Best Solana RPC Providers in 2026: Pricing, Performance, and Use Cases

A 500 RPS Solana RPC plan delivers 500 requests per second only when every request counts as one unit. Simple reads like getAccountInfo can use the full published figure. Heavier methods count for more on several providers, so the effective request rate falls as your method mix gets heavier. Cost is a separate question. Overage, bandwidth and add-on charges, and whether you need a region the shared plan doesn't cover, determine the final cost. That's why two providers quoting identical capacity can send very different bills.

We compared seven Solana RPC providers using October 2026 pricing, published rate limits, geographic coverage, and production capabilities.

Best Solana RPC Providers in 2026: At a Glance

Comparison based on publicly documented plans and product capabilities as of October 2026. Pricing units and capacity limits differ between providers and should not be treated as directly equivalent. Supanode is included in this comparison and publishes this article.

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What changes your Solana RPC bill

Published capacity is only the ceiling. Effective throughput depends on method weights and billing rules.

On Supanode a plain getAccountInfo consumes one RPS unit, getTransaction and getTokenAccountsByOwner consume ten each, and getProgramAccounts takes thirty. Helius charges one credit for ordinary calls, including archival queries, and ten for getProgramAccounts. It also gives getProgramAccounts its own ceiling of 5, 25, 50 or 75 RPS by tier, so the headline figure never applies to that method at any price point. Under Supanode's weights, an indexer running wide account scans can drain a 500 RPS plan at an effective 17 requests per second. A wallet backend dominated by low-weight reads lands much closer to the published number.

Bandwidth, overages and separately metered streaming products add a second layer of cost. QuickNode meters gRPC data at 15 API credits per 0.1 MB as of October 1, 2026, and bills flat-rate Solana RPS as a separate product from its credit plans. RPC Fast charges $5 per million overage CUs once the bundle is used up. Alchemy sells extra throughput in 5,000 CU/s blocks at $160 per month. Triton prices streaming mainly on bandwidth at $0.08/GB, so a verbose subscription filter costs real money. Supanode uses fixed bundles with no request or bandwidth overage, so monthly cost stays fixed within the selected tier.

On free tiers, the restrictions matter more than the size of the allowance. RPC Fast blocks several heavy methods at $0, including getProgramAccounts and getTokenAccountsByOwner. Helius caps sendTransaction at one per second on its free plan. Chainstack's 3M Request Units go fast against any archival or program-account work. Alchemy's 30M CU per month looks generous, though CU consumption per call varies enough that the figure means little until you apply your own method mix. Supanode offers a 24-hour trial without a card instead of a standing free tier, and Triton starts at the deposit. QuickNode's pricing page lists a $0 free trial rather than a standing free plan. Free public endpoints come with their own set of constraints.

Availability figures and contractual SLAs also compare separately. Several providers in this set publish a reliability target with no contractual remedy attached on standard shared plans.

Strengths and trade-offs by provider

Supanode

Supanode fits when your servers and your users are in Europe and you want capacity you can read off a page before paying for it.

Build publishes 200 RPS for $159 per 30 days. Professional publishes 500 RPS, 100 TPS and 70 concurrent WebSocket connections for $459. At the same 500 published RPS, Helius Professional costs $999, and QuickNode Business is also $999. gRPC is bundled from Focus upward, with between 1 and 50 connections depending on tier, and Grow and Professional also include ShredStream Raw in Frankfurt. Support starts as community support, moves to direct Telegram at Build and priority Telegram on Grow and Professional. Dedicated configurations include a direct engineering contact, so when something breaks you have a person to message instead of a queue.

Shared plans are hosted in Frankfurt and carry no contractual numeric uptime SLA. Regional placement and custom SLA terms are available through dedicated configurations. Heavy methods consume 10 to 30 RPS units each, so the published ceiling describes simple reads far better than account scans.

Helius

Helius goes well beyond plain RPC, and it publishes its per-method credit weights openly.

Beyond standard RPC you get archival access, webhooks, parsed data, DAS, transaction-routing products, LaserStream gRPC on devnet from Developer and on mainnet from Business, plus TypeScript and Rust SDKs. Support response targets tighten from 24h to 4h as you move up the plans, with Slack or Telegram at the upper tiers.

Applications that depend on parsed data, DAS or Helius-specific transaction routing get a layer here that no plain-RPC bundle includes, and rebuilding it in-house usually costs more than the price difference. Where the requirement is throughput alone, the list prices read differently: Helius Professional charges $999 for 500 RPS, more than Supanode, Chainstack or RPC Fast ask for a similar published RPS. Credits, RPS units and Request Units aren't directly comparable, so that gap only means something once you run it against your own method mix. Latency and uptime SLAs are Enterprise-only, and because Helius covers Solana only, multi-chain teams need a second provider alongside it.

