Guide · 2026
Best Pool Tools & Explorers (2026)
The 8 most complete pool tools & explorers listings on ADA Plug, ranked by how much verified public information each publishes: description, services, pricing, and a live website. 8 are listed in this category. Order is not a quality rating, and no listing pays for its rank.
- 1
PoolTool
Community-run dashboard for Cardano stake pools and delegators, showing block production, luck, pledge and saturation per pool. Operators use its API to share tip and block-height data with each other.
- 4 services listed, including pool comparison, block and luck tracking, delegator dashboard
- 2
Guild Operators Tools (CNTools)
Open-source toolkit maintained by the Cardano Community guild for running a stake pool: CNTools for wallet and pool management, gLiveView for node monitoring, and step-by-step operator documentation.
- 4 services listed, including cntools pool management, gliveview node monitor, operator documentation
- 3
Cardanoscan
Long-running Cardano explorer whose pool section lists every registered stake pool with live stake, saturation, fees and recently minted blocks. Also exposes pool metadata and certificates.
- 4 services listed, including block explorer, stake pool list, certificate history
- 4
Koios
Decentralised, community-operated REST API for Cardano chain data, run by a cluster of independent stake pool operators. It is the source of the pool metrics used across this directory.
- 4 services listed, including free cardano rest api, pool list and pool info endpoints, elastic query layer
- 5
Cexplorer
Cardano block explorer with a detailed stake pool section covering fees, pledge, saturation, delegator counts and historical rewards. It absorbed the older ADApools pool directory.
- 4 services listed, including block explorer, pool profiles and rankings, reward history
- 6
Balance Analytics
Analytics service that publishes Cardano stake distribution, pool group and single-pool-operator research, including the widely cited reports on multi-pool operator concentration.
- 4 services listed, including stake distribution research, pool group analysis, spo reports
- 7
AdaStat
Open-source Cardano explorer with per-pool pages for stake, margin, fixed cost and epoch-by-epoch block counts. Useful for checking a pool before delegating.
- 4 services listed, including block explorer, pool statistics, epoch and block data
- 8
Armada Alliance
Alliance of Cardano stake pool operators running their nodes on low-power ARM hardware, with shared guides, scripts and a directory of member pools.
- 4 services listed, including spo guides for arm hardware, member pool directory, setup scripts