Compare · GoldRush

GoldRush alternative and Covalent API pricing for Bitcoin

GoldRush, formerly the Covalent API, prices in credits from $10 a month and gives Bitcoin three endpoints: a balance, an xpub balance and an address history.

Need UTXOs, balances at a past block or SQL? Compare both below.

or see the comparison ↓

REST API · SQL · dashboards · address history since the 2009 genesis block

Query Console

BTC address or sample query

btc

try:

Hit Run to query the Bitcoin blockchain.

Live from the chain for .

BTC

Balance trail

informational on-chain data · not financial advice

REST API · SQL · dashboards, one indexed dataset. Reading the chain ...

Aerial view of a data center roof with cooling units

GoldRush is a broad multichain REST API where Bitcoin is one of 100 plus networks, while BitcoinDatabase is a Bitcoin-only index with UTXO lists, xpub scans, mempool, broadcast, webhooks, hourly price candles and SQL over exact satoshi values on published monthly plans.

Side by side

GoldRush vs BitcoinDatabase, honestly

A fair look at what each does well. Both are capable tools. Here is where they differ.

What matters	BitcoinDatabase	GoldRush
Published price	Developer $49, Growth $199, Scale $799, Enterprise $1,498 a month, half that billed yearly	Vibe Coding $10 a month (10,000 credits), Professional $250 (300,000 credits), Inner Circle custom, per goldrush.dev on 6 Oct 2026
Credits included	500K on Developer, 5M on Growth, 50M on Scale	10,000 or 300,000 a month; overage $0.00077 a credit on Vibe Coding, Flex credits on Professional
Rate limit	10, 50, 250 or 500 requests per second by plan	4 RPS on the trial and Vibe Coding, 50 RPS on Professional
Bitcoin endpoints	Address, transactions, UTXOs, xpub, tx, block, mempool, broadcast, metrics, price, SQL, labels, exports, webhooks	Balance for a non-HD address, balances for an HD key, transactions for an address
Address history cost	1 credit per page of 25 transactions	0.1 credit per item, 100 items per page by default
xpub, ypub and zpub	One call returns derived addresses and a total, 10 credits, with a gap you set	Supported, 0.1 credit per derived address returned
UTXO list	Every unspent output with value, height and age, 1 credit	No Bitcoin UTXO endpoint in the documented list
Balance at a past block	Yes, with SQL from Growth	No block height parameter on the Bitcoin balance endpoint
Push alerts and broadcast	Address webhooks on Scale, raw transaction broadcast on every plan	Not in the Bitcoin endpoint list
Chains	Bitcoin only	100 plus EVM and non-EVM chains, per GoldRush
Best suited for	Bitcoin exchanges, custodians, auditors and wallet teams whose product depends on UTXO-level answers	Multichain wallets and portfolio apps that need a Bitcoin balance next to EVM and Solana tokens

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 GoldRush offers for Bitcoin

We read the GoldRush Bitcoin chain page and endpoint references on 6 October 2026. Three foundational endpoints accept Bitcoin. GET /v1/btc-mainnet/address/{address}/balances_v2/ returns the balance of a single, non-HD address for 1 credit, with an optional quote currency and no block height parameter. GET /v1/btc-mainnet/address/{key}/hd_wallets/ takes an xpub, ypub or zpub and returns each derived child address with its path, balance and 24 hour balance, at 0.1 credit per item. GET /v1/cq/covalent/app/bitcoin/transactions/ returns inputs and outputs for one non-HD address with block height, value in satoshis, USD quote, fee, weight and locktime, 100 items per page by default, at 0.1 credit per item. A keyless request to the balance route answered HTTP 401 from nginx in 0.18 to 0.35 seconds, so you need a key from the first call.

GoldRush pricing compared with ours

GoldRush sells a 14 day trial with 25,000 credits at 4 requests per second, Vibe Coding at $10 a month with 10,000 credits and $0.00077 per extra credit, Professional at $250 a month with 300,000 credits at 50 requests per second, and a custom Inner Circle tier. For light Bitcoin use that is cheap: 10,000 transactions of address history cost about 1,000 GoldRush credits. On BitcoinDatabase the same history costs 400 credits, because one credit buys a page of 25, and Developer at $49 includes 500,000 credits. Above a few hundred thousand calls a month the published BitcoinDatabase plans cost less per call, and none of them meter by item.

Where GoldRush is the better buy

Pick GoldRush if Bitcoin is one asset in a multichain wallet or portfolio app. A single schema for EVM tokens, Solana and a Bitcoin balance, with USD quotes attached, saves real engineering time, and the $10 tier is hard to beat for a side project. Pick BitcoinDatabase if your product lives or dies on Bitcoin detail: the unspent outputs a withdrawal will spend, a balance stated at a period-end block for an auditor, a webhook the moment a deposit address is paid, a signed transaction broadcast, or a SQL query across thousands of addresses. Those are the calls GoldRush does not list for Bitcoin, and they are the calls exchanges, custodians and audit teams make every day.

