Introducing Alchemy Dedicated Clusters

Introducing Dedicated Clusters — fully managed, single-tenant node infrastructure built on Cortex, the same engine powering $4T+ in annual transactions for industry leaders like Robinhood, Stripe, Coinbase, Circle, Chainlink, and Polymarket.

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What are Dedicated Clusters?

Dedicated Clusters give you your own node infrastructure — fully managed by Alchemy, configured to your exact requirements.

Unlike standard dedicated node offerings that give you a single node, Dedicated Clusters provision a redundant group of nodes per chain with built-in automatic failover to Alchemy's shared infrastructure (Node RPC), block-perfect consistency, and real-time observability. You get the control of running your own nodes without the operational burden of managing them.

We design the right cluster for your workload and handle everything from deployment to support.

• Custom tracers or binaries deployed directly on your nodes for faster, more cost-effective simulation, tracing, and indexing
• Single-tenant, SOC 2 Type II compliant infrastructure with audit-ready controls
• Deployed in the region of your choice for ultra-low latency close to your stack, chain infrastructure, or users
• Custom hardware configurations tailored to your traffic for the best possible performance
• Predictable pricing with a fixed monthly cost based on your provisioned capacity

Reliability is layered in at every level:

• Zero downtime by design. Two or more nodes per chain per region — a fully redundant system with no single point of failure.
• Built-in resilience. Traffic spikes beyond your cluster? Requests automatically fail over to Alchemy's shared fleet. No dropped requests, no scrambling.
• Block-perfect consistency. Every node returns the same view of chain state, so your users never hit errors from stale or conflicting reads.
• Full observability. Real-time Grafana dashboards for node health, request patterns, and cluster performance — no black boxes.
• Every chain, instantly available. Direct relationships with 100+ chain foundations mean faster support, proactive upgrades, and priority incident resolution.
• Live in minutes. Same Alchemy APIs — just swap the URL. New clusters spin up in minutes, not weeks.

Dedicated Clusters are powered by Cortex, the same engine behind Alchemy's shared infrastructure, which enables apps on Alchemy to be 2.5x faster, 5x more reliable, and capable of 500x more throughput than alternatives, with 99.99% uptime.

When do I need Dedicated Clusters?

Deploying on shared infrastructure through Node RPC is the right choice for the vast majority of workloads. Dedicated is the right call when you have hard requirements that shared can't satisfy — custom binaries, regulatory isolation, or regional deployments. For example:

Security and forensics teams whose core workloads rely on custom tracing and simulation need to push their own tracers or binaries to the node. Shared fleets can't run bespoke code, so dedicated is the only path.

Financial institutions subject to regulatory requirements need to prove that no other customer's traffic, code, or data has touched their environment. Dedicated Clusters provide single-tenant isolation with audit-ready controls and SOC 2 Type II compliance.

Trading firms, DeFi protocols, and high-frequency trading operations competing on latency need infrastructure co-located with their stack, chain infrastructure, or validators. Dedicated Clusters deploy in the regions you need with custom hardware configurations tailored to your traffic shape, minimizing hops, cutting out noisy neighbors, and delivering the best possible performance.

In-house node operators at exchanges and large protocols take on big reliability risks and spend significant engineering resources on upgrades, monitoring, on-call rotations, and incident triage. Dedicated Clusters handle all of that, so your engineers can focus on building rather than maintaining infrastructure.

Oracles and analytics platforms with high-throughput, multi-chain workloads need full event history, custom tracers for deep data extraction, and visibility into what they're spending. Dedicated Clusters include unlimited getLogs ranges, custom tracer deployment, and a fixed monthly cost — no per-request billing, no surprises.

Not sure which fits your workload? Check out our extended guide that walks you through the decision in detail.

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Over 70% of top onchain applications run on Alchemy to build the fastest, most reliable apps that succeed at scale. If you're juggling multiple dedicated providers because no single one can deliver the reliability, performance, and chain coverage you need — or you're running nodes in-house — come chat with us to get set up on Dedicated Clusters.

We've helped teams like Blockaid meet their most specialized infrastructure requirements.

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