Pricing, packaging, credits and rate limits

Buyer-readable provider comparison, consolidated from direct-source competitive research.

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Current pricing comparison

Last consolidated 2026-09-13. Public list prices only; taxes, negotiated discounts, add-ons and chain-specific multipliers may differ.

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Plans, allowances and limits

Common comparison scale: USD per 1 million standard Ethereum JSON-RPC requests, using eth_blockNumber as the reference method. Native credits/CUs are converted using the provider's published method weight. Bundle rates assume full allowance use; N/A means a defensible public conversion is unavailable.

Provider	Free plan	Paid start	Included volume	Overage / PAYG	Rate limit	Enterprise	USD per 1M RPC requests	Sources
QuickNode Verified	Free — $0; ≈500,000 reference RPC requests/month	Build — $49/month	≈4M reference RPC requests/month	Build: $12.40 per 1M reference RPC requests	Free 15 RPS; Build 40 RPS	Yes — custom/contact sales	$12.40 Build overage; $12.25 effective Build bundle per 1M reference RPC requests Caveat Reference method costs 20 API credits/request. Other methods, chains and products may use different multipliers; RPS remains separate.	Method weight Pricing
Alchemy Verified	Free — $0; ≈3M reference RPC requests/month	Pay As You Go — no fixed monthly commitment; usage billed	No paid-plan bundle publicly specified	$5.25 per 1M reference RPC requests at the first public usage tier	≈50 reference RPS at 500 CU/s	Yes — custom/contact sales	$5.25 per 1M reference RPC requests Caveat Uses 10 CU for eth_blockNumber and the current $0.525 per 1M CU first PAYG tier. Heavier methods cost more.	Pricing Compute Units Throughput
Infura Verified	Core — $0; ≈37,500 reference RPC requests/day	Developer — $50/month	≈187,500 reference RPC requests/day (15M credits/day)	Extra Credits is listed; a universal public PAYG/add-on price was not verified in the 2026-09-13 capture	≈6.25 reference RPS Core; ≈50 Developer; ≈500 Team	Yes — custom/contact sales	$8.89 effective Developer allowance per 1M reference RPC requests Caveat Current pricing page states Core/Developer/Team daily quotas of 3M/15M/75M credits and guaranteed throughput of 500/4K/40K credits/s. With eth_blockNumber at 80 credits: Developer allowance = 15M × 30 ÷ 80 = 5.625M requests/month; $50 ÷ 5.625 = $8.89 per 1M. This supersedes the prior 6M-credit/day and 12.5-RPS figures.	Pricing Pricing docs Credit costs
Chainstack Verified	Developer — $0; 3M RPC requests/month	Growth — $49/month	20M RPC requests/month	Growth: $15 per additional 1M RPC requests	Developer 25 RPS; Growth 100 RPS	Yes — custom/contact sales	$2.45 effective Growth bundle; $15.00 Growth overage per 1M RPC requests Caveat eth_blockNumber costs 1 RU. Growth is $49/month for 20M requests, or $2.45 per 1M at full use; Growth overage is $15 per 1M RU. RPS is enforced separately.	Pricing Request Units Limits
Ankr Verified	Freemium — $0; ≈150,000 reference RPC requests/month	Premium — $10/month	≈500,000 reference RPC requests/month	$20.00 per additional 1M reference RPC requests	Freemium 30 RPS; Premium up to 1,500 RPS	Yes — Enterprise RPC/contact sales	$20.00 per 1M reference RPC requests Caveat Standard EVM JSON-RPC requests consume 200 API credits; method/network multipliers and RPS remain separate.	Service plans Pricing
Moralis Partial	Free — $0; reference-request allowance not verifiable	Starter — from $49/month	Reference-request allowance not publicly verified	No normalized public reference-request rate verified	Exact reference-method RPS not publicly verified	Yes — custom/contact sales	N/A — no verified CU weight for the reference RPC method Caveat Moralis endpoint CU costs vary and the public paid offer is dynamically presented; no defensible raw-RPC conversion was found.	Pricing
NOWNodes Verified	Free — $0; 100,000 requests/month	Pro — $20/month	1,000,000 requests/month	Pricing page displays tier-dependent overage values of €5, €1 and €0.50 per 100k requests; exact plan/value mapping needs UI confirmation	Free 1 RPS; Pro RPS not publicly verified	Yes — custom/enterprise offering	$20.00 effective Pro bundle rate per 1M RPC requests Caveat Direct request-count plans. The current extracted pricing table explicitly exposes overage values, but its flattened text does not preserve every value-to-plan alignment; verify the rendered selector before quoting a specific tier.	Pricing
dRPC Verified	Free — $0; ≈10.5M reference RPC requests/month	Growth — $6/month	1M reference RPC requests/month	$6.00 per additional 1M RPC requests	Free 100 RPS; Growth 50 RPS	Yes — custom terms	$6.00 per 1M reference RPC requests Caveat Uses 20 CU for eth_blockNumber. The 2026-09-13 pricing page states Free includes 210M CU/month and 100 requests/s; Growth is presented directly as $6 per 1M requests. Heavier methods differ.	Pricing Billing docs
Blast API Partial	No currently orderable standalone free plan publicly verified	Not publicly verified	Not publicly verified	Not publicly verified	Not publicly verified	Current standalone enterprise packaging not publicly verified	N/A — standalone service is no longer currently orderable Caveat Bware Labs/Blast API was acquired by Alchemy; historical pricing is not treated as current.	Historical pricing URL
Blockdaemon Partial	Free/get-started path advertised; fixed allowance not publicly verified	Quote-based/contact sales	Not publicly verified	Not publicly verified	No universal plan-level RPS publicly verified	Yes — enterprise/contact sales	N/A — no public shared-RPC price and reference-method mapping Caveat Dedicated-node pricing is not comparable to shared RPC credit/request plans.	Products
Tatum Verified	Free — $0; ≈50,000 standard RPC requests/month	Starter — $49/month; site advertises 50% off with a two-year plan	≈2M standard RPC requests/month	No universal public overage rate verified	Free 3 RPS; Starter 200 RPS	Yes — custom/contact sales	$24.50 effective Starter bundle rate per 1M standard RPC requests Caveat Standard RPC methods cost 2 credits; eth_call costs 5 and debug/trace methods cost 50, so those workloads cost more. The two-year discount is promotional/volatile and should be verified before sales use.	Pricing RPC credit weights
Pocket Network / Grove Partial	Pocket Foundation public RPC — free, no API key; generous limits claimed but not quantified on the monitored page	Pocket Foundation partnerships — public anchor of $1 per 1B Compute Units; dedicated endpoint by contact	Dedicated endpoint advertised as unlimited; exact service scope and method weights not publicly verified	Not publicly verified	Public endpoints: unquantified generous limits; dedicated endpoint: no RPS limit claimed	Foundation partnership/sponsorship motion; Grove commercial gateway is winding down	N/A — $1/1B CU cannot be converted to requests without public method weights Caveat Do not conflate entities or offers: Grove states that it is winding down, while Pocket Network Foundation currently advertises free public APIs and partnership-funded access. Verify token/payment mechanics and support terms before procurement.	Grove wind-down notice Pocket Network public API and partnership offer
LlamaRPC Partial	Free public RPC endpoints	No paid LlamaRPC package publicly verified	No monthly allowance published	No public PAYG schedule verified	No uniform public RPS figure verified	Not publicly verified for LlamaRPC	N/A — free public endpoint; no paid usage price Caveat Do not substitute LlamaNodes or another commercial provider’s plans.	Official domain
Allnodes Verified	PublicNode provides separate free public RPC endpoints	Hosted RPC Nodes — from $10/month	Unlimited requests advertised	No overage charge publicly stated for the unlimited-request product	Up to 300 RPS; exact RPS for the $10 configuration not verified	Yes — custom enterprise RPC	N/A — unlimited subscription; no finite per-request allowance Caveat “From $10” and “up to 300 RPS” are network/configuration dependent.	RPC Nodes PublicNode
Lava Network Partial	Lava Gateway free access/tier publicly offered	Cheapest paid price not publicly verified	Reference-request allowance not publicly verified	Exact public PAYG rate not publicly verified	Exact plan-specific RPS not publicly verified	Yes — custom gateway access	N/A — no verified public price plus reference-method weight Caveat Protocol-level RPC plans and hosted Lava Gateway packaging must not be conflated.	Gateway Docs

