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Overview

Pricing update: Sender Max now uses a 0.001 SOL minimum tip. This enters you into a priority tip buffer for top of block — tip more to land first. The cost-optimized SWQOS-only tier remains at 0.000005 SOL.
Helius Sender is a specialized service for ultra-low latency transaction submission, built for latency-sensitive trading. It submits your transaction across all pathways (Helius, Jito, Harmonic, Rakurai, etc.) simultaneously to give it the fastest possible route into a block. Sender does not consume API credits — you pay per transaction with a SOL tip. It is available on every plan, including the free tier.

No Credits

Available on all plans without consuming API credits. You pay per send with a SOL tip.

Multi-Path Routing

Submits across all pathways (Helius, Jito, Harmonic, Rakurai, etc.) for the fastest possible inclusion

Global Endpoints

HTTPS endpoint auto-routes to the nearest location for frontends, regional HTTP for backends

50 TPS (Default)

Need more? Request higher limits and custom tip arrangements

Choose your tier

Sender offers two tiers. Both are low-latency and credit-free — the difference is how many pathways your transaction takes and the minimum tip required.
Tips between 0.000005 SOL and 0.001 SOL are accepted but do not enter the priority tip buffer — they are sent on a best-effort basis through fewer pathways. To get buffer priority and every routing pathway, tip at least 0.001 SOL.

Sender Max (fastest landing)

Routed across every pathway and entered into a priority tip buffer for the most competitive submissions. Handles both transactions and bundles.

SWQOS-only (cost-optimized)

Lowest tip, single fast path. Add ?swqos_only=true to any endpoint URL.

Quickstart Guide

Ready to submit your first ultra-low latency Solana transaction? This guide gets you started in minutes. The best part: you don’t need any paid plan or special access — Sender is available to all users and doesn’t consume API credits. The example below uses the Sender Max tier (0.001 SOL tip). For the lowest-tip option, see SWQOS-only.
1

Create Your Free Helius Account

Start by creating your free account at the Helius Dashboard. Sender is available on all plans, including the free tier, and doesn’t consume any API credits.
2

Get Your API Key

Go to the API Keys section and copy your key. Use this for getting blockhashes and transaction confirmation. Sender will handle transaction submission.
3

Send Your First Transaction

Let’s send a simple SOL transfer using Sender. This example includes the required tip and priority fee, and skips preflight for lower latency (optional).
4

Success! Understanding What Happened

You’ve successfully submitted a transaction via Sender! Here’s what made it work:
  • No credits consumed: Sender is credit-free for all users
  • Multi-path routing: Your transaction was submitted across all pathways (Helius, Jito, Harmonic, Rakurai, etc.) simultaneously
  • Required tip: A 0.001 SOL tip enters the priority tip buffer and uses every routing pathway. See tiers for the lower-tip SWQOS-only option
  • Priority fee: Signals validators your willingness to pay for priority processing
  • Skipped preflight (optional): Trades validation for speed — Sender also supports preflight checks

Requirements

Mandatory requirements: Every Sender transaction must include a tip (minimum 0.001 SOL for Sender Max, or 0.000005 SOL for SWQOS-only) and a priority fee.
skipPreflight is optional — Sender supports preflight checks. Set skipPreflight: true to trade validation for lower latency.

Tips and priority fees

All transactions submitted through Sender must include both a tip and a priority fee:
  • Tip: A SOL transfer to a designated tip account. Minimum 0.001 SOL for Sender Max, or 0.000005 SOL for SWQOS-only.
  • Priority fee: Compute unit pricing via ComputeBudgetProgram.setComputeUnitPrice to prioritize your transaction in the validator queue.

Why both are required

  • Tips: Give you access to all of Sender’s routing pathways (Helius, Jito, Harmonic, Rakurai, etc.) and the priority tip buffer
  • Priority fees: Signal to validators your willingness to pay for priority processing through Solana’s native prioritization system
  • Together: Tips maximize the pathways your transaction can take, while priority fees improve its priority with validators — together they maximize inclusion probability
Use the Helius Priority Fee API for real-time priority fee recommendations.

Endpoints

Sender endpoints are available in multiple configurations depending on your use case:
Recommended for frontend applications to avoid CORS issues:
The HTTPS endpoint resolves CORS preflight failures that occur with browser-based applications when using the regional HTTP endpoints. This endpoint automatically routes to the nearest location for optimal performance. Use this for frontend/browser use cases.

Connection Warming

For applications with long periods between transaction submissions, use the ping endpoint to maintain warm connections and reduce cold start latency. The ping endpoint accepts simple GET requests and returns a basic response to keep connections alive:
Use connection warming when your application has gaps longer than 5 seconds between transactions to maintain optimal submission latency.

Request Format

Sender accepts two methods on the same endpoint. Every submission must include both a tip and a priority fee; skipping preflight is optional (it lowers latency).

sendTransaction

Submit a single transaction. It must contain both a SOL transfer with the minimum tip to a designated tip account and a compute unit price instruction — without both, it will be rejected.
See the Quickstart for a complete, runnable sendTransaction example.

sendBundle

Submit up to 4 fully-signed transactions for atomic, all-or-nothing execution. At least one transaction must carry the tip.
See Sender Max bundles for a full example and how to track landing.

MEV Protect (optional)

To route around validators statistically linked to sandwich attacks, add the mev-protect=true query parameter to the endpoint URL. It works on both Sender tiers and on both sendTransaction and sendBundle, with no changes to your request body.
See MEV Protect for how it works and its tradeoffs.

API Reference

View the complete Sender API reference with request/response schemas and parameters.

Rate Limits and Scaling

  • Default Rate Limit: 50 transactions per second
  • No Credit Usage: Sender transactions don’t consume API credits from your plan
  • Higher Limits: Professional plan users can request significant rate limit increases to support high-throughput trading applications

Custom TPS with API Key Authentication

This section is only relevant if you have been granted increased TPS limits and received an API key from the Helius team. Standard users can skip this section.
If you have been approved for higher TPS limits, you will receive a dedicated API key for Sender. To use it, append the API key as a query parameter to your endpoint URL:
Need more than 50 TPS or a custom plan? Request higher limits and explore custom tip arrangements for Sender by contacting our sales team.

Support

Get support through the Helius Dashboard or join Discord for assistance.

See Also: Shred Delivery

Raw Shreds (UDP) is our specialized delivery of raw Solana shreds via UDP, built to give you ultra low-latency access to Solana’s raw transaction data. By delivering unprocessed shreds directly from the network, Shred Delivery provides a competitive edge for propAMMs, snipers, copy traders, liquidation bots, arbitrage, and RPC node operators who want to remove network sync latency.
Start receiving raw shreds. Subscribe to Helius Shred Delivery in your dashboard.