DappRadar Alternatives for Dapp and DeFi Analytics

DappRadar, the dapp ranking site founded in 2018, announced it was closing on November 17, 2025. Co-founders Skirmantas Januškas and Dragos Dunica said that running a platform of its scale "became financially unsustainable in the current environment", and that it would stop tracking blockchains and dapps in the coming days. Plans for the RADAR token and the DAO were to be announced separately.

The odd part: as of November 6, 2026, dappradar.com still opens, calls its data "live, near real-time" across 90+ chains and shows charts. Yet its updates blog stops at July 21, 2025, and there is no public notice that the shutdown was reversed or the site sold. Treat its numbers with care and confirm anything important with one of the tools below.

DappRadar mixed several jobs: protocol rankings, user counts, DEX pair tracking and a discovery feed. No single replacement does all of that, so the picks are matched to each job. This page covers analytics only. Nothing here is investment advice, and no tool is ranked on price performance.

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Quick comparison

DefiLlama

For the DeFi half of DappRadar, DefiLlama is the first stop. It ranks protocols and chains by total value locked, and its free open plan also covers fees, revenue and prices, plus LlamaFeed for real-time updates. Each protocol page breaks TVL down by chain, which answers the old DappRadar question of where a dapp is actually used.

Paid plans add more. Pro is for heavier dashboard use, and a separate API subscription adds higher limits for apps and research teams.

Best for: Anyone who used DappRadar's DeFi rankings and wants the same view for free.

Pricing:

• Open plan: free, includes TVL, fees and revenue, prices and LlamaFeed
• Pro: $49/month or $490/year, 7-day free trial; API not included
• API: $300/month or $3,000/year, 1,000 requests per minute, 1M calls a month, then $0.60 per 1,000

Watch out for:

• It is DeFi first. Games, social apps and NFT collections that DappRadar ranked by user count are mostly outside its scope.
• The Pro plan does not include API access, per the docs, so developers need the $300 API plan.

Official site: DefiLlama.

Token Terminal

Token Terminal applies financial-statement style metrics, such as revenue, fees and active users, to blockchains and apps, with the same definitions across projects. That consistency is the reason to use it over raw explorer data, since two dapps reporting "users" in different ways can still be compared.

The free plan includes full historical data, the Sheets and Excel plugin, MCP access, CSV exports and team access, with up to 3 custom dashboards and 3 custom charts.

Best for: Analysts and researchers who need comparable revenue and usage metrics in spreadsheets.

Pricing:

• Free: no charge, 3 custom dashboards, 3 custom charts, CSV export
• Pro: $350 (the page offers monthly or annual billing, with 15% off annual), unlimited dashboards, 500k Sheets calls a month
• API: custom pricing, 250,000 requests a day
• Datashare: custom, BigQuery and Snowflake

Watch out for:

• Pro does not include the REST API. API access is a separate plan with custom pricing, and the FAQ says added team members are billed monthly per user.

Official site: Token Terminal.

Artemis

DappRadar's user-count rankings have a modern equivalent in Artemis, which compares revenue, fees, TVL and users across more than 12,000 tokens and 50+ blockchains, per its pricing page. Charts can be built across chains, so one app's activity on Base and Arbitrum can sit side by side.

The product now reaches past crypto. Paid plans list 30k+ tickers, 600+ protocols and alternative datasets such as prediction markets and labelled stablecoin flows, which helps teams that track crypto apps alongside public companies.

Best for: Researchers who want user and fee comparisons across chains, with a spreadsheet plugin.

Pricing:

• Intern: free, limited queries and daily rate limits
• Investor: $100/month, 5x more usage, 50k Sheets or plugin calls a month
• Plugin: $500/month per user, 1M Sheets calls
• Managing Director: custom, talk to sales

Watch out for:

• The pricing page lists API access only for the Plugin and Managing Director tiers, and is silent on Intern and Investor.

Official site: Artemis.

Dune

When no ready-made ranking answers your question, Dune lets you write SQL against decoded chain data and publish the result as a dashboard. Community dashboards already track many individual dapps, so searching Dune for a protocol name often turns up the exact chart DappRadar used to show.

Access has tightened. The pricing FAQ says free access "is now view-only and does not include query execution on any engine", and has no API access. New accounts get a trial of 14 days or 2,500 credits, whichever runs out first, with Plus plan features.

Best for: Analysts comfortable with SQL who need custom metrics for a specific dapp.

Pricing:

• Free: view-only, no query execution, no API, cannot buy extra credits
• Trial: 14 days or 2,500 credits with Plus features
• Paid self-serve plans (Plus and above): prices on dune.com/pricing, not shown in the text we could read
• Enterprise: per agreement

Watch out for:

• Viewing is free, but forking and running a community query now needs a paid plan once the trial ends.

Official site: Dune.

DexScreener

Even DappRadar's homepage now embeds a DEX Screener table for pair data. DexScreener tracks trading pairs on decentralised exchanges across many chains, with charts, liquidity and newly listed tokens, and it needs no account to browse.

Developers can pull the same data. The API reference lists endpoints for pairs, token search and token profiles, defines no authentication scheme, and caps several endpoints at 60 requests per minute.

Best for: Watching activity on specific DEX pairs and spotting new pools as they appear.

Pricing:

• Free to browse
• API: no key in the spec, 60 requests per minute on listed endpoints

Watch out for:

• The API includes token boost and ads endpoints, a sign that some visibility on the site is paid placement rather than organic activity.
• It covers DEX trading only. Lending, games and other dapp categories are not tracked.

Official site: DexScreener.

Blockscout

Ranking sites can go dark, as DappRadar showed, but the chain itself keeps the record. Blockscout is an open source explorer that lets you look up a dapp's contracts, transactions and token transfers directly, on 117 chains according to its plans page.

Its API is built to mirror Etherscan's modules, so scripts that count a contract's transactions or unique callers port over with a host change. That makes it a reasonable base for a homemade dapp tracker when third-party dashboards disagree.

Best for: Verifying a dapp's on-chain activity yourself instead of trusting a ranking.

Pricing:

• Free: 100K credits per day, 5 requests per second
• Builder: $49/month, 100M credits
• Pro: $199/month, 500M credits
• Business: $999/month, 3B credits

Watch out for:

• It shows raw activity, not rankings. Turning transactions into user counts or category leaderboards is work you do yourself.

Official site: Blockscout.

How to choose

Should you still use DappRadar

Only with care. The site loads and some pages show recent dates, so it can still help you find a dapp's name, links or contract address. Given the November 2025 shutdown announcement and no public update since, do not build reports, dashboards or due diligence on its numbers without checking them against DefiLlama, Artemis or the chain itself.

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