Chainalysis alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of Chainalysis, shown against it.

Chainalysis Kaiko Nansen Arkham
Vendor Chainalysis Inc. Kaiko Nansen Inc. Arkham Intelligence
Pricing model Quote only Quote only Subscription Free tier + paid plans
Free tier No No No Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud
Open source No No No No
Best for Compliance teams, exchanges, regulators and law enforcement investigating illicit blockchain activity, not investors. Banks, funds and regulators needing licensed institutional-grade crypto market data rather than a dashboard. Crypto traders and funds who want to track what labeled 'smart money' wallets are doing in real time. Researchers and traders who want to identify the real-world entities behind specific wallet addresses.
Pricing

Enterprise licenses negotiated directly with sales; no published pricing.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Institutional data-licensing agreements negotiated directly with sales; no published pricing.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Tiered subscription plans gating wallet-label depth, chain coverage and API access; the pricing page renders plan details client-side and figures could not be captured this session.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Core platform (explorer, entity search, alerts) is free to use; deeper attribution and bounty participation run through the token-based Intel Exchange rather than a published subscription price.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • Reactor: cross-chain fund tracing for investigations
  • KYT: real-time transaction monitoring for exchanges/institutions
  • Address screening and wallet risk scoring
  • VASP and sanctions-list risk assessment
  • AI-powered fraud detection (Alterya)
  • Web3 security threat protection (Hexagate)
  • Reference and Level 1/Level 2 market data feeds
  • Best-execution pricing and fair-value assessment
  • Derivatives risk indicators
  • Benchmark and custom crypto indices
  • Market surveillance and blockchain monitoring for AML
  • On-chain/off-chain data bridging infrastructure
  • Wallet labeling (smart money, funds, exchanges, market makers)
  • Token flow and holder-composition dashboards
  • Exchange inflow/outflow tracking
  • Smart-money portfolio and trade tracking
  • Custom wallet alerts
  • Multi-chain coverage
  • Wallet-to-entity deanonymization
  • Multi-chain transaction and portfolio visualization
  • Custom on-chain activity alerts
  • Arkham Intel Exchange for crowdsourced address attribution
  • Searchable database of identified crypto entities
  • Network graph visualization of fund flows

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