QuickNode

QuickNode advertises a 99.99% credit-backed uptime SLA for Solana and serves it from 17+ edge regions with automatic routing. It offers full Solana historical data on mainnet. Yellowstone-compatible gRPC is included from Scale, and tooling covers TypeScript, Python, Rust and Go.

That combination suits a global consumer application, or a company standardizing infrastructure across several chains. The credit-backed SLA provides a contractual availability commitment with a defined remedy, which is rare in this comparison set.

Pricing is split across credit plans, flat-rate Solana RPS, and separate gRPC metering. Credit plans run from $49 on Build to $999 on Business, with Business+ tiers above that. Flat-rate Solana RPS is a separate purchase at $1,199, $2,299 and $2,925 a month for 75, 150 and 250 RPS. At those list prices QuickNode sits at the expensive end per published Solana RPS, so a European-only backend that doesn't need 17 regions pays for coverage it won't use.

Triton One

Triton One is oriented toward data-heavy and archival workloads.

Pricing is pay-as-you-go. You put down a $125 minimum deposit valid for twelve months, then pay $10 per million calls plus $0.08/GB, with streaming priced mainly on bandwidth. Every endpoint gets the full feature set: Dragon's Mouth gRPC, Whirligig WebSockets, full-chain archive back to genesis through Old Faithful, and custom account indexes. One-to-one senior engineer support comes included instead of being sold as an upgrade. GeoDNS routes clients to the closest datacenter, and BGP anycast is available for demanding deployments.

Triton negotiates rate and connection capacity per customer instead of publishing a fixed ladder, so a documented burst limit has to be confirmed during procurement. The pricing page markets 99.99% uptime, but we couldn't find a separate contractual numeric SLA in public material. The $125 deposit creates a higher entry point than low-cost shared plans, and simple read workloads may use only a small part of Triton's archive and streaming stack.

Chainstack

Chainstack pairs competitive published RPS with multi-region deployment across US, Europe and APAC on multiple clouds. Archive comes with paid tiers, and the Yellowstone add-on starts at $49 per month for two streams from Growth. Support is a separate purchase: the Premium tier targets a response in under one hour.

Its multi-region shared deployment is relevant for traffic spread across more than one continent, since Supanode's shared plans cover Frankfurt and handle everything else through dedicated configurations. Request Unit accounting means Chainstack's RPS ladder isn't a volume allowance either, so the comparison still runs through your method mix.

Standard shared tiers carry no numeric SLA, and custom terms begin at Enterprise. Chainstack also runs a public status page that documented Solana incidents and method-level limitations during 2026. That incident history adds context to the published RPS figures for workloads that depend on heavier methods.

Alchemy

Alchemy expresses capacity in Compute Units, so any direct RPS comparison depends on your workload. The free plan allows 30 million CU per month at 300 CU/s, which Alchemy's pricing page equates to about 15 requests per second. Pay-as-you-go has no base subscription, charges $0.525 per million CU, and starts at 10,000 CU/s (around 300 RPS on Alchemy's own approximation), expandable to 30,000 CU/s before you need a custom quote.

You also get full archive, WebSockets, Solana-specific enhanced methods, gRPC from $75/TB and a public status page that shows Solana components separately. Support targets are 48h on free and 24h on PAYG.

The model works well for prototyping, and for teams already running Alchemy on other chains, where one dashboard across EVM and Solana has real operational value. For a Solana-only production backend it's harder to evaluate. You can't set a 10,000 CU/s ceiling against another provider's 300 RPS without method-level CU estimates, which makes procurement slower than it needs to be. Signed SLAs are Enterprise-only.

RPC Fast

RPC Fast publishes a numeric capacity ladder across five shared plans: 15, 50, 150, 250 and 500 RPS on Start, Focus, Stream, Velocity and Aperture. WebSocket subscriptions rise from 1 to 150, and paid plans come with unlimited bandwidth. The paid tiers cost $49, $299, $399 and $549 a month, or $44, $269, $359 and $494 a month on quarterly billing. Shared infrastructure is in Equinix FR13, Frankfurt. Yellowstone gRPC starts on Stream with up to 10 streams and reaches 40 on Aperture. TxStream arrives on Velocity, and Shredstream gRPC is Aperture-only.

For a trading stack already colocated near Frankfurt, that's a clean match of capacity and geography at a competitive price, and the streaming ladder leaves room to grow.

Public documentation is thinner on archival access and shared-endpoint reliability. Full shared archival RPC is not publicly confirmed, and the dedicated-node documentation states that historical data isn't supplied there. A 98% figure in those same docs applies to a different product and does not describe shared RPC. In the 500 RPS class, Aperture lists at $549 a month, or $494 on quarterly billing, against Supanode Professional at $459 per 30 days — with thinner published uptime evidence on the RPC Fast side.

Geographic coverage

Shared endpoints are served from specific places, and those places set a floor on latency that no plan upgrade removes.

