Pay As You Go Pricing FAQ

Our goal is to accelerate development onchain by providing the most developer-friendly web3 infrastructure pricing.

We firmly believe that costs shouldn’t be a barrier to building innovative apps onchain. We’ve worked hard to optimize our infrastructure to reduce our costs, and we’re excited to pass on those savings to you.

This FAQ answers what you need to know about our Pay As You Go plan.

1. What is Pay As You Go plan?
   Pay As You Go is our new pricing plan. You only pay for what you use, with no platform fees. Rates start at $0.45 per million Compute Units and automatically decrease to $0.40 per million Compute Units after you hit 300M Compute Units.

2. When is Pay As You Go plan available?
   The new pricing plan launches on February 1st, 2025.

3. What does Pay As You Go plan include?
   Check out alchemy.com/pricing for full details.

4. How do I calculate my costs under the Pay As You Go plan?
   $0.45 per million Compute Units until you hit 300M monthly Compute Units. After 300M, your rate drops to $0.40 per million Compute Units.

   For an app using 120M Compute Units / month:
   
   - You pay 120* $0.45 = $54/month
   
   For an app using 460M Compute Units / month:
   
   - First 300M: 300*$0.45 = $135/month
   - After 300M: 160*$0.40 = $64/month
   - You pay $135 + $64 = $199/month
   

5. How do Compute Units work?
   Each API request uses Compute Units (CUs) based on its complexity. Check out this breakdown of Alchemy's compute unit costs per method, chain, and product. On average, one API request uses about 25 CUs, though this can vary. For example, 4M requests typically use around 100M CUs.

6. How does Pay As You Go plan work for Subgraphs?

   Our Subgraph pricing before Feb 1st, 2025 is below:

   	Free	Growth	Scale
   Deployments	2	10	30
   Queries	500K	1M	10M
   Extra Queries	–	$50/M	$25/M
   Rate Limit (queries/sec)	5	10	30
   Stored Entities	250K	500K	2.5M
   Extra Stored Entities	–	$50/M	$30/M

   Our new plan after Feb 1st, 2025 will be as follow:

   	Free	Pay As You Go
   Deployments	2	30
   Queries	200K	$20/M
   Rate Limit (queries/sec)	5	30
   Stored Entities	100K	$25/M

   We’re getting rid of the base fees and allotments from our prior plans. Starting Feb 1st, 2025, there’s a single, reduced rate for queries ($20/M) and stored entities ($25/M) to reflect exactly how much you’re using.

   Check out alchemy.com/pricing for full details.

7. How does Pay As You Go plan work for Gas Manager?

   Check out alchemy.com/pricing for full details.

8. How does this impact Enterprise plans?
   Enterprise plans remain unchanged.

9. What do I need to know if I’m an existing Scale or Growth Customer?
   Check out all details here.

10. I’m a free plan user! What happens after I hit 100M Compute Units?

    We offer the most generous free plan in the industry. Our free plan gives you 10x the capacity to build for free compared to competitors, even after we adjusted capacity to 100M monthly Compute Units (previously 300M). You get massive computing power and throughput to start building right away.

    When you're ready to scale beyond 100M Compute Units per month, Pay As You Go plan provides a seamless path forward with competitive rates that get cheaper when you build more.