Last verified: August 2026
API alternative · Helius
Helius is the strongest Solana RPC and infrastructure provider — and it is deliberately not a market-data API: no candles, no price feeds, no wallet PnL, no trader intelligence. Teams either build that layer themselves on Helius' raw firehose, or buy it. MadeOnSol is the buy option: the pre-computed market/intel layer that runs next to your Helius RPC, not instead of it.
Helius facts read from their public pricing/docs pages · verified August 2026 · also listed in our tool directory
Fair is fair
If any of these describe you, stay — this page isn't for you, and pretending otherwise would cost us your trust.
Sending transactions, staked connections, priority fees, RPC reads of custom program state — that's Helius' home turf and MadeOnSol doesn't compete there at all. This page assumes you keep it.
If your strategy depends on proprietary interpretation of raw chain events, LaserStream/gRPC plus your own indexer is the right architecture. A pre-computed API would flatten exactly the edge you're building.
The DAS API for assets and compressed NFTs has no MadeOnSol equivalent — we don't do NFT data.
Where we differ
The four differences that actually move a build decision.
Candles, per-token trade tapes, wallet PnL, holder/buyer quality — computing these from Enhanced Transactions means months of pipeline work plus permanent maintenance. Here they're endpoints: /tokens/{mint}/candles, /tokens/{mint}/trades, /wallet/{address}/pnl.
Helius prices Enhanced Transactions at 100 credits per call — a 10M-credit Developer plan ($49) is ~100k parsed-tx calls. MadeOnSol's Pro (€43) gives 10,000 flat calls/day (~300k/month) with the parsing, pricing and PnL math already done.
Parsed swaps tell you what happened. KOL identity, deployer track records, sniper/bundler forensics and coordination alerts tell you who did it and whether it matters — a layer raw infra can't ship by design.
LaserStream gRPC (from the $499 Business tier) streams raw chain events you must decode. MadeOnSol's Ultra (€131) streams decoded, product-level events: DEX trades, KOL buys, sniper deploys, price-alert triggers — webhook or WebSocket.
Side by side
Cells render from the same sourced dataset as the full 9-API comparison, so the two pages can't drift apart.
| Helius | MadeOnSol | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 1M credits/mo10 rps (Free) | 200 calls/day60/min · 120+ endpoints, full response shape |
| Entry paid plan | $49/mo10M credits/mo · 50 rps (Developer) | €43/mo10,000 calls/day · 120/min (Pro) |
| OHLCV candles | ||
| Per-trade tape | ||
| Wallet PnL | ||
| Pump.fun bonding phase | ||
| KOL + deployer intel | ||
| Streaming | LaserStream · gRPC from $499 | WS Pro+ · DEX firehose Ultra |
| x402 keyless per-call |
Migration map
This is a complement map, not a replacement map: the left column is what teams commonly build on Helius primitives, the right column is the endpoint that makes the build unnecessary. Keep Helius for RPC and transaction sending either way.
| Helius | MadeOnSol (/api/v1) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Transactions (parse swaps per wallet) | /wallet/{address}/trades | Cursor-paginated trade history, already decoded and priced — no per-call 100-credit parsing cost. |
| Enhanced Transactions + your aggregation → candles | /tokens/{mint}/candles | 1-minute OHLCV maintained server-side; no dedup/reorg handling on your side. |
| Webhooks on program IDs → launch detection | /sniper/recent · /deployer-hunter/alerts | Deshred-speed pump.fun deploy detection with deployer enrichment — earlier than webhook delivery and pre-classified. |
| getTokenAccountsByOwner + price joins | /wallet/{address}/holdings | Balances enriched with prices, MC and transfer_delta in one call. |
| Your FIFO accounting job | /wallet/{address}/pnl | Realized/unrealized, win rate, drawdown, equity curve — the whole cost-basis pipeline as an endpoint. |
| LaserStream gRPC + custom decoder | /ws/v1 DEX firehose | Decoded trade stream at €131 vs raw stream at $499 + your decoding infra. Different layers — pick per use. |
Full endpoint reference: API docs · machine-readable spec at /api/v1/openapi.json
Try it
Typical stack: Helius for RPC + transaction sending, MadeOnSol for the market/intel read path. The two bills together are usually smaller than the engineering time the indexer costs.
curl -s "https://madeonsol.com/api/v1/tokens/{mint}/candles" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer msk_..."
# → 1-minute OHLCV rows for the mint (open, high, low, close,
# volume), maintained by our own tracker pipeline —
# aggregate to 5m/1h/1d client-side as neededFAQ
Free tier: 200 calls/day across 120+ endpoints, full response shape. Card, USDC or SOL when you upgrade — cancel anytime.