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Helius alternatives for Solana RPC, gRPC and DAS

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Stay on Helius if…

  • You need a permanent free plan: Free plan: $0, 1M credits a month, 10 RPC requests/s, 1 sendTransaction/s, 2 DAS requests/s. Triport's Free plan is a 7-day trial.[2]
  • You build on Helius-specific APIs such as LaserStream: they have no one-to-one Triport equivalent. Standard Solana JSON-RPC, DAS and Yellowstone gRPC calls do.[5]
  • You pay per call at low volume: $5.00 per 1M Solana getAccountInfo requests is the lowest metered price for it among the providers here.[1][2]

Leave Helius if…

  • You run 200 rps or more steadily on Solana: 518.4M requests a month cost $2,591/mo (Business) on Helius, against $249/mo flat on Triport Pro.[2][3]
  • Your traffic is heavy on getProgramAccounts: Helius charges 10 credits per call, $50.00 per 1M, 10× a standard call. Triport weights no method; each capability has its own RPS limit.[1][2][3]
  • You want Yellowstone gRPC streams inside a flat plan: 8 are included in Triport Pro ($249/mo). Helius' terms: LaserStream mainnet: Business $499/month includes 10 concurrent gRPC connections; Professional $999 includes 100.[3][5]
  • You need a bill that does not move with traffic: Triport plans have no credits, request allowance or overage; the only limit is requests per second.[3]

Alternatives compared

Triport publishes this comparison and is one of the providers in it. Our row is marked "ours". Helius (current) comes first; the alternatives follow by the price of their cheapest paid plan, and every competitor cell links to the provider's own page with the date we read it.

2× burst buffer, included. Finite request-rate limits show sustained RPS and short burst capacity. A full buffer at 20 RPS can absorb up to 40 requests at once and refills at 20 requests per second. There is no quota on the number of bursts and no extra charge for them. Size ongoing traffic to sustained RPS. Categories with no per-category cap have no numeric burst ceiling. How burst capacity works.

Helius and its alternatives for 200 rps of Solana traffic
ProviderPricing modelPlan near $499/moSolana RPS on itIncluded volumeCost of 200 rps on Solana all monthChains (provider-wide)Streaming / gRPC
Helius (current)Credits[1]
Credits: 1 per standard RPC call; getProgramAccounts and each DAS call 10; LaserStream 2 credits per 0.1 MB.		$499/mo (Business)[2]200 rps[2]100M credits[2]$2,591/mo (Business)[2]
518.4M requests × 1 credit = 518.4M; $499 + (518.4M − 100M) credits × $5 per 1M		Solana only[6]LaserStream mainnet: Business $499/month includes 10 concurrent gRPC connections; Professional $999 includes 100.[5]
Triport (ours)Flat monthly price: no credits, compute units, request allowance or overage[3]$499/mo (Business)[3]600 RPS sustained · up to 1,200 burst[3]No request allowance: the rate limit is the only limit[3]$249/mo (Pro)[3]
Flat price; Pro allows 200 rps		9 mainnets[3]Yellowstone gRPC included: 8 streams on Pro, 20 on Business[3]
ChainstackRequest units (RU)[4]
Request units (RU): 1 RU per full-node request, 2 RU per archive-node request, the same on every chain.		$499/mo (Business)[4]600 rps[4]200M request units[4]$1,582/mo (Enterprise)[4]
518.4M requests × 1 request unit = 518.4M; $990 + (518.4M − 400M) request units × $5 per 1M		70+ blockchain protocols[7]Yellowstone gRPC add-on: 2, 7 or 25 streams for $49, $149 or $449/month, plus an eligible Global Nodes plan.[8]
QuickNodeCredits[9]
API credits: a standard Ethereum/EVM call is 20 credits, a Solana call 30; trace/debug 2x, trace_replay 4x.		$499/mo (Scale)[10]250 rps[10]950M API credits[10]$7,275/mo (Business+ Tier 3)[10]
518.4M requests × 30 API credits = 15,552M; $2,999 + (15,552M − 7,000M) API credits × $0.5 per 1M		79 blockchains across 137 networks[11]Scale $499/month includes 10 gRPC streams; Business $999 includes 25. Traffic consumes credits.[12]
InfuraCredits[13]
Credits against a daily quota: a basic Ethereum call is 80 credits, every Solana request 160.		$225/mo (Team)[14]250 rps[14]2,250M credits[14]Not computable[13]
no published per-call price or plan covers 200 rps on Solana		40+ supported networks[13]"Streaming Access" is ticked on every plan, Core included; no streaming price or limit is published.[14]
AlchemyCompute units (CU)[15]
Compute units (CU) at $0.525 per 1M on Pay As You Go; Alchemy's average estimate is 27 CU per request, and method weights vary.		Pay As You Go: usage-priced, no subscription[15]300 rps[15]Usage-priced[15]$7,348/mo (Pay As You Go)[15]
518.4M requests × 27 compute units = 13,996.8M; 13,996.8M compute units × $0.525 per 1M (Alchemy's own average estimate of 27 compute units per request; real method weights vary.)		All mainnets and testnets on its chain list (no total stated)[16]Solana gRPC costs $75/TB prorated by bytes; concurrent-stream allowance is not published.[17]
AnkrCredits[18]
API credits at $0.10 per 1M: an EVM HTTPS request is 200 credits ($0.00002), a Solana request 500 ($0.00005).		Pay-as-you-go: usage-priced, no subscription[18]4,000 rps[18]Usage-priced[18]$25,920/mo (Pay-as-you-go)[18]
518.4M requests × 500 API credits = 259,200M; 259,200M API credits × $0.1 per 1M		70+ networks[19]Premium gRPC: $0.000001 per method call plus $0.5/GB of data transferred in both directions.[20]
Triton OnePrepaid, per call[21]
Prepaid pay-as-you-go: $10 per 1M standard calls plus $0.08/GB, DAS $50 per 1M; $125 minimum deposit, valid 12 months.		No subscription: prepaid per call[21]Not published[21]Usage-priced[21]$5,184/mo (pay as you go)[21]
518.4M calls × $10 per 1M		Solana, Sui and Monad[21]Streaming is pay as you go at $0.08/GB, with a $125 minimum prepaid deposit; concurrent connection counts are not published.[22]

