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Core Concepts Overview

Understanding the fundamental building blocks of the Syndica platform: how to organize your infrastructure, secure your access, manage billing, collaborate with your team, and monitor your usage.

Stacks​

A Stack is your top-level workspace for isolating projects and environments. Each stack has its own API keys, RPC endpoints, logs, and analytics so usage and controls stay scoped to that stack.

Plan limits: Standard includes 1 stack; Scale supports up to 10.

Learn more about Stacks

API Keys​

API keys authenticate requests to Syndica services in a stack. Set per-key expiration, restrict by IP or domain, allow specific methods, and apply rate limits and WebSocket connection caps.

Learn more about API Keys

Observability​

Monitor and troubleshoot your infrastructure with real-time insights into request patterns, performance metrics, and system health. Track logs, analyze latency trends, inspect transaction lifecycles, and monitor WebSocket connections across your stacks.

Explore Observability

Account Settings​

Account Settings centralizes profile security, team access, and plan management. Enable 2FA, update email and phone, invite teammates (plan limits apply), and upgrade, downgrade, or deactivate your account.

Manage Account Settings

Billing & Usage​

Manage your account's payment methods, review consumption across plans, and access invoice history. Track usage patterns, update billing details, and understand how different plan tiers—Standard (free), Scale, and Hyperscale—align with your needs.

See Billing & Usage

FAQ and Troubleshooting​

What makes Syndica's RPC faster than running my own node?

Requests pass through a global edge with regional caches for frequently accessed Solana data, reducing trips to validators. Cache misses are handled by a managed validator cluster with redundancy and automatic failover. This design typically results in lower and more consistent latency than operating a single node.

How does Syndica help me manage my infrastructure?

Running your own node usually means provisioning, hardening, and wiring together load balancing, caching, access controls, monitoring, and failover before you can ship. With Syndica, you point your client at a managed endpoint and start building—sensible defaults provide routing, resiliency, and visibility out of the box. The result is a quicker path to production with less infrastructure to build and maintain.

Which Solana networks does Syndica support?

Syndica supports Solana mainnet-beta and devnet.

Requests automatically route to the nearest healthy edge in four regions: us-east-1 (N. Virginia), us-west-2 (Oregon), eu-west-2 (London), ap-southeast-1 (Singapore).

Which regions does Syndica support?

Syndica currently deploys Edge Gateways in four regions so requests stay close to your users: Northern Virginia (us-east-1), Oregon (us-west-2), London (eu-west-2), and Singapore (ap-southeast-1). Each request is automatically routed to the nearest healthy region; contact support if you need access to additional geographies.

Which authentication method should I use?

Both methods work identically—choose based on your use case:

  • URL-embedded is simpler for testing with tools like cURL or Postman.
  • Header-embedded keeps your key out of URL paths, which may be preferable for logging and monitoring systems.
Can I use the same API key for both mainnet and devnet?

Yes. Your API key works across both mainnet and devnet. Simply change the endpoint URL while keeping the same key.

How do I know if I'm hitting rate limits?

Rate limit responses return HTTP 429 status codes. You can monitor your usage in the RPC Analytics dashboard. See Observability to learn how to inspect logs and metrics when diagnosing throttling, review Rate Limits and plans/pricing for plan-specific limits, or configure custom rate limits per API key.

What's included in the Standard (free) tier, and is it still free if I add a credit card?

The Standard (free) tier includes 10 million requests per month, up to 100 requests per second (RPS), and 100 GB of data transfer. Adding a credit card does not change your plan or start billing; it only enables instant upgrades later. The Standard plan remains free.

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