# What to use instead of Flipside

Flipside sold its blockchain data business to SonarX and closed Flipspace on 17 June 2026. Where free SQL over indexed chains lives now.

*https://cryptomarkets.tools/alternatives/flipside*

## The subject

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Product | Flipside |
| Status | retired |
| Stopped serving | 2026-06-17 |
| Website | https://web.archive.org/web/20260612184731/https://flipsidecrypto.xyz/ |
| Category | On-chain Analytics Platforms |

A SQL workspace over decoded on-chain data, where a query ran without a per-seat contract. The data business was sold and the platform closed.

## Replacements

*Ordered by how much of the original’s job each one covers, closest first. Paid placement does not affect this order.*

1. [Dune](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dune.md) — The same product shape — SQL over decoded tables somebody else maintains — and the only one of these with the API on a free plan.
2. [Allium](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/allium.md) — The institutional end of the same job: SQL over 85+ indexed chains with a first-party label set, quoted by sales rather than priced.
3. [DefiLlama](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/defillama.md) — For the Flipside dashboard you read rather than wrote: DeFi's standard metrics, free, with public REST endpoints that need no key.
4. [Artemis](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/artemis.md) — Curated chain and protocol fundamentals with one published definition each, if the queries were rebuilding fees, revenue and user counts.

## The product

Flipside sold a SQL workspace over indexed on-chain data. You wrote a query against decoded
tables somebody else had built and kept running, saved it, charted it, and shared the result —
without a per-seat data contract in front of it. That is why so much protocol reporting, grant
accounting and one-off research in this sector was, underneath, a Flipside query.

It ended in two moves. On 19 May 2026 the banner on Flipside's own Flipspace product page read
"We sold our blockchain data business to SonarX and going all-in on edisyl" — that is the page as
archived that day. SonarX announced the purchase from its side on the same date, describing what
it acquired as the customer base and the data: 700 million permissioned wallets, 7 trillion rows,
1,000-plus protocols. The platform followed a month later. The last archived capture of the
Flipside homepage that still served the site, on 12 June 2026, carried "Flipspace is shutting
down. The Flipspace platform will be available through June 17, 2026. Log in to export anything
you need before then."

Checked on 19 September 2026, none of it resolves to a data product any more.
`flipsidecrypto.xyz`, `docs.flipsidecrypto.xyz` and `data.flipsidecrypto.xyz` all answer 301 to
Edisyl, an enterprise-AI company with nothing on-chain in it, and `flipsidecrypto.com` redirects
into the same chain. The single link this page gives for the subject goes to that last live
capture of the homepage instead of to the live domain, because a reader looking for Flipside
should land on what Flipside last said, not on an unrelated company's marketing site.

## What to use instead

Expect to rewrite queries rather than repoint a connection string. Nothing below reproduces
Flipside's table names, its column layouts or its SQL dialect, and with the documentation host
redirecting away there is not even a reference left to port from.

**If what you had was the SQL editor**, [Dune](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dune) is the same product: SQL over decoded
data for 100-plus chains, dashboards on top, an API that is on every plan including the free one.
The free plan is 2,500 credits a month, and credits are billed by compute — CPU and data scanned
— rather than per call, which is a different cost model to the one you were used to and the thing
to check before porting a heavy query.

**If you were an institution buying the tables rather than the editor**,
[Allium](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/allium) is the closest thing in this catalogue to the business that was sold:
Snowflake-backed SQL over 85-plus indexed chains, with a first-party label set covering 400
million-plus addresses. There is no free tier and no published price, so budget a sales cycle
before you budget a number.

**If you were reading a Flipside dashboard rather than writing one**, you do not need a query
engine at all. [DefiLlama](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/defillama) covers the DeFi metric set for free, with public
REST endpoints that answer without an account and a TVL definition published in full. If the
queries were rebuilding chain and protocol fundamentals — fees, revenue, active addresses —
[Artemis](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/artemis) already computes them with one published definition each, at daily
resolution.

## What you give up

**The cheap path to running a query.** Flipside's draw was that getting a query to run did not
start with a contract. What exactly remained free at the end, this catalogue cannot tell you: the
pricing page went with the site, so there is nothing left to check against. What the replacements
cost is on record — Dune's free plan is 2,500 credits a month with overage at $5.00 per 100
credits, and Allium publishes no price at all.

**Everything not exported before 17 June 2026.** Saved queries, dashboards, result sets. The
logins are gone and the data went to an enterprise buyer, so there is no self-serve route back to
any of it, and no support address of the old vendor's to write to.

**The schema your SQL was written against.** Every query is a rewrite, not a search-and-replace,
and the reference that would make the rewrite mechanical is behind the same redirect as
everything else (checked 19 September 2026).

## Migration notes

**Delete the old hosts from your code, not just your bookmarks.** A base URL pointing anywhere
under the Flipside domains now resolves, returns 301 and lands on an unrelated company's site. A
health check that only asks whether a host answers will report this as fine.

**Treat the API as gone even though its root answers.** `api.flipsidecrypto.com` returns a 403
from Cloudflare at the root as of 19 September 2026. That is not evidence of life — the root
behaved that way before too — and it is not evidence of death either. The decisive part is that
the documentation is gone, so there is no endpoint list, no schema and no key issuance left. This
catalogue holds no key and could not test one; the honest reading is that nothing is there.

**Re-price the heavy queries, not just the platform.** Dune bills by compute rather than by call,
and publishes no per-query formula — the cost appears after execution. A query that ran nightly
over a full table because compute was somebody else's problem is the one that will surprise you.
Both figures come from our Dune card, verified 19 September 2026.

**Check the chain list before you port anything.** Dune indexes 100-plus chains and Allium 85-plus,
but coverage is not a permanent property of a vendor: Artemis switched off 122 chains and
protocols in May 2026 and stopped supporting them on 26 June 2026. Confirm the specific chains
your queries touch are on the plan you are buying, not merely on the marketing page.

## FAQ

### When exactly did Flipside shut down?

The platform was available through 17 June 2026. That is Flipside's own wording, from a banner on the last archived capture of its homepage that still served the site, taken on 12 June 2026. By the next archived capture, on 12 July 2026, the domain answered a redirect instead.

### Where did Flipside's data go?

To SonarX, which announced the acquisition of Flipside's blockchain data business on 19 May 2026 and described what it bought as the customer base and the data itself. It is an enterprise data business with a different audience, so it is not a self-serve replacement, and this catalogue has not verified its terms or pricing.

### Why does the old Flipside domain land on an AI company?

Because the founders kept the domain and pointed it at what they went on to build. Checked on 19 September 2026, flipsidecrypto.xyz and its docs and data subdomains all answer a 301 to Edisyl, an enterprise-AI company with no blockchain data product. Nothing at that host serves the old tables.

### Does the Flipside API still answer?

Its root still returns a 403 from Cloudflare, which proves nothing either way — an unauthenticated root often answered that while the service ran. What is gone is everything you would need to use it: the documentation host redirects away, so there is no endpoint list, no schema and no route to a key. Treat it as gone.