Dune: nft and analytics tools rating breakdown
Analytics · SQL over indexed chain data
The most capable analytics tool in crypto and the most honest about what it is: indexed chain data you query in SQL, with public dashboards anybody can read and fork. The free tier includes 2,500 credits a month, unlimited queries and public dashboards — enough to answer most questions a serious individual will ever ask, which is a rare thing for a product to admit.
The most capable analytics tool in crypto and the most honest about what it is: indexed chain data you query in SQL, with public dashboards anybody can read and fork. The free tier includes 2,500 credits a month, unlimited queries and public dashboards — enough to answer most questions a serious individual will ever ask, which is a rare thing…
How the score is built
Each criterion is scored 0–10 and weighted. The median column is the middle score across every entry in this ranking, so a row reads as a position rather than a number.
| Criterion | What we measured | Weight | Score | Category median | Rank | Weighted gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you keep when you leave | — | 30% | 8 | 8 | 3 of 6 | 0.00 |
| What it costs, and what the free version does | 2,500 credits per month, unlimited queries, public dashboards free plan · published · 2026-08-27 · source$399/month (Plus), $999/month (Premium) paid plans · published · 2026-08-27 · source | 28% | 7 | 7.5 | 4 of 6 | -0.14 |
| What it genuinely does that you could not do yourself | — | 22% | 10 | 8.5 | 1 of 6 | +0.33 |
| Are the terms published? | — | 12% | 9 | 8.5 | 2 of 6 | +0.06 |
| Chains and data breadth | — | 8% | 10 | 9 | 1 of 6 | +0.08 |
Measured 27 August 2026 · weights and method · decided by what it genuinely does that you could not do yourself, worth +0.33 points against the median
What you keep when you leave: 8/10
For creation tools: who owns the deployed contract, whether the collection is portable to another platform, and whether the tool can change terms on work already minted. For analytics tools: whether queries, dashboards and exports remain usable outside the product. A tool you cannot leave is a subscription with hostages.
Scored 8 of 10 against a category median of 8, which places it 3rd of 6 among nft and analytics tools on this criterion. At a 30% weight that is exactly level with the median of the weighted total. The best score in the category is 10, the worst 5.
What it costs, and what the free version does: 7/10
Published prices quoted from the vendor’s own documentation — per-mint fees, revenue shares, subscription tiers — together with an honest description of what the free tier actually does. The spread in this category is extreme: the same act of publishing a collection is free at one tool and a 10% revenue share at another.
Scored 7 of 10 against a category median of 7.5, which places it 4th of 6 among nft and analytics tools on this criterion. At a 28% weight that is 0.14 points below the median contribution of the weighted total. The best score in the category is 10, the worst 2.
What it genuinely does that you could not do yourself: 10/10
The specific function that justifies the price: contract deployment without code, indexed multi-chain data, labelled address clusters, query infrastructure. Where the same result is available free from a block explorer or a public API, that is stated rather than glossed over.
Scored 10 of 10 against a category median of 8.5, which places it 1st of 6 among nft and analytics tools on this criterion. At a 22% weight that is 0.33 points above the median contribution of the weighted total. The best score in the category is 10, the worst 6.
Are the terms published?: 9/10
Whether fees, revenue shares and plan limits are stated plainly in public documentation, or only discovered at the point of use. A creation tool that reveals its revenue share after you have minted is scored on that.
Scored 9 of 10 against a category median of 8.5, which places it 2nd of 6 among nft and analytics tools on this criterion. At a 12% weight that is 0.06 points above the median contribution of the weighted total. The best score in the category is 10, the worst 6.
Chains and data breadth: 10/10
Chains supported and, for analytics, the breadth of indexed data — from the vendor’s own documentation.
Scored 10 of 10 against a category median of 9, which places it 1st of 6 among nft and analytics tools on this criterion. At a 8% weight that is 0.08 points above the median contribution of the weighted total. The best score in the category is 10, the worst 7.
Other measurements
Its nearest neighbours in this ranking
| # | Entry | What it genuinely does that you could not do yourself | How it differs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manifold Studio | 8 | Behind by 2 on what it genuinely does that you could not do yourself. |
| 2 | Block explorers | 6 | Behind by 4 on what it genuinely does that you could not do yourself. |
| 4 | Zora | 8 | Behind by 2 on what it genuinely does that you could not do yourself. |
| 5 | Nansen | 9 | Behind by 1 on what it genuinely does that you could not do yourself. |
Questions about this score
Is Dune's free tier actually usable?
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Yes, genuinely — 2,500 credits a month with unlimited queries and public dashboards covers most individual research. The paid tiers buy faster execution, larger result sets and private work, which matter for teams running things on a schedule rather than for a person answering a question.
Can Dune's data be wrong?
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The chain data is what it is; the tables that organise it are community-maintained, and a decoding or labelling mistake upstream produces a dashboard that is confidently incorrect. Check what a query is actually selecting before quoting a number from someone else's dashboard, which is exactly why every dashboard being forkable matters.