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Allium alternative for Bitcoin and Allium API pricing
Allium is an enterprise blockchain data platform: SQL over Snowflake, warehouse shares and realtime APIs across many chains.
It has no public price list. If Bitcoin is the whole job, compare the two here.
REST API · SQL · dashboards · address history since the 2009 genesis block
BTC
Balance trail
informational on-chain data · not financial advice
Allium leads on cross-chain coverage, warehouse delivery into Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery, and enterprise contracts, while BitcoinDatabase is a Bitcoin-only index with published monthly plans, REST at the chain tip, SQL over exact decimal values and balances at a named block for every script type.
Side by side
Allium vs BitcoinDatabase, honestly
A fair look at what each does well. Both are capable tools. Here is where they differ.
| What matters | BitcoinDatabase | Allium |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | A Bitcoin data index over REST, SQL and exports | A multi-chain data platform: Explorer SQL, Datashares, Realtime APIs, Datastreams and Beam |
| Published price | Developer $49, Growth $199, Scale $799 a month, half that billed yearly | No public price list; the pricing page is a contact form |
| Free allowance | No free plan; a demo query on this page | 100 Explorer Units and 20,000 Developer Units at sign-up, which do not expire |
| Balance lookup cost | 1 credit | 30 Developer Units per address, multiplied by the number of inputs in a batch |
| SQL freshness | SQL index over the full chain; REST reads the chain tip | About 1 hour on Explorer, 1 to 3 hours on Datashares, per its product table |
| Rows per ad hoc SQL run | 1,000 rows per call | 1,000 rows per ad hoc run, 10,000 by default for a saved query |
| Value type in the Bitcoin balance example | outputs.value_btc is decimal(16,8), exact to the satoshi | Its Bitcoin wallet example casts value to DOUBLE PRECISION, a binary float, before summing |
| Pay per call without an account | No, a plan and an API key | Yes, x402 or Tempo in USDC; docs list wallet calls at $0.03 |
| Warehouse delivery | CSV and Parquet exports | Native shares into Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery, plus S3 and GCS |
| Programmatic SQL access | POST /v1/sql from Growth | Explorer APIs are listed as enterprise only |
| Best suited for | Bitcoin exchanges, custodians, auditors and analysts who need numbers they can reproduce at a block | Banks, funds and data teams that want many chains landed in their own warehouse |
Comparison reflects general, publicly understood positioning. Capabilities change, so check each product for the latest.
Why teams pick BitcoinDatabase
The fully indexed Bitcoin blockchain, queryable by REST, SQL and dashboards
What Allium costs
Allium does not publish a price list. On 1 October 2026 its pricing URL opened a contact form, and the sign-up page offered 100 Explorer Units and 20,000 Developer Units free, with the note that credits do not expire. Two meters run side by side. Explorer Units pay for SQL and scale with the compute profile and how long a query runs. Developer Units pay for the realtime REST endpoints at a fixed rate: 30 for a wallet balance, balance history or transaction call, 20 for a price call, and a batched call is charged once per input. So the free 20,000 covers about 666 single-address balance lookups. Allium docs also say the Explorer APIs and Stream Transformation APIs are available only to enterprise customers. BitcoinDatabase lists every plan on its pricing page: Developer at $49 a month for 500,000 credits, Growth at $199 with SQL, Scale at $799 with labels and webhooks, and half the monthly price when billed yearly.
How fresh the SQL is
Allium is honest about this in its own product table. Explorer, the hosted SQL editor that runs on Snowflake, shows freshness of about one hour. Datashares, the tables it lands in your Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery account, run one to three hours behind. The realtime REST APIs are fast, with raw blocks in 1 to 1.2 seconds and other data in 2.5 to 8 seconds. For a quarterly report an hour does not matter. For a deposit credit, a collateral alert or a withdrawal check it does, because a Bitcoin block arrives about every ten minutes, so an hour is roughly six blocks of activity your query cannot see. On BitcoinDatabase the REST endpoints answer from the chain tip and webhooks fire on new blocks, and the SQL endpoint is there for the questions that span many addresses.
We checked the Bitcoin details
On 1 October 2026 we called the Allium supported-chains endpoint, which is free. Bitcoin is listed for wallet balances, balance history, transactions, holdings history and PnL, and not for token transfers or prices by chain. A keyless POST for the balance of 34xp4vRoCGJym3xR7yCVPFHoCNxv4Twseo returned HTTP 402 with an x402 quote of 10,000 units of USDC, which is one cent, payable on Base, Solana, Polygon or X Layer. That is less than the $0.03 its machine payments table lists for the same endpoint, so check the live quote rather than the table. The Bitcoin wallet query in Allium docs sums output values cast to DOUBLE PRECISION. A double is a binary float, so a long sum of satoshi amounts can drift in the last digits; if you use that example for a period-end balance, cast to a decimal or sum integer satoshis instead. Our outputs.value_btc column is decimal(16,8), so the sum is exact.
Where Allium is the better buy
If you need dozens of chains in one schema, landed in your own Snowflake or Databricks account next to your ledger, Allium is the stronger product and we do not pretend otherwise. Stablecoin, EVM and Solana coverage, decoded events, warehouse shares and an enterprise contract with SOC reports are what its buyers pay for, and none of that exists here. BitcoinDatabase fits when Bitcoin is the business and the output is a number someone will check: a balance at a named block for P2WSH or Taproot vaults, every UTXO an address holds with its age, net flow through an exchange cluster, or a deposit alert within a block. You can start on REST at $49 a month the same day, without a sales call, and move to SQL at $199 when the questions span many addresses.
Good questions
Allium vs BitcoinDatabase, answered
Explore the data
The Bitcoin data you can query here
Query the Bitcoin blockchain with SQL
Write plain SQL against the whole indexed chain, no node, no ETL.
ExploreBitcoin API
Query addresses, transactions and balances across the whole indexed chain in one call.
ExploreBitcoin block explorer API
Power an explorer with blocks, transactions and addresses, no node to maintain.
ExploreBitcoin data API
One Bitcoin data API and data provider for chain rows, balances, metrics and market history.
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Query the whole Bitcoin blockchain in one place
An address in, structured on-chain data out. BitcoinDatabase serves balances, UTXOs, transactions, entity labels and fund flows, with address history back to the 2009 genesis block over REST, and SQL and dashboards over the indexed chain. No node to run.
REST + SQL + dashboards · new blocks within seconds · informational on-chain data only