Supanode and RPC Fast run shared infrastructure only in Frankfurt; Supanode offers other regions on dedicated configurations. Chainstack publishes US, Europe and APAC regions on shared plans. QuickNode serves Solana from 17+ regions with automatic routing, and Triton uses GeoDNS to send clients to the closest datacenter, with anycast available for demanding clients. Helius markets global routing without listing its shared regions publicly, and Alchemy's customer-selectable Solana region mapping isn't publicly confirmed either. Both would need confirmation before region-sensitive benchmarking.

A published region tells you where to start measuring, not what you'll observe. The low-latency Solana RPC guide covers how to test from your own network path.

Which Solana RPC provider fits your workload?

For standard dApp reads at moderate volume, Supanode Build, Chainstack Growth or Pro, and Helius Developer all publish enough headroom. The decision comes down to region, and to whether Helius's additional APIs earn their weight in your stack.

A high-rate backend puts Supanode Professional at $459 for 500 RPS next to Chainstack Business at $499 for 600 RPS and RPC Fast Aperture at $549 for 500 RPS. Heavy-method weights can change effective capacity and cost materially, so model them before you sign anything.

Latency-sensitive trading depends on where you deploy. In Frankfurt, Supanode and RPC Fast are the two providers publishing shared infrastructure in the city. For deployments on other continents, multi-region shared coverage comes from QuickNode, Triton and Chainstack, while Supanode places capacity through dedicated configurations instead.

Indexers and heavy-method workloads look different again. Triton One has full-chain archive and custom indexes, QuickNode has full mainnet history, and Helius and Alchemy both expose archival data billed in credits or CUs. On Supanode's shared bundles, getProgramAccounts at 30 RPS units is the constraint to model first.

For gRPC consumers the options are Triton's Dragon's Mouth, Helius LaserStream from Business, QuickNode from Scale, Supanode bundled from Focus, RPC Fast from Stream, and Chainstack as a $49 add-on. Connection limits, data billing and regions differ substantially across these streaming products. On Supanode, streaming-first workloads map to the gRPC product rather than the shared RPC bundle.

Once shared capacity stops fitting, because you need custom regions, isolated infrastructure or a signed SLA, you're in dedicated production. Helius, QuickNode and Triton all sell isolated infrastructure at that point; on Supanode it's a dedicated configuration with custom region placement and SLA terms.

For architecture background, including node-versus-provider and failover design, see the Solana RPC infrastructure guide.

How to choose and validate before committing

1. Map your method mix. What share of traffic is getAccountInfo versus getTransaction, getProgramAccounts, signature history, simulation and sendTransaction? Provider economics diverge sharply at the heavy end.
2. Recalculate the bill in each provider's native unit, whether that's credits, CUs, RUs, calls plus bandwidth, or RPS units. Keep each provider in its native billing unit.
3. Benchmark from your production region over the same network path. A Frankfurt endpoint performs very differently measured from Frankfurt and from Singapore.
4. Use p95 and p99 alongside errors, timeouts and 429s. Averages hide production tail behavior.
5. Test recovery behavior separately from throughput. Drop the WebSocket, exhaust the rate limit, kill the endpoint, and watch how the client reconnects.
6. Separate published uptime figures from contractual SLA terms. Which service does the number cover, what's excluded, and what's the remedy?

If you're still weighing a managed provider against running your own node, start with managed RPC vs self-hosted.

Final recommendation

Supanode fits European workloads that prioritize predictable monthly pricing and published capacity. Build is 200 RPS for $159 per 30 days. Professional is 500 RPS, 100 TPS and 70 concurrent WebSocket connections for $459, with gRPC bundled from Focus upward and ShredStream Raw in Frankfurt on Grow and Professional. No request charges, no bandwidth overage, and the capacity figures are published rather than quoted on request.

Telegram access to engineers starts at Build and becomes priority Telegram on Grow and Professional.

The workloads it serves well: production dApp backends with European users, high-rate read traffic where method weights are known and mostly light, trading stacks already colocated near Frankfurt, and streaming consumers who want gRPC in the same bundle as RPC.

Shared infrastructure is Frankfurt-only. Heavy methods consume 10 to 30 RPS units each, so a getProgramAccounts-dominated indexer will hit the ceiling long before the headline number suggests. No shared tier carries a contractual numeric uptime SLA. For custom region placement, isolated infrastructure, and tailored SLA terms, Supanode offers dedicated configurations.

If your traffic is spread across continents, or you need a signed availability figure on a shared plan, the comparison above lays out where the other six providers stand on both counts.

Whatever ends up on the shortlist, model the method mix, price it in the vendor's native units, benchmark from the production region, and test the failure paths before committing.

→ Explore Supanode Solana RPC plans. RPS, TPS and WebSocket limits are published on the page, with no per-request overage. The 24-hour trial is available without a card.