Best on-chain analytics in 2026

SQL workbench over indexed raw and decoded blockchain data. Strongest on chain & data coverage (10/10): Dune's data-catalog docs state "Dune indexes raw, decoded, and curated data across 100+ blockchains", across three explicit layers: raw ("Block, transaction, log, and trace data indexed directly from nodes"), decoded ("parsed using verified ABIs") and curated. Roughly 11x Glassnode's 9 chains and 5x Arkham's 18. Weakest on published pricing & free-tier honesty (8/10): The full ladder is published in docs including the overage rate ("$5.00 per 100 additional credits") and per-MB export rates (Free 20, Analyst 10, Plus 2 credits per MB), but the pricing FAQ contradicts itself on the free tier — "free executions are not supported via the API" against "Yes, the API is included in all Dune plans. This means that all teams and users, including those in the Free plan, can access the API" — and still carries the superseded data-point export lines; dune.com/pricing itself returns HTTP 403 to non-browser clients, and per-query cost is shown only after execution ("You'll see costs after execution."). Published price: Free: 2,500 credits/month at no cost. Analyst: 4,000 credits/month at $75/month; annual $65/month ($780/year). Plus: 25,000 credits/month at $399/month; annual $349/month ($4,188/year). Enterprise: "Favorable Custom Pricing".

Best for: Chain & data coverage — 10/10

Standardized financial metrics for blockchains and onchain applications. Strongest on chain & data coverage (8/10): the EVM catalog states "Standardized blocks, transactions, logs and traces for every EVM chain." — 53 EVM chains with a raw dataset plus Solana and Hyperliquid raw data, with curated pages for other chain families, below Dune's 100+ across all layers. Query & data portability (lock-in) is 7/10: SQL over raw and curated tables in your own BigQuery is real ("Catalog = BigQuery share in caller own Google Cloud project. Caller pay compute.") but only through the custom-priced Data Room, Snowflake sharing is marked "Coming soon", and no transformation code is public. Weakest on published pricing & free-tier honesty (6/10): Free ($0) and Pro ($350/month, $292 on annual billing) are published, but two of four tiers are "Custom pricing" — the two a data team actually needs — the Free card lists "CSV data exports" that the page's own comparison table does not tick for Free, and per-seat billing is disclosed only as a footnote ("charged monthly for each user"). Published price: Free: "$0". Pro: "$350" per month, or $292 per month on annual billing ("Save 15%"). API: "Custom pricing", "250,000 requests/day". Data Room: "Custom pricing", "Everything in API" plus "Raw blockchain data access" and "Data sharing in BigQuery and Snowflake".

Best for: Chain & data coverage — 8/10

Chain and protocol metrics through the Analyst and a Sheets Plugin, priced separately ("Two products, priced separately: the Analyst and the Plugin."). Strongest on published pricing & free-tier honesty (7/10): three of four products are priced ($0, $100/month, $500/month per user) and the docs give a floor for the fourth ("Managing Director starts at $50k/year; final price depends on need."), but the live page states the free cap only as "Limited queries, daily rate limits" (the 20-queries-per-month figure is only in the docs) and the data-access tier is "Custom". Attribution & methodology auditability is 5/10: per-table "Schema Description and Methodology" pages and metric definitions are published ("Revenue is the value that accrues to tokenholders from a protocol's core operations, on a recurring basis."), and the stablecoin methodology discloses restatements ("API field names are unchanged, so the same field can now return a different value."), but the code is closed and there is no accuracy rate or dispute path. Query & data portability (lock-in) is 5/10: warehouse delivery ("Snowflake data share, API, and MCP access is available on Managing Director. Contact the team.") is sales-served, delivers precomputed tables, and egress is capped by call count. Published price: Intern "$0"; Investor "$100" /month; Plugin "$500" /month per user; Managing Director "Custom".

Best for: Published pricing & free-tier honesty — 7/10

Wallet-label and Smart Money dashboards across 37 chains. Strongest on published pricing & free-tier honesty (8/10): A single published price with no sales call ($49/mo annual, $69/mo monthly), a documented free API tier ("100 one-time credits to try the API. After those are used, a daily top-up brings your included credit balance back up to 10 credits if it has fallen below 10."), published per-plan rate limits (Free 15 req/s, Pro 75 req/s), a per-endpoint credit schedule and per-call x402 prices ("Basic | $0.01", $0.05 for premium and Smart Money endpoints). Docked because nansen.ai/pricing returns HTTP 404 and the Flexi-Credit top-up rate is not stated ("Purchase as many credits as you want, at discounted rates."). Weakest on attribution & methodology auditability (2/10): Nansen's own "Data Methodology and Technical Reference" page discloses no Smart Money criteria at all. The only public definition anywhere in its docs is "a curated list of the top 5,000 highest-performing wallets ranked by realised profit, winrate, and strong performance across market cycles" — no thresholds, no… Published price: Pro: "For $49/month (annual) or $69/month (monthly), you get unlimited access to both web and mobile, plus all the premium features" — including "2,000 AI Agent prompts per month", "Discount on trading fees", "Full PnL & Labels (incl. Smart Money)" and "API / MCP one-time credits".

Best for: Published pricing & free-tier honesty — 8/10