Dune Analytics Alternatives for Onchain SQL and Dashboards

Dune, the community SQL platform for blockchain data that used to call itself Dune Analytics, is alive and widely used. What changed is the free tier. Dune's pricing FAQ says "Free access is now view-only and does not include query execution on any engine." New accounts get a 14-day trial with Plus features and 2,500 credits, then drop to view-only, and the API needs a paid plan. That change hits hobby analysts and students hardest, since they now need another place to run queries.

The old fallback is gone too. Flipside's update log says it sold its blockchain data business to SonarX on May 19, 2026, with customer contracts moving across. The six tools below split into two groups: places to write your own SQL on decoded chain data, and dashboards with metrics already computed. None of this is investment advice; the list is about data access. DappRadar, which many people paired with Dune, has its own page of replacements.

Prices below are as of November 6, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.

Quick comparison

Google BigQuery blockchain datasets

BigQuery is the closest thing to Dune's old free tier for people who just want to write SQL. Google hosts public blockchain tables you can query from any Google Cloud project. The supported datasets page lists Bitcoin, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Cronos, Optimism, Polygon, Tron, 0G, Aleo, Aptos, Base, MANTRA and Solana.

You pay for scanning, not for access. BigQuery's on-demand pricing gives the first 1 TiB of queries free each month, then charges $6.25 per TiB in the US multi-region, with 10 GiB of free storage for your own tables. Results connect to Looker Studio or any BI tool for charts.

Best for: Analysts and students who want free SQL on raw chain data and can manage a cloud project.

Pricing:

• Queries: first 1 TiB per month free, then $6.25 per TiB on demand
• Storage: first 10 GiB per month free

Watch out for:

• Blockchain Analytics is marked Preview and offered under Google's Pre-GA terms with "limited support", per the datasets page.
• There is no community layer. You will not find thousands of public queries and dashboards to fork, which is Dune's main draw, and a careless SELECT on a full chain table can burn the free terabyte.

Official site: Google BigQuery blockchain datasets.

Allium

Allium sells to institutions that outgrew Dune's shared engines. The Allium site names Visa, KPMG and Coinbase as users and cites SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type I and II attestations, the paperwork a bank's compliance team asks for.

It offers four ways in. Explorer runs custom SQL across 10,000+ protocols, Datastreams push chain events in real time, the developer APIs answer in 50 to 100ms across 20+ chains, and Datashares drop the same tables into your own Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, S3 or GCS.

Best for: Funds, banks and data teams that need audited onchain data inside their own warehouse.

Pricing:

• No public price; demo and sales contact

Watch out for:

• No price, free tier or trial is shown on the site, so it does not suit an individual analyst replacing a free Dune account.

Official site: Allium.

Nansen

Nansen answers the question many Dune dashboards try to answer by hand: who is this wallet? It labels addresses, tracks "smart money" funds and traders, and shows token holders, flows and profit leaderboards across chains, without writing SQL.

The Nansen credits guide lists Pro at $49 a month billed yearly or $69 a month billed monthly, with 2,000 credits topped up each month. The free plan gives 100 one-time trial credits, then refills to 10 credits a day, with access to all Pro endpoints.

Best for: Researchers who care about who holds and moves tokens more than about custom queries.

Pricing:

• Free: 100 one-time credits, then a daily top-up to 10
• Pro: $49 a month billed yearly, or $69 monthly; 2,000 credits a month

Watch out for:

• Everything runs on credits. Address labels cost 10 credits and premium labels 50, so the free daily 10 covers one label lookup.

Official site: Nansen.

Token Terminal

A lot of Dune dashboards rebuild the same numbers: protocol revenue, fees, active users, token incentives. Token Terminal computes those metrics in one standard way across protocols, so you can compare Uniswap with Aave without checking two analysts' SQL.

The Token Terminal pricing page lists a free plan with 3 custom dashboards, 3 custom charts and CSV export, and Pro listed at $350 with unlimited dashboards and 500k Google Sheets calls a month. A monthly or annual toggle sits beside the price, and annual billing saves 15%. The API and BigQuery or Snowflake data shares are custom-priced.

Best for: Analysts comparing protocol financials on consistent definitions.

Pricing:

• Free: 3 dashboards, 3 charts, CSV export
• Pro: listed at $350; annual billing saves 15%
• API and Datashare: custom pricing

Watch out for:

• You get Token Terminal's metrics, not raw tables. If a protocol or metric is missing, you cannot write your own query to fill the gap.

Official site: Token Terminal.

DefiLlama

DefiLlama is free, open and the first stop for TVL, fees, revenue, stablecoin supply and yields across DeFi. Its adapters are open source, so you can see how each protocol's number is calculated, which is the transparency Dune users value.

The DefiLlama Pro and API docs list Pro at $49 a month or $490 a year with a 7-day trial, and a separate API plan at $300 a month or $3,000 a year with 1,000 requests a minute and 1M calls a month. The open plan covers TVL, fees and revenue, prices and LlamaFeed.

Best for: Anyone who needs DeFi totals and history for free, without writing queries.

Pricing:

• Open plan: free
• Pro: $49 a month or $490 a year, 7-day trial
• API: $300 a month or $3,000 a year; $0.60 per 1,000 calls over 1M

Watch out for:

• The API is not included in Pro, per the docs, so dashboards plus programmatic access means paying for both plans.

Official site: DefiLlama.

Artemis

Artemis is aimed at analysts who build models in spreadsheets. It tracks chain and sector metrics such as stablecoin volume, developer activity and fees, and pipes them into spreadsheets through a Google Sheets plugin, which is a faster path to a deck than exporting Dune CSVs.

The Artemis pricing page lists a free Intern plan, Investor at $100 a month with 5x the usage and 50k Sheets or plugin calls, Plugin at $500 a month per user with 1M Sheets calls, and a custom Managing Director tier. It covers 12,000+ tokens and 50+ blockchains.

Best for: Fund analysts who want onchain metrics inside spreadsheet models.

Pricing:

• Intern: free, limited queries and daily rate limits
• Investor: $100 a month
• Plugin: $500 a month per user
• Managing Director: custom

Watch out for:

• The free Intern plan has limited queries and daily rate limits, so heavy Sheets use pushes you to $100 a month quickly.

Official site: Artemis.

How to choose

When to stay with Dune Analytics

Stay on Dune if you rely on its public library of community queries and dashboards, or if your team already pays for a plan with API access. No other tool here lets you fork another analyst's query and change one line. Free users can still browse every public dashboard, so readers who only consume Dune charts lose nothing. If you also used block explorers alongside Dune, our Etherscan alternatives list covers those.

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