June 26, 2026 · 4 min read
Public RPC vs Paid RPC: Latency, Reliability, and Limits
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.
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