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.
Competitor pricing is not simply expensive or cheap. It is cognitively expensive. Alchemy sells compute units. QuickNode sells API credits. Chainstack sells request units. Infura sells credits per day. Each model can be fair, but each model forces buyers to estimate the cost of real production traffic.
This creates a practical GetBlock opportunity: publish calculators and sales assets that translate competitor units into concrete infrastructure decisions.
What to build this quarter
- Alchemy CU → GetBlock plan calculator. Let buyers input common methods and monthly request volume, then see whether shared RPC, dedicated node, or custom cluster is the right GetBlock path.
- QuickNode API credits → dedicated node comparison. Show where high-volume production teams should stop buying incremental credits and move to predictable private infrastructure.
- Chainstack RU comparison page. Chainstack already uses calculators as SEO weapons. GetBlock should answer with a simpler “your workload, your chain, your region, your cost” page.
- Infura credits/day migration guide. Useful for Ethereum teams expanding to Base, BNB, Solana, TRON, or backup infrastructure.
Sales talk track
“We are not asking you to guess how many abstract units your application will burn. Bring us your endpoints, methods, RPS, region, and archive/debug needs. We will map that to a concrete infrastructure setup and a monthly number.”
That message is especially strong for teams with trading bots, wallets, portfolio tracking, risk engines, compliance tooling, payment flows, and high-volume indexing jobs.