Buyer readout

Prototype / low traffic: Start with the free tier whose supported chains and methods match the workload; compare the normalized reference-request allowance first, then test the actual method mix because heavier calls can change the ranking.
Growing production: Use the USD-per-1M reference-request column for initial screening, then replay a real request trace before buying; bundle rates assume full utilization and PAYG rates represent marginal cost.
High volume / enterprise: Model overage, throughput, SLA and support together. Public list price alone is insufficient; several vendors move high-volume buyers to negotiated plans or dedicated infrastructure.

Normalization limits

All comparable usage prices are normalized to USD per 1 million standard Ethereum JSON-RPC requests, using eth_blockNumber as the reference method. Native credits/CUs are converted with each vendor's published method weight; bundle rates assume full use of the included allowance. N/A is shown where a defensible public conversion is unavailable.

Provider dossiers

QuickNode Alchemy Infura Chainstack Ankr Moralis NOWNodes dRPC Blast API Blockdaemon Tatum Pocket Network / Grove LlamaRPC Allnodes

Research log · 2 dated update(s)

Raw dated evidence and change reports are preserved for provenance. Daily-report links live here, below the cumulative comparison matrix.

2026-09-13

Daily competitor monitoring — 2026-09-13 Criterion of the day: Pricing, packaging, credits and rate limits pricing-packaging Scope: 15 tracked providers; official public pages only. Outcome: no defensible day-over-day list-price increase/decrease was establish…

2026-08-11

GetBlock RPC competitor monitor — 2026-08-11 Criterion of the day: Pricing and packaging: free tier, pay-as-you-go, CU/credits, rate limits, overages, trials and enterprise plans pricing-packaging. Summary This automated monitor collected direct HTTP snapshots…