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specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Chainstack
providerId: chainstack
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Blockchain
  - RPC
  - Multi-Chain
  - Infrastructure
description: Reconciled plans and Request Unit (RU) pricing for the Chainstack multi-chain RPC platform. Source-
  chainstack.com/pricing and docs.chainstack.com. 1 RU = 1 full-node API request; 2 RU = 1 archive-node request.
sources:
  - https://chainstack.com/pricing/
  - https://docs.chainstack.com/docs/pricing
  - https://chainstack.com/products/global-nodes/
  - https://chainstack.com/products/unlimited-nodes/
plans:
  - id: chainstack-developer
    name: Developer
    type: free
    description: Free tier for prototyping and personal projects. Community support, WebSockets, crypto payment
      support.
    entries:
      - label: Monthly fee
        name: fee
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Included Request Units
        name: included_ru
        type: included
        metric: request_unit
        limit: 3000000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Overage Request Units
        name: overage_ru
        type: metered
        metric: request_unit
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1000000
        price: '20.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    features:
      - Requests-per-second cap of 25 RPS
      - 1 project
      - Global node access (geo-balanced)
      - WebSocket subscriptions
      - Crypto payment support
      - Community support
  - id: chainstack-growth
    name: Growth
    type: subscription
    description: Entry paid tier; unlocks archive data, debug/trace APIs, trader nodes, and marketplace access.
    entries:
      - label: Monthly fee
        name: fee
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '49.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Annual monthly fee
        name: fee_annual
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '40.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Included Request Units
        name: included_ru
        type: included
        metric: request_unit
        limit: 20000000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Overage Request Units
        name: overage_ru
        type: metered
        metric: request_unit
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1000000
        price: '15.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    features:
      - Requests-per-second cap of 250 RPS
      - 10 projects
      - Archive data access (2 RU per archive request)
      - Debug & Trace APIs
      - Trader Node access (low-latency mempool)
      - Marketplace access
      - Standard support (24x5, <24h response)
  - id: chainstack-pro
    name: Pro
    type: subscription
    description: Production tier with dedicated nodes, RBAC logs, and SSO.
    entries:
      - label: Monthly fee
        name: fee
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '199.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Annual monthly fee
        name: fee_annual
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '166.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Included Request Units
        name: included_ru
        type: included
        metric: request_unit
        limit: 80000000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Overage Request Units
        name: overage_ru
        type: metered
        metric: request_unit
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1000000
        price: '12.50'
        userMultiplied: false
    features:
      - Requests-per-second cap of 400 RPS
      - 15 projects
      - Dedicated Nodes (from $0.50 per compute hour)
      - Multi-user RBAC logs
      - SSO
      - Standard support
  - id: chainstack-business
    name: Business
    type: subscription
    description: Higher-volume tier with role-based access control.
    entries:
      - label: Monthly fee
        name: fee
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '499.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Annual monthly fee
        name: fee_annual
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '416.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Included Request Units
        name: included_ru
        type: included
        metric: request_unit
        limit: 200000000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Overage Request Units
        name: overage_ru
        type: metered
        metric: request_unit
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1000000
        price: '10.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    features:
      - Requests-per-second cap of 600 RPS
      - 20 projects
      - Role-based access control
      - All Pro features
  - id: chainstack-enterprise
    name: Enterprise
    type: contact-sales
    description: Custom-quoted plan for production scale workloads. Includes dedicated gateway, private networking,
      white-label branding, custom SLAs.
    entries:
      - label: Monthly fee (starting)
        name: fee
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '990.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Annual monthly fee (starting)
        name: fee_annual
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '825.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Included Request Units
        name: included_ru
        type: included
        metric: request_unit
        limit: 400000000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Overage Request Units
        name: overage_ru
        type: metered
        metric: request_unit
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1000000
        price: '5.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    features:
      - Unlimited RPS
      - Unlimited projects
      - Dedicated gateway
      - Private networking
      - White-label branding
      - Custom SLAs (>= 99.99 percent uptime)
      - 24/7 priority support
  - id: chainstack-payg
    name: Pay-As-You-Go
    type: usage-based
    description: Custom enterprise PAYG; targets accounts spending more than 1000 USD per month; typically delivers
      50 percent or more savings versus tiers.
    entries:
      - label: Pay-as-you-go Request Units
        name: payg_ru
        type: metered
        metric: request_unit
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1000000
        price: '5.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    features:
      - Custom commitments
      - Volume-based discounts
      - Pay only for what you use
addons:
  - name: Unlimited Node
    description: Flat-fee tier-based RPS commitment with no per-request charges.
    entries:
      - label: 25 RPS
        price: '149.00'
        unit: month
      - label: 100 RPS
        price: '299.00'
        unit: month
      - label: 250 RPS
        price: '599.00'
        unit: month
      - label: 500 RPS
        price: '1199.00'
        unit: month
      - label: 1000 RPS
        price: '3199.00'
        unit: month
  - name: Yellowstone gRPC (Solana)
    description: Real-time Solana account/transaction/slot streaming via Yellowstone Geyser plugin.
    entries:
      - label: 1 stream
        price: '49.00'
        unit: month
      - label: Up to 10 streams
        price: '449.00'
        unit: month
  - name: Dedicated Node
    description: Isolated node infrastructure with extended namespaces (debug, txpool) and GraphQL.
    entries:
      - label: Starter
        price: '678.00'
        unit: month
        description: Starting price; varies by chain, machine size, and region.
      - label: Compute hour
        price: '0.50'
        unit: hour
        description: Pro-tier and above metered compute charge.
  - name: Warp Transactions
    description: Optimized propagation for paid transaction broadcast.
    entries:
      - label: Per transaction
        price: '0.15'
        unit: transaction
support:
  - name: Community
    price: '0.00'
    description: Public Discord, docs, and community forums.
  - name: Standard
    price: included
    description: 24x5 ticket support with under 24 hour response, included with Growth and above.
  - name: Professional
    price: '100.00'
    unit: month
    description: Faster response SLAs and priority queue.
  - name: Premium
    price: '1000.00'
    unit: month
    description: 24x7 priority support with dedicated CSM and incident bridge.
geo:
  - Asia-Pacific
  - Europe
  - United States
notes:
  - Annual billing delivers up to 16 percent savings versus month-to-month.
  - Archive data requests cost 2 RU each; full-node requests cost 1 RU each.
  - Request Units are computed at the platform layer; no per-method multipliers are applied.
  - Crypto payments accepted via NOWPayments (150+ supported coins).
x-canonical:
  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models:
  - hybrid
  - metered
  - negotiated
  - subscription
  units:
  - period
  - request
  plans:
  - name: Developer
    access: free
    model: hybrid
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - period
    - request
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Growth
    access: other
    model: subscription
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - period
    - request
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Pro
    access: other
    model: subscription
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - period
    - request
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Business
    access: other
    model: subscription
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - period
    - request
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Enterprise
    access: negotiated
    model: negotiated
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - period
    - request
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Pay-As-You-Go
    access: other
    model: metered
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - request
    periods:
    - month