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The company
Dune's Terms of Service (last updated June 3, 2026) state that all services are provided by Dune Analytics AS, a Norwegian registered company with business registration number 921 400 349, operated from its facilities in Norway, under Norwegian law with the Oslo District Court as venue.
Dune was founded in 2018 by Fredrik Haga and Mats Olsen, who serve as CEO and CTO respectively, and is based in Oslo (Welcome to the Jungle company profile). In February 2022 it raised a $69.42 million Series B led by Coatue at a reported $1 billion valuation (The Block). The product now runs at dune.com, while "Dune Analytics" remains part of the legal name and the name most people search for.
On its homepage, Dune claims more than 1 million users and 1,000 customers, naming firms such as UBS, Coinbase, 21Shares and GSR. These are company statements, not audited figures.
How Dune works
Dune ingests blockchain data, organizes it into tables and lets users query those tables with SQL. Everything else — dashboards, APIs, warehouse exports — sits on top of that layer.
Four kinds of tables
| Table type | What it contains | Who builds it |
|---|---|---|
| Raw | Blocks, transactions, logs and traces as pulled from chain nodes | Dune |
| Decoded | Contract events and calls translated into readable columns using contract ABIs | Dune, based on submitted contract interfaces |
| Curated (Spellbook) | Standardized datasets such as DEX trades across many protocols | Community contributors via the open-source Spellbook repository on GitHub, which has more than 4,000 models |
| Uploads | External datasets added by users, prefixed `dataset_` | Users |
Source: Dune community blog, checked October 2026.
The practical point: curated tables are the fastest way to answer common questions, but they encode someone's modeling choices. If two dashboards disagree on a protocol's volume, the difference is usually in which tables and filters each author used.
DuneSQL and query engines
Queries are written in DuneSQL, which Dune describes as a fork of the Trino query engine tuned for blockchain analytics (query engine docs). Users choose engine sizes: Small favors short queue times for simple jobs, while Large runs complex queries fastest but uses credits faster.
Dashboards
A dashboard is a set of saved queries rendered as charts and tables. Most public Dune dashboards — tracking a protocol's revenue, a stablecoin's supply or a token's holders — are built by independent analysts rather than by Dune or by the protocol in question. Treat them as community research: check the underlying query, its author and its last refresh time before citing a number. OBOL's guide to reading on-chain metrics covers common interpretation traps, and the wash trading explainer shows why raw DEX volume can mislead.
Data coverage and freshness
Dune's homepage cites 130+ chains, while its documentation home says 100+; the gap likely reflects how chains are counted, so verify that a specific chain and its decoded tables exist before relying on them. Solana is covered, including curated tables such as Solana DEX trades and token transfers.
Data is not real-time in the trading sense. According to Dune's data freshness documentation as of October 2026:
- Raw data lags by chain: chains with higher reorganization risk, such as Ethereum and Polygon, are ingested with a deliberate delay.
- Decoded data typically follows raw ingestion by 15 to 60 seconds.
- Curated (Spellbook) tables usually refresh hourly, and can run longer on busy days.
- Solana curated tables run on a 6-hour schedule, so they are typically 6 to 7 hours old.
For research and reporting this is usually fine; for intraday trading decisions, a delay of an hour or more matters.
Plans and pricing
Dune bills on credits, which measure compute used by queries, API calls and data writes. Prices below come from Dune's credit documentation as of October 2026.
| Plan | Monthly price | Annual billing | Credits per month | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | — | None (view-only) | — |
| Analyst | $75 | $65/month ($780/year) | 4,000 | 1 GB |
| Plus | $399 | $349/month ($4,188/year) | 25,000 | 15 GB |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom |
What this means in practice:
- The Free plan is view-only. Free users can browse dashboards and keep saved queries, but running queries, using the API and buying credits require a paid plan (pricing FAQ). Older guides that describe free querying are out of date.
- Trial. New accounts get 14 days of Plus features with 2,500 credits; the trial ends when either runs out, and extra credits cannot be bought during it.
- Overage. Extra credits cost $1.875 per 100 on monthly Analyst, $1.625 on annual Analyst, $1.596 on monthly Plus and $1.396 on annual Plus.
- API exports. One credit covers 1,000 data points on Analyst and 5,000 on Plus.
- Cancellation. Switching the plan to Free in settings ends the subscription at the close of the current billing cycle. Dune's pricing FAQ does not describe a refund policy; refund questions go to support.
Products for teams and developers
Beyond the web app, which Dune now calls Data Hub, the platform offers a Data API for running queries and retrieving results programmatically; Datashare, which syncs Dune's tables into Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks or Amazon S3; a dbt connector and connections to BI tools such as Hex, Metabase and Power BI; and packaged datasets for perpetuals, stablecoins, prediction markets, payments, real-world assets and token transfers. Dune also lists an MCP integration for AI agents.
Privacy, accounts and limitations
Dune does not hold users' crypto and never needs wallet access to run a query. Queries and dashboards created on paid plans can be kept private; on public dashboards, anything you publish — including wallet labels — is visible to everyone. Keep in mind:
- On-chain data is public, but labels attached to addresses on community dashboards can be wrong.
- Credit consumption depends on query complexity, so poorly written queries can burn through a plan's allowance quickly.
- Dune is an analytics tool, not a price oracle or trading terminal.
For OBOL's separate assessments, see OBOL's Dune review in trading tools and OBOL's Dune NFT analytics review; the trading tools hub compares alternatives.
Getting help
Dune's documentation at docs.dune.com covers SQL, tables and billing. Account and billing questions go to [email protected], outages are posted at status.dune.com, and security and compliance documents are published at trust.dune.com.
Official channels
- Website: https://dune.com/
- X: https://x.com/dune
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dune-analytics/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrm9d2hLd_YxSExH7oRyAg
- GitHub: https://github.com/duneanalytics
- Status page: https://status.dune.com/
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