Good questions

GoldRush vs BitcoinDatabase, answered

GoldRush lists a 14 day free trial with 25,000 credits, Vibe Coding at $10 a month with 10,000 credits, Professional at $250 a month with 300,000 credits and 50 requests per second, and custom Inner Circle pricing, as read on 6 October 2026. BitcoinDatabase plans start at $49 a month with 500,000 credits.

Yes. GoldRush is the current name of the data API that Covalent built and sold as the Covalent API. Requests still go to api.covalenthq.com and the docs, keys and pricing live on goldrush.dev.

Yes, through three endpoints: the balance of a single non-HD address, balances for an xpub, ypub or zpub key, and the transaction history of a non-HD address. We found no Bitcoin UTXO list, mempool, broadcast or block height parameter in the documented list on 6 October 2026.

The single address balance costs 1 credit per call. The HD wallet balance and the address transaction history cost 0.1 credit per item returned, and an empty 200 response still costs 0.1. So 10,000 Bitcoin transactions cost about 1,000 credits, or one tenth of the Vibe Coding allowance.

For a multichain wallet, Bitquery or Tatum cover similar ground. For Bitcoin node access, QuickNode or GetBlock. For Bitcoin-only data with UTXOs, xpub scans, webhooks, broadcast, price candles and SQL on one published plan, BitcoinDatabase is the closer fit.

Not from the GoldRush Bitcoin balance endpoint, which has no block height parameter. On BitcoinDatabase, a SQL query from the Growth plan at $199 a month sums the outputs paid to an address at or before a block and not spent by then, so you can state a balance at a period-end block.

Yes. Its HD wallet endpoint accepts xpub, ypub and zpub keys and returns each derived address with its path and balance. BitcoinDatabase also scans xpub, ypub and zpub in one 10 credit call, returns a total, and lets you set the gap limit up to 50.

Yes, a 14 day trial with 25,000 API credits at 4 requests per second. BitcoinDatabase has a one-time demo in the query console on this page, and paid plans start the same day by card with no sales call.

No. BitcoinDatabase provides informational on-chain data and analytics only. It is not investment, financial or legal advice. GoldRush facts on this page were read from goldrush.dev on 6 October 2026 and may change. GoldRush and Covalent are trademarks of their owners.

Explore the data

The Bitcoin data you can query here

Bitcoin UTXO data

The full UTXO set: ages, values, script types and age distribution.

Explore

Dormant Bitcoin wallet and address API

Find addresses whose coins have not moved in years, by last spend rather than last touch.

Explore

Bitcoin broadcast transaction API

Push a signed raw transaction to the Bitcoin network over REST and get the txid back, or the node's exact reason for refusing it.

Explore

Query the Bitcoin blockchain with SQL

Write plain SQL against the whole indexed chain, no node, no ETL.

Explore

More comparisons

See how BitcoinDatabase compares

vs Glassnode

Glassnode alternative

Raw queryable Bitcoin data over REST, SQL and dashboards, not just curated charts.

vs Dune

Dune alternative

Bitcoin-only and fully-indexed, with a REST API too, not just cross-chain SQL.

vs Blockchair

Blockchair alternative

Bitcoin-deep with every UTXO, entity labels, metrics, SQL and dashboards.

vs Chainalysis

Chainalysis alternative

Developer-first, self-serve on-chain data with compliance tooling to support your own review.

vs BlockCypher

BlockCypher alternative

Bitcoin-native depth with SQL and dashboards, not just a multi-chain REST API.

vs Chainstack

Chainstack alternative

Indexed Bitcoin data over REST and SQL, not raw RPC nodes you still have to query.

vs Blockchain.com

Blockchain.com API alternative

Production-grade indexed Bitcoin data over REST and SQL, not a rate-capped free explorer API.

vs Mempool.space

Mempool.space alternative

Indexed address, balance and history data over REST and SQL, alongside mempool and fees, on production plans.

vs CoinAPI

CoinAPI alternative

On-chain Bitcoin data: addresses, balances, UTXOs and labels, not cross-asset market prices.

vs TRM Labs

TRM Labs alternative

Bitcoin-native on-chain data and screening signals over REST and SQL, not a full multi-chain investigations suite.

vs Whale Alert

Whale Alert alternative

Query large bitcoin transactions on your own thresholds from the fully-indexed chain, not just a fixed real-time feed.

vs CoinGecko

CoinGecko alternative

Raw on-chain Bitcoin data over REST and SQL, not market prices across thousands of coins.

vs CoinMarketCap

CoinMarketCap alternative

On-chain Bitcoin data over REST and SQL, where CoinMarketCap serves market prices.

