How much does a dedicated Solana node cost?

The bare-metal box is the cost everyone quotes — but it's the cost that matters least. A single AMD EPYC node with 1 TB of RAM and dual NVMe leases for roughly $1,500–2,500/mo. The real bill shows up around it.

High availability doubles your hardware. One node means one restart storm, one disk failure, or one bad Agave upgrade away from downtime. Serious operators run a hot-standby, which roughly doubles the hardware line. DevOps is the silent killer: snapshot management, ledger maintenance, and plugin ABI breakages on every Agave release eat 10–30 engineer-hours a month. At a loaded eng rate that alone can exceed the hardware.

For the full operational picture — snapshots, TLS, auth, monitoring — see our self-host Yellowstone guide and the managed vs self-hosted breakdown.

A managed single-tenant node folds all of the above into one flat number. Subglow's AMD EPYC 7543p is $2,900/mo ($2,436/mo effective on yearly), with the Yellowstone gRPC plugin, 10 Gbps unmetered bandwidth, monitoring, and ops all included. There's no setup fee and no credit metering — a traffic spike never turns into a surprise invoice.

Comparable managed dedicated Yellowstone nodes from other providers typically quote ~$4,000–6,000/mo, so the same hardware is often cheaper here — and you can try month one at 50% off ($1,450).

Often, no. A flat-rate shared gRPC + RPC plan (Subglow starts at $99/mo) handles the majority of sniping, copy-trading, and analytics workloads. Dedicated hardware earns its cost only when you need single-millisecond latency, isolation for compliance, or sustained volume a shared endpoint would rate-limit. Walk through the decision in dedicated vs shared Solana RPC, or compare all tiers on the pricing page.