Last updated: August 2026
Compare · Solana Data APIs
9 Solana data APIs on every axis that matters to a trading system — free tiers, entry pricing, OHLCV candles, per-trade tape, wallet PnL, pump.fun bonding-phase coverage, streaming, and keyless per-call payments. Including our own API, in the same table, held to the same standard.
Pricing pulled from each provider's public plans · capability flags verified against current docs · MadeOnSol appears as a row, clearly marked
The lineup
What's in this comparison.
Free + paid
Specialist providers
Server-computed
Pre-graduation pump.fun
The table
Sort by market-data depth or entry price. A cross means the capability is not documented by that provider — the footnote explains the fine print.
The memecoin-intel specialist: KOL trade feed, deployer track records, sniper detection, bonding-curve coverage. Flat calls/day pricing — no compute-unit math.
Streaming: WS Pro+ · DEX firehose Ultra
Broadest multi-chain market-data catalogue — OHLCV, trades, wallet PnL, holders, first buyers. Compute-unit metered; WebSocket needs the $199 tier.
Streaming: WebSocket from Premium ($199)
Closest feature overlap: OHLCV, trades, PnL, trader leaderboards, first buyers, sniper-detection guides. WebSocket access starts at the €397 tier.
Streaming: Datastream from Premium (€397)
EVM-first multi-chain suite with real Solana coverage: pump.fun new/bonding/graduated endpoints, OHLC by pair, swaps. Wallet PnL is EVM-only — not on Solana.
Streaming: Streams API
GraphQL over 40+ chains with deep historical archives. Powerful but query-priced (API points) and SQL-like — a research tool more than a drop-in REST API.
Streaming: WS/Kafka from Pro ($79)
Best-in-class Solana RPC/infra: DAS, parsed transactions, webhooks, LaserStream. It's the raw-chain layer, not a market-data API — no OHLCV, price feeds or PnL.
Streaming: LaserStream · gRPC from $499
Unmetered RPC/gRPC streaming infra with parsed transaction APIs. Like Helius, it's plumbing for builders who compute their own market data.
Streaming: gRPC + RabbitStream from $199
The swap-execution API. Price API (50 tokens/request) and token metadata are solid and cheap, but there's no candle history, trade tape or wallet analytics.
Free keyless pair/token lookups across chains — great for spot checks. The API exposes no candles, no per-trade data, no websocket, and no history.
What the columns mean
Candlestick history (open/high/low/close/volume) per token or pair — the input for charts and backtests.
Individual trades per token (wallet, side, size, price, slot) rather than aggregated stats. Needed for flow analysis, sniper forensics and copy-trading.
Server-computed profit & loss per wallet — realized/unrealized, win rate, per-position breakdown — without replaying raw transactions yourself.
Coverage of launchpad tokens (pump.fun and friends) BEFORE they graduate to a DEX. APIs that only index DEX pairs miss a memecoin's entire first phase.
Curated tracked-trader (KOL) trade feeds and deployer track records (prior launches, bond rate, rug history) as first-class API objects.
Push delivery — WebSocket, gRPC or webhooks — instead of polling REST. The note shows the cheapest tier that unlocks it.
Keyless pay-per-call over the x402 protocol: an AI agent pays per request in stablecoins, no signup or API key. See madeonsol.com/x402.
How it works
The nine providers are not nine versions of one product — they sit at four different layers of the stack. Knowing which layer you need eliminates most of the table at a glance.
Pre-computed answers: candles, per-trade tapes, wallet PnL, holder breakdowns, trader intel. You pay for the indexing pipeline someone else runs, and query results instead of replaying the chain. Differences live in coverage (bonding-phase, KOL/deployer intel) and pricing model (flat calls vs compute units).
RPC nodes, DAS, parsed transactions, gRPC firehoses of raw chain events. Maximum flexibility, zero pre-computation: a candle or a PnL number is yours to build and maintain. The right layer when your edge IS the custom indexing — and overkill when it isn't.
GraphQL over deep multi-chain archives — ask arbitrary questions ('all Raydium trades for this wallet in March') without running an indexer. Priced per query complexity (API points), which suits research and backfills better than hot paths polled every second.
Keyless or near-free spot lookups: current price, pair stats, token metadata. Perfect for UI hints and sanity checks. The limits are structural, not just rate caps — no history, no per-trade data, no push delivery — so trading systems outgrow them quickly.
Guide
Six questions that decide the choice faster than any feature list.
Coverage
Most pump.fun tokens never graduate to a DEX. If your strategy touches launches, an API that only indexes DEX pairs (DexScreener, Jupiter) is blind to the phase where snipers, bundlers and deployers act.
Pricing model
CU/credit systems (Birdeye, Moralis, Helius, Jupiter) price each endpoint differently — a heavy call can cost 100× a light one, which makes bills hard to predict. Flat calls/day (MadeOnSol) or requests/month (SolanaTracker) are predictable but cap bursts.
Intelligence
Wallet PnL, KOL feeds, deployer track records and sniper detection are conclusions computed over months of trade history. If the API doesn't ship them, budget the indexing work — it's usually the expensive part.
Streaming
Alert and copy-trade systems die by polling latency. Check which tier actually unlocks WebSocket/gRPC delivery: $199 on Birdeye, €397 on SolanaTracker, €131 on MadeOnSol, $79 metered on Bitquery.
Chain scope
Multi-chain providers (Birdeye, Moralis, Bitquery) win when you span ecosystems. Solana-native ones tend to go deeper on Solana-specific mechanics — bonding curves, launchpads, program-level decoding.
Agent access
AI agents can't click through signup flows. x402 lets an agent pay per request in stablecoins with no account — if your consumers are agents, that's a structural difference, not a feature checkbox.
Recommendations
Yes, we sell one of these — so judge the reasoning, not the vendor. Where a competitor is the better fit, it says so.
Memecoin bots, dashboards & alerts
The two APIs that combine bonding-phase coverage, trade tape, PnL and trader intel. MadeOnSol adds curated KOL feeds, deployer track records and cheaper streaming (€131 vs €397 for WebSocket); SolanaTracker counters with bigger raw request quotas at the mid tiers.
Multi-chain portfolio & wallet apps
Both cover many chains from one integration. Birdeye brings the deeper market-data catalogue including wallet PnL; Moralis brings the cleaner developer platform, Streams, and dedicated pump.fun endpoints — but its Solana coverage skips wallet PnL.
Custom indexing from raw chain data
When your edge is proprietary decoding, buy the firehose, not the conclusions. Helius has the richer parsed-data layer (DAS, Enhanced Transactions, webhooks); Shyft undercuts on unmetered gRPC streaming at $199 flat.
FAQ
Want the per-provider deep dive? We wrote four: Birdeye alternative, DexScreener alternative, Moralis alternative and Helius for market data — each with an endpoint-by-endpoint migration map and an honest "when they win" section.
Choosing your transaction path instead? That's a different decision — see the Solana RPC provider comparison. Want the full picture of what our own API ships? The Solana API overview and endpoint docs cover all 120+ endpoints.
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