Tenderly
Tenderly: A transaction operations toolkit for simulation, debugging, and onchain monitoring. Ranked #7 of 16 in Smart Contracts Software by our editors (8.2/10); pricing: Free plan · pricing on request; best for teams focused on simulation, debugging, and monitoring.
At a glance
- Editor score8.2 / 10
- PricingFree plan · pricing on request
- Best forTeams focused on simulation, debugging, and monitoring
- Free planYes
- Chain coverageMulti-chain
- Facts checked24 Sep 2026
Where it wins
- Simulates single transactions and multi-step bundles against live network state
- Provides opcode-level traces, expression evaluation, and gas profiling
- Monitors addresses, contracts, events, and state conditions with alerts
Where it doesn't
- Focused on operations and debugging, not broad contract authoring
- Paid team pricing is configured through sales rather than published as a set amount
- Team plans are scoped by products, capacity, support, and chain count
Our verdict on Tenderly
Tenderly gives engineering, finance, and risk teams tools to examine and manage onchain activity. Its Simulator can model single transactions or multi-step bundles against live network state, while the Explorer and Debugger help inspect decoded transactions, contract activity, assets, and fund flows. Virtual Environments support production-mirroring work with state sync and overrides. The product is a fit for teams handling transaction analysis, incident response, staging, or deployment validation; it is not positioned as a broad contract authoring suite.
Simulation and debugging are its clearest strengths. Opcode-level traces and expression evaluation help teams inspect transaction behavior, and gas profiling breaks usage down by function call. Virtual Environments add a place to model changes against synchronized state. A free plan, Tenderly Free, includes Debugger, Explorer, and single-transaction UI simulation. The published product details describe team and organization plans as configured around products and capacity, with chain count and support also part of sales scoping, so teams evaluating paid use should expect a tailored discussion rather than a published fixed amount.
For operational workflows, Tenderly combines monitoring for addresses, contracts, events, and state conditions with alerts and custom Web3 Actions triggered by onchain events. Slack, webhooks, PagerDuty, Telegram, and Discord integrations connect those alerts to team workflows; RPC infrastructure and APIs extend access to simulation and blockchain operations. Public or private contract verification is available through the Dashboard, Hardhat, or Foundry. Teams that need simulation, transaction investigation, and monitoring across networks should consider Tenderly, while teams primarily seeking contract creation tools may prefer a more authoring-focused product.
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Tenderly fact sheet
| Free plan | Yes |
|---|---|
| Paid from | Not verified |
| Chain coverage | Multi-chain |
| Contract languages | Not verified |
| Deployment targets | Both |
| Security analysis | Not verified |
| Visual contract builder | No |
| API or SDK access | Yes |
| Contract templates | Not verified |
| Deployment | Cloud, Browser extension |
| Platforms | Web |
| Compliance & security | SSO/SAML |
| Support | Email, Live chat, Docs |
| Built for | Solo, Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise (editorial estimate) |
| Integrations | 5 integrations: Slack, webhooks, PagerDuty, Telegram, Discord |
| Pricing | Free plan · pricing on request (source) |
| Website | tenderly.co |
| Facts checked | 24 Sep 2026 |
Tenderly integrations
Tenderly lists 5 integrations on its own site.
- Slack
- webhooks
- PagerDuty
- Telegram
- Discord
Alternatives to Tenderly
- Remix IDEA free contract IDE covering authoring, testing, analysis, debugging, deployment, and verification.9.2
- FoundryA free, open-source toolchain for building, testing, debugging and deploying contracts.8.9
- HardhatAn open-source, plugin-based Solidity toolkit for teams comfortable working from a local project.8.8
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