The Stack Stellar Builders Ship On

Quicknode is a leading Stellar RPC provider, serving Stellar mainnet and testnet over the low-latency Horizon REST API and Soroban JSON-RPC from 17+ global regions with a 99.99% uptime SLA. You get a private endpoint in seconds, Streams and Webhooks, and support for payment apps, anchors, and Soroban contracts, on a platform that handles 500B+ requests a month across 80+ chains.

Stellar is a fast, low-cost payments network for issuing and moving digital assets, with the Soroban platform for smart contracts. It uses XLM as its native asset. Quicknode serves Stellar mainnet and testnet through the Horizon and Soroban APIs.

Create a free Quicknode account, select Stellar, and a private RPC URL is generated instantly with full method coverage and rate limits that scale with your plan. No credit card is required for the free tier.

No. Running Stellar infrastructure means operating a Horizon instance and a Soroban RPC alongside a Stellar Core node and keeping them in sync. Point the Stellar SDK at a Quicknode Stellar endpoint and you get the Horizon REST API and Soroban RPC with no infrastructure to manage.

Quicknode serves Stellar over the Horizon REST API for accounts, payments, and history, and the Soroban JSON-RPC for smart-contract deployment, invocation, and state.

Quicknode retains roughly 90 days of Horizon data and about 7 days of Soroban data on mainnet, and about 1 day of Soroban data on testnet. Use Horizon for account and payment history within that window, and the Soroban RPC for current contract state.

No. Stellar is not an EVM chain, so there is no eth_ JSON-RPC, MetaMask, or Solidity support. Payments and assets run on the Stellar Core protocol, queried over the Horizon REST API, and smart contracts run on Soroban, written in Rust and accessed over the Soroban JSON-RPC. You interact with both using the Stellar SDK.

Quicknode serves Stellar mainnet and testnet over the Horizon REST API and the Soroban RPC. WebSocket connections are not currently offered for Stellar.

Quicknode serves Stellar from a global edge network that routes each request to the nearest node, backed by a 99.99% uptime SLA. The Horizon REST API and Soroban RPC run on the same low-latency infrastructure that handles 500B+ requests a month across 80+ chains.

Yes, there is a free tier. You can create a Stellar endpoint with no credit card and start querying over the Horizon REST API and Soroban RPC. Paid plans raise rate limits and throughput, and add Streams and Webhooks, as your app grows.

Use Quicknode Streams for backfill and real-time Stellar data delivered to your datastore with guaranteed reliability, and Webhooks for push notifications on the accounts and events you care about.

Stellar is built for payments and assets: cross-border transfers and remittances, stablecoin and asset issuance, anchors and on and off ramps, and Soroban smart contracts for programmable finance.