vs Blockdaemon

Blockdaemon alternative

A query-first indexed Bitcoin database over REST and SQL, not raw node RPC infrastructure.

vs Xverse

Xverse alternative

Query indexed ordinals, inscriptions, BRC-20 and Runes data over REST and SQL, not just wallet and minting endpoints.

vs BigQuery

BigQuery alternative

Balances, entity labels and fund flows already indexed, without per-terabyte scan billing.

vs Bitquery

Bitquery alternative

Bitcoin-only depth over REST and SQL, billed on calls rather than on points that move with query shape.

vs TimechainIndex

TimechainIndex alternative

Bitcoin-only like TimechainIndex, with published pricing and a commercial REST API.

vs CryptoQuant

CryptoQuant alternative

API access on the entry plan and the raw chain underneath, not day-resolution metrics.

vs Alchemy

Alchemy alternative

An indexed Bitcoin database you query by address, not a Bitcoin Core JSON-RPC passthrough.

vs QuickNode

QuickNode alternative

An indexed Bitcoin database you query by address, not a managed Core node with the address-capable calls switched off.

vs Hiro

Hiro alternative

Hiro retired its Bitcoin Layer 1 APIs. The endpoints now answer HTTP 410 Gone, and the migration link inside that answer is itself dead.

vs Amberdata

Amberdata alternative

Amberdata belongs to Kaiko as of June 2026. Its pricing page loads but publishes no number, and its API answers a missing key three different ways.

vs Elliptic

Elliptic alternative

Elliptic publishes no pricing and sells its screening API only on a negotiated contract. We measured its endpoints, and the OFAC list underneath it, on 4 September 2026.

vs Merkle Science

Merkle Science alternative

Merkle Science publishes no pricing and gates every product behind a demo. We measured its site, its API documentation and its blockchain coverage on 6 September 2026.

vs Coin Metrics

Coin Metrics alternative

Coin Metrics is now Talos and its pricing page is gone. We measured the redirects, the free community API and the exact metrics it withholds on 8 September 2026.

vs CoinGlass

CoinGlass alternative

CoinGlass publishes exchange balances per wallet address, hourly and rounded, from $29 a month with no free tier. We measured its plans, its documented precision and its Bitcoin gaps on 10 September 2026.

vs Crypto APIs

Crypto APIs alternative

Crypto APIs covers 35+ networks from $49 a month. For Bitcoin fee rates, balances and history, we measured where a Bitcoin-only index does the job better and where it does not.

vs Tatum

Tatum alternative

Tatum covers 130+ blockchains from $49 a month. For Bitcoin history, balances at a past block and fee rates, we priced its plans and measured the Bitcoin side on 22 Sep 2026.

vs NOWNodes

NOWNodes alternative

NOWNodes sells shared node and Blockbook access across 100+ networks from 20 euros a month. We read its price list and hit its Bitcoin endpoints on 26 Sep 2026.

vs GetBlock

GetBlock alternative

GetBlock sells shared nodes on 130+ chains, priced in compute units, from $49 a month. We read its plan table and CU rules and probed its Bitcoin endpoints on 27 Sep 2026.

vs Arkham

Arkham Intelligence alternative

Arkham names wallets across seven networks and grants its API by application. We read its access terms and probed its API on 28 Sep 2026.

vs Santiment

Santiment alternative

Santiment sells 1,000+ metrics across 2,800 assets over GraphQL. We read its plans and tested its Bitcoin balance query against the chain on 29 Sep 2026.

vs Nansen

Nansen alternative

Nansen labels wallets across 38 chains, and Bitcoin is one of them. We read its API docs, credit table and pay-per-call terms on 30 Sep 2026.

vs Allium

Allium alternative

Allium sells enterprise blockchain data across dozens of chains, Bitcoin included. We read its docs, unit tables and keyless pricing on 1 Oct 2026.

vs Flipside

Flipside alternative

Flipside sold its blockchain data business to SonarX in May 2026 and its old domain now redirects to an enterprise AI product. We checked what is left on 2 Oct 2026.

vs SonarX

SonarX alternative

SonarX ships Bitcoin as Snowflake shares, file dumps and Kafka streams, and turns on Bitcoin balances and REST on request. We read its Bitcoin page and checked its pricing URL on 5 Oct 2026.

vs Scorechain

Scorechain alternative

Scorechain is a Luxembourg blockchain analytics firm covering 25 plus chains. We read its site, its QuickNode add-on docs and pricing on 7 Oct 2026.

vs AMLBot

AMLBot alternative

AMLBot sells wallet checks, KYT monitoring and KYC to crypto businesses across many chains. We read its site and plan guide on 8 Oct 2026.

See everything BitcoinDatabase can query

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.

See pricing

REST + SQL + dashboards · new blocks within seconds · informational on-chain data only