Chainalysis alternatives
Chainalysis is built for agencies and exchanges and sold through a sales team. If you are a hack victim, their lawyer or a small team, these are the options — compared on price, access, tracing and output.
Side by side
Other vendors' figures from their own sites, checked 2026-09-18; each is sourced in its section below.
- ChainHint
- $79/mo
- Chainalysis
- Not public
- MetaSleuth
- $30/mo
- MistTrack
- $229/mo
- ChainHint
- 1 investigation
- Chainalysis
- Screening only
- MetaSleuth
- MistTrack
- ChainHint
- Chainalysis
- Demo first
- MetaSleuth
- MistTrack
- ChainHint
- 12
- Chainalysis
- 27+
- MetaSleuth
- 12
- MistTrack
- 19
- ChainHint
- Flags the exit
- Chainalysis
- MetaSleuth
- MistTrack
- Not stated
- ChainHint
- Chainalysis
- MetaSleuth
- MistTrack
- ChainHint
- 5 authorities
- Chainalysis
- Free API
- MetaSleuth
- Not stated
- MistTrack
- OFAC, NBCTF, UK
- ChainHint
- AI incident report
- Chainalysis
- Rapid, AI agents
- MetaSleuth
- Not stated
- MistTrack
- MCP, agent skills
- ChainHint
- Share link, PDF
- Chainalysis
- Graph layouts
- MetaSleuth
- Share links, export
- MistTrack
- STR report
- ChainHint
- Agency plan
- Chainalysis
- Sanctions API
- MetaSleuth
- Labels, risk score
- MistTrack
- OpenAPI
- ChainHint
- 48M+
- Chainalysis
- 134K+ counterparties
- MetaSleuth
- 600M+
- MistTrack
- 500M+
Labelled-address figures count different things: Chainalysis profiles real-world counterparties; the others count labelled addresses.
What Chainalysis is
Chainalysis
The incumbent, built for agencies and exchanges
The default for law enforcement and large exchanges. Reactor is its investigation tool; around it sit KYT for transaction monitoring, Address Screening, Rapid for AI triage, and security products such as Hexagate and Alterya.
Strengths
The alternatives
1. ChainHint
Self-serve tracing for hack victims and small teams
Traces stolen funds hop by hop from the attacker's address, names the exchanges, bridges and mixers the money reaches, and writes the incident report: graph, timeline and, on paid plans, a PDF freeze packet an exchange can act on.
Strengths
- Free first investigation, then a published $79/mo — no sales call
- AI-written incident report and a PDF freeze packet for exchanges (paid plans)
- 12 chains including TON and Gnosis: Ethereum, Bitcoin, BSC, Polygon, Solana, Tron, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Avalanche, Gnosis, TON
Limitations
- Does not continue across bridges by itself — it flags the exit and names the destination chain
- Fewer chains than Chainalysis or MistTrack, and a smaller label set than the others claim
Victims, their lawyers, and small investigation or compliance teams that need an answer today.
Free first investigation; $79/mo Investigator, $499/mo Agency, or $639 / $3990 a year. Crypto payment, no auto-renewal.
2. MetaSleuth
Self-serve cross-chain tracer · by BlockSec
The investigation product of BlockSec, a blockchain-security firm. Self-serve with published plans, cross-chain in one view, with its label and risk-score data sold as a separate API.
Strengths
3. MistTrack
AML tracing and compliance platform · by SlowMist
Built by SlowMist, a blockchain-security firm. Pairs tracing with AML risk data, sanctions screening and regulator-ready reporting, and ships an MCP server and agent skills for AI tools.
Strengths
ChainHint on a real hack
Our public trace of the Bybit hack covers 440 addresses and 683 transfers — the graph, the addresses and the numbers are open to anyone.
Open the Bybit case
Stay with Chainalysis when
- You need funds followed across bridges automatically, or chains beyond our twelve.
- Your findings go to a court or regulator that expects a long-established vendor.
- You screen transactions at exchange volume and need transaction monitoring.
- You have a five-to-six-figure annual budget.
Choose ChainHint when
- You were hacked or scammed this week and need to see where the money went today.
- You need something to hand an exchange or a lawyer: graph, timeline, freeze packet.
- You want a published price and no sales call.
- The funds are on one of the twelve chains we trace.
Questions
- What is the best Chainalysis alternative?
- It depends on who you are. For a hack victim or a small team that needs a trace today, ChainHint (free first investigation, then $79/mo). For cross-chain tracing on a small budget, MetaSleuth. For compliance reporting and sanctions screening, MistTrack. Agencies and large exchanges usually stay with Chainalysis.
- Is there a free alternative to Chainalysis?
- ChainHint's free plan runs 1 full investigation up to 3 hops; MetaSleuth has a free plan and MistTrack a free Light tier. Chainalysis itself offers only a free sanctions-screening API and oracle.
- How much does Chainalysis cost?
- Chainalysis publishes no price list; access starts with a demo request. Vendr's purchase data puts the median contract at $174,709 a year (range $25,742–$297,338).
- Does ChainHint trace across bridges like Chainalysis?
- Not automatically. ChainHint detects bridge and instant-swap exits and names the destination chain; you continue with a new trace on that chain. Chainalysis Reactor and MetaSleuth follow funds across chains in one graph.
Trace the funds today
Your first investigation is free. Then $79/mo, paid in crypto, no auto-renewal.
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