# Helius Pricing - Solana RPCs and APIs

> Flexible pricing to suit all your Solana development needs: affordable shared plans, dedicated nodes, node fleets, staked connections, and more.

## Simple pricing 
for teams of any scale

## Compare plans

### Free - $0/month

*Ideal for testing*

- 1M credits
- 10 Requests / sec
- 1 sendTransaction / sec
- ~~sendBundle~~ (not included)
- ~~Staked Connections~~ (not included)
- LaserStream WSS (standard)
- ~~LaserStream gRPC~~ (not included)
- Shreds - $1,000/month/IP
- Community support

[Get started](https://dashboard.helius.dev/signup?plan=free)

### Developer - $49/month

*For small projects*

- 10M credits
- 50 Requests / sec
- 5 sendTransaction / sec
- ~~sendBundle~~ (not included)
- Staked Connections
- LaserStream WSS
- LaserStream gRPC (devnet)
- Shreds - $1,000/month/IP
- Chat support

[Get started](https://dashboard.helius.dev/signup?plan=developer)

### Business - $499/month

*For growing teams*

- 100M credits
- 200 Requests / sec
- 50 sendTransaction / sec
- 5 sendBundle / sec
- Staked Connections
- LaserStream WSS
- LaserStream gRPC
- Shreds - $1,000/month/IP
- Priority chat support

[Get started](https://dashboard.helius.dev/signup?plan=business)

### Professional - $999/month

*For teams at scale*

- 200M credits
- 500 Requests / sec
- 100 sendTransaction / sec
- 5 sendBundle / sec
- Staked Connections
- LaserStream WSS
- LaserStream gRPC
- Shreds - $800/month/IP
- Telegram + Slack support

[Get started](https://dashboard.helius.dev/signup?plan=professional)

## Dedicated Solutions

### LaserStream

*For reliable, low-latency streaming data*

**Included with Business plans and higher ($499/mon)**

- Drop-in replacement for Geyser gRPC
- Globally distributed, regional redundancy
- Data add-ons start at $400/mon

[Learn more](https://www.helius.dev/docs/laserstream)

### Sender

*For the fastest transaction landing rates*

**Included with all plans**

- Send txns to Helius and Jito in parallel
- 7 regional endpoints for global coverage
- 50 TPS (default)

[Learn more](https://www.helius.dev/docs/sending-transactions/sender)

### Dedicated nodes

*For custom requirements & advanced teams*

**Starting from $2,900/mon**

- Stream real-time data using gRPC
- Simulate Jito bundles
- Colocate for a trading edge

[Learn more](https://www.helius.dev/docs/dedicated-nodes/getting-started)

## Outperform the Market

Get high-performance, SOC 2-compliant infra. For traders, we recommend LaserStream for gRPC data streams, Sender for the best landing rates, and Shred Delivery for raw shreds.

## Transparent. Flexible. Risk-free.

- **Try before you commit**: Test-drive our developer platform for free. When your project demands more, our paid plans scale with you. No commitment until you're ready.
- **Protection from overages**: Control costs with precision. Set your auto-scaling limits, track real-time usage, and let smart alerts prevent overages. Our dashboard puts you in control.
- **Pay how you want**: Pay with crypto or credit cards. Subscribe monthly or get 2 months free with annual plans. Get volume discounts on Enterprise plans. Switch plans or cancel at anytime.

## Detailed Plan Comparison

### Free

- **Price**: $0/month
- **Credits**: 1M/month
- **Additional credits**: -/million
- **RPC requests**: 10/sec
- **Additional RPC RPS**: -
- **DAS requests**: 2/sec
- **sendTransaction**: 1/sec
- **sendBundle**: Not available
- **getProgramAccounts**: 5/sec
- **Staked Connections**: No
- **Webhooks**: Yes
- **LaserStream WSS (standard methods)**: Yes
- **LaserStream WSS (transactionSubscribe)**: No
- **LaserStream gRPC**: Devnet
- **LaserStream Data Add-ons**: No
- **Raw Shreds price per month / IP**: $1,000
- **Archival Data**: Yes
- **Support SLA**: -
- **Chat Support**: No
- **Dedicated Slack + Telegram**: No

### Developer

- **Price**: $24.50/month
- **Credits**: 10M/month
- **Additional credits**: $5/million
- **RPC requests**: 50/sec
- **Additional RPC RPS**: -
- **DAS requests**: 10/sec
- **sendTransaction**: 5/sec
- **sendBundle**: Not available
- **getProgramAccounts**: 25/sec
- **Staked Connections**: Yes
- **Webhooks**: Yes
- **LaserStream WSS (standard methods)**: Yes
- **LaserStream WSS (transactionSubscribe)**: Yes
- **LaserStream gRPC**: Devnet
- **LaserStream Data Add-ons**: No
- **Raw Shreds price per month / IP**: $1,000
- **Archival Data**: Yes
- **Support SLA**: 24 hours
- **Chat Support**: Yes
- **Dedicated Slack + Telegram**: No

