Helius is up to 5x faster with an industry-leading win rate vs. Alchemy across Solana RPC methods.
Helius is a Solana-native RPC provider with deep domain-level expertise, exclusive products, and the most performant Solana infrastructure stack in the ecosystem. Alchemy is an EVM-focused, multichain RPC provider that supports core Solana functionality.
Compare Helius product support vs. Alchemy
Evaluate Helius and Alchemy on the feature support and products Solana developers and professional traders actually use.
  | Alchemy | |
|---|---|---|
| Core Solana RPCs | ||
| Custom RPC Methods | gTFA, gTBA, etc. | gTFA support |
| Core Solana WebSockets | LaserStream WSS (up to 200ms faster) | Standard WSS |
| Solana Webhooks | ||
| Wallet API | - | |
| Embedded Wallets | ||
| Historical Solana Data | カスタムRocksDBインデックス（最大3.0x高速） | |
| gRPC Data Streaming | LaserStream gRPC | |
| Parsed Streams And Events API | - | |
| Transaction Landing Service | Sender | - |
| MEV Protection | ||
| Transaction Rebates | - | |
| Preconfirmations (Preconfs) | - | |
| Raw Shred Delivery | - | |
| Decoded Shreds | - | |
| Dedicated RPC Nodes | - | |
| Solana Validator Rank* | #2 (15.9M SOL) | #50 (2.2M SOL) |
| Validator as a Service | ||
| Starting Paid Plan | $49/month, 10M Credits, 50 RPS | $104/month, 10M Requests, 300 RPS** |
| Enterprise plans and SLAs | ||
| Customer Support | 24/7 Slack and Telegram support | 24/7 Slack and Telegram support |
*As of July 2026. See staking rewards for the latest data.
**Data for starting plan taken from Alchemy's suggested PAYG plan.
Faster on the Solana RPC methods you call most
Heliusは、アーカイブRPC呼び出し（例：getBlock呼び出しは3.0x高速）と負荷の高いアカウントベース呼び出し（例：getProgramAccounts呼び出しは5.9x高速）のp95レイテンシーでAlchemyを上回ります。
- Helius's score vs. Alchemy (70.4)
- 91.9/100Helius's score vs. Alchemy (70.4)
- Head-to-head win rate vs. Alchemy
- 90.5%Head-to-head win rate vs. Alchemy
Pioneering Solana infrastructure
Since 2022 Helius has been the leader in reliable, scalable, and ultra-low latency Solana infrastructure, consistently developing new products, publishing governance proposals, and backing founders to accelerate Solana.
Custom RPC methods
Exclusive archival RPC methods like getTransactionsForAddress (gTFA)
Custom archival layer
Ultra-low latency archival reads on a purpose-built RocksDB index
Custom edge network
Gatekeeper edge routing plus a global fiber backbone for the fastest path to Solana
Custom trading services
ULL stack, from signal to execution, for HFTs, prop trading firms, and CEXs
Multi-region reliability
Multi-region support, redundant architecture, and automatic failover under load
Agentic developer tooling
SDKs, MCP, CLI, and an official Claude Code plugin for building with agents on Solana
Which RPC provider should you pick?
Choose Helius if...
- You are a trading firm, propAMM, bot, or exchange
- You need low-latency onchain signals and landing services
- You need fast, reliable, and scalable archival data and RPCs
- You care about Solana-specific SDKs, MCPs, and CLI support
- You want to work with Solana experts, exclusive to the network
Choose Alchemy if...
- You are a multichain team starting to test Solana
- Latency and scale are not critical factors for you
- Solana is a secondary focus in a multichain product
- You prioritize a single multichain vendor relationship
- You do not need Solana-native engineers or expertise
Switching from Alchemy to Helius
Get your Helius API key
Create a free account in under a minute
Update your RPC URL
Replace your Alchemy endpoint with your Helius RPC URL
Propagate and verify
Redeploy, test, and monitor performance
// Before (Alchemy)
const connection = new Connection(
"https://solana-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/YOUR_KEY"
);
// After (Helius)
const connection = new Connection(
"https://mainnet.helius-rpc.com/?api-key=YOUR_KEY"
);
Get your Helius API key
Create a free account in under a minute
Update your RPC URL
Replace your Alchemy endpoint with your Helius RPC URL
Propagate and verify
Redeploy, test, and monitor performance
// Before (Alchemy)
const connection = new Connection(
"https://solana-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/YOUR_KEY"
);
// After (Helius)
const connection = new Connection(
"https://mainnet.helius-rpc.com/?api-key=YOUR_KEY"
);
Trusted by Solana's best teams
Heliusチームのおかげで、Solanaでの構築がよりスムーズで簡単になります。ネットワーク上のアプリ開発を効率化し、複雑さを取り除くという素晴らしい仕事を成し遂げています。
Heliusは非常に高速で信頼性が高く、Solanaで最高の開発者体験を求める方には誰にでもおすすめできます。Backpackのインフラストラクチャの大部分を支えています。
Solanaのアクティビティが拡大し続けるなか、Heliusは主要なSolanaインフラストラクチャプロバイダーの一つとして際立っています。エンタープライズグレードのプラットフォームが求める要件を満たす、信頼性の高いデータをチームが利用できるようにしてくれます。
Choose Helius
Work with a partner who deeply understands Solana infrastructure and is committed to the ecosystem.