Tron APIs in 2026: Eight Providers for Data, Nodes and Payments

There are two kinds of Tron API. A node API reads one block, one account or one transaction at a time, and it can send new ones. An indexed API has already parsed the chain into trades, transfers and balances, so it can answer a question that spans many blocks, such as "every USDT swap over $1,000 in the last hour".

Many apps need one of each: an indexed API to read and a node to send. We checked the eight providers below on 5 October 2026 against their own sites, and the prices are the entry prices those sites showed that day.

Provider	Kind	What you get	How to start
Bitquery	Indexed data	DEX trades, transfers, balances, mempool and fees over GraphQL and WebSocket	7-day free trial, then $49 per month, or $29 billed yearly
TronGrid	Hosted node service	FullNode, SolidityNode, JSON-RPC and gRPC, plus indexed account history and events	API key from the TronGrid console
NOWNodes	Shared and private nodes	RPC and Blockbook access	Free START plan: 100,000 requests for one month
GetBlock	Shared and private nodes	JSON-RPC, REST and gRPC for the full and Solidity nodes	Free and paid packages, priced in compute units
Zeeve	Node plans	RPC, archive and validator nodes	RPC nodes from $299 per month
CryptoNodes	Managed node	One node with its own endpoint	Mainnet node at EUR 499 per month
WatchData	Node API	Accounts, TRX and token sends, token creation	Docs online, change log ends in July 2022
CryptoCurrencyAPI	Payments API	Deposit addresses, payment tracking, payouts, webhooks	No monthly fee, $0.01 per action

Which one fits your job

• Reading trades, token moves or balances across many blocks: Bitquery. An RPC endpoint can't tell you the top buyers of a token today unless you build and run an index first.
• Sending transactions from a wallet or app: TronGrid, or a shared node from NOWNodes or GetBlock. Bitquery only reads: its GraphQL schema has queries and live feeds, and no way to send a transaction.
• A node of your own without running the servers: Zeeve or CryptoNodes.
• Taking payments in TRX or USDT without touching a node: CryptoCurrencyAPI.

1. Bitquery

Bitquery indexes Tron and serves it through one GraphQL endpoint. Tron is one of the ten chains on Bitquery's self-service real-time plans, along with Solana, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, BNB Chain, Polygon, Robinhood Chain and Arc. The Bitquery Tron API page sums up the product, and the docs split it by the kind of record you want.

DEX trades

• SunPump: new tokens on the meme coin launchpad, buys and sells, first-time buys, price candles, the bonding curve, and the moment a token moves to SunSwap. Pending SunPump trades show up in the mempool feed as well.
• SunSwap: the latest trades on the exchange, and the trades of one token.
• All DEX trades: one feed across exchanges, with token stats, top gainers, top buyers and sellers, price candles and live prices.

Wallets, tokens and the chain

• Balances: what a wallet holds, its TRX balance, its balance on a past date, and the holder count and top holders of a token.
• USDT: live USDT moves and the largest ones, daily volume, top receivers and USDT balances.
• Transfers: token moves by wallet or by token, whale moves, daily volume and deposits to exchanges.
• NFTs: TRC-721 transfers, holders and collections.
• Mempool: token moves, DEX trades and other activity before it lands in a block.
• Fees: fees paid per trade or token move, and the total one account has paid.
• Transactions: blocks and who produced them, live activity by wallet, and failed transactions such as reverts and out-of-energy errors.

What a query looks like

This query returns the five newest DEX trades on Tron worth more than $1,000:

query {
  Tron {
    DEXTrades(
      limit: { count: 5 }
      orderBy: { descending: Block_Time }
      where: { Trade: { Buy: { AmountInUSD: { gt: "1000" } } } }
    ) {
      Block {
        Time
      }
      Trade {
        Dex {
          ProtocolName
        }
        Buy {
          Amount
          AmountInUSD
          Currency {
            Symbol
          }
        }
        Sell {
          Amount
          Currency {
            Symbol
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

We ran it at 10:51 UTC on 5 October 2026. Four of the five rows were SunSwap v3 swaps between WTRX and USDT, and the largest of those was worth $41,900. The fifth was a $1,009 SunSwap v2 swap between USDT and JST.

