Tenderly
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What is Tenderly
Tenderly is a Web3 developer platform for debugging, simulating, monitoring, and operating smart contracts and blockchain transactions. It is used by blockchain engineering teams to inspect execution traces, reproduce failures, run transaction simulations, and set up alerts and automation for on-chain activity. The product focuses on developer workflows (debugging, observability, and incident response) rather than compliance-focused transaction monitoring or purely dashboard-style analytics.
Deep transaction debugging tools
Tenderly provides detailed execution traces, decoded contract calls, and state inspection to help teams understand why a transaction succeeded or reverted. This supports faster root-cause analysis than relying on block explorers alone. It is particularly useful during development and when diagnosing production incidents involving complex contract interactions.
Pre-execution simulation workflows
Tenderly supports simulating transactions against current or forked chain state to evaluate outcomes before broadcasting. This helps teams test upgrades, parameter changes, and operational actions with reduced risk. Simulation is also useful for validating automation and alerting logic against realistic scenarios.
Monitoring and alerting for dApps
Tenderly includes monitoring capabilities that can watch contracts, addresses, and events and trigger notifications or workflows. This helps teams detect anomalies (e.g., failed transactions, unusual event patterns) and respond quickly. It aligns with DevOps-style observability needs for smart-contract-based systems.
Not a compliance analytics suite
Tenderly is primarily built for developer debugging and operational observability, not for AML, sanctions screening, or entity attribution. Organizations needing compliance-grade risk scoring and investigative case management typically require additional specialized tooling. As a result, it may not satisfy regulatory monitoring requirements on its own.
Coverage varies by chain
Feature parity and depth of tracing/simulation can vary depending on the supported network and its node/client capabilities. Teams working across many chains may need to confirm support for their specific environments and L2s. This can introduce operational complexity when standardizing tooling across ecosystems.
Enterprise controls may require planning
Larger organizations may need to evaluate governance features such as role-based access, auditability, data retention, and integration patterns for incident management. Some capabilities can depend on plan level and deployment approach. Procurement teams often need a detailed security and architecture review before broad rollout.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Permanently free (no public $ amount) | Access to core developer tooling; Virtual TestNets are free to use/try; Free & Starter plans have hard TU limits. cite |
| Starter | Not publicly listed | Mentioned on Tenderly docs/blog as an intermediate tier with hard TU limits (exact quotas not published on public pricing page). cite |
| Pro (self-serve) | Not publicly listed (billing page / dashboard) | Self-serve team plan; up to 10 members, ~350M Tenderly Units (TUs)/month, 300k simulation API calls/month, soft rate limits, 20 active Virtual TestNets (high-level quotas noted on blog). For exact price, Tenderly directs users to the Billing page in the Dashboard or to contact sales. cite |
| Pro+ / Enterprise | Custom pricing | Enterprise / Pro+ plans are available by contacting sales for custom solutions and quotes. cite |
Seller details
Tenderly Inc.
New York, NY, USA
2018
Private
https://tenderly.co/
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/tenderly/
