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Scorechain sells wallet screening and transaction monitoring across 25 plus chains, priced by quote, or from $50 a month for 100 checks through QuickNode.
Screening only Bitcoin, at volume, with the evidence behind every hit? Compare both below.
REST API · SQL · dashboards · address history since the 2009 genesis block
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Scorechain is a multichain compliance platform with its own entity attribution, dashboards and case tooling sold by quote, while BitcoinDatabase is a Bitcoin-only index whose Enterprise plan screens addresses against the OFAC SDN XML, traces one and two hop exposure with the transaction behind every finding, and keeps a screening book that is rescreened whenever the list changes, at a published monthly price.
Side by side
Scorechain vs BitcoinDatabase, honestly
A fair look at what each does well. Both are capable tools. Here is where they differ.
| What matters | BitcoinDatabase | Scorechain |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | Enterprise $1,498 a month, or $749 a month billed yearly, with 100M API credits | Direct contracts by quote. QuickNode add-on from $50 a month, per quicknode.com on 7 Oct 2026 |
| Checks included | One screening costs 10 credits, so 100M credits cover up to 10 million screenings | QuickNode add-on Starter 100, Growth 1,000, Business 10,000 checks a month |
| Rate limit | 500 requests per second on Enterprise | 10 requests per second on the QuickNode add-on |
| Chains | Bitcoin only | 25 plus blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, Solana and XRP Ledger |
| Sanctions source | OFAC SDN structured XML, refreshed at 6:52 and 18:52 UTC, every list version kept | Sanctions data inside its own risk model and entity database |
| Risk categories and attribution | SDN matches plus a small set of public-record and miner self-declared labels, no clustering heuristics | 50 plus risk categories and over 1 billion labeled entities, per Scorechain |
| Exposure depth | Direct counterparties both ways and two-hop inbound, with txid, hop and direction on every finding | Incoming and outgoing exposure scored through its entity graph |
| Coverage disclosure | Each answer states how many transactions it read of how many exist, and flags a partial trace | Assessment returned in under 5 seconds, per its docs |
| Continuous rescreening | Screening book of addresses, rescreened on every new list version, changed entries filterable | Alerts and transaction monitoring in its platform |
| Beyond screening | Balances, UTXOs, xpub, history, SQL, webhooks and exports in the same plan | Investigations, flux analysis, VASP due diligence directory, dashboard |
| Best suited for | Bitcoin exchanges, custodians, kiosks and banks that need high-volume SDN screening with reproducible evidence | Multichain VASPs and banks that want a full analytics suite with broad attribution and case tooling |
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 Scorechain sells and how it prices
Scorechain, founded in 2015 and hosted in an EU private cloud with ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, sells wallet screening, transaction monitoring, flux analysis, token and stablecoin monitoring, a VASP due diligence directory and an AI assistant, through a dashboard, REST API, SDK and webhooks. Its pricing page publishes principles, not numbers: price depends on transaction volume, number of users and compliance goals, and the route is a demo call. The one public price we found is the Scorechain Risk Assessment add-on on QuickNode, listed from $50 a month, with Starter at 100 checks, Growth at 1,000 and Business at 10,000 checks a month and a 10 requests per second limit, per its add-on docs on 7 October 2026.
How our Bitcoin screening differs
GET /v1/screen/{address} on the Enterprise plan matches the address against every entry of the newest OFAC SDN list we hold, read from the structured XML because the CSV truncates crypto addresses. It then reads the address history for direct counterparties in both directions and the funding transactions behind its inbound coins for two-hop exposure, and returns a risk level with each finding tied to a txid, hop and direction. The answer names the list version and block it was made against and says how much of the history it read, so a partial trace is never passed off as clean. POST /v1/screening/book adds up to 1,000 addresses per call, and the whole book is rescreened whenever a new list version arrives.
Where Scorechain is the better buy
Pick Scorechain if you need risk categories beyond sanctions: mixers, darknet markets, scams and gambling services attributed across many chains, plus case management and a dashboard for analysts who do not write code. Our labels are deliberately small and sourced, and we do not cluster addresses by heuristics, so we will not tell you an address belongs to a darknet market. Pick BitcoinDatabase if your exposure is Bitcoin, your control is SDN screening at onboarding and on withdrawal, and you want a published price, thousands of screenings a second and the transactions behind every hit in your file. Many teams run both: a broad vendor for attribution and our book for high-volume SDN screening and evidence.
Good questions
Scorechain vs BitcoinDatabase, answered
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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.
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