Best Ethereum RPC providers in 2026

Triport's own plans, limits and endpoints on Ethereum: Ethereum RPC endpoint.

Pick by workload

• If your traffic fits a free plan → Chainstack, Ankr, Alchemy and Infura: permanent free plans; Triport has only a 7-day trial.^{[2][7][6][10]}
• If eth_getLogs dominates and you pay per call → QuickNode Build: $12.40 per 1M eth_getLogs, the lowest per-call price for it in this table.^[4][3]
• If you want a predictable bill at 100+ steady rps on Ethereum → Triport Pro: $249/mo flat; the cheapest per-request alternative here is $990/mo (Chainstack Enterprise); Chainstack's flat Unlimited Node is $698/mo for 100 rps.^[1][2][11]
• If you need many chains or testnets on one bill → QuickNode (79 blockchains across 137 networks), Ankr (70+ networks) and Chainstack (70+ blockchain protocols); Triport serves 9 mainnets and no testnets.^[12][13][14]

Providers compared

Triport publishes this comparison and is one of the providers in it. Our row is marked "ours". Rows are sorted by the price of each provider's cheapest paid plan, not by who wrote the page, and every competitor cell links to the provider's own page with the date we read it.

Triport limits are sustained requests per second with a 2× burst buffer included. How burst capacity works.

Ethereum RPC pricing: what sustained traffic costs

Each column runs one plan's rate limit for a whole 30-day month (2,592,000 seconds). That is the worst case for metered plans and the best case for flat ones. Figures use standard read calls, monthly list prices and each provider's own published per-call weight, and exclude bandwidth, add-ons and taxes. A provider with no published per-call price for this network is shown as not computable.

• Flat request-rate pricing is not unique to Triport. Chainstack sells an Unlimited Node add-on from its $49 Growth plan, with no per-request charge within a rate: 25 rps $149 ($7.92 per rps-month with Growth), 100 rps $649 ($6.98 per rps-month with Growth), 250 rps $1,649 ($6.79 per rps-month with Growth) and 500 rps $3,199 ($6.50 per rps-month with Growth); Chainstack says the add-on "works across all supported chains and protocols" without naming them. Triport on Ethereum, per rps-month: Pro $249 / 100 rps = $2.49, Business $499 / 250 rps = $2.00.^[2][11][1]
• So at 100 rps the cheapest Chainstack option is not the per-request figure in the table: the 100-rps Unlimited Node plus Growth is $698/mo, against $249/mo for Triport Pro.^[2][1]

Free Ethereum RPC: permanent plans, trials and none

Triport serves Ethereum mainnet only, with no testnets.

Same price, listed request rate

Where Triport is ahead

• No credits, compute units or request allowance, and no overage: every Triport plan is a flat monthly price, limited only by requests per second per capability (Ethereum reads: Basic 20 RPS sustained · up to 40 burst, Pro 100 RPS sustained · up to 200 burst, Business 250 RPS sustained · up to 500 burst).
• Triport Basic at $20/mo is the lowest fixed monthly subscription in this table; the next is $49/mo (Chainstack Growth and QuickNode Build). Its Ethereum limit is 20 RPS sustained · up to 40 burst.
• At 20 rps sustained on Ethereum (51.84M requests a month), Triport Basic costs $20/mo; the cheapest computable alternative in this table is $199/mo (Chainstack Pro).
• At 100 rps sustained on Ethereum (259.2M requests a month), Triport Pro costs $249/mo; the cheapest computable alternative in this table is $990/mo (Chainstack Enterprise).
• At 250 rps sustained on Ethereum (648M requests a month), Triport Business costs $499/mo; the cheapest computable alternative in this table is $2,230/mo (Chainstack Enterprise).

