Helius vs Supanode

Overview

Helius Helius is the premier developer platform for Solana, providing enterprise-grade RPC infrastructure, webhooks, enhanced APIs, and developer tools that power many of the ecosystem's most popular applica... Supanode Supanode is a Solana infrastructure provider built around a low-latency Frankfurt edge, packaging RPC, real-time streaming, transaction landing, and historical data into one stack instead of forcing t...

Community Ratings

Supanode is rated higher by the MadeOnSol community with 5.0/5 stars across 1 review, compared to 4.5/5 for Helius (2 reviews). That said, ratings only tell part of the story — what matters most is which tool fits your specific workflow.

Pricing & Value

Helius uses a freemium model — Free tier: 10 RPS, 1M credits. Developer: $49/mo. Business: $499/mo. Enterprise: custom pricing., while Supanode is paid.

Key Features

Helius offers 8 features including Enterprise-grade RPC nodes with optimized routing and low latency, Enhanced transaction API parsing raw data into human-readable formats, Digital Asset API (DAS) for comprehensive NFT and token metadata, and 5 more. Supanode counters with 7 features including Yellowstone gRPC streaming (accounts, transactions, slots, blocks) at ~3.8ms p99 from Frankfurt with server-side filtering, ShredStream: raw block shreds over UDP at ~0.4ms p99 delivery, TPU Sender: stake-weighted transaction submission direct to slot leaders, bypassing the public mempool under congestion, and 4 more. The right choice depends on which specific features matter for your use case — check the individual review pages for full breakdowns.

Reliability & Health

We monitor both tools around the clock for uptime, SSL validity, and response times. Helius currently has a healthy health status with 100.0% uptime over the last 30 days. Supanode is rated healthy with 92.5% uptime. For any tool you trust with your funds, trades, or yield, uptime and speed are non-negotiable.

Strengths

Helius's key strengths include most feature-rich solana developer platform beyond basic rpc, enhanced apis dramatically reduce development time for common tasks, webhook system eliminates the need for custom blockchain indexing.