Solana RPC providers: a 2026 comparison

How we compared

Every fact about another provider on this page comes from that provider's own documentation or pricing page, read on 28 October 2026 and linked where we use it; what we couldn't confirm there, we left out. We don't print other providers' prices, because they change often: follow the pricing link in each row for today's numbers.

RPC providers are hard to compare head to head because they are built for different workloads. We grouped the comparison around three readers: the dApp builder, the MEV searcher or trading desk, and the enterprise or multi-chain team.

Five dimensions that matter

1. Reads: how quickly getAccountInfo or getProgramAccounts returns from your region, and what limits apply to heavy methods.
2. Writes: how your transactions reach the leader, and whether landing is a separate product.
3. Streaming: Yellowstone gRPC support, which subscriptions and filters, and how a slow client is handled.
4. Regions: is there an endpoint near your servers? Many Solana validators run in European data centres such as Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
5. What you pay for: credits per call, a flat monthly plan, or a contract, and what each one includes.

Helius

Helius builds only for Solana and has gone furthest on Solana-specific APIs: DAS for NFTs, compressed NFTs and fungible tokens, webhooks, the Wallet API, getTransactionsForAddress for parsed history, and the Priority Fee API. Its older Enhanced Transactions API is now in maintenance mode. LaserStream, its gRPC stream, is wire-compatible with Yellowstone gRPC; mainnet access starts at the Business plan. Helius also sells Sender for landing transactions, shred delivery and dedicated nodes. Its developer experience is among the best in the category.

Where Helius wins: NFT platforms, wallets, consumer dApps, anything that leans on the Solana asset graph.

Where it is not the pick: a trading system that wants one flat price for its stream rather than credit-metered plans, and its own server next to the endpoint.

QuickNode

QuickNode is the multi-chain incumbent, with more than 75 blockchains. If you run a wallet, exchange or infrastructure product across Solana, Ethereum and more, it puts billing and vendor management in one place. Its Yellowstone gRPC is included from the Scale plan up and is a paid add-on on the Build and Accelerate plans, per its pricing page.

Where QuickNode wins: teams on more than one chain, and operations that want a single vendor.

Trade-off: breadth over Solana-specific depth.

Triton One

Triton maintains Yellowstone gRPC, the Geyser interface the rest of the market exposes, and sells it as Dragon's Mouth. If streaming is your main workload, or you run a serious indexer, going to the maintainers is the reference option.

Where Triton wins: infrastructure teams that want the authoritative implementation or dedicated nodes. Triton also sells shred streaming in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, New York and Tokyo.

How you pay: signup is self-serve. Usage is billed pay as you go, by bandwidth and, for request-based services, by call, from a prepaid deposit; no free tier is listed.

Chainstack

Chainstack is the enterprise option: more than 70 blockchains, an Enterprise plan, dedicated nodes from the Pro plan and a free Developer plan, all billed in request units (pricing). Yellowstone gRPC is a paid add-on from the Growth plan, on mainnet only.

Where Chainstack wins: teams that want an enterprise plan and many chains from one vendor.

Shyft

Shyft is as much a data platform as an RPC provider. Its data APIs (SuperIndexer for GraphQL queries over Solana data, DeFi APIs, human-readable transaction APIs and parsed webhooks it calls callbacks) can save you building an indexer, next to a region-specific gRPC network. Its current plans are flat monthly prices limited by requests per second, with gRPC from the Build plan (pricing).

Where Shyft wins: DeFi dashboards, NFT tools and wallet UIs that need pre-computed data.

AllenHark

AllenHark is built for MEV searchers, trading desks and bot operators. Each piece is a product with a published price, paid on-chain:

• RPC: JSON-RPC and WebSocket, $49 a month, Frankfurt or Amsterdam, access by IP allowlist.
• Yellowstone gRPC: $5 a day or $99 a month.
• ShredStream: data while the block is still being built, from $10 a day.
• AllenHark Relay and Slipstream for landing transactions.
• Servers in Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Chicago.

Where AllenHark wins: a bot that reads the chain, lands transactions and runs on a server next to both, bought as parts from one place.

Where it is not the pick: a consumer dApp, an NFT marketplace or a wallet. Helius fits those better.

Recommendation by persona

You're a solo trader or small team running bots

Start with AllenHark for sniping or arbitrage. The PumpFun sniper removes most of the setup work. If you also need general RPC for application glue, a Helius free plan pairs well.

You're building a consumer dApp or wallet

Start with Helius. DAS, webhooks and the Wallet API save weeks of work. QuickNode is a close second if you are multi-chain.

You're running an MEV desk or quant fund

Run your servers where your data is, with AllenHark for streams, shreds and landing, and keep a second provider for general RPC as a fallback.

You're an enterprise moving onto Solana

Chainstack's Enterprise plan, or dedicated nodes from Triton or Helius, with compliance and contract terms as the first filter.

You're building an analytics or data product

Shyft for its indexed data APIs, with Helius or a Yellowstone gRPC stream for anything they don't cover.

The honest caveat

RPC comparisons age quickly: providers change infrastructure, pricing and products all the time. We last checked every provider's pages on 28 October 2026. Treat this page as a map, not a benchmark, and before any serious commitment run your own tests from the region your workload runs in.

Moving off one provider? See the guide to Helius alternatives.