On-chain Analytics evaluated across query & data portability (lock-in), attribution & methodology auditability, chain & data coverage, and published pricing & free-tier honesty.
Dune
#1 of 7 · published ranking
Dune
82ChainChoice Score
4199
Why it leads
Best in the pool on query portability and attribution auditability
Cost
Not priced· No comparable price is published
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On-chain Analytics ranked comparison
No comparable price is published; ranking still uses verified product evidence.
RankProviderBest fitScore
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DuneDuneSQL workbench over indexed raw and deco...Top ranked
Chain & data coverage — 10/10Trade-off: The Free plan cannot keep anything up to date. Dune's own pricing FAQ states "Automat...
Ranked on 4 published criteria weighted 30/25/25/20, which set goal alignment — 30 of the 86 points. The rest: regional access 20, evidence depth 18, ease of use 10, institutional trust 8. Profile match is shown in breakdowns but carries no weight.
Audit
Infrastructure
Methodology
2026.09.15
published 2026-09-16
Providers tracked
980+
across 119 categories
Last verified
2026-09-14
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Decision guide
What matters most before choosing in this category
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?
What matters most before choosing in this category
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?
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?
Current editor lead
Expert review and scoring weights
Dune
DuneData checked Sep 2026
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 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 forChain & data coverage — 10/10
Main tradeoffThe 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.
Verify before signupFree: 2,500 credits/month at no cost; pay-as-you-go beyond that at "$5.00 per 100 additional 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". Extra credits bill at the plan rate: Analyst $1.875 (monthly) / $1.625 (annual), Plus $1.596 / $1.396 per 100 credits. Exports cost credits per MB (Free 20, Analyst 10, Plus 2); CSV export is Plus and Enterprise only. Per-query credit use is not quoted in advance: "You'll see costs after execution."
Methodology
How this category is reviewed
Reviewed on query & data portability (lock-in), attribution & methodology auditability, chain & data coverage, and published pricing & free-tier honesty.
The order on this page is the published ranking for this category. Every criterion, weight and source behind it is on the methodology page.
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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