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- Onchain Analytics
- Entity
- All 2 Dune products
- Official website
- dune.com
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 82 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in October 2026.
Dune
SQL analytics over blockchain data
Onchain Analytics
#1 Overall
Ranked #1 of 7 onchain analytics in the published ranking
82
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
- $780 your cost/yr
Is Dune right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Query & data portability (lock-in)9/10, the category best
- Attribution & methodology auditability9/10, the category best
- Chain & data coverage10/10, the category best
- Published pricing & free-tier honesty8/10, the category best
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What will Dune cost you?
$780 your cost/yr
- Transactions per year
- 1k
- Annual price
- $780
- Monthly price
- $75
$780 above the median of 6 priced onchain analytics.
How this is calculatedHow safe is Dune?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read October 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Dune
Compare all 4- 2Token Terminal12 points below · weaker on query portability (7 against 9)70$0.00
- 3Artemis21 points below · weaker on query portability (5 against 9)61$0.00
- 4Messari24 points below · weaker on coverage depth (5 against 10)58$0.00
For your setup
Find out if Dune fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Dune lands for you, which criteria your answers weight up, and which stated needs the record does or does not meet. The published rank stays beside it.
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Why it leads
Why Dune ranks #1
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (29.0 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on every criterion.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
309+8.645.09#1/7Loading evidence…
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2510+8.006.010#1/7Loading evidence…
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Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin+12over Token Terminal, #2
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 82 and stays #1
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Dune’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Query & data portability (lock-in) 9 → 2 on its ladder · Token Terminal passes it−779#1 → #2
Attribution & methodology auditability 9 → 0 on its ladder · Token Terminal passes it−978#1 → #2
Chain & data coverage 10 → 1 on its ladder · Token Terminal passes it−978#1 → #2
Strengths
4 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Query & data portability (lock-in) — 9/10, the category best
- Attribution & methodology auditability — 9/10, the category best
- Chain & data coverage — 10/10, the category best
- Published pricing & free-tier honesty — 8/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
0 from the score dataWhere it trails
No scored criterion trails the category best by two points or more, so no tradeoff can be stated from the data.
Record watch-outs
- 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.
- The data-point rate is a superseded pricing model that the pricing FAQ still prints ("Free and Analyst: 1 credit = 1,000 data points") while the Export and Billing pages bill exports per MB ("Credits are consumed when exporting query results via API or CSV, based on the amount of data exported" — Free 20, Analyst 10, Plus 2 credits per MB) and CSV export is Plus and Enterprise only. Dune's CURRENT documented model is explicitly compute-based — 'Dune uses a usage-based credit system that charges based on actual compute resources consumed' — and the page announces the change ('See full blog post announcement here' → dune.com/blog/credits-changing). Critically, the same page states the opposite of an earlier model run's transparency claim: 'At the moment, we don't share a single, per-query formula because credit usage depends on real-time factors (the compute your query actually uses, the engine you choose, and current network/data access conditions.' A buyer sizing capacity from datapoints would size it wrong. Note that earlier reading contradicted itself here — its own Dune caveat says 'credits are consumed by compute'.
- The free-API restriction is present in Dune's pricing FAQ ("the Free query engine is limited to manual query editor executions only; automated executions (API, scheduling, refreshing) are not available" and "free executions are not supported via the API"), and the same FAQ also states the opposite ("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"); Dune's API docs also price and rate-limit free-plan API usage in detail. Rate Limits publishes explicit Free-plan API limits ('Free | Low limit | 15 requests per minute (rpm)' and 'Free | High limit | 40 rpm'). Billing publishes Free-plan API export pricing ('Credits per MB Exported' — Free 20, Analyst 10, Plus 2), Free data writes (3 credits per GB), Free storage (100 MB) and Free webhooks/alerts (1). These figures would be meaningless if free API executions were unsupported. The free tier IS genuinely constrained — 2,500 credits, Small/Medium engine only, 100 MB storage, worst per-credit rate at $5.00/100, and the Queries Endpoint is 'Available on Plus and Enterprise plans' — but the vendor's own FAQ states both positions.
Competitive position
Where Dune leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 714.0 of 20 · constant here
Published criteria#1 / 721.7 of 30 · pool best
Friction#1 / 72.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 73.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 78.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Dune leads
- Query & data portability (lock-in)#1 / 7
- Attribution & methodology auditability#1 / 7
- Chain & data coverage#1 / 7
- Published pricing & free-tier honesty#1 / 7
Where it trailsNo criterion in the bottom third of its pool.
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Token Terminal#2 of 7 · score 70 · 12.0 points behind
Dune leads on
- Query & data portability (lock-in)9 vs 7
- Attribution & methodology auditability9 vs 7
- Chain & data coverage10 vs 8
Token Terminal leads onNo scored criterion
Largest single reason Dune is ahead: published criteria (+12.5 display points).Scenario cost: Token Terminal is −$780 against Dune.
Artemis#3 of 7 · score 61 · 21.0 points behind
Dune leads on
- Query & data portability (lock-in)9 vs 5
- Attribution & methodology auditability9 vs 5
- Chain & data coverage10 vs 6
Artemis leads onNo scored criterion
Largest single reason Dune is ahead: published criteria (+21.1 display points).Scenario cost: Artemis is −$780 against Dune.
Messari#4 of 7 · score 58 · 24.0 points behind
Dune leads on
- Query & data portability (lock-in)9 vs 5
- Attribution & methodology auditability9 vs 5
- Chain & data coverage10 vs 5
Messari leads onNo scored criterion
Largest single reason Dune is ahead: published criteria (+23.9 display points).Scenario cost: Messari is −$780 against Dune.
Against #2
82 vs 70 · gap 12.0Why Dune ranks above Token Terminal
DimensionThisToken TerminalGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight21.716.9+12.5, better
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisToken TerminalPoints
Query & data portability (lock-in) · w3097+1.92, better
Attribution & methodology auditability · w2597+1.60, better
Chain & data coverage · w25108+1.60, better
Published pricing & free-tier honesty · w2086+1.28, better
Net8270+12.0
Your scenario
What Dune costs on your scenario
The cheapest published tier that covers your usage. List price before any discount; add-ons priced separately are excluded. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Transactions per year · your input1k
Annual price · published rate$780
Monthly price · published rate$75
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 22 October 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
$780
Under the default inputs · USDCategory median$0.006 of 7 rows priced · Dune +$780 vs median
Cheapest priced$0.00 · Token TerminalDune costs +$780 more · availability not applied — set your country to filterCompare with Token Terminal
1 of 7 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 22 October 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessHoldsrank #1 across every one-point re-run
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 22 October 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Query & data portability (lock-in)strength 9 · weight 30Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Attribution & methodology auditabilitystrength 9 · weight 25Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Chain & data coveragestrength 10 · weight 25Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Published pricing & free-tier honestystrength 8 · weight 20Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Exit failure (Dune 9/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by Query & data portability (lock-in) · 30%
- Information failure (Dune 9/10): the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.Scored by Attribution & methodology auditability · 25%
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%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- 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."Dune — official pricing page ↗ · 22 October 2026
- Prices published in
- USDDune — official pricing page ↗ · 22 October 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Multi-chain
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Dune's Terms of Service (dune.com/terms, last updated June 3rd, 2026, read 22 October 2026) name no restricted or served countries: "The Service is controlled and operated from its facilities in Norway. Although the Service may be accessible worldwide, Dune does not claim, and we cannot guarantee that the Service is or will be appropriate or available for any location or jurisdiction, comply with the laws of any location or jurisdiction, or comply with laws governing export, import, or foreign use."
Legal entity on file: Dune, placed in 2 products. Only confirmed entities are shown; nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category 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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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
9 methodology entries
- 22 October 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 82, #1 of 7. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
- 16 September 2026
2026.09.15Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt onchain_analytics:dune:2026.10.18:d2814b98dbc9
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