When another provider fits better

• No permanent free plan: Triport's Free plan is a 7-day trial. If your traffic fits a free plan, Chainstack (Developer plan: $0, 3M request units a month, 25 requests/s, no archive access), Ankr (Freemium: $0, 200M API credits a month, about 1,800 requests/min, HTTPS only. Public endpoints need no key), Alchemy (Free plan: 30M compute units a month, 300 CU/s (15 requests/s by Alchemy's own conversion), hard cap) and Infura (Core: free; the plan table says 3M credits a day at 500 credits/s, the FAQ on the same page 6M a day at 2,000 credits/s) cost less.
• More listed requests per second per dollar: Chainstack Growth lists 250 rps at $49/mo (request units still apply) and QuickNode Build lists 50 rps at $49/mo (API credits still apply), against Triport Basic at 20 RPS sustained · up to 40 burst for $20.
• Same or lower price, same or higher listed limit than Triport Pro ($249/mo, 100 RPS sustained · up to 200 burst on Ethereum): Chainstack Growth lists 250 rps at $49/mo (request units still apply), Infura Team lists 500 rps at $225/mo (credits still apply) and QuickNode Accelerate lists 125 rps at $249/mo (API credits still apply).
• Same or lower price, same or higher listed limit than Triport Business ($499/mo, 250 RPS sustained · up to 500 burst on Ethereum): Chainstack Growth lists 250 rps at $49/mo (request units still apply), Infura Team lists 500 rps at $225/mo (credits still apply) and QuickNode Scale lists 250 rps at $499/mo (API credits still apply).
• Higher published rate limits: Ankr Pay-as-you-go 1,500 rps, Chainstack Business 600 rps and Infura Team 500 rps. Triport's highest published limit below Enterprise on Ethereum is 250 RPS sustained · up to 500 burst (Business).
• Fewer networks: Triport serves 9 mainnets and no testnets or devnets (Chainstack: 70+ blockchain protocols; Ankr: 70+ networks; QuickNode: 79 blockchains across 137 networks; Alchemy: All mainnets and testnets on its chain list (no total stated); Infura: 40+ supported networks).
• Regions: EU and US only (custom PoPs on Enterprise), and Enterprise needs a 365-day term.

What Triport sells on this network today

Available: JSON-RPC reads, Transaction submission, Debug, eth_getProof, Trace and simulation, trace_filter, txpool (routed node view), WebSocket subscriptions from Free (newPendingTransactions on Free; newPendingTransactions, logs from Basic; 4 methods from Pro), Beacon events (SSE).

49 documented JSON-RPC methods for Ethereum in the Triport docs (count as of 2026-10-13). See the method index.

How we picked

How we verify every price cell and the effective price per 1M requests across providers.

• Included: every provider in our comparison dataset whose own pricing and chain pages we read on 2026-10-13 and that lists Ethereum (5 of 7). A provider missing here was not re-read this month, or does not list Ethereum.
• Each competitor cell links to the page it came from, with the date we read it. Our build fails when a fact is more than 45 days old, so the table is re-read monthly.
• Prices are monthly list prices. Per-call costs use each provider's own published weight for a standard read call; where only an average is published, we say so next to the figure.
• Triport's numbers come from its tier matrix, the same file its rate limiter enforces. Only capabilities marked available in the network registry count as sold.
• We compare published prices, limits and features only. There are no speed rankings on this page.
• Rows are sorted by the monthly list price of each provider's cheapest paid plan, ties by name; providers without a fixed monthly plan come last. Triport's position follows the same rule.

Sources

1. Triport pricing (tier matrix) — Triport's own published limits
2. Chainstack pricing (https://chainstack.com/pricing/), read October 13, 2026
3. QuickNode pricing (https://www.quicknode.com/pricing), read October 13, 2026
4. QuickNode per-method prices (https://www.quicknode.com/api-credits/eth), read October 13, 2026
5. Alchemy per-method prices (https://www.alchemy.com/docs/reference/compute-unit-costs), read October 13, 2026
6. Alchemy pricing (https://www.alchemy.com/pricing), read October 13, 2026
7. Ankr per-method prices (https://www.ankr.com/docs/rpc-service/service-plans/), read October 13, 2026
8. Infura credit cost (https://docs.infura.io/get-started/pricing/credit-cost/), read October 13, 2026
9. ethereum.org: blocks (slot length) (https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/blocks/), read October 13, 2026
10. Infura pricing (https://www.infura.io/pricing), read October 13, 2026
11. Chainstack Unlimited Node (https://chainstack.com/unlimited-node), read October 13, 2026
12. QuickNode chain list (https://www.quicknode.com/chains), read October 13, 2026
13. Ankr chain list (https://www.ankr.com/rpc/), read October 13, 2026
14. Chainstack chain list (https://chainstack.com/protocols/), read October 13, 2026
15. QuickNode billing (https://www.quicknode.com/api-credits), read October 13, 2026