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Goldsky vs Chainstack

Last updated October 28, 2026

A practical comparison of RPC access, wallet data, indexing, and streaming, including how to use Goldsky and Chainstack together.

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Goldsky vs Chainstack: the verdict

Chainstack is an RPC node provider with broad chain breadth and a flat-fee pricing option. It fits if you need RPC across many non-EVM chains, want predictable flat-fee billing, or need to run infrastructure on your own cloud.

Goldsky fits if you want flat per-request pricing for EVM RPC and wallet data with Edge RPC and Feeds. It also fits if you want to keep Chainstack and automatically optimize your RPC calls with Boost. It also fits if you run subgraphs or stream onchain data into your own database.

Chainstack deprecated its own Subgraphs service on February 1, 2026, and moved existing customers to Ormi, a separate company.⁠^[3]

Compare products, pricing, and platform capabilities

Chainstack is an RPC node provider with Global Node, Managed Dedicated Node, and Self-Hosted Nodes products. Goldsky answers with three products. Edge RPC replaces raw RPC calls. Boost is an RPC CDN in front of Chainstack. Feeds returns wallet balances and transfers. Goldsky also runs Subgraphs and Turbo pipelines.

Quick comparison of Chainstack and Goldsky across key dimensions
Feature	Chainstack	Goldsky
RPC services
Core RPC	Global Node and Managed Dedicated Node RPC across 70+ protocols⁠^[1]	Edge RPC: JSON-RPC over HTTPS for EVM networks, 8+ regions⁠^[13]
Flat-fee RPC	Advantage: Unlimited Node add-on removes per-request billing, from $149/month⁠^[8]	No flat-fee option. Every request bills at $5 per million
Self-hosted deployment	Advantage: Self-Hosted Nodes run Chainstack’s control plane on your own cloud or on-premises infrastructure⁠^[6]	Vendor-managed only. No self-hosted option for any product
Boost
RPC CDN	No equivalent product. Every request bills under your plan	Advantage: Boost serves eligible reads from Goldsky and forwards the rest to Chainstack. Free for a limited time⁠^[16]
Wallet data
Wallet balances and transfers	No indexed or decoded data API. Archive Data is full-history RPC access, not a queryable dataset⁠^[5]	Advantage: Feeds: balances, transfer history, and token metadata across 8 chains⁠^[17]
Indexing and streaming
Subgraph / GraphQL indexing	Deprecated its own Subgraphs service on February 1, 2026. Customers moved to Ormi, a separate company⁠^[3]	Advantage: Managed Subgraphs service, backwards-compatible with graph-node⁠^[18]
Streaming data pipelines	Yellowstone gRPC Geyser Plugin streams raw Solana data to a consumer you run and write yourself⁠^[7]	Advantage: Turbo: 11 sink types with SQL and TypeScript transforms, and reorg handling⁠^[20]
Chain coverage
Supported chains	Advantage: 70+ protocols, with broad non-EVM coverage⁠^[9]	Edge RPC covers EVM networks only. The subgraph coverage matrix lists 106 chains⁠^[13]⁠^[21]

RPC services: Edge RPC vs Chainstack RPC

Edge RPC serves JSON-RPC requests for EVM networks from 8+ regions with automatic failover. It prices every method the same, at a flat $5 per million requests.⁠^[13]

Chainstack RPC plans: Developer is free at 3,000,000 request units a month and 25 RPS. Growth is $49/month for 20,000,000 units and 250 RPS. Pro, Business, and Enterprise scale up from there, down to $5/million on Enterprise.⁠^[8] A full-node request costs 1 unit, and an archive-node request costs 2 units.⁠^[8]
Where Chainstack goes further: the Unlimited Node add-on removes per-request billing for a flat fee, from $149/month at 25 RPS to $3,199/month at 500 RPS. Goldsky has no flat-fee RPC option.⁠^[8]
Chainstack GEN 2.0: a faster Global Nodes architecture that went live October 16, 2026.⁠^[4]
Trader Node: low-latency mempool access for Solana and EVM through bloXroute. Chainstack plans to deprecate Trader Node on December 1, 2026.⁠^[1]
Where Chainstack also goes further:Self-Hosted Nodes run Chainstack’s control plane on your own cloud or on-premises infrastructure. Goldsky publishes no self-hosted option for any product.⁠^[6]

Run Chainstack and Goldsky Boost together

Boost is an RPC CDN in front of your existing RPC provider. It works with Chainstack, and with any other provider you already use.⁠^[14] You can run both together, keeping Chainstack for what only Chainstack does while Boost answers the reads it can.

What Boost answers: eligible historical and tip-of-chain reads, from Goldsky’s indexed data.⁠^[14]
What stays on Chainstack: everything else. Your Chainstack account and tooling stay in place.⁠^[14]
Setup: change one endpoint URL, with no other code changes and no provider switch.⁠^[15]
Pricing: Boost is free for a limited time, with no charge for served or forwarded requests. You keep paying Chainstack only for the requests Boost can’t answer.⁠^[16]
Visibility: every response carries an x-cache header showing whether Boost served it or forwarded it.⁠^[14]

Wallet data: Feeds vs Chainstack

Feeds is a REST API that returns a wallet’s balances, transfer history, and token metadata and prices across 8 EVM chains. It costs $0.35 per 1,000 requests, with no extra charge for a different endpoint.⁠^[17]

Chainstack has no indexed or decoded data API of its own. Archive Data gives full chain history over RPC, not a queryable dataset or warehouse. It is bundled into the Global Node Growth plan and above.⁠^[5]

Goldsky also offers Compose for onchain automation. Compose runs customer-written TypeScript tasks in Goldsky-hosted sandboxes, on the Scale plan only.

