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Solana gRPC pricing calculator
Enter your expected message volume and see your monthly bill on every major Solana gRPC provider. Flat-rate (Subglow, Chainstack) vs credit-metered (Helius, QuickNode) — with a spike multiplier so you can see what a Pump.fun cycle does to a metered bill.
Slide up to see what a Pump.fun meme cycle or a network congestion event does to a credit-metered bill.
That's the point: on a Pump.fun cycle, metered bills go up proportionally. Subglow stays the same line on your P&L.
How the numbers are derived
Subglow: flat monthly prices from our published pricing page. Sniper ($99/mo) includes 2 concurrent streams and Pump.fun + Raydium + Jupiter filters. Pro ($249/mo) includes 10 concurrent streams and custom Program IDs. Dedicated is a private colocated endpoint priced individually.
Helius: credit pricing from their published Business/Professional plans, which is the tier LaserStream mainnet requires. Assumes 1 credit per streamed message. Real-world rates vary; we use a weighted average drawn from recent user invoices. Note that this line buys you nine regions and roughly 24 hours of replay, which the calculator does not price in — if you need those, the comparison is not purely about cost.
QuickNode: this changed on 1 June 2026. Solana Yellowstone gRPC is now included at no extra access charge on Scale ($499/mo) and Business; it remains a paid add-on only on Build and Accelerate. We baseline on Scale, since it is the cheapest plan that streams without buying an add-on. Streaming is metered in bytes against the API credit pool rather than per call, so our per-message overage rate is an approximation at a typical filtered payload size — your real figure depends on how wide your filters are.
Chainstack: indicative Growth-tier midpoint of the ~$300–400/mo band. We do not publish a precise dollar figure because their plan names change often and Yellowstone inclusion is unverified. Overage is modelled per 10k requests. Assumes one request per streamed message.
Self-hosted Yellowstone: bare-metal validator cost ($1,500–2,500/ mo) plus bandwidth and ops overhead. Not cheaper than a managed Sniper plan until you're past ~30M messages/day and have the DevOps headcount to run it.
Frequently asked
How accurate is this calculator?
It's an estimate, not a quote. The credit-metered numbers use each provider's published credit pricing as of 2026 and an average of ~1 credit per gRPC message (some providers charge less, some more). Your real bill on a credit-metered plan can vary 2–5× during market spikes — that's the point of the calculator: flat pricing doesn't do that.
What is 'messages per day' in Solana gRPC terms?
One message = one transaction or account update delivered to your client through the filter. If you subscribe to all Pump.fun transactions with no extra filtering, that's ~1–5 million messages/day depending on market volatility. Adding filters (vote=false, failed=false, specific accounts) typically cuts the effective rate by 80–95%.
Why is Subglow cheaper than Helius and QuickNode in the calculator?
Because Subglow is a streaming-only product with server-side filtering, a filtered workload has a small predictable bandwidth ceiling. Helius and QuickNode are kitchen-sink RPC platforms — they carry variance risk across all their methods and pass it to you through per-credit pricing. For a continuous filtered stream, flat beats metered. For bursty archival workloads, metered beats flat. The calculator shows you which regime you're in.
What about egress? Do any providers charge extra for it?
Mostly, but read the fine print on QuickNode. Subglow and Helius Business quote prices that already include bandwidth. QuickNode includes gRPC access on Scale and Business as of 1 June 2026, but it meters the stream in bytes against your API credit pool, so bandwidth is effectively billed — a wide filter costs more than a narrow one at the same message count. Self-hosted Yellowstone on AWS or GCP adds egress on top of the $1,500–2,500/mo hardware cost, typically $80–250/mo for a trading-bot workload at ~2 Mbps sustained.
Can I trust the 'Subglow' line in the calculator?
Yes — Subglow's flat price is the flat price. You pay the same $99 or $249 whether you stream 100k messages or 100M. The only caveat: if your workload exceeds the concurrent-stream cap on your tier, new connection attempts are refused (RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED). That's a limit on throughput, not a surprise on the bill.
What counts as a 'spike' in market activity?
A Pump.fun memecoin cycle will typically 3–5× the daily message volume for several days. A major DEX event (new token launch, Jupiter outage recovery) can spike 8–10× for a few hours. A network congestion event can 2–3× the transaction count even without DeFi activity. The Spike multiplier in the calculator lets you see what a metered bill looks like during those windows.