Eyrium vs Rated Network: which Ethereum validator tool do you actually need?
Pick Eyrium if you're a solo home staker, small node operator, or anyone running ≤200 validators who wants to know when something is wrong. Real-time alerts, $7/mo, no sales call.
Pick Rated Network if you're an LST, large staking pool, or institutional operator who needs deep performance analytics — MEV-boost relay analysis, effectiveness benchmarking against peers, operator-level metadata. Enterprise tooling at enterprise prices.
Most teams don't need to choose. They're different tools for different jobs.
Rated Network is the institutional analytics platform for proof-of-stake networks — Ethereum plus Solana, Avalanche, Cosmos, EigenLayer, Polygon, Cardano, Polkadot, Celestia. It's a dashboard product: APIs, network explorers, performance benchmarking, MEV-boost relay analysis. Eyrium is a focused alerting product for Ethereum validators — when a validator misses too many attestations, gets slashed, or has its fee-recipient changed, you get notified on email, Telegram, or native mobile push.
These products barely overlap. If you're trying to pick between them, you're probably solving the wrong problem.
Comparison
| Eyrium Pro | Rated Network | |
|---|---|---|
| Product category | Validator alerts | Validator performance analytics |
| Target user | Solo stakers, small operators (≤200 validators) | LSTs, staking pools, institutional operators |
| Pricing | Flat $7/mo or $70/yr | Enterprise (compute-units consumption) |
| Real-time alerts | ✓ | ✗ (not a dedicated alerts product) |
| Email alerts | ✓ | ✗ |
| Telegram alerts | ✓ (native bot) | ✗ |
| iOS + Android native push | ✓ | ✗ |
| Missed attestation alert | ✓ | ✗ |
| Slashing alert | ✓ (finality-aware) | ✗ |
| Balance drop alert | ✓ | ✗ |
| Fee-recipient change alert | ✓ (supply-chain) | ✗ |
| Streak threshold + head-only-miss suppression | ✓ | n/a (no alerts) |
| Validator dashboard / charts | ✓ | ✓ |
| Effectiveness benchmarking vs peers | ✗ | ✓ |
| MEV-boost relay analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| Operator metadata / Network Explorer | ✗ | ✓ |
| Multi-chain coverage | Ethereum only | Ethereum + 8 others |
| Public REST/GraphQL API | ✓ (your validators) | ✓ (network-wide) |
| Mobile app | ✓ | ✗ |
Where Eyrium wins
1. We actually ship alerts. This is the headline. Rated Network is a dashboard and API product. When a finalized-chain check finds a slashing, an attestation miss streak, or a changed fee recipient on a proposed block, Eyrium fires notifications natively. Rated doesn't.
2. Notification channels operators actually use. Email, native Telegram bot (no third-party glue), and native iOS + Android push. You don't need to glue anything to anything.
3. Noise control built in. A configurable missed-attestation streak threshold (1–10) and head-only-miss suppression. Production validator monitoring is mostly about not getting paged for benign noise. Rated isn't trying to solve this — it's an analytics platform.
4. Solo-staker pricing. Flat $7/mo with no per-validator scaling. Rated is enterprise-priced for institutional consumption.
5. Predictable, transparent pricing. Visit the pricing page, see $7/mo, click subscribe. No compute-unit estimation, no sales call.
Where Rated Network wins
1. Deep performance analytics. Eyrium shows your own absolute attestation effectiveness and rewards; Rated adds peer-operator benchmarking, MEV-boost relay analysis, aggregation timing, and deeper reward decomposition.
2. Operator-level metadata and network mapping. Rated maintains an operator dataset that lets institutional users see who runs what, market share by client, and structural network risks. Useful for LSTs and pools doing operator selection.
3. Multi-chain coverage. Rated covers nine networks. Eyrium is Ethereum-only.
4. Public APIs at scale. Eyrium includes a read-only API for your own validators, events, rewards, and effectiveness. Rated is the broader API product for network-wide datasets, institutional dashboards, and risk models, with compute-unit pricing and autoscale.
5. Institutional positioning. If your compliance, procurement, or board needs to see an established analytics vendor with multi-chain coverage and a Network Explorer, Rated is the standard answer in that segment.
When to switch (or add) Eyrium
Add Eyrium if
- You're already using Rated for analytics but don't have a real-time alerting layer
- You want push notifications to your phone when something breaks
- You want flat solo-staker pricing for the alerting half of your stack
- You want supply-chain alerts (fee-recipient and withdrawal-credentials changes) that Rated doesn't fire
Stay on Rated only if
- You're an LST or staking pool whose job is operator analytics, not real-time ops
- You need multi-chain validator data
- You're consuming validator data via API for downstream products
- Performance benchmarking against peers is your primary use case
For most institutional users, the right setup is both: Rated for analytics, Eyrium for alerts.
FAQ
- Does Rated Network send validator alerts?
- Not as a dedicated product feature. Rated is a validator performance analytics platform with APIs and a Network Explorer; real-time alerting isn't documented as a core capability. If you need alerts, you'll need a dedicated tool like Eyrium.
- How does Eyrium pricing compare to Rated?
- Eyrium is a flat $7/mo (or $70/yr) for up to 200 validators. Rated uses an enterprise compute-units consumption model — pricing depends on API usage and isn't published on a simple plans page.
- Does Eyrium have effectiveness benchmarking or MEV-boost analysis?
- Eyrium reports your validators' 7-day and 30-day attestation effectiveness against their own ideal rewards. It does not benchmark you against peer operators or analyze MEV-boost relay performance; those remain Rated's territory.
- Can I use Rated and Eyrium together?
- Yes. Eyrium combines operational alerts with your own validator effectiveness, earnings, events, and a read-only API. Rated goes much deeper on peer benchmarking, network-wide analytics, and institutional reporting.
- Which one supports more chains?
- Rated. They cover Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Cosmos, EigenLayer, Polygon, Cardano, Polkadot, and Celestia. Eyrium is Ethereum-only today.
- Does Eyrium expose a public API?
- Yes. Eyrium includes a read-only REST API for your own validators, events, per-epoch rewards, and effectiveness data. It is included on free and Pro plans. Rated remains the better fit for network-wide and institutional datasets.
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