/10Chain & data coverage · weight 25%8/10Published pricing & free-tier honesty · weight 20%6/10
Quick pick
Artemis
Chain and protocol metrics through the Analyst and a Sheets Plugin, priced separately
Chain and protocol metrics through the Analyst and a Sheets Plugin, priced separately. Strongest on published pricing & free-tier honesty (7/10): Artemis publishes Intern ($0), Investor ($100 a month) and the Plugin ($500 a month per user), and states Managing Director starts at $50k a year; the live page gives the free cap only as 'limited queries, daily rate limits'. Weakest on query & data portability (lock-in) (5/10): Artemis offers a Snowflake data share, API and MCP access only on its sales-quoted Managing Director tier; its data is precomputed with no open transformation code, and spreadsheet egress is capped at 50k or 1M calls a month by plan. Published price: about.artemis.ai/pricing (read 2026-10-22): The Analyst: Intern "$0" ("Limited queries, daily rate limits"; docs: "20 Analyst queries per month"); Investor "$100" /month ("5x more usage", "No daily rate limits", "50k Sheets/Plugin calls per month"; docs: "100…
Best for: Published pricing & free-tier honesty — 7/10
Query & data portability (lock-in) · weight 30%5/10Attribution & methodology auditability · weight 25%5/10Chain & data coverage · weight 25%6/10Published pricing & free-tier honesty · weight 20%7/10
Quick pick
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Messari
Crypto research, asset profiles and market data on a $0 Basic tier or a $4,500-a-year Enterprise seat
Crypto research, asset profiles and market data on a $0 Basic tier or a $4,500-a-year Enterprise seat. Strongest on published pricing & free-tier honesty (6/10): Messari now operates as Blockworks Intel: its pricing page publishes Free ($0) and Pro ($375 a month billed annually or $450 quarterly), while the full API, MCP, Snowflake data share and monitoring tiers are 'Contact Sales'; older Messari docs still call Enterprise the only plan. Weakest on query & data portability (lock-in) (5/10): Messari, now Blockworks Intel, gives Pro subscribers CSV downloads of any chart and Assets API endpoints; the full API with CSV and JSONL exports and a Snowflake share of the dataset are sales-served, with no open transformation code. Published price: messari.io/pricing (now served as Blockworks Intel; rendered 2026-10-22): Free "$0" (basic data on assets, protocols and exchanges, quarterly protocol reporting, up to 1 watchlist, view-only charts and dashboards).
Best for: Published pricing & free-tier honesty — 6/10
Query & data portability (lock-in) · weight 30%5/10Attribution & methodology auditability · weight 25%5/10Chain & data coverage · weight 25%5/10Published pricing & free-tier honesty · weight 20%6/10
Considered and not ranked
8 products we looked at and left out
A shortlist is only honest if it says who it turned away. Each of these was assessed against the same published criteria as the ranked table and excluded for a stated reason — not overlooked.
We assessed 15 products here and rank 7 — 47% of what we looked at. That share is of the products we assessed, not of the category: how many exist is not something we can count, so we do not claim a number for it.
Flipside CryptoIntoTheBlock· No longer operatingCoin MetricsAllium· Evidence incompleteChainalysis· Evidence incompleteDefiLlamaCryptoQuantSantiment (Sanbase / SanAPI)
What this ranking does not assess
Every failure family that applies to this category is scored by one of its criteria.
Which criterion scores each family, and why the others do not apply, is in /data/risk-coverage.json.
How this ranking is built
Reviewed on query & data portability (lock-in), attribution & methodology auditability, chain & data coverage, and published pricing & free-tier honesty.
Data checked Oct 2026 · Independent rankings · We show our work
How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means every product ranked on this page was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
Accountable for this review: Mathias Siemonsmeier, Founder.
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Direct answer
What is the best analytics platform in 2026?
Dune ranks #1 overall for onchain analytics on ChainChoice. SQL workbench over indexed raw and decoded blockchain data. It holds that rank under an affiliate-blind methodology scored across 4 published, weighted criteria — the code that ranks providers physically cannot read affiliate payouts (CI-enforced), so a payout can't move a rank. The verdict re-computes on every fee change, incident, or regulatory action; the full reasoning and the audit receipt are under Methodology.
How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Exit failure: you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by Query & data portability (lock-in) · 30% (Dune 9/10, Token Terminal 7/10, Artemis 5/10)
- Information failure: the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.Scored by Attribution & methodology auditability · 25% (Dune 9/10, Token Terminal 7/10, Artemis 5/10)
Every failure family that applies to this category is scored.
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Chain & data coverage (25%), Published pricing & free-tier honesty (20%).
FAQs
3 questions readers ask before choosing onchain analytics.
Frequently asked
Questions people ask before choosing analytics
What is the best crypto analytics platform for most users?
The one whose data you can take with you. Standard SQL, open transformation logic and raw export matter more than dashboard polish, because they decide whether a year of query-writing is an asset you own or a switching cost you have accepted.
Are proprietary wallet labels trustworthy?
They are assertions until the methodology is published. Entity attribution is the most valuable-looking and least checkable data in this category, so it is scored on whether a buyer could inspect how a label was derived — not on how confident the vendor sounds.
How should I read a platform's chain-coverage number?
As a claim to verify, not a total to compare. A chain carrying only raw tables is not the same coverage as one with decoded and curated layers, so headline counts are checked against the data layers actually behind them.
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Best picks
Best onchain analytics in 2026
Weighted on query & data portability (lock-in) (30), attribution & methodology auditability (25), chain & data coverage (25), and published pricing & free-tier honesty (20). The heaviest is query & data portability (lock-in): Can you take your work with you?
Best overall
DU
Dune
SQL workbench over indexed raw and decoded blockchain data
Data checked Oct 2026
SQL workbench over indexed raw and decoded blockchain data. Strongest on chain & data coverage (10/10): Dune's documentation states it indexes raw, decoded and curated data across 100+ blockchains, with raw data defined as block, transaction, log and trace data indexed directly from nodes; it is the only vendor in this comparison documenting all three layers. Weakest on published pricing & free-tier honesty (8/10): Dune publishes every self-serve plan price and per-100-credit overage rate, but its Free access is now view-only with no query execution or API access; new accounts get a 14-day trial with 2,500 credits, and per-query credit cost is shown only after execution. Published price: docs.dune.com/learning/how-tos/credit-system (read 2026-10-22): Free is now "Free (view-only)" with 0 credits a month: "Free access is view-only and includes no monthly credits, query execution, or API access." New accounts get a 14-day trial with Plus…
Best for: Chain & data coverage — 10/10
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