Engine
Engine is an open-source, backend server that reads, writes, and deploys contracts at production scale.
Why use Engine?
Engine enables your app to:
- Send multiple blockchain transactions at once.
- Resubmit stuck transactions, handling nonce values, gas settings, and RPC errors.
- Avoid duplicate transactions.
- Manage multiple backend wallets and their funds.
- Control access from your backends and team members.
- Sponsor user gas fees.
- Deploy and interact with smart accounts.
- Subscribe to contract events and transactions.
🚀 Get Engine hosted by thirdweb or self-host for free.
Standard Engine
Supports 500 write transactions per second. Great for minting APIs, airdrops, and managing user wallets.
Features
- High transaction throughput - Transactions batched on the same block with nonces managed automatically.
- Secure backend wallets - Your backend wallets stored locally, on AWS KMS, or on Google KMS.
- Any contract on any EVM chain - Supports contract calls on all 1700+ EVM blockchains and private subnets.
- Contract deployments - Deploy smart accounts, tokens, NFTs, marketplaces, and more.
- Account abstraction - Use smart accounts and session keys to transact on behalf of your users.
- Built-in relayer - Sponsor gas for your users so reduce user friction.
- Event webhooks - Get notified of wallet and contract events to automate other actions like payments or emails.
- Contract subscriptions - Store event logs and transaction receipts to be queried later.
- Transaction observability - Debug transaction failures with detailed timelines, onchain errors, and gas details.
- Idempotency - Prevent costly, duplicate transactions.
- Production-ready web3 infrastructure - Includes RPC, IPFS, and Account Abstraction out of the box.
Engine Premium provides added scaling and resilience. It include server autoscaling, server failover, database failover, and 30-day database backups.
Features
- Everything in Standard Engine
- Autoscaling - Scale to millions of users with a fleet of Engine instances that scale up along with your traffic.
- Production-grade Server - High availability and redundancy.
- Production-grade Database - High availability, Multi-AZ.
- Database backups - Recoverability and peace of mind for your stored data (30-day database backups).
Pricing
Cloud-hosting Engine with thirdweb starts at $99 per month. Learn more about Engine pricing.
Self-hosting Engine is always free.
Get in touch
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