# Alchemy Reviews **Vendor:** alchemy **Category:** [Blockchain as a Service Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/blockchain-as-a-service) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About Alchemy Alchemy is the developer platform for Web3. We take care of the hard parts of building on blockchain so developers can focus their time on creating great products. Alchemy's built custom technologies and tools to create a powerful platform developers use to make their Web3 projects work. We give developers time back by providing an easy-to-use platform that takes care of the most time consuming tasks in Web3 development. The proof of our work is in the quality of our customers and partners. If you've had a great experience on Web3, chances are it was built on Alchemy. The top companies in Web3 are built on Alchemy, companies like OpenSea, Dapper Labs, Adobe, Axie Infinity, and more. Almost every NFT marketplace, the majority of DeFi organizations, and 70% of the leading Web3 dapps are all built on Alchemy. ## Alchemy Reviews ### 1. Waste of time **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian S. | Maintenance Tech, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2025 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** ridiculously easy Multiple choice quizzes with choices so absurd, you can pass every quiz with no prior info on the quiz material **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** After completing over 60 modules, i learned not 1 new thing **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Alchemy wasted hundreds of man hours of our employees. ### 2. Good in providing rpc nodes to connect with different blockchain and manage project in ease **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitesh G. | Senior Software Engineer - Blockchain , Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** It was easy to configure and integrate with any decentralized application **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** there is a rate limit of 10-15 requests per minute. **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Alchemy is solving lots of problem specially with smart contract and different projects in dapps related to EVM based blockchain ### 3. The simplest way to incorporate web3 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan M. | IT Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** It's super simple to set up an account and build code from their documentation and have basic functionality working quickly. Most importantly, their APIs are reliable. **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** Development seems a little slow given the industry - excited to see Solana added. **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** The crypto space can move VERY quickly and Alchemy saves significant time, especially when porting a script or code between supported chains. ### 4. It just works and it's free **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** Integration is seamlessly, everything you hope for just works as expected. **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** Faster response time from the support team. **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Starting your own blockchain node is not an easy task; a long series of setup is needed and not to mention the computational power. Alchemy has all the bells and whistle in place for an easy integration to the blockchain. ### 5. Node with free access to archive data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dimitar N. | Software Enginner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** Free access to archive data. Tons of networks are supported. Great analytics (by country and by US state). History of requests. There's a UI (Composer) for messing around with their APIs. **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** They should have their block explorer and have a contract verification system better than Etherscan. I have one API key ending with a dash, not a fan af this character cause when double clicking with a mouse to select the selection stops before it. No Avalanche support. **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** When forking a network, you don't get errors constantly after a bit, like when using Infura. Excellent usage summary and statistics with a forecast. Mempool watcher is awesome. ### 6. Great tool busy focused on a couple chains only **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** Ability to use historical blocks and forking transactions **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** Less limits on transactions quickly fills up daily quota. Good for testing but too costly for production use **Recommendations to others considering Alchemy:** Use it, is worth every penny and a huge time saver **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Alchemy helps forking mainnet and allowed Simulation of real transactions ### 7. A swift and simple experience for web3 dapp setup and other development stuff **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fredrick S. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** The simple interface is easy for beginners to familiarize themselves **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** I haven't come across any issues that would hinder my development. **Recommendations to others considering Alchemy:** It's a great platform to build the future of Web3. **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am learning to create Web3 dapps that I can use in various ways in our society, from charity to voting. ### 8. The best tool in your web3 toolchain! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephane P. | senior full stack development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** Ease of use to connect to testnet and mainnet and the support of multiple exchanges. **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** had a hard time the first time I was looking for my api_key **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** fast node checks, switch between testnet and mainnet easily, see the transaction logs in realtime. ### 9. Good reliable alternative to infura with archival data. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adrian L. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** Ease of plugging into ethers.js and no limitations on archival data. **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** Can be slow if I'm making lots of requests (when scripting), but hard to do much about it. **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing dapps, reporting tvl data, scripts for historical information, creating analytics pages. ### 10. Reliable Ethereum Node **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** The main reason we switched to Alchemy was the flawless nonce management on Alchemy's side. **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** They are not on all the side chains we would like them to be. We are also waiting for additional webhooks features, which are not there yet. **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** - delegating nonce management to Alchemy - being able to review past transactions - having a reliable service These allowed us to focus on our product development, as opposed to deal with many maintenance issues. ### 11. Nothing but great. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krasi G. | Golang tooling, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** The archive mode where I can use hardhat to fork mainnet **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** can't think of anything, everything was great so far **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** monitoring loggs and running tests against mainnet ### 12. Alchemy for learning blockchain technology **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** I like the easy to follow videos and intuitive interface. **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** Nothing so far, I am still in the learning phase. **Recommendations to others considering Alchemy:** If you are looking for an all in one solution to blockchain and you are still learning, Alchemy has you covered. **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm looking at expanding my skillset to include blockchain technology. Alchemy has made doing this process easy. ### 13. Alchemy is the best in blockchain API world! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** We're using Alchemy's FLOW blockchain API service, and the performance and quality of support are excellent! **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** It would be amazing to see more tools for FLOW blockchain **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Alchemy provides us with the access API to FLOW blockchain and insights on the most run queries ### 14. Great customer support team **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ammon W. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Alchemy?** Alchemy provides simplified API endpoints for all our web3 needs. **What do you dislike about Alchemy?** Alchemy is expensive if you only need a basic node to run transactions on chain. **What problems is Alchemy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Alchemy allows us to easily track transactions for the wallets that we custody. - [View Alchemy pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/alchemy/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+08%3A41%3A43+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e5920580-c475-4176-af63-cbced6a8b394&secure%5Btoken%5D=5c8ffa793596a15ae8c4ba18567b4eaad4ab02e33b04eeeba31287c8248267ec&format=llm_user) ## Alchemy Features **Administration** - Plugins and APIs - Cost Control - Process Control **Functionality** - Smart Contracts - Token Creation - Automated Provisioning - Industry Specialization **Performance** - Consensus - Security and Privacy Policies - Scalability ## Top Alchemy Alternatives - [Kaleido](https://www.g2.com/products/kaleido-kaleido/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (24 reviews) - [Quicknode](https://www.g2.com/products/quicknode/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (79 reviews) - [Moralis Web3](https://www.g2.com/products/moralis-web3/reviews) - 5.0/5.0 (12 reviews)