The same filter also works as a live feed: write subscription in place of query and drop the limit and the order. A saved copy, latest trades over $1,000, is in the IDE. When we ran the filter as a live stream at 10:40 UTC, it sent two new SunSwap v2 trades, worth $1,762 and $1,009.

Other ways in

• The GraphQL IDE runs queries in the browser once you sign in.
• The Bitquery Tron explorer shows the latest blocks. Its Get API link opens the query behind the table in the IDE.
• Kafka streams for Tron are sold on Enterprise, for teams that want a managed feed into their own systems.
• The Bitquery MCP server lets an AI client such as Claude or Cursor ask about the chain in plain English. Tracing funds and reading address labels need the AI Investigation MCP plan at $149 per month, or $100 per month billed yearly.

Price

Bitquery has no free plan. Every paid plan starts with a 7-day free trial that needs no card. The trial covers real-time data only, with a small quota, and it includes live streams. After the trial:

• Personal: $49 per month, or $29 per month billed yearly. API only, 100,000 API points per month, no streams.
• Pro: $99 per month, or $69 per month billed yearly. 1 million points per month and live streams.
• Scale: $299 per month, or $199 per month billed yearly, with 5 million points per month. Enterprise is priced per deal.

Self-service plans cover a rolling real-time window. Older history for Tron is an archive add-on, or part of Enterprise. The full table is on the pricing page.

2. TronGrid

TronGrid is a hosted node service for the Tron network, and the Tron docs compare its role to Infura or Alchemy on Ethereum. TronGrid passes through the standard node calls (FullNode, SolidityNode, JSON-RPC and gRPC), so you can read state and send transactions. On top of those, TronGrid has pre-indexed extra APIs for what plain nodes don't expose: account history, token transfers, contract events and internal transactions.

TronGrid also runs a hosted MCP server and a command-line tool built on the same APIs. Live apps should use an API key, which TronGrid uses for quotas and rate limits.

3. NOWNodes

NOWNodes runs shared nodes that you reach through RPC or Blockbook. Blockbook is an indexed layer that returns addresses, transactions, balances and blocks without raw RPC calls. The START plan is free and gives 100,000 requests for one month. NOWNodes lists more than 120 chains and also rents out private nodes.

4. GetBlock

GetBlock serves Tron mainnet and testnet in six forms: JSON-RPC, REST and gRPC, each for the full node and for the Solidity node. Shared plans come as free and paid packages priced in compute units, and you can also rent a private node. The GetBlock pricing page has the current packages.

5. Zeeve

Zeeve sells Tron nodes of three types: RPC, archive and validator. Its RPC plans start at $299 per month for 250 million requests, hosted in the US, the EU or Asia-Pacific. In 2023 this post covered Zeeve's "Elastic APIs" for Tron. The Zeeve page for Tron no longer mentions them and sells node plans instead.

6. CryptoNodes

CryptoNodes runs a managed node just for you on one of five chains, and Tron is one of them. A Tron mainnet node (16 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, 4,000 GB SSD) costs EUR 499 per month, and one on the Nile testnet costs EUR 149 per month. Each one gets its own endpoint behind an API key you can rotate. In 2023 this post covered a REST API with 20 endpoints. The CryptoNodes site is now a single page about managed nodes and does not mention a REST API.

7. WatchData

WatchData's Tron API covers the common node methods: create accounts, send TRX, TRC-10 and TRC-20 tokens, and create your own TRC-10 or TRC-20 token. The docs and the sign-in page still load. But the WatchData change log has no entry after July 2022, so ask about support before you build on it.

8. CryptoCurrencyAPI

CryptoCurrencyAPI is a REST API for taking and sending payments. For TRX and any TRC-20 token it can create a deposit address per user, track a payment you expect, forward funds, send payouts and post an alert when money moves. There is no monthly fee: each action costs one unit, and a unit costs $0.01. The same API also covers Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana and other coins.

Dropped from this list

The 2023 version listed OriginStamp, a service that writes time stamps for files to a blockchain, and said it used Tron. OriginStamp's site now sells an archive product and time stamps, and it does not mention Tron. The service was never a way to read the chain either, so it is gone.

Updated on 5 October 2026 by the Bitquery team: each provider was checked against its own site, Bitquery's plans against its billing data, and the example query against Bitquery's API on the same day. The old line about a free developer plan was wrong, because Bitquery offers a 7-day free trial and no free plan. OriginStamp was removed, and AI tools helped redraft the text.