Indexing and streaming

Subgraphs: Chainstack deprecated its own Subgraphs service on February 1, 2026.⁠^[3]⁠^[2] Existing customers moved to Ormi, a separate company, with an endpoint swap as the only required action. Goldsky Subgraphs is an active, managed alternative that hosts graph-node-spec subgraphs.⁠^[18]
Chainstack streaming: the Yellowstone gRPC Geyser Plugin add-on streams raw Solana blocks, transactions, and account changes, from $49/month. The customer runs and writes the gRPC consumer.⁠^[7] Chainstack has no SQL query layer and no vendor-run pipeline into a customer-owned sink.
Goldsky Turbo pipelines: Turbo is a vendor-managed pipeline into 11 sink types, with SQL and TypeScript transforms.⁠^[20] Reorgs are detected at ingestion and walked back, and keyed sinks converge automatically.⁠^[19]

Chain support

Goldsky: Edge RPC covers EVM networks only.⁠^[13] The subgraph coverage matrix lists 106 chains. Turbo pipelines add Solana, Bitcoin, Stellar, NEAR, Movement, and Hypercore.⁠^[21]
Chainstack: lists 70+ supported protocols.⁠^[1] Its networks table names broad non-EVM coverage, including Solana, Bitcoin, Polkadot, Cardano, TRON, XRP Ledger, Stellar, Sui, TON, Dogecoin, Litecoin, and Zcash.⁠^[9]

Chainstack supports many non-EVM chains, including Solana and Bitcoin, where Edge RPC has no coverage. Goldsky’s current chain list is on the chains page.

Pricing

Pricing comparison between Chainstack and Goldsky
Feature	Chainstack	Goldsky
Free tier	Developer plan: 3,000,000 request units a month, 25 RPS⁠^[8]	Starter plan, $100 credit, no card required⁠^[22]
Metered RPC pricing	Growth: $49/month for 20,000,000 request units, $15/million overage⁠^[8]	$5 per million requests, every method priced the same⁠^[13]
Flat-fee RPC	Unlimited Node add-on, from $149/month at 25 RPS to $3,199/month at 500 RPS⁠^[8]	No flat-fee option
Wallet data pricing	No indexed wallet data product	$0.35 per 1,000 requests, same price for every endpoint⁠^[17]
Support response time	Professional ($100/month): under 6 hours, 24x7. Premium ($1,000/month): under 1 hour, 24x7⁠^[8]	Scale targets 24 to 48 hours, best effort. Enterprise gets a named Customer Success Manager⁠^[23]
Deployment	Self-Hosted Nodes run on your own cloud or on-premises⁠^[6]	Vendor-managed only, on every product
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001⁠^[11]	SOC 2 Type II⁠^[12]
Uptime	99.9% quarterly SLA, Enterprise-only, naming the Management Console, Network Services, and Platform API⁠^[10]	99.9%+ uptime, a general figure stated on the Subgraphs product page⁠^[18]

Goldsky publishes full pricing details, including volume discounts, on its pricing page.

When to choose Goldsky, and when to choose Chainstack

Choose Chainstack if:

You need RPC across non-EVM chains like Solana, Bitcoin, Polkadot, or TRON
You want flat-fee RPC pricing with no per-request billing
You need to run RPC infrastructure on your own cloud or on-premises
You want a published, priced support response-time commitment on every paid plan

Choose Goldsky if:

You run subgraphs and need a managed graph-node-spec hosting service
You want to stream onchain data into your own database with Turbo pipelines
You want wallet balances, transfers, and token data at one flat price with Feeds
You want to keep your RPC provider and lower its billable calls with Boost

Frequently asked questions

What happened to Chainstack Subgraphs?

Chainstack deprecated its Subgraphs service on February 1, 2026. Existing customers moved to Ormi, a separate company, and the only required action was an endpoint swap.⁠^[3]⁠^[2] Goldsky Subgraphs is an active, managed alternative that hosts graph-node-spec subgraphs.⁠^[18]

Does Chainstack support my chain?

Chainstack lists 70+ supported protocols, including Solana, Bitcoin, Polkadot, Cardano, TRON, XRP Ledger, Stellar, Sui, TON, Dogecoin, Litecoin, and Zcash alongside EVM chains.⁠^[1]⁠^[9] Goldsky Edge RPC covers EVM networks only.⁠^[13]

Is there a free tier, and what happens at the limit?

Chainstack’s Developer plan is free for 3,000,000 request units a month at 25 RPS. Past that, paid plans bill overage per million request units instead of a hard cutoff.⁠^[8]

Is Chainstack SOC 2 or ISO certified?

Yes. Chainstack publishes SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 certification, with AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS in transit.⁠^[11] Goldsky publishes SOC 2 Type II compliance.⁠^[12]

Can I run Chainstack on my own cloud?

Yes. Chainstack’s Self-Hosted Nodes product runs its control plane on your own cloud or on-premises infrastructure.⁠^[6] Goldsky has no self-hosted deployment option for any product.

Can Goldsky and Chainstack run together?

Yes. Boost is an RPC CDN in front of your existing RPC provider. It answers historical and tip-of-chain reads from Goldsky’s indexed data and forwards everything else.⁠^[14] Chainstack works as its upstream, with one endpoint URL change and no other code change.⁠^[16]

Chainstack plans to deprecate Trader Node. What changes?

Chainstack plans to deprecate Trader Node on December 1, 2026, and recommends moving those workloads to Global Nodes before then.⁠^[1] Goldsky has no mempool or trading-latency product, so Goldsky is not a replacement for that use case.