# Pricing and Plans

We offer a free subscription for those who start developing on Solana. Sign up via email; no credit card is required. 

More advanced plans are available for dedicated builders:

* **Start** → onboarding / testing / lightweight apps
* **Focus** → early production workloads
* **Stream** → scaling production apps with meaningful real-time streaming
* **Aperture** → HFT / heavy indexing / MEV / trading infrastructure

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### Subscription Rate Limits

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="156.0845947265625"></th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Plan / Feature</strong></td><td><strong>Start</strong></td><td><strong>Focus</strong></td><td><strong>Stream</strong></td><td><strong>Aperture</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Price / month</strong></td><td>$0</td><td>$45</td><td>$249</td><td>$499</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Monthly Credits (CU)</strong></td><td>1.5M</td><td>12M</td><td>60M</td><td>120M </td></tr><tr><td><strong>RPC Rate Limit</strong></td><td>15 req/s</td><td>50 req/s</td><td>150 req/s</td><td>500 req/s</td></tr><tr><td><strong>"Heavy" RPC Methods</strong></td><td>❌</td><td>✅ </td><td>✅ </td><td>✅ </td></tr><tr><td><strong>sendTransaction (no SwQoS)</strong></td><td>Within the same rate limit</td><td>Within the same rate limit</td><td>Within the same rate limit</td><td>Within the same rate limit</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Bandwidth</strong></td><td>50 GB</td><td>Unlimited</td><td>Unlimited</td><td>Unlimited</td></tr><tr><td><strong>WebSockets</strong></td><td>1 concurrent</td><td>10 concurrent</td><td>20 concurrent</td><td>50 concurrent</td></tr><tr><td><strong>gRPC Yellowstone</strong></td><td>❌</td><td>❌</td><td>✅ Up to 10 streams</td><td>✅ Up to 25 streams</td></tr><tr><td><strong>gRPC Shredstream</strong></td><td>❌</td><td>❌</td><td>❌</td><td>✅ Up to 10 streams</td></tr><tr><td><strong>gRPC Aperture (Beta)</strong></td><td>❌</td><td>❌</td><td>❌</td><td>✅  On request</td></tr><tr><td><strong>SWQoS</strong></td><td>❌</td><td>Extra fees via partners' network</td><td>Extra fees via partners' network</td><td>Extra fees via partners' network</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Infrastructure</strong></td><td>Shared</td><td>Shared</td><td>High-performance shared</td><td>Priority high-performance shared</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Support Level</strong></td><td>Community</td><td>Email – SLA 24h*</td><td>Email – SLA 12h*</td><td>Priority chat – SLA 8h*</td></tr></tbody></table>

\*SLA refers to the initial answer timeframe, not the final issue resolution. We offer assistance **during Support Chat hours.** All requests outside of support hours are handled under the "Best Effort" SLA.

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### Custom Setup: Dedicated Self-Hosted Infrastructure

For mid- and large-sized companies and Web3 projects, we offer custom approach – [dedicated Solana nodes](https://rpcfast.com/dedicated-solana-nodes) and [high-availability clusters of nodes](https://rpcfast.com/dedicated-cluster) (2+) on a specific blockchain of your choice, whether your goal is to run a validator, RPC nodes for blockchain analytics and [HFT](https://rpcfast.com/solana-trading-node), or archive nodes for data ETL solutions.

The self-hosted cluster offers advantages such as load balancing, autoscaling, speed optimization, geo-distribution, and HFT-focused tools, based on a client business goals.

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