The Web3 RPC Market in 2026: Six Competitors, Six Buying Stories
QuickNode, Alchemy, Infura, Chainstack, Ankr, and Moralis do not sell the same thing. GetBlock can win by matching sales motions to each buyer’s real anxiety.
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competitors scanned
QuickNode, Alchemy, Infura, Chainstack, Ankr, Moralis.
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strategic articles
Landscape, pricing, enterprise proof, SEO/content, sales playbook.
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GetBlock wedge
Predictable dedicated RPC with real engineering support for production workloads.
Articles
Pricing Is the Weak Spot: Turn CU, Credits, and RU Confusion into a GetBlock Sales Asset
Every major competitor has a usage language. GetBlock can win accounts by translating those units into buyer-friendly production costs.
Enterprise Proof in RPC: What Buyers Need to Believe Before They Switch
The strongest competitors sell operational trust: uptime, support, compliance, named customers, and “we will be accountable when production breaks.”
SEO and Content Opportunities: Where GetBlock Can Beat Bigger Developer Platforms
Alchemy owns education, Ankr owns free RPC, Chainstack owns comparison calculators. GetBlock should own production RPC decisions by chain and workload.
Quarterly Competitive Playbook for GetBlock Sales and Product Marketing
A practical set of sales angles, product marketing assets, and content bets by competitor.
Competitor comparison
| Competitor | Positioning | Pricing signal | Chain coverage | GetBlock opening |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuickNode | Developer platform + enterprise-grade infrastructure. QuickNode sells breadth, scale, and operational confidence rather than just RPC endpoints. | Visible pricing uses API credits. Public scrape showed Free trial, $49/mo entry paid tier, higher tiers around $249/$499/$999 monthly list with annual discounts, additional API credits roughly $0.62 to $0.50 per 1M depending on tier; Enterprise custom. | Messaging around 83+ chains in current scrape; prior snapshot showed 80+. | Lead with transparent dedicated-node pricing and human engineering support |
| Alchemy | Developer-first platform for teams that want tooling, APIs, dashboards, analytics, and education around core blockchain infrastructure. | Free: 30M compute units/month, 25 RPS. Pay-as-you-go: roughly $0.45/1M CU up to 300M and $0.40/1M CU after; starts around 300 RPS. Enterprise: custom with advanced security, signed SLAs, higher throughput, product roadmap priority. | Supports major L1/L2 networks including Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Starknet, ZKsync, Blast, and more. | Publish “Alchemy CU to RPC request cost” explainers |
| Infura | Trusted default infrastructure for Ethereum builders, now framed as a suite of APIs across 40+ supported networks. | Free includes access to 40+ supported networks and current scrape showed 6M credits/day. Developer is US$50/mo and supports up to 15M credits/day. Team is US$225/mo and supports up to 75M credits/day. Enterprise custom with 24/7 engineering support, dedicated account team, committed SLAs, and custom throughput. | 40+ supported networks, with Ethereum heritage still dominant in perception. | Create Infura alternative pages by chain: Solana, Base, BNB, TRON |
| Chainstack | Cost-effective, transparent infrastructure with global nodes, managed dedicated nodes, self-hosted options, calculators, and performance comparison assets. | Public pricing exposes request units and provider conversion. Developer includes 3M RU, Growth 20M RU, Pro 80M RU, Business 200M RU; support add-ons include Professional $1,000/mo and Enterprise $10,000/mo. Dedicated nodes start from Pro/Growth contexts depending on product line. | 70+ blockchains/protocols. | Build public benchmark hub by chain/method/region |
| Ankr | Free RPC entry point plus premium/enterprise Web3 API, multichain RPC, staking, rollup/sidechain, and infrastructure services. | Public RPC page emphasizes free endpoints for 80+ networks and premium service plan. Premium messaging includes higher rate limits, more projects, dashboards, WSS connection, and whitelists; enterprise custom. | 80+ networks. | Own the “free RPC is not production infra” upgrade narrative |
| Moralis | Application data layer rather than pure RPC. Moralis sells fast access to normalized onchain data for wallets, DeFi, NFT, analytics, tax, and enterprise applications. | Snapshot pricing: Free 40,000 CU/day and 40 RPS; Starter around $49/mo annually with 2M CU/month; Pro around $199/mo annually; Business/Enterprise custom. Current pricing page was protected during quick scrape, so verify before quoting publicly. | 50+ chains / chain-agnostic APIs. | Differentiate raw dedicated RPC foundation from data API layer |