Top 7 Solana Block Explorers (2025)

A block explorer is a search engine for blockchains. Their function is to provide complete historical data for every block, address, program, and transaction that has ever occurred on-chain.

Block explorers are essential tools for developers and everyday users.

For developers, blockchain explorers assist with debugging Solana programs, understanding how to compose with other on-chain programs via IDLs, and inspecting inner instructions.

For general Solana users, explorers help explain transactions, confirm transaction statuses, display wallet balances, and transaction histories.

This article highlights the most popular Solana block explorers and outlines a few unique features of each.

By the end of the article, you will know which explorers are available on Solana and how to choose the best one for your specific needs.

Orb

Launched on October 29th, 2025, Orb is a free Solana block explorer built by Helius that emphasizes speed and readability.

Built on Helius’s brand new Solana archival system and the getTransactionsForAddress RPC method, Orb’s archival RPC calls are 2-10x faster than Google BigTable queries, and power many unique filtering and sorting options.

For everyday users, Orb’s AI explanations provide clear, human-readable descriptions of what’s happening on-chain by combining three AI models fine-tuned on Solana data and documentation.

For developers, Orb provides detail-rich features like verified program IDLs and inner instructions, plus powerful sorting options like reverse search, and flexible filters that let you narrow transactions by address.

Orb supports all three Solana clusters: Solana Mainnet-beta, Solana Devnet, and Solana Testnet.

Orb’s features include:

1. Fast lookups — uses SoTA archival system & custom RPC methods
2. Reverse search — get the oldest results first and filter by any date
3. Explain with AI — summarize txns in human-readable formats
4. Filters — filter by time, status, address, tokens, programs, and spam
5. Blocks — see leaders, transactions, CUs, programs, and rewards 
6. Transactions — instructions, logs, balances, parsed/raw txn details
7. Tokens — price, charts, metadata, holders, markets, and history
8. Programs — history, IDLs, verification, security.txt, update authority
9. Wallets — history, tokens, NFTs, stake accounts, txn heatmaps
10. Validators — stake, APYs, vote info, delinquency, validator info

Solana Explorer

The canonically named Solana Explorer was the first official block explorer built by Solana Labs. While newer explorers have been released since, it is still widely used today. The Solana Explorer is now maintained by the Solana Foundation (GitHub).

Unique block explorer features include:

1. Feature gates — see feature gates, activation epochs, and SIMDs (Solana Improvement Documents)
2. Transaction inspector — paste a base58/base64 encoded message or Squads vault transaction account to see txn details
3. SOL token supply overview — quickly view the total supply, circulating supply, and non-circulating supply of $SOL

Website: explorer.solana.com

Solscan

Solscan was initially launched in 2021 and later acquired by Etherscan in early 2024. Because Solana’s on-chain data was notoriously difficult to read in the network’s early days, Solscan quickly became the dominant explorer by shipping advanced developer tools, clearer transaction summaries, and more helpful dashboards.

Today, Solscan is widely integrated into app frontends, wallets, and developer tools across the Solana ecosystem.

Key features include:

1. Fee tracker dashboard — minimum, average, and max priority fees
2. Stablecoin dashboard — mcap, holders, transactions, and volumes
3. Launchpad dashboard — tokens by launchpad, launches, creators 
4. DeFi overviews — volume/transactions for top programs like Orca
5. Whale tracking — track transfers, trades, stake accounts, and more

Website: solscan.io

Solana Beach: Validator Explorer

Solana Beach was one of the first independent dashboards live on Solana. Launched in 2020 by the Staking Facilities team, Solana Beach quickly became a staple destination for viewing key information: 

• Network activity — TPS, total RPC nodes, epoch progress
• Economic data — circulating supply, inflation rate, staking APYs
• Validator stats — active validators, current leader, superminority
• Validator details — stake accounts, block rewards, epoch credits, history of proposed slots, and more

Website: solanabeach.io

OKX Link

OKX Link is a multi-chain block explorer built by OKX, the cryptocurrency exchange, wallet, and web3 platform, with chain support for Solana. 

In addition to typical block explorer features, OKX Link includes a dashboard for top Solana tokens, top NFT collections, and supports over 12 languages, including Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

Website: oklink.com/solana

SolanaFM

Launched in 2021, SolanaFM was a user-friendly block explorer with advanced features, including transaction diagram flows, network statistics, and helpful summaries.

SolanaFM was acquired by Jupiter, the Solana DEX aggregator, in September 2024; however, today, the explorer is largely unmaintained.

Jito MEV Bundle Explorer

Because of Solana’s high trading volume, specialized block explorers for MEV transactions have also become popular for inspecting bundle transactions, arbitrages, and tip markets.

Key features include:

1. Total bundles and tips by week, month, and year
2. Bundles by size, slot, and signer address
3. Bundle explorer with instructions, tips, signers, and tokens
4. Fee dashboards for priority fees vs. Jito Tips
5. Arbitrage dashboard and arbitrage explorer

Website: explorer.jito.wtf

Choosing a Solana Block Explorer

Choosing the best explorer for you is based on which explorer provides the information you need, is easy to navigate, and serves data quickly. 

For most general-purpose use cases, such as confirming transactions, viewing wallet balances, inspecting transactions, finding program IDLs, and debugging programs, a block explorer like Orb is best.

If you’re specifically looking for MEV-specific data, use Jito’s explorer. If you just need high-level information, such as network stats or validator APYs, a simple dashboard like Solana Beach works well.

If you need to dive deeper into Solana’s on-chain history, pair block explorers with tools like Dune for building customizable Solana dashboards, Nansen for tracking funding flows from labeled wallets, Birdeye for historical trading data, or bookmark curated dashboards from Blockworks, Artemis, and Token Terminal for charts covering network revenue, trading volume, stablecoin issuance, and more.

Conclusion

Solana is a public and permissionless blockchain. This means anyone in the world can use it and participate. Block explorers are essential data tools and infrastructure that enable anyone in the world to see, understand, and analyze exactly what’s happening on-chain.