At a glance
Decision summary
- Best for
- Wallet and account data enrichment
- Watch out for
- RPC endpoint hosting
- Auth
- API key
- Pricing
- Marketplace pricing
- Agent actionability
- Not actionable
- PubFi gateway
- PubFi gateway not routeable yet
- Last verified
Covalent
Covalent is tracked as an on-chain state source for Ethereum coverage. Unified blockchain data API for balances, transactions, token holders, NFTs, and decoded chain state
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Best fit and tradeoffs
Best for
- Wallet and account data enrichment
- Decoded on-chain state reads
- They need decoded balances, transactions, token holders, NFT, or chain-state records.
- They want an API-led source instead of a custom indexing framework.
- They are comparing wallet and on-chain-state providers such as Moralis, Bitquery, and Dune.
Watchouts
- RPC endpoint hosting
- Primary exchange order books
- Product-scope commercial metadata blocks a single safe public price or quota claim.
- Covalent may not fit teams that need full custom indexing control or raw node infrastructure.
- Teams should verify target network and endpoint coverage rather than extrapolating from broad product positioning.
Why teams choose it
Covalent is a unified blockchain data API for balances, transactions, token holders, NFTs, and decoded chain state. Discovery tracks it as Ethereum on-chain-state coverage and an alternative to Moralis, Bitquery, and Dune API.
Covalent is useful when decoded account and token data are more important than raw RPC access. The commercial fixture is product-scope dependent, so public copy should avoid implying one provider-wide price or access model.
Capability summaries
Covalent on-chain state coverage
- Category
- On-chain state
- Public status
- Requested
- Auth requirement
- API key
- Procurement state
- Free Requires Auth
- Coverage
- Ethereum
- Output contracts
- Chain State Record
Quick-start entry
GET
Endpoint path not listed- Style
- REST
- Language
- HTTP
- Method
- GET
- Path
- Not listed
- Requires auth
- Yes
- Provider docs
- Documentation
PubFi gateway status
PubFi gateway not routeable yet
This Discovery source is available for source evaluation and comparison, but PubFi does not publish a production-callable gateway route for it yet. Use this page to compare the provider, signal demand, or start a procurement/integration review instead of attempting a PubFi gateway call.
- PubFi gateway call
- Not published for this source
- Direct gateway examples
- Not available
- Next step
- Request integration or start supplier procurement review
- Do not infer a PubFi gateway path from this Discovery page.
- Use the official provider docs for direct provider integration until a PubFi readiness entry marks this source gateway_available.
- Use the Discovery request or demand-signal CTA to register integration interest with PubFi.
- Supplier procurement, paid-plan approval, and upstream credential setup require explicit review before PubFi can route the source.
Access, pricing, and protocol metadata
Access and pricing
- Auth methods
- API key
- Pricing model
- Marketplace pricing
- Free tier
- Covalent access is product, marketplace, and network-settlement scoped; no single provider-wide public free tier is safe to flatten.
- Starting price
- Marketplace pricing
- Free rate limit
- Marketplace pricing
- Paid rate limit
- Marketplace pricing
Protocols and outputs
- Data types
- Balances, Transactions, Token Holders, Nft Data, Decoded Chain State
- Protocols
- REST
- REST support
- Yes
- GraphQL support
- Not listed
- WebSocket support
- Not listed
- Streaming support
- Not listed
- Webhook support
- Not listed
- Feature flags
- Not listed
- SDKs
- Not listed
Provider and review status
- Documentation
- Provider docs
- Doc quality score
- Not listed
- Status page
- Not listed
- Public fixture status
- Current
- Raw claim-safe status
- Public source profile
- Page tier
- Tier 2
Implementation notes
Pricing
Keep Covalent commercial labels product-scope aware and avoid one flat price or quota projection.
Coverage
Confirm whether the integration needs balances, transactions, token holders, NFTs, or decoded state before comparing alternatives.
Schema
Design around Covalent response schemas instead of assuming parity with Moralis or Bitquery.
Use case candidates
- Read balances and transactions for portfolio workflows
- Compare decoded chain-state APIs for application data
Comparison snapshot
Covalent is the decoded unified-data alternative to Moralis and Bitquery. It is less like The Graph or SubQuery, where the team controls indexing projects and query schemas.
PubFi friction reduction
Commercial Scope
- Source friction
- The fixture marks Covalent commercial metadata as needs_product_scope.
- PubFi relief
- Discovery keeps commercial claims status-aware and points comparison work toward endpoint fit instead of unsupported plan claims.
Official source links
Agent-readable resources
Alternatives and hubs
FAQ
What is Covalent used for?
Covalent is a candidate source for balances, transactions, token holders, NFTs, and decoded chain-state data.