Each column runs one plan's rate limit for a whole 30-day month (2,592,000 seconds). That is the worst case for metered plans and the best case for flat ones. Figures use standard read calls, monthly list prices and each provider's own published per-call weight, and exclude bandwidth, add-ons and taxes. A provider with no published per-call price for this network is shown as not computable.

Same price, listed request rate

Same monthly price: listed Solana request rate
PricePlanSolana RPS
$249/moTriport Pro200 RPS sustained · up to 400 burst[3]
$249/moQuickNode Accelerate125 rps[10]
API credits still apply
$499/moTriport Business600 RPS sustained · up to 1,200 burst[3]
$499/moHelius Business200 rps[2]
credits still apply
$499/moChainstack Business600 rps[4]
request units still apply
$499/moQuickNode Scale250 rps[10]
API credits still apply

Where Triport is ahead

  • No credits, compute units or request allowance, and no overage: every Triport plan is a flat monthly price, limited only by requests per second per capability (Solana reads: Basic 60 RPS sustained · up to 120 burst, Pro 200 RPS sustained · up to 400 burst, Business 600 RPS sustained · up to 1,200 burst).
  • Triport Basic at $20/mo is the lowest fixed monthly subscription in this table; the next is $49/mo (Helius Developer, Chainstack Growth and QuickNode Build). Its Solana limit is 60 RPS sustained · up to 120 burst.
  • At 60 rps sustained on Solana (155.52M requests a month), Triport Basic costs $20/mo; the cheapest computable alternative in this table is $499/mo (Chainstack Business).
  • At 200 rps sustained on Solana (518.4M requests a month), Triport Pro costs $249/mo; the cheapest computable alternative in this table is $1,582/mo (Chainstack Enterprise).
  • At 600 rps sustained on Solana (1,555.2M requests a month), Triport Business costs $499/mo; the cheapest computable alternative in this table is $6,766/mo (Chainstack Enterprise).
  • At $249/mo, Triport Pro allows 200 RPS sustained · up to 400 burst on Solana; QuickNode Accelerate lists 125 rps.
  • At $499/mo, Triport Business allows 600 RPS sustained · up to 1,200 burst on Solana; Helius Business lists 200 rps and QuickNode Scale lists 250 rps.
  • Solana DAS API on the same flat plans: 4 methods on Basic, all methods from Pro, with no per-call weight.
  • 8 Yellowstone gRPC streams are included in the $249 Pro plan. Among providers here that price gRPC by stream count, the lowest listed price for 8 streams is $498/mo: Chainstack Growth ($49) plus its 25-stream add-on ($449). Bandwidth-billed gRPC (Alchemy, Triton, Ankr) is not compared.

