Indexing Co vs Helius
Helius is the deepest Solana infrastructure available. Indexing Co is a multi-chain data pipeline covering 100+ chains. If you need both, you currently need two providers.
You're building a wallet analytics product. Your users hold assets on Solana, Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum. For the Solana side, you want enhanced transaction data, NFT metadata via DAS, and real-time streaming through gRPC. For the EVM side, you need raw contract events delivered to your PostgreSQL database with custom transforms.
Helius solves the first problem better than anyone. It doesn't touch the second.
Architecture
Helius is purpose-built for Solana. The product covers RPCs with staked connections for reliable transaction submission, enhanced transaction parsing (human-readable formats instead of raw instruction data), the DAS API for NFT and compressed NFT metadata, priority fee APIs, webhooks that track up to 100,000 addresses per webhook, and LaserStream, a gRPC streaming interface for low-latency real-time data. They also run Sender, a transaction submission service optimized for landing transactions in congested conditions.
The depth here is genuine. Helius handles the operational complexity of Solana infrastructure so you don't have to. They're SOC 2 certified, operate across 9 global endpoint regions, and maintain a 99.99% uptime SLA. Their customer list includes Phantom, Jupiter, Coinbase, and Bitwise, teams with serious Solana production requirements.
The boundary is equally clear: Helius is Solana only. No EVM chains, no Cosmos, no Move. If your product spans chains, Helius covers one of them.
Indexing Co runs data pipelines across 100+ blockchains. You configure a pipeline that sources events from one or more chains, applies TypeScript transforms you write, and delivers structured data directly to your PostgreSQL database, BigQuery dataset, or webhook endpoint. The schema is yours. The infrastructure is managed.
The model is different from Helius in a fundamental way: Helius delivers data to your application via API and gRPC. Indexing Co delivers data to your database or warehouse. One model is optimized for real-time application data access; the other is optimized for storage, analytics, and downstream processing.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Helius | Indexing Co |
|---|---|---|
| Chain support | Solana only | 100+ chains (EVM, Solana, Cosmos, Move, others) |
| Data delivery model | RPC, API endpoints, gRPC streaming, webhooks | Direct to PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or webhook |
| Schema control | Helius-defined endpoints and formats | You define the schema |
| Solana-specific features | Enhanced transactions, DAS (NFTs), priority fees, LaserStream gRPC | Raw Solana event indexing with TypeScript transforms |
| Block-to-database delivery | gRPC stream to your endpoint | sub-500ms (dedicated infra) |
| Webhook support | Yes (100K addresses per webhook) | Yes |
| Transaction submission | Sender (staked connections, optimized landing) | Not applicable |
| Data volume | High-throughput RPC infrastructure | 1B+ events/day processed |
| Uptime SLA | 99.99% | Managed service |
| SOC 2 certified | Yes | Contact for compliance details |
| Pricing | Free plan, paid from ~$49/month | Contact for pipeline pricing |
| Managed infrastructure | Yes | Yes |
When to Use Each
- You're building on Solana and need the deepest available infrastructure
- You need enhanced transaction parsing, DAS for NFTs, or priority fee data on Solana
- LaserStream gRPC fits your real-time application data access pattern
- You need reliable transaction submission via staked connections
- SOC 2 certification is a procurement requirement
- You need data pipelines across multiple chains, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Solana, or others
- You want contract events delivered to your own PostgreSQL or BigQuery on a schema you control
- You need TypeScript transforms applied at ingest before data lands in your database
- Your data ends up in a warehouse or analytics layer, not queried live from an API
- You're building a multi-chain product where Solana depth matters on one side and EVM pipeline delivery matters on the other
- Helius handles your Solana application layer; Indexing Co handles your multi-chain data warehouse