Today we are announcing that we are making the @Dune free plan view only. Meaning you can still look at all the amazing dashboards on Dune, but not run queries without a paid plan. The simple reason is that compute costs for running flexible queries over large amounts of data is very costly. We will still offer incredible value for money self-serve plans at $65 and $349 per month where you have access to vast amounts of blockchain data with completely serverless and hassle free querying. You can also try our very popular and powerful Plus plan on a 14 day trial when you sign up for a free account. For years Dune has had a very generous free plan including free compute an data access. Hundreds of thousands of users have queried blockchain data with Dune, and millions of people have been exploring the dashboards created. We know of hundreds of users that have built a data career on top of Dune, and there are likely many more. We are grateful to everyone that’s been exploring this data together with us. I’m proud and humbled that we’ve gone from @mewwts, me, some blockchain data in a postgres db and a few users in a Telegram channel, to reaching millions with the Dune platform and community. During Dune’s 8+ years in business countless data providers have come and gone. And I can tell you that what is worse than losing access to free compute is to lose your mission critical data provider all together. The reason why we’ve been able to stick around, and will keep sticking around, is because we adjust to the market. Thousands of industry leading businesses rely on Dune for their blockchain data, and they can safely keep doing that. Some have called these plan changes the end of an era. And that might be right, but I think the new era is going to be bigger and more exciting. The blockchain industry is now mature enough that businesses and financial institutions are coming onchain at a blistering pace. Dune is all in on empowering them with onchain data. During this new era Dune data will keep reaching millions of people, businesses and AIs in our mission to make onchain finance observable.

We’re restructuring Dune to sharpen our focus around the core data products thousands of customers across the crypto industry rely on. That unfortunately means we’ve let 25% of the team go this week. These are exceptional people I can wholeheartedly recommend — ping me if you’re hiring top crypto talent. Going forward, Dune is all-in on two shifts: AI and institutions coming onchain. All the way back in 2018 Dune pioneered crypto data accessibility, and we’re excited to accelerate that faster than ever with AI. We’re the only player who has done the hard work of building the end-to-end stack for crypto data: ingestion, QA, storage, cleaning, normalizing and querying. With Dune MCP, teams and agents can now build dashboards and workflows without needing to know anything about SQL nor data infrastructure (and associated bills). Dune already serves virtually every leading crypto company, and now also the world’s most forward-leaning financial institutions. As currencies, stocks, bonds, commodities and more move onchain, we’re investing heavily in our data layer and white-glove service to power institutions. For 8 years we've grown through multiple rollercoaster cycles while other data providers have come and gone. We remain well capitalized, excited about the future, and committed to our mission of making crypto data accessible. The Data Must Flow.