dRPC vs Helius — Solana

The monthly cost is $149 for a quota of 2,000,000,000 compute units per month, with an overage rate of $0.35 per 1M; this billing model favors high-volume uniform calls over low-volume heavy queries, and the inclusion of archive data access saves on historical eth_getStorageAt / trace_block / debug_traceTransaction queries. Latency assessment: 32ms p50 — meets the sub-50ms bar for latency-sensitive bots, and the supported-chain list covers common deployment targets including Ethereum and Solana.

This tier fits a high-frequency bot workload with a request pattern utilizing eth_call and eth_getLogs, requiring >100M req/day from a small team.

The monthly cost is $249 with no quota and an overage rate of $3.0 per 1M, indicating that the billing model favors low-volume heavy queries, especially with archive data access saving on historical getBlock / getSignaturesForAddress queries beyond recent slots. Latency assessment: 18ms p50 — fast enough for MEV bots and HFT (meets sub-50ms), and the supported chains cover common deployment targets with Solana and Eclipse.

High-frequency bot workload with a request pattern of frequent getAccountInfo and sendTransaction calls, a team scale of 1-5 engineers, and a daily request volume of >100M req/day, making this tier suitable for production DApp.