A Chainalysis alternative for one case
If you’re an institution, Tracevoy won’t replace Chainalysis. If you’re one person with one transfer to follow, it’s a different question. You can get a report on that transfer for ₩300,000, with no annual licence and no workspace to learn.
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What this costs next to the tools investigators use
The established tools are sold to institutions as annual seats. The figures below are the only ones published anywhere: a reseller has to state a price to sell through the UK government's Digital Marketplace. Chainalysis publishes none of its own.
| Published price | tracevoy | Chainalysis Reactor | TRM Forensics Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published price | ₩300,000 per investigation | £10,500 per user a year, or £55,000 per licence a year, depending on the reseller | £33,272 to £41,590 per licence a year |
| How you buy it | Prepaid credits. Start one, pay for one. | An annual licence, quoted by sales. | An annual licence, quoted by sales. |
| Who it is for | One person with one deposit they need to follow. | Compliance teams, exchanges and law enforcement. | Compliance teams, exchanges and law enforcement. |
| Who does the analysis | tracevoy writes the report. You read it and check it. | You do, in their workspace, after training. | You do, in their workspace, after training. |
| Where the labels come from | Free public sources, named in every report. | Attribution data they build and keep in-house. | Attribution data they build and keep in-house. |
| What you end up with | One written report about one case. | A workspace you build the case in yourself. | A workspace you build the case in yourself. |
These are not the same product. They cover more networks than tracevoy does, hold attribution data tracevoy has no access to, and are built for people who investigate full time. tracevoy reads one deposit forward using free public sources and writes up what it found. If you are an institution, buy theirs. If you are one person who lost money once, a seat at those prices was never on offer to you.
Prices as listed on the UK government's Digital Marketplace (G-Cloud 14), checked 2 November 2026. The two Chainalysis figures come from different resellers for differently sized licences. Product names belong to their owners.
What Tracevoy doesn’t have
- Compliance tooling. No transaction monitoring (KYT) or wallet risk screening. If that’s what you need, choose a product built for it.
- Its own attribution data. Address information comes from public sources, named in the report.
- A workspace. No screen for building a case by hand, no team features and no API.
- Wide network coverage. Bitcoin isn’t covered. Ethereum, Tron, OP Mainnet, Arbitrum One, Scroll, Gnosis and Unichain. Finding the transfer to investigate is free, so you can look before you spend anything.
- Tracing past a mixer. A trace ends at an address tagged as a mixer.
- An expert’s opinion. AI writes the analysis, so check it against the records in the report’s tables.
Other options for one case
- Block explorers. Tronscan and Etherscan are free, and enough when the path is short. Our guide on how to trace stolen USDT shows how.
- MetaSleuth. A tracing tool where you do the analysis yourself. Its plans page lists a free plan and individual plans from $30 to $500 a month (checked 2 November 2026).
- Arkham, Breadcrumbs and Bitquery. Also named in a Reddit r/AMLCompliance thread on free alternatives. We haven’t checked their current terms, so read them yourself.
- A lawyer or a professional investigator. If you need an expert’s opinion, a Tracevoy report doesn’t replace one.
How an investigation works
- Paste a wallet address or transaction hash. You don’t need to choose a network.
- Choose the one transfer to investigate. Everything up to here is free.
- Start the investigation with credit. The map draws itself, and you get a report with amounts by destination and the records behind them.