How Solflare Delivers Fast, Reliable Solana Analytics to 4M+ Users

Meet Solflare: The Wallet Powering Millions on Solana

Solflare is one of the largest and most trusted wallets in the Solana ecosystem, serving 4M+ active users across mobile and web. From swaps and portfolio insights to advanced analytics, Solflare has become the default home for users who want fast, intuitive, and data-rich experiences on Solana.

As the team continued expanding features like Token Balance History, Swap History, Explore Tabs, and upcoming products such as Solflare Cards, they needed infrastructure that matched Solana’s own architecture: fast, reliable, and built for massive scale.

The Opportunity: Powering Advanced Analytics for Millions

Solflare’s engineering team has been investing heavily in analytics and historical data features. Their goal: Give every user deep insight into their past trades, portfolio performance, and on-chain activity, instantly.

But historical data is one of the toughest challenges on Solana. Existing RPC providers often struggled to deliver fast, consistent archive queries, especially for “heavy” methods like getTransaction, getProgramAccounts and getTokenAccountsByOwner.

Solflare needed an archive method that could keep up with their user base at scale.

After evaluating other solutions, we concluded that Alchemy gave us the best cost-to-performance ratio, letting us scale to Solflare’s user base, since we have more than 4M active users.

— Dušan K., Backend Engineer at Solflare

Finding the Right Infrastructure Partner

After evaluating multiple providers, Solflare chose Alchemy’s Solana Archive Method because it consistently delivered the best cost-to-performance ratio and reliability during benchmarking.

Alchemy stood out for:

• Up to 20× faster archive queries compared to other providers
• 99.99% uptime and multi-region redundancy
• 2× higher throughput across enterprise Solana APIs
• Proven reliability under heavy, real-world Solana workloads
• A long-term roadmap built specifically for Solana, not retrofitted from EVM

We prototyped an internal solution, but quickly realized that operating a full, proper Solana archival RPC would be full-time work, so we decided to partner up with Alchemy and focus on building a better product, while having serious support from a well-established player on the market.

— Dušan K., Backend Engineer at Solflare

Building with Alchemy: Fast Setup, Deep Technical Partnership

Solflare integrated with Alchemy’s Solana Archive Method through a streamlined setup that required minimal configuration. Alchemy’s engineering team worked closely with Solflare throughout the integration, providing timely responses and proactive communication whenever questions arose.

Alchemy provided:

• Fast onboarding support
• Guidance on best practices for archive-heavy workloads
• Proactive communication during any internal events that could impact service
• Observability tools through the Alchemy Dashboard, giving Solflare visibility into latency, throughput, and error rates across endpoints

These resources helped ensure Solflare could integrate quickly and maintain confidence in production performance as new features were deployed.

The Results: Consistent Performance at Scale

Since migrating to Alchemy’s Archive Method, Solflare has seen consistently strong performance across all of its analytics workloads. 

• Sustained throughput of several thousand RPS with zero errors across heavy analytics workloads.
• Consistently fast performance, with <200ms response times even during large historical queries.
• Lightning-fast wallet backfills, enabling Solflare to fetch a user’s entire historical transaction history in under a minute.
• No major incidents related to RPC availability, supporting a smooth user experience and reinforcing Solflare's product reliability.
• Support for shipping key analytics features, including Token Balance History, Swap History, and PnL, all running smoothly on top of Alchemy’s archive performance.

Alchemy’s Archival RPC has kept up with Solflare’s throughput while keeping a consistent <200ms response time

— Dušan K., Backend Engineer at Solflare

Continuous Innovation, Powered by Alchemy

Rather than a single moment or crisis, Solflare’s story is one of constant shipping.

Every month, the Solflare team releases new product advancements: deeper analytics, improved UI flows, and expanded user tools. Alchemy’s Solana infrastructure ensures these innovations ship without performance trade-offs.

• New analytics features → fast historical queries
• New user flows → high-throughput RPC under load
• Growing user base → reliable scaling with zero incidents

With a rapidly evolving roadmap, Solflare values that Alchemy’s infra doesn’t just work today, it evolves with them.

What’s Next for Solflare

Solflare is continuing to expand its wallet analytics ecosystem and preparing for its next major feature launch: Solflare Cards, a new experience designed to give users even more visibility and control.

As they scale to serve even more users and richer features, Alchemy will remain their long-term partner for archive performance, reliability, and engineering collaboration.

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