8 Best Arbitrum RPC Providers in 2026, Compared

Eight Arbitrum RPC providers ranked on Arbitrum unit weights, three priced workloads, Nova, Sepolia and WebSocket support, trace methods and our own test of free public Arbitrum endpoints.
Shared and dedicated RPC endpoints compared by chain coverage, archive and trace access, rate limits, SLAs and pricing.

Eight Arbitrum RPC providers ranked on Arbitrum unit weights, three priced workloads, Nova, Sepolia and WebSocket support, trace methods and our own test of free public Arbitrum endpoints.

GetBlock, dRPC and Tatum compared on price: every plan converted into cost per 1M Ethereum calls, monthly bills for three workloads at six volumes, free plans, flat-rate options and a fallback setup.

Seven permanent free RPC plans ranked: dRPC, Alchemy, Chainstack, Ankr, Infura, Helius and GetBlock, with the calls each free allowance buys for three workloads, log range limits and a free fallback setup.

QuickNode, Infura and Ankr compared on our RPC scorecard, with the cost of one million calls for seven Ethereum methods, real rate limits by method, WebSocket costs, prices on 15 chains and four workload bills.

Eight QuickNode alternatives ranked on our RPC scorecard, with the per-chain cost of one million calls on 12 chains, the lowest fee for each rate limit, three multi-chain workload bills and a migration plan from QuickNode.

Seven Base RPC providers ranked on six weighted criteria, with Flashblocks support, price per million Base calls, three Base workload bills, CDP Node math and our own test of eight public Base endpoints, all checked on 25 October 2026.

Eight Alchemy alternatives ranked on six weighted criteria, with price per million EVM and Solana calls, three multi-chain workload bills, a 13-chain coverage matrix and migration notes, all checked on vendor pages on 25 October 2026.

RPC provider pricing for nine vendors converted to dollars per million calls by method on Ethereum and Solana, with overage rules, four modeled workload bills and a value ranking, all checked on vendor pages on 25 October 2026.

Eight Ethereum RPC providers ranked on archive call prices, three modeled archive workload bills, eth_getLogs block range limits, free archive tiers, audits and latency, with every price checked on vendor pages on 25 October 2026.

Helius, QuickNode and Triton One compared for Solana RPC on five modeled workload bills, price per million calls by method, gRPC streaming, transaction sending, audits and free tiers, with every price checked on vendor pages on 25 October 2026.