When another provider fits better

  • No permanent free plan: Triport's Free plan is a 7-day trial. If your traffic fits a free plan, Helius (Free plan: $0, 1M credits a month, 10 RPC requests/s, 1 sendTransaction/s, 2 DAS requests/s), Chainstack (Developer plan: $0, 3M request units a month, 25 requests/s, no archive access), Ankr (Freemium: $0, 200M API credits a month, about 1,800 requests/min, HTTPS only. Public endpoints need no key), Alchemy (Free plan: 30M compute units a month, 300 CU/s (15 requests/s by Alchemy's own conversion), hard cap) and Infura (Core: free; the plan table says 3M credits a day at 500 credits/s, the FAQ on the same page 6M a day at 2,000 credits/s) cost less.
  • More listed requests per second per dollar: Chainstack Growth lists 250 rps at $49/mo (request units still apply), against Triport Basic at 60 RPS sustained · up to 120 burst for $20.
  • Same or lower price, same or higher listed limit than Triport Pro ($249/mo, 200 RPS sustained · up to 400 burst on Solana): Chainstack Growth lists 250 rps at $49/mo (request units still apply) and Infura Team lists 250 rps at $225/mo (credits still apply).
  • Same or lower price, same or higher listed limit than Triport Business ($499/mo, 600 RPS sustained · up to 1,200 burst on Solana): Chainstack Business lists 600 rps at $499/mo (request units still apply).
  • Higher published rate limits: Ankr Pay-as-you-go 4,000 rps. Triport's highest published limit below Enterprise on Solana is 600 RPS sustained · up to 1,200 burst (Business).
  • Fewer networks: Triport serves 9 mainnets and no testnets or devnets (Chainstack: 70+ blockchain protocols; Ankr: 70+ networks; QuickNode: 79 blockchains across 137 networks; Alchemy: All mainnets and testnets on its chain list (no total stated); Infura: 40+ supported networks).
  • Up to 7 Yellowstone streams cost less on Chainstack: Growth ($49) plus its 7-stream add-on ($149) is $198/mo.
  • Regions: EU and US only (custom PoPs on Enterprise), and Enterprise needs a 365-day term.

71 documented JSON-RPC methods for Solana in the Triport docs (count as of 2026-10-13). See the method index.

How we picked

  • Included: every provider in our comparison dataset whose own pricing and chain pages we read on 2026-10-13 and that lists Solana (7 of 7). A provider missing here was not re-read this month, or does not list Solana.
  • Each competitor cell links to the page it came from, with the date we read it. Our build fails when a fact is more than 45 days old, so the table is re-read monthly.
  • Prices are monthly list prices. Per-call costs use each provider's own published weight for a standard read call; where only an average is published, we say so next to the figure.
  • Triport's numbers come from its tier matrix, the same file its rate limiter enforces. Only capabilities marked available in the network registry count as sold.
  • We compare published prices, limits and features only. There are no speed rankings on this page.

FAQ

What is the cheapest alternative to Helius for 200 rps on Solana?
Run all month, 200 rps is 518.4M requests. On Helius that is $2,591/mo (Business) from its published prices. Triport Pro is a flat $249/mo at that rate, with no credits or overage. The table shows every provider's figure with its arithmetic and source.
Does Helius have a free tier?
Free plan: $0, 1M credits a month, 10 RPC requests/s, 1 sendTransaction/s, 2 DAS requests/s. Triport's Free plan is a 7-day trial.
How does Helius bill usage?
Credits: 1 per standard RPC call; getProgramAccounts and each DAS call 10; LaserStream 2 credits per 0.1 MB. Triport plans are flat monthly prices limited only by requests per second.
What do I give up by leaving Helius?
A permanent free plan (Free plan: $0, 1M credits a month, 10 RPC requests/s, 1 sendTransaction/s, 2 DAS requests/s). Triport's Free plan is a 7-day trial.

Sources

  1. Helius per-method prices (https://www.helius.dev/docs/billing/credits), read
  2. Helius pricing (https://www.helius.dev/pricing), read
  3. Triport pricing (tier matrix) — Triport's own published limits
  4. Chainstack pricing (https://chainstack.com/pricing/), read
  5. Helius streaming (https://www.helius.dev/docs/faqs/laserstream), read
  6. Helius chain list (https://www.helius.dev/), read
  7. Chainstack chain list (https://chainstack.com/protocols/), read
  8. Chainstack streaming (https://chainstack.com/yellowstone-grpc-geyser-plugin/), read
  9. QuickNode billing (https://www.quicknode.com/api-credits), read
  10. QuickNode pricing (https://www.quicknode.com/pricing), read
  11. QuickNode chain list (https://www.quicknode.com/chains), read
  12. QuickNode streaming (https://www.quicknode.com/blog/solana-grpc-is-now-included-with-scale-and-business-plans), read
  13. Infura billing (https://docs.infura.io/get-started/pricing/credit-cost/), read
  14. Infura pricing (https://www.infura.io/pricing), read
  15. Alchemy billing (https://www.alchemy.com/pricing), read
  16. Alchemy chain list (https://www.alchemy.com/docs/reference/node-supported-chains), read
  17. Alchemy streaming (https://www.alchemy.com/solana-grpc), read
  18. Ankr billing (https://www.ankr.com/docs/rpc-service/service-plans/), read
  19. Ankr chain list (https://www.ankr.com/rpc/), read
  20. Ankr streaming (https://www.ankr.com/docs/rpc-service/service-plans/), read
  21. Triton One billing (https://triton.one/pricing), read
  22. Triton One streaming (https://triton.one/pricing), read