Subglow vs Triton One
Triton One built Yellowstone gRPC — the protocol every Solana streaming provider (including Subglow) speaks today. So when do you use Triton directly, and when is Subglow the better choice? Here's the honest comparison, with every claim linked to public sources.
| Capability | Subglow | Triton One |
|---|---|---|
| Yellowstone-compatible wire protocol | Yes | Yes (built it) |
| Server-side filtering (Pump.fun, Raydium, Jupiter) | Yes, built-in | Filter, but no protocol-level presets |
| Pre-parsed JSON (no Borsh decode on client) | Yes — core differentiator | No — raw protobuf + Borsh |
| Jito bundle submission endpoint | Included | Via RPC Pool (separate product) |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly ($99–$249) | Enterprise quote ($1.5k+) |
| Target customer | Trading bots, data pipelines | Validators, institutional RPC |
| Self-service signup | Yes | Sales-led |
| Custom validator geo / dedicated | Pro & Dedicated tiers | Core business |
| Public status page + latency SLA | Yes | Enterprise SLA only |
| JSON-RPC bundled with plan | Yes — same API key as gRPC | Enterprise commercial track |
| JSON-RPC billing | Flat daily cap per plan | Quote-based / negotiated |
| sendTransaction isolation | Dedicated daily bucket | Enterprise pool |
The honest positioning
Triton One is the Yellowstone upstream. They built the Geyser plugin that everyone in the Solana streaming ecosystem runs. If you need validator-grade infrastructure, custom geo, dedicated capacity, or enterprise support with an SLA measured in minutes, Triton is the answer and you should talk to their sales team.
Subglow is the execution-layer wrapper. We run Yellowstone ourselves on colocated validators and add the three things trading bots ask for most: server-side filtering by program (so you don't consume the firehose), pre-parsed JSON (so your bot doesn't waste 15–30ms on Borsh decode per message), and flat monthly pricing starting at $99.
Many teams use both. Subglow gRPC for reading on-chain state, Triton's RPC Pool for broadcasting signed transactions. That combination plus Jito bundle submission is the standard pipeline for serious Solana trading bots in 2026.
When to pick each
- • You're running a Solana trading or copy-trade bot
- • You want pre-parsed JSON (skip Borsh on the client)
- • You need flat monthly pricing under $500
- • You want self-service signup, no sales call
- • You need Jito bundle submission out of the box
- • You need enterprise-grade dedicated validators
- • You're a CEX, exchange, or liquidity provider at scale
- • You need custom geo (Singapore, Frankfurt, Ashburn, etc.)
- • You want to pair with RPC Pool for submission
- • You have a procurement process and MSA requirement
FAQ
Didn't Triton One create Yellowstone? Why not just use them?
Yes — Triton One built the Yellowstone gRPC Geyser plugin and it's the de-facto Solana streaming standard. They're an excellent choice if you need validator-level infrastructure access, run your own Solana services, or want to buy enterprise RPC pool services. Subglow is built for a narrower use case: trading-bot teams who want pre-parsed JSON (no Borsh decode on the client), server-side filtering of popular DeFi programs (Pump.fun, Raydium, Jupiter), and flat monthly pricing instead of enterprise contracts. If your team's primary need is low-latency trading execution rather than raw infrastructure, Subglow is a lighter-weight fit.
Is Subglow built on top of Triton's Yellowstone?
Yellowstone gRPC is open-source (Apache 2.0) and shipped as a Geyser plugin that any Solana validator can load. Subglow runs its own validators with Yellowstone loaded, colocated near Solana's mainnet clusters, and adds server-side filtering, pre-parsing, and Jito-bundle submission on top. The streaming wire protocol is 100% Yellowstone-compatible — any client (Rust, TS, Python, Go) that works with Triton works with Subglow unchanged.
Is Triton's pricing more competitive than Subglow's for gRPC?
Triton's pricing model is quote-based — they sell enterprise contracts with dedicated infrastructure. For a typical single-bot Solana trading team, this ends up at $1,500–$5,000/mo depending on validator access and support SLA. Subglow's Sniper plan at $99/mo and Pro plan at $249/mo target exactly this segment with flat monthly pricing. For institutional use cases with custom geo requirements, Triton is usually the more complete answer.
What about RPC Pool (Triton's RPC service)?
RPC Pool is Triton's high-performance JSON-RPC service, not gRPC streaming. It's excellent as a submission endpoint — many Solana bots pair Subglow's gRPC stream (for reading) with RPC Pool as the broadcast path (for sending signed transactions). The two products are complementary, not competing.
Can I run my own Yellowstone plugin and skip both providers?
Yes, if you're willing to run a Solana validator. A mainnet-beta voting validator requires a high-end server (32+ cores, 512GB+ RAM, NVMe storage), sustained 1Gbps uplink, ongoing Solana version upgrades, and typically 2+ engineers on pager. For most trading teams the full-stack cost runs $4k–8k/mo in hardware + ops time before you get any data out. Using a provider makes economic sense until you're at scale where the validator also pays for itself in MEV/staking.
If I'm migrating from Triton to Subglow, how much code changes?
The subscribe API is identical — just change the endpoint URL and API key header. Your SubscribeRequest filters work unchanged. The only delta is if you want to take advantage of Subglow's pre-parsed JSON, in which case you remove your Borsh decode/instruction parsing code and read directly from the structured metadata fields. Most teams migrate in a single afternoon.
Subglow ships JSON-RPC on the same key. No separate plan.
Every Subglow paid plan includes a flat-priced JSON-RPC endpoint on the same API key you use for gRPC. Reads on rpc.subglow.io, streams on grpc.subglow.io:443. sendTransaction has a dedicated daily bucket, so heavy read traffic never starves your submits.
Enterprise-only Yellowstone contracts. JSON-RPC is provisioned as a separate product with its own commercial terms.
Flat daily quota per plan, no per-method multipliers. sendTx in its own bucket. Same API key as gRPC.