### Business

- **Price**: $499/month
- **Credits**: 100M/month
- **Additional credits**: $5/million
- **RPC requests**: 200/sec
- **Additional RPC RPS**: -
- **DAS requests**: 50/sec
- **sendTransaction**: 50/sec
- **sendBundle**: 5/sec
- **getProgramAccounts**: 50/sec
- **Staked Connections**: Yes
- **Webhooks**: Yes
- **LaserStream WSS (standard methods)**: Yes
- **LaserStream WSS (transactionSubscribe)**: Yes
- **LaserStream gRPC**: Yes
- **LaserStream Data Add-ons**: No
- **Raw Shreds price per month / IP**: $1,000
- **Archival Data**: Yes
- **Support SLA**: 12 hours
- **Chat Support**: Yes
- **Dedicated Slack + Telegram**: No

### Professional

- **Price**: $999/month
- **Credits**: 200M/month
- **Additional credits**: $5/million
- **RPC requests**: 500/sec
- **Additional RPC RPS**: $100
- **DAS requests**: 100/sec
- **sendTransaction**: 100/sec
- **sendBundle**: 5/sec
- **getProgramAccounts**: 75/sec
- **Staked Connections**: Yes
- **Webhooks**: Yes
- **LaserStream WSS (standard methods)**: Yes
- **LaserStream WSS (transactionSubscribe)**: Yes
- **LaserStream gRPC**: Yes
- **LaserStream Data Add-ons**: Starting at $400/month
- **Raw Shreds price per month / IP**: $800
- **Archival Data**: Yes
- **Support SLA**: 8 hours
- **Chat Support**: Yes
- **Dedicated Slack + Telegram**: Yes

### Enterprise

- **Price**: Custom/month
- **Credits**: 1B+/month
- **Additional credits**: Custom/million
- **RPC requests**: Custom/sec
- **Additional RPC RPS**: Custom
- **DAS requests**: Custom/sec
- **sendTransaction**: Custom/sec
- **sendBundle**: 5/sec
- **getProgramAccounts**: Custom/sec
- **Staked Connections**: Yes
- **Webhooks**: Yes
- **LaserStream WSS (standard methods)**: Yes
- **LaserStream WSS (transactionSubscribe)**: Yes
- **LaserStream gRPC**: Custom
- **LaserStream Data Add-ons**: Custom
- **Raw Shreds price per month / IP**: Custom
- **Archival Data**: Yes
- **Support SLA**: 4 hours
- **Chat Support**: Yes
- **Dedicated Slack + Telegram**: Yes

## Helius vs. other RPC providers

### Helius

- **Dedicated RPC Nodes**: Yes
- **Solana Domain Expertise**: Yes
- **Indexing Support for All Tokens**: Yes
- **Transaction Parsing API**: Yes
- **Webhook Support**: Yes
- **Wallet Signup & Crypto Subscriptions**: Yes
- **RPC Rate Limit**: 500 RPS
- **Uptime**: 99.99%
- **Support SLA**: 8 hours

### QuickNode

- **Dedicated RPC Nodes**: No
- **Solana Domain Expertise**: No
- **Indexing Support for All Tokens**: No
- **Transaction Parsing API**: No
- **Webhook Support**: No
- **Wallet Signup & Crypto Subscriptions**: No
- **RPC Rate Limit**: 500 RPS
- **Uptime**: 99.84%
- **Support SLA**: 8 hours

### Alchemy

- **Dedicated RPC Nodes**: No
- **Solana Domain Expertise**: No
- **Indexing Support for All Tokens**: No
- **Transaction Parsing API**: No
- **Webhook Support**: No
- **Wallet Signup & Crypto Subscriptions**: No
- **RPC Rate Limit**: 120 RPS
- **Uptime**: 99.85%
- **Support SLA**: 12 hours

## Trusted by Solana's best teams

> "Helius is super fast, reliable, and I'd recommend them to anyone looking for the best developer experience on Solana. They power a great portion of our infrastructure at Backpack."

— **Armani Ferrante**, CO-FOUNDER & CEO, BACKPACK

> "The Helius team makes building on Solana smoother and easier. They've done an amazing job at streamlining and removing complexity from app development on the network."

— **Anatoly Yakovenko**, CO-FOUNDER & CEO, SOLANA

> "The Helius team's deep technical expertise in Solana and node management was absolutely critical during one of our most challenging and busiest days. Thanks to their support, we handled extreme congestion and enabled our users to complete more than 10 million transactions in just one day."

