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How Chainlake compares
Nansen, Dune, and Arkham are end-user analysis products, like Chainlake. Goldsky and Chainbase are developer data infrastructure -- APIs and pipelines you build your own product on top of, closer to what our own ingestion engine does internally than to a competing analysis tool. Comparing them side by side only makes sense with that distinction stated up front, so it's in the table below rather than left implicit.
| Chainlake | Nansen | Dune | Arkham | Goldsky | Chainbase | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Agentic analysis product | Smart-money dashboards + alerts | Community SQL + AI assist | Entity investigation | Developer data infra | Developer data infra |
| Core interaction | Ask in plain English -- agent decides what to query and builds the answer | Pre-built dashboards, wallet labels, push alerts | SQL-first; DuneGPT generates one query per prompt | Entity search + Oracle chatbot for balances/holdings | CLI/API -- you build the interface yourself | CLI/API/MCP -- built for your own agents to consume |
| Answer transparency | Every tool call (schema lookup, query, metric, chart) logged and replayable in Trace | Single generated query, self-graded by an LLM -- not manually reviewed per Dune’s own engineering blog | Probabilistic entity matching, not a query trace | |||
| Agent edits a live dashboard | ||||||
| Reusable metric definitions | Agent-defined via define_metric, consistent across sessions | Nansen’s own fixed definitions | User-authored SQL, no shared metric layer | |||
| Chain coverage | BSC today, in production. More EVM chains next, non-EVM after that -- on the roadmap | Many chains, mature | Dozens of chains | Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and others | 150+ chains (indexing infra) | 90+ chains (data APIs) |
| Bring your own (non-chain) data | ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL -- same workspace as on-chain data | |||||
| Pricing | Not published -- billing and payments are still in development | Not consistently public | Published: free tier, $75/mo, $399/mo | Free tier + Intel Exchange marketplace | Published: $0.05/hr workers + usage, free tier | Published: credit-metered + per-call micropayments |
Based on each product's public documentation and product pages as of August 2026. Competitor products change; if something above is out of date, let us know.
Where we're behind
Chain coverage is the honest gap: one production chain against platforms that support dozens. Pricing isn't public yet because the billing and payments system is still being built, not because we're avoiding the question. Both are true today, and neither belongs hidden.
See it on your own questions
Private beta -- request access and we'll follow up.