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Alchemy

Alchemy is a multi-chain infrastructure provider with a Solana RPC offering and a free tier for development.

Endpoint URL format

https://solana-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/<API_KEY>

Setup

  1. Create an account at alchemy.com.
  2. Create a new Solana Mainnet app.
  3. Copy the HTTPS endpoint URL.
  4. Add to your config:
[[providers]]
name = "alchemy"
url  = "https://solana-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/${ALCHEMY_API_KEY}"

export ALCHEMY_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
rpc-plane run

Pricing model

Alchemy uses a compute unit model similar to QuickNode. A free tier is available for development and testing.

Check alchemy.com/pricing for current plans and compute unit rates.

Tips

  • The free tier is useful for development and CI environments.
  • For production, pair Alchemy as a failover provider alongside Helius or QuickNode as primary.
  • Use failover_ordered if you want Alchemy to only handle traffic when primary providers are unavailable.