— **Jorge Valdeiglesias**, STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER, PHANTOM

> "The Helius team is the GOAT. They ship fast, intake product feedback overnight, and power a great deal of Crossmint infrastructure. A big percentage of Crossmint products couldn't exist without Helius."

— **Alfonso Gomez Manas**, CO-FOUNDER, CROSSMINT

> "Having personally built our own in-house indexing and data pipelines at Zeta, I know how much of a headache it is for new teams. Being able to save countless hours of data engineering work and costly AWS bills is a big advantage for us."

— **Tristan Frizza**, FOUNDER & CEO, ZETA MARKETS

> "Helius has been instrumental in kickstarting our Pythnet operations. Their seamless infrastructure management ensures everything runs smoothly, allowing us to focus on building and scaling our trading operations without worrying about the details of running Solana nodes."

— **Jeremy De Groodt**, CO-FOUNDER & CTO, KEYROCK

> "At Chainalysis, we believe that infrastructure providers — like our partners at Helius — play a critical role in helping developers build more transparent and secure applications on blockchain networks. As Solana activity continues to grow, Helius stands out as one of the leading Solana infrastructure providers, enabling our team to access reliable data that meets the demands of an enterprise-grade platform."

— **Jonathan Levin**, CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, CHAINALYSIS

> "We tried every strategy to land transactions on Solana, but nothing was working. The moment we switched our RPCs to Helius and started sending transactions through staked connections, all of our problems disappeared. Now we can confidently scale our business on Solana without worrying about our customer's transactions getting dropped."

— **Cody Lambert**, SOFTWARE ENGINEER, BRALE

> "When it comes to SOL staking, Helius is truly differentiated. Helius is the industry leader when it comes to running secure, reliable, and performant validators. Since launching in 2022, they have championed Solana's success, built world-class infrastructure, and stewarded the network to become what it is today - the foundation on which the new financial system will be built."

— **Cosmo Jiang**, GENERAL PARTNER AT PANTERA CAPITAL AND BOARD OBSERVER AT HSDT

> "We're thrilled to partner with Helius in building our own Solana validator for the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF. Not only is Helius the standard bearer for Solana validators when it comes to areas like performance, reliability, and security, but their native understanding of Solana and its ecosystem is unmatched. They've helped us build the perfect high performance validator—one that meets our stringent needs around security and reporting as an ETF issuer."

— **Hong Kim**, CTO, BITWISE ASSET MANAGEMENT

> "The number one thing we care about is safety for users. To give traders the best price and tightest spreads, we depend on LaserStream to feed our price engine with the freshest, fastest onchain data."

— **Nitesh Nath**, CEO, DFLOW


## Frequently Asked Questions

### What are credits?

[Credits](https://www.helius.dev/docs/billing/credits) vary by usage. RPC calls are 1 credit with two exceptions: getProgramAccounts and archival calls are 10 credits. DAS calls are 10 credits. Webhook pushes are 1 credit. Priority Fee API calls are 1 credit. Finally, Enhanced Transactions API and Mint API calls are 100 credits.

### What are data add-ons?

Data add-ons for LaserStream and Enhanced WebSockets give you access to flexible, scalable data streaming bandwidth at a predictable, fixed monthly rate. [Add-on plans](https://www.helius.dev/docs/billing/plans#data-add-ons) are available on the Professional tier only, and are priced as follows: 5TB ($500/mon), 10TB ($900/mon), 25TB ($2,000/mon), 50TB ($2,500/mon), and 100TB ($4,500/mon). For larger data add-ons and volume-based pricing, please [contact sales](https://form.typeform.com/to/KiacmxpZ).

### What plan is right for me?

Developer gives you the core functionality to get started - great for small projects. Business offers more usage and throughput - perfect for mid-size projects. Professional supports even more usage and throughput - ideal for teams operating at scale.

### How do I upgrade/downgrade my plan?

Login to the [dashboard](https://dashboard.helius.dev/dashboard), click on the link to Manage My Subscription, and select your desired option.

### What is your cancellation policy?

Plans are billed month-to-month, meaning you can cancel at any time. Cancellations will become effective the following month, and your service will continue until the end of your current month.

### I have more questions, who can I ask?

For [more FAQs](https://www.helius.dev/docs/faqs), visit the support section in our docs.For technical support questions please join our [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/6GXdee3gBj) server, [Telegram](https://t.me/helius_help) group, or if you have a paid plan, use the chat feature in the [dashboard](https://dev.helius.xyz/dashboard/app).‍For sales and pricing questions, email [sales@helius.xyz.](mailto:sales@helius.xyz)


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