Top 5 dRPC alternatives in 2026

Teams look for dRPC alternatives for practical reasons: a pay-as-you-go balance in place of a monthly allowance, a free plan limited to public nodes with per-IP limits, no published compliance reports that we could find, and no self-serve dedicated plan on the pricing page. dRPC is a capable platform with real strengths. This guide compares it with Chainstack, Dwellir, OnFinality, Alchemy, and Quicknode, checked against provider pages and docs in October 2026.

We publish this on the Chainstack blog, so Chainstack is first and you should weigh that. Every price comes from a live provider page, and the performance section uses the public Chainstack RPC benchmark reports, including where Chainstack does not lead. Moving off dRPC? Start with our dRPC to Chainstack switch page or jump to the migration steps.

💡 Already using Chainstack? Jump straight to the Ethereum tooling docs or deploy your endpoint from the console.

Why teams look for dRPC alternatives

dRPC is a pay-as-you-go RPC provider that prices nearly every method the same (20 CU, with a few at 0), lists 130+ chains across 232 networks on its pricing page (its chainlist shows 137 chains and 232 networks, and other pages say 150+ or 200+ networks), and publishes NodeCore, an open-source self-hosted RPC load balancer. Those are real strengths: one flat price, the same price for archive requests, and a stack you can run yourself. Teams compare options for these reasons.

• Pay as you go, with no monthly allowance. Growth is $6 per 1M requests, tied to 20M compute units (CU): every request counts a flat 20 CU at $0.30 per 1M CU, and a few methods such as eth_chainId cost 0. There are no monthly limits, overage fees or expiration on requests, but also no plan with included monthly volume: the docs describe paid requests drawing on the CUs in your deposit. At that rate 20M full-node requests cost $120, against $49 for the 20M RU on Chainstack Growth, but dRPC’s price per request stays flat as volume grows (Chainstack Growth overage is $15 per 1M RU), and its free plan adds about 10.5M public-node requests. For one method, dRPC’s flat $6.00 per 1M eth_getLogs calls is lower than OnFinality ($7.35), Quicknode ($12.25) and Alchemy ($31.50) inside their allowances; see the cost table.
• A free plan on public nodes only. The free plan includes 210M CU per 30 days (about 10.5M requests at 20 CU each) on public nodes, with, per its docs, usually about 100 requests per second per IP that can drop to about 40 under high regional demand, 3-item batches and a 10,000-entry log cap.
• No published compliance reports. We found no published SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 on dRPC’s pages.
• No self-serve dedicated plan. The pricing page lists Free, Growth and an Enterprise tier that starts at 300M requests a month with an SLA, and no dedicated-node plan. For more control, teams can self-host NodeCore, