Some Chainstack Global Nodes carry an Extended label. An Extended node is a full node that keeps more history than a standard full node of the protocol — more retention than a plain Full node, but not a complete archive from genesis.
It exists because Full and Archive don’t describe these nodes well. A standard full node keeps only a short recent window, an archive node keeps everything from genesis, and Chainstack Global Nodes for some protocols sit in between. Extended is the honest label for that middle ground: more than Full, less than Archive.
Billing
Extended is not a new billing class. Requests are billed exactly as on a Full node, with no request-unit change. See Request units.
Availability
- Global Nodes only.
- The label maps to the actually deployed node configuration, so it appears only where the node genuinely serves extended history — never on a standard full node.
How much history you get
The exact window depends on the protocol and moves over time, so read it from the node at runtime rather than assuming a fixed depth:
- Sui — serves checkpoint history from genesis, well beyond the ~2 epochs (~48 hours) a standard Sui full node keeps locally. See Sui tooling.
- XRP Ledger — keeps more recent ledgers than a default
rippled server. Read complete_ledgers from server_info. See XRP Ledger tooling.
- Stellar — keeps an extended retention window plus full
getLedgers history. Read the window from getHealth. See Stellar tooling.
Last modified on September 17, 2026
