21 posts.
Seven BNB Smart Chain RPC providers compared on current pricing, free tiers and measured limits. BSC's 0.45 s blocks and shallow state make log caps and archive the deciding factors. Pricing checked October 6, 2026.
Read →Seven OP Mainnet RPC providers compared on current pricing, free tiers and measured limits, including log caps, tracing and pre-Bedrock history. Pricing checked October 6, 2026.
Read →Seven Solana RPC providers compared on current pricing, free tiers and measured limits. Per-method weights, getProgramAccounts rules and history depth decide the bill. Pricing checked October 6, 2026.
Read →Seven Arbitrum One RPC providers compared on current pricing, free tiers and measured limits. Arbitrum's 0.3 s blocks change what log caps and archive mean. Pricing checked October 3, 2026.
Read →Seven Ethereum RPC providers compared on current pricing, free tiers and measured limits, with what 30M and 100M requests a month cost on each. Pricing checked October 3, 2026.
Read →Seven Polygon PoS RPC providers compared on current pricing, free tiers and measured limits, including why Polygon's shallow default state matters. Pricing checked October 3, 2026.
Read →We tested every keyless public RPC endpoint listed for 65 EVM chains. 49% of HTTP endpoints answered correctly, 52% of WebSockets streamed, and one was 4.4 million blocks behind. The numbers, the failure modes, and how to pick one.
Read →What a dedicated blockchain node buys you over a shared RPC endpoint, what it costs in 2026 (from $1,000/mo on GetBlock, ~$1,279/mo for Ethereum on Chainstack, custom quotes elsewhere), and the four signals that mean you need one.
Read →Public endpoints, provider free tiers, keyless access — 'free RPC' covers four very different deals with very different failure modes. A field guide to the real limits, from someone who operates against all of them.
Read →Bitcoin Core's JSON-RPC can't tell you an address's balance — it has no address index. Here's the gap, the three ways to fill it, and how to pick a Bitcoin RPC provider.
Read →Ankr's free public RPC is everywhere — until production. Here's where the public endpoints stop, how Ankr's API-credit pricing works, and when flat-rate is the better fit.
Read →Infura's Compute Unit quotas reset daily — so the failure mode isn't a surprise bill, it's your app going dark at 4pm until midnight. Here's how Infura's metering actually behaves in production, when Infura is still the right call, and what a flat-rate alternative changes.
Read →Should you poll eth_getLogs on a timer or subscribe over WebSocket? Polling is simpler and more robust; WebSocket is lower-latency and lighter at scale — but drops events on reconnect. Here's the honest trade-off, when each wins, and why production systems often use both.
Read →If you're running your own Ethereum node, the execution client you pick decides your disk bill, your sync time, and whether historical queries are cheap or impossible. Here's an honest 2026 comparison of Geth, Erigon, and Reth — and which one fits which job.
Read →Free public RPC endpoints are perfect for learning and prototyping — and a liability in production. Here's the honest breakdown of where public RPC bites you (rate limits, downtime, deprecation, stale blocks, missing methods) and when paying for an endpoint actually earns its keep.
Read →Running your own node looks free next to a provider bill — until you add up the line items nobody quotes you: redundancy, engineer hours, storage growth, and the per-chain multiplier. Here's the honest all-in math, and the volume where self-hosting actually wins.
Read →dRPC and Alchemy take opposite paths to the same metered-compute billing model — one decentralized and pay-as-you-go, one a polished managed platform. Here's how they actually differ, where each wins, and why the deciding question is whether your workload fits compute-unit pricing at all.
Read →They share a name and a parent company, but Polygon PoS and Polygon zkEVM are two separate chains — different chain IDs, different gas tokens, different security models, and very different liquidity. Here's how to tell which RPC endpoint your app actually needs.
Read →QuickNode bills in API credits: methods cost up to 50x each other, marketplace add-ons stack on top, and overage is automatic. Real monthly costs for a wallet, a DEX, and an indexer — with the math to forecast yours.
Read →Eight Base RPC providers compared on current pricing, free tiers and measured limits, with the monthly cost of 30M and 100M requests on each. Pricing checked October 3, 2026.
Read →Alchemy now bills $0.525 per million Compute Units, and debug_traceTransaction uses 1,000 CU/s of throughput. Current method costs and three priced workloads.
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