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- Category
- RPC & Node Services
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- helius.dev
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Details
Scored 66 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in October 2026.
Helius
Solana RPC and data APIs
RPC & Node Services
#4 Overall
Ranked #4 of 9 RPC & node services in the published ranking
66
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
- $600 your cost/yr
Is Helius right for you?
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Real cost per 1M identical calls8/10 here; the category best is 10
- Documented incident record and chain coverage4/10 here; Alchemy scores 7
- Archive debug and trace access3/10 here; Ankr scores 7
- Published throughput and self-serve ceiling5/10 here; Ankr scores 7
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What will Helius cost you?
$600 your cost/yr
- Usage per month
- 10
- Price per unit
- $5
- Plan fee
- $0
$269 above the median of 8 priced RPC & node services.
How this is calculatedHow safe is Helius?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read October 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Helius
Compare all 4- 5Alchemy1 point below · stronger on reliability and coverage (7 against 4)65$63
- 6QuickNode1 point below · stronger on reliability and coverage (7 against 4)65$662
- 7Ankr7 points below · stronger on archive and trace access (7 against 3)59$12
For your setup
Find out if Helius fits you
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Why this rank
Why Helius ranks #4
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (17.3 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
358+8.966.010#3/9Loading evidence…
203+1.925.07#8/9Loading evidence…
205+3.206.09#6/9Loading evidence…
254+3.205.07#7/9Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−12behind Chainstack, #3
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 64–69 and ranks #4–#6
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 Helius’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.
Real cost per 1M identical calls 8 → 7 on its ladder · Alchemy passes it−164#4 → #6
Documented incident record and chain coverage 4 → 3 on its ladder · Alchemy passes it−165#4 → #6
Archive debug and trace access 3 → 1 on its ladder · Alchemy passes it−264#4 → #6
Strengths
0 from the score dataWhere it leads
No scored criterion is at or within one point of the category best, so no strength can be stated from the data.
Tradeoffs
4 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Real cost per 1M identical calls — 8/10 against a category best of 10/10
- Documented incident record and chain coverage — 4/10 against a category best of 7/10
- Archive debug and trace access — 3/10 against a category best of 7/10
- Published throughput and self-serve ceiling — 5/10 against a category best of 9/10
Record watch-outs
- Solana only — no EVM, so the moment your roadmap adds a second chain you are running a second vendor and a second bill. And '1 credit per call' only covers plain RPC: getProgramAccounts is 10 credits, every DAS endpoint is 10, Enhanced Transactions and the Wallet API are 100, and Wallet-as-a-Service signatures are 200. An NFT or portfolio app leaning on DAS pays 10x the headline rate, which turns $4.90 per million into $49 per million.
Competitive position
Where Helius 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 / 914.0 of 20 · constant here
Published criteria#4 / 913.0 of 30 · best 18.6
Friction#1 / 92.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 93.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 98.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Helius leads
- Real cost per 1M identical calls#3 / 9
Where it trails
- Archive debug and trace access#8 / 9
- Documented incident record and chain coverage#7 / 9
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.
Alchemy#5 of 9 · score 65 · 1.0 point behind
Helius leads on
- Real cost per 1M identical calls8 vs 4
Alchemy leads on
- Archive debug and trace access4 vs 3
- Published throughput and self-serve ceiling6 vs 5
- Documented incident record and chain coverage7 vs 4
Largest single reason Helius is ahead: published criteria (+1.6 display points).Scenario cost: Alchemy is −$537 against Helius.
QuickNode#6 of 9 · score 65 · 1.0 point behind
Helius leads on
- Real cost per 1M identical calls8 vs 4
- Published throughput and self-serve ceiling5 vs 4
QuickNode leads on
- Archive debug and trace access6 vs 3
- Documented incident record and chain coverage7 vs 4
Largest single reason Helius is ahead: published criteria (+1.6 display points).Scenario cost: QuickNode is +$62 against Helius.
Ankr#7 of 9 · score 59 · 7.0 points behind
Helius leads on
- Real cost per 1M identical calls8 vs 2
- Documented incident record and chain coverage4 vs 3
Ankr leads on
- Archive debug and trace access7 vs 3
- Published throughput and self-serve ceiling7 vs 5
Largest single reason Helius is ahead: published criteria (+7.3 display points).Scenario cost: Ankr is −$588 against Helius.
Against the leader
81 vs 66 · gap 15.0Why BlockPI ranks above Helius
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 15.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisBlockPIGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight13.018.6−14.6, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisBlockPIPoints
Real cost per 1M identical calls · w35810−2.24, worse
Archive debug and trace access · w2036−1.92, worse
Published throughput and self-serve ceiling · w2059−2.56, worse
Documented incident record and chain coverage · w2545−0.80, worse
Net6681−15.0
Your scenario
What Helius costs on your scenario
Metered usage beyond whatever the plan includes, for a year. Excludes egress, support tiers and enterprise minimums. 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
Usage per month · your input10
Price per unit · published rate$5
Plan fee · published rate$0
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.
$600
Under the default inputs · USDCategory median$3328 of 9 rows priced · Helius +$269 vs median
Cheapest priced$0.00 · Infura (Consensys)Helius costs +$600 more · availability not applied — set your country to filterCompare with Infura (Consensys)
1 of 9 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.RobustnessOne point from changingrank #4 to #6 across one-point re-runs
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
Real cost per 1M identical callsstrength 8 · weight 35Report 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.Archive debug and trace accessstrength 3 · 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.Published throughput and self-serve ceilingstrength 5 · 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.Documented incident record and chain coveragestrength 4 · 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.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Liveness failure (Helius 4/10): the operator stops, censors you or loses data.Scored by Documented incident record and chain coverage · 25%
Not assessed by this ranking: Exit failure, Information failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Real cost per 1M identical calls (35%), Archive debug and trace access (20%), Published throughput and self-serve ceiling (20%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Helius pricing page (helius.dev/pricing), read 22 October 2026 for the 21 October 2026 re-read. Free "$0 / month", "1M credits", "10 Requests / sec", 1 sendTransaction/s, 5 getProgramAccounts/s, 2 DAS/s. Developer "$49 / month", "10M credits", "50 Requests / sec", 5 sendTransaction/s. Business "$499 / month", "100M credits", "200 Requests / sec". Professional "$999 / month", "200M credits", "500 Requests / sec" (additional 100 RPC RPS "$100" per month). Enterprise custom, 1B+ credits. Additional credits "$5" per million on Developer, Business and Professional (none on Free). Pricing-page credits: "RPC calls are 1 credit with two exceptions: getProgramAccounts and archival calls are 10 credits. DAS calls are 10 credits." Webhook push 1; Priority Fee API 1. Billing docs (last_updated 6 October 2026) list historical getBlock and getTransaction at 1 credit, which conflicts with the pricing page; Enhanced Transactions 100 (legacy, maintenance mode), Parsed Events 10, Wallet API 100, Sender 0. Archival data on every plan; LaserStream gRPC devnet-only on Developer, mainnet from Business.Helius — official pricing page ↗ · 22 October 2026
- Prices published in
- USDHelius — 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
- Helius's Cloud Services Agreement (helius.dev/terms, "Last Updated: September 28, 2026", read 22 October 2026) requires the customer to represent "that it is not organized in, ordinarily resident in, or 50% or more owned or controlled by persons in a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions"; the new terms name no country (the earlier list of Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Crimea is no longer on the page). Global self-serve.
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. 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.
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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 66, #4 of 9. 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 rpc_nodes:helius:2026.10.18:a6f69a8367c9
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