# Pricing Plans

> A guide to understand Alchemy's pricing plans.

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](/docs/llms.txt).

# Plans overview

## Feature comparison

| Feature                          | Free Tier   | PAYG       | Enterprise Tier |
| -------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------------- |
| Base Compute Units               | 30,000,000  | -          | Custom          |
| Compute Unit rate                | -           | $0.525/M CU | Custom          |
| Base Throughput (CUs/second)     | 300         | 10,000     | Custom          |
| # of apps                        | 5           | 30         | Unlimited       |
| webhooks                         | 5           | 100        | 500             |
| Full Archive Data                | ✓           | ✓          | ✓               |
| Node API                         | ✓           | ✓          | ✓               |
| Debug API                        | ✗           | ✓          | ✓               |
| Trace API                        | ✗           | ✓          | ✓               |
| NFT API                          | ✓           | ✓          | ✓               |
| Transfers API                    | ✓           | ✓          | ✓               |
| Token API                        | ✓           | ✓          | ✓               |
| Gas-optimized Transactions       | ✗           | ✓          | ✓               |
| Smart WebSockets                 | ✓           | ✓          | ✓               |
| JavaScript SDK                   | ✓           | ✓          | ✓               |
| Analytics & Reporting            | ✓           | ✓          | ✓               |
| Email Support                    | ✓           | ✓          | ✓               |
| Devoted Support Channels         | ✗           | ✗          | ✓               |
| Access to Engineering & PM Teams | ✗           | ✗          | ✓               |
| Custom SLAs                      | ✗           | ✗          | ✓               |
| Priority on Product Roadmaps     | ✗           | ✗          | ✓               |
| High Volume Discounts            | ✗           | ✗          | ✓               |

## Account Abstraction (AA) Pricing

| Feature                    | Free Tier        | PAYG                                   | Enterprise Tier  |
| -------------------------- | ---------------- | -------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
| Gas Manager                | Free on testnets | 8% admin fee                           | Custom admin fee |
| Gas Sponsorship Base Limit | -                | $0/mo (Contact us for Custom limits)   | Custom           |
| Account Kit SDK            | ✓                | ✓                                      | ✓                |
| Bundler API                | ✓                | ✓                                      | ✓                |
| Gas Manager Coverage API   | ✓                | ✓                                      | ✓                |
| Gas Manager Admin API      | ✗                | ✓                                      | ✓                |

Bundler Sponsored Operations are the recommended way to sponsor gas on mainnet, which requires a PAYG or Enterprise plan. The onchain paymaster and ERC-20 gas payments are free on testnets for all plans. On mainnet they are currently only available to Enterprise teams, with limited exceptions.

## Throughput (CUPS)

Each application has reserved dedicated throughput, measured in Compute Units per Second (CUPS). Your app can exceed these limits based on elastic demand in our system.

| Tier       | Base CUPS |
| ---------- | --------- |
| Free       | 300       |
| PAYG       | 10,000    |
| Enterprise | Custom    |

*Note: Even if your application limit is lower, the system may allow higher throughput based on available capacity. For a more robust experience, we recommend implementing retries when experiencing throughput errors.*

## Add-ons

Add-ons give your team more capacity or features for a fixed monthly price. You buy and manage them in the Alchemy Dashboard. This table shows which add-ons each plan can buy:

| Add-on     | Free | PAYG | Enterprise |
| ---------- | ---- | ---- | ---------- |
| Throughput | No   | Yes  | Yes        |
| UTXO       | No   | Yes  | Included   |

### How add-ons are billed on PAYG

* **Buying mid-month:** You pay a prorated amount for the rest of the month, on a separate invoice the day you buy. The amount is the monthly price × the days left in the month, including the day you buy, ÷ the days in the month.
* **Renewal:** On the 1st of each month, the add-on is billed in advance for the new month, on the same invoice as the previous month's usage.
* **Removing or reducing:** The change takes effect on the 1st of the next month. You keep the add-on until then, and the current month isn't refunded.

For example, a $100/month add-on bought on October 10 costs $100 × 22 ÷ 31 = $70.97 on an October 10 invoice. Your November 1 invoice then includes $100 for November, plus your October usage.