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Overview

At Validation Cloud, we understand that every business has unique needs and financial constraints. That’s why we’ve designed our billing system to be as flexible and accommodating as possible, catering to enterprises and experienced developers entering the web3 space. Our pricing model is structured around three plans: The Free Plan and Scale Plan, charged based on a Compute Unit (CU) system. We also have the Private Plan which has custom pricing based on your traffic profile and offers access to more blockchains.

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Ready for more? Upgrade to Scale in the app, or request the Private plan and tell us which chains you need.

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Free Plan

Get started with our Node API without any upfront costs or commitment. Simply sign up for free, with no credit card required, and gain immediate access to our enterprise-grade nodes, with 50 million compute units (CUs) free each month. Free plan teams can send up to 120 requests per second.

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Free plan rate limit

Each Free plan team can send up to 120 requests per second. The limit is shared across all of the team’s endpoints, chains and methods.
  • Short bursts of up to 120 requests are allowed, and the allowance refills at 120 requests per second.
  • Every request in a JSON-RPC batch counts toward the limit. A batch is accepted or rejected as a whole, so a batch of more than 120 requests is always rejected.
  • Requests sent over WebSocket count toward the limit. Subscription notifications and Stellar streaming events that we send to you don’t.
  • Method-specific limits, such as those on some Solana methods, still apply. They’re listed on each method’s page.
  • Scale and Private plans have no team-wide limit.
JSON-RPC requests over the limit return error code -32077:
A batch of more than 120 requests returns rate limit exceeded: requested amount exceeds bucket capacity for every request in the batch. REST requests over the limit, for example to the Hedera Mirror Node API or Stellar Horizon, return HTTP 429 Too Many Requests with a Retry-After header and this body:
Sending faster than the limit doesn’t lock your team out. Requests are accepted while the allowance lasts and the rest are rejected. Spread requests out to avoid errors, or upgrade to the Scale Plan to remove the team-wide limit. The limit lifts within a few minutes of upgrading.

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Scale Plan

As your web3 needs grow, Validation Cloud is prepared to scale with you. Our Scale Plan is designed for users requiring additional compute units beyond the Free Plan 50 million CUs. The Scale Plan operates on a sliding scale, with the cost per 1 million CUs decreasing as your usage increases.

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Private Plan

For high-volume users, protocols and applications, we offer the Private Plan. The Private Plan offers two things over the Scale Plan:
  1. Discounts/custom pricing based on your volume and traffic profile
  2. RPC/API access to more blockchains than are available in the public Node API product, see the full list here. Validation Cloud runs nodes for 80+ chains. If you want connectivity into something not in our public product, chances are we’re probably already running it and can enable it for your account.
You can let us know which chains you are interested in within the Node API product or book a call with us directly. In summary, Node API’s Scale Plan offers a flexible pricing model that adjusts based on your usage. The more compute units you consume, the lower the cost per million CUs. This approach ensures that you only pay for the resources you need, making it a cost-effective solution for both enterprises and developers at any stage of their web3 venture. For high-volume usage and discounts, the Private Plan offers a way to have custom pricing. With our Node API, you can trust that you’re getting the most value from your crypto node infrastructure investment. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

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