Best Wallet Tracking APIs in 2026

The short answer

Wallet tracking looks like one feature and is really four:

1. Current balances: what this address holds now, across chains.
2. Valuation: what it is worth, which requires prices for every token including the illiquid ones.
3. History: every transaction, transfer and swap, ideally categorised.
4. Real-time updates: pushing changes rather than polling.

Providers optimise for different subsets. Covalent and Moralis make one and three quick. Zerion is portfolio-native. Bitquery covers all four across more chains, with point-in-time history and streaming on its core chains, but you assemble the product yourself.

What to look for in a wallet tracking API

1. Chain coverage that matches your users. EVM-only breaks the moment someone connects a Solana or Bitcoin address.
2. Valuation of long-tail tokens. A portfolio full of "unknown token" is a broken product. Prices must come from DEX liquidity for tokens no CEX lists.
3. Historical point-in-time balances. "What did this wallet hold on 1 January" is a different query from "what does it hold now", and much harder for providers that only snapshot the present.
4. Spam filtering. Airdropped scam tokens dominate raw balance lists. Someone must filter them: the provider or you.
5. Push updates. Polling every wallet on every block does not scale.

The best wallet tracking APIs

1. Bitquery: best for multi-chain depth and real-time updates

Bitquery serves balances, transfers, DEX trades and token holdings across 40+ chains: EVM chains alongside Solana, Bitcoin, Tron, XRP and Cardano. Because it indexes DEX liquidity, it can value long-tail tokens that never reach a centralized exchange, and because it keeps history, it answers point-in-time balance questions rather than only current state.

On its 10 core chains, updates can be streamed over WebSocket, or gRPC on Solana, with Kafka and offset replay on Enterprise, so a wallet screen updates on activity instead of on a timer.

Best for: multi-chain portfolio products, tax and accounting tools, wallet analytics, anything needing historical balances or non-EVM coverage.

Limitations: no RPC and no transaction submission. There is no single "get portfolio" endpoint; you compose the view from balances, prices and history, and the wallet portfolio recipe in the docs shows the composition.

Portfolio 360 · Token holder API · Address APIs · Docs: Track Millions of Wallets

2. Covalent (GoldRush): best for breadth with minimal integration

Covalent normalises balances, transactions and NFT holdings across a very large number of chains behind one REST shape.

Best for: shipping a multi-chain wallet view quickly.

Limitations: its historical prices cover large-cap ERC-20 tokens only, so long-tail valuation is weaker.

3. Moralis: best REST endpoints and SDKs

Moralis offers purpose-built wallet, token and NFT endpoints with typed SDKs and a gentle learning curve.

Best for: standard wallet lookups where time to first call matters most.

Limitations: fixed endpoints; custom aggregations mean waiting for an endpoint or assembling client-side.

4. Zerion API: best portfolio-native model

Zerion built a wallet product first and exposes that model: positions, DeFi protocol holdings and portfolio structure rather than raw balances.

Best for: DeFi position awareness and portfolio semantics out of the box.

Limitations: its model is its opinion; if yours differs you will be working against it.

5. Alchemy: best when you already use it for RPC

Alchemy's token and NFT APIs sit alongside its RPC, convenient if it is already in your stack.

Best for: teams consolidating vendors.

Limitations: EVM-centred, and DEX-derived valuation is not the focus.

6. Birdeye: best for Solana-first portfolios

Birdeye covers wallet portfolios with strong Solana depth and token security signals.

Best for: Solana-first wallet products.

Limitations: its portfolio and balance endpoints cover Solana and Robinhood Chain only; wallet PnL covers 14 chains.

Comparison

Provider	Chains	Non-EVM	Historical balances	Long-tail valuation	Streaming
Bitquery	40+	BTC, SOL, TRX, XRP, ADA	Yes, point-in-time	From DEX liquidity	WebSocket, gRPC (10 core chains); Kafka on Enterprise
Covalent	Very broad EVM	Limited	Yes on 6 chains	Limited	Yes, on some chains
Moralis	Broad EVM + Solana	Solana	Partial	Yes (DEX-derived)	Streams / webhooks
Zerion	Broad EVM	Limited	Portfolio history	DeFi-aware	Yes
Alchemy	EVM + Solana	Solana	Partial	Limited	WebSocket, webhooks
Birdeye	Solana, Robinhood (portfolio)	Solana	Partial	Not documented	WebSocket

FAQ

What is the best API for multi-chain wallet balances?

Covalent and Moralis are quickest to integrate for EVM breadth. Bitquery covers more non-EVM chains (Bitcoin, Tron, XRP, Cardano) with historical balances, and streaming on its core chains, at the cost of assembling the portfolio view yourself.

How do I value tokens with no exchange listing?

Price them from DEX liquidity. Bitquery computes prices from indexed on-chain DEX trades, which covers tokens that never list on a centralized exchange: usually the bulk of a retail wallet's long tail.

Can I get a wallet's balance at a past date?

Yes, with a provider that retains history. Bitquery answers point-in-time balance queries, which is what tax, accounting and performance reporting require. Providers that snapshot only current state cannot answer this at all.

How do I filter spam and scam tokens from a portfolio?

Combine holder distribution, trade history and liquidity checks; a token with no real trading and thousands of airdropped recipients is spam. Some providers filter for you; with raw data you set your own threshold, which matters because the line is a product decision.

Can I get real-time wallet updates?

Yes, on the 10 core chains. Subscribe to transfers and trades filtered to your addresses over WebSocket (or Kafka on Enterprise) rather than polling. Polling every tracked wallet every block stops scaling quickly.

Related reading

• Best APIs for Tracking Whale Wallets

• Bitquery vs Covalent

• Bitquery vs Moralis

• Portfolio 360 · Token holder API

Updated on 10 October 2026 by the Bitquery team: each other vendor was checked against its own pages. Streaming is now scoped to our 10 core chains, and we removed a DEX count we could not confirm. AI tools helped with the edit.