# How big can the Algorand Blockchain get before problems start occurring?

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**Created:** [June 16, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/how-big-can-the-algorand-blockchain-get-before-problems-start-occurring/7167 "2022-06-16T17:02:24Z")
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### Author: ![fabrice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@fabrice](https://forum.algorand.co/u/fabrice)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/how-big-can-the-algorand-blockchain-get-before-problems-start-occurring/7167/6 "2022-06-17T16:51:40Z")

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> [@zcaudate](#):
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> Coming from Stellar, they have [https://horizon.stellar.org/](https://horizon.stellar.org/) which is a public facing api server for it’s blockchain.

I see.  
Algorand Inc/Foundation itself does not provide such services.  
However, partners/third parties provide such services. A list is there:

> **[Algorand Developer Portal](https://developer.algorand.org/ecosystem-projects/?tags=api-services)**
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> Algorand Developer Docs, SDKs, REST APIs, CLI tools, ecosystem projects, metrics dashboard and sample code, how-tos, and news from the Algorand developer community

These API services are free with rate-limiting and no SLA is provided.

This is similar to what Stellar Horizon seems to propose.  
I see they also have rate limiting:

> **[Rate Limiting | Stellar Documentation](https://developers.stellar.org/api/horizon/introduction/rate-limiting)**
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> Horizon rate limits on a per-IP-address basis. By default, a client is limited to 3600 requests per hour - one request per second on average.

And I don’t see any SLA / customer service (but I did not look very long, so I may be wrong).

I’ve never developed on Stellar. But I would guess that if I had to use a Stellar API on a big project, I would want to pay for an API tier with high SLA, 24/7 customer support, and lower rate limitations.  
Similarly as what I strongly recommend on Algorand.

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