Looking for afree Solana RPC?
Public RPC is cheap until it becomes the bottleneck. Venum helps you reduce RPC cost with real-time prices, pool state, swap building, and TX landing, so your app does less polling and more execution.
Start with public prices first, no API key required.
Free RPC vs paid RPC vs Venum.
If your goal is lower cost and fewer moving parts, the right question is whether you can avoid expensive RPC patterns entirely, not just get faster RPC.
| Option | Cost | Pricing model | Reliability | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Solana RPC | $0 | Shared pool | Rate-limited | Occasional wallet reads and simple experiments |
| Paid RPC | $50-500+ | Per-call billing | Better, still bills polling | Teams still building around raw RPC primitives |
| Venum | $0-199 | Flat-rate | Purpose-built APIs | Apps, bots, and agents that want lower RPC cost and faster execution |
Free Solana RPC breaks first. Paid RPC still bills waste.
Free RPC breaks under load
Public RPC is fine for occasional reads, but price polling, pool discovery, and transaction retries will hit limits quickly.
Paid RPC bills you for waste
Even good RPC providers bill you for polling loops, repeated getProgramAccounts scans, and transaction plumbing you should not have to own.
You do not need more RPC
They need prices, pool state, swaps, and transaction landing. Venum exposes those directly so you can replace the most expensive RPC patterns first.
Replace the worst calls first.
You do not need to replace RPC entirely. Start with the smallest safe change that removes the most pain, then keep moving outward.
Token price polling
Pool discovery
Quote · build · send · confirm
Vendor consolidation
Use less raw RPC, ship more product.
Start with public prices, or get a free API key and replace polling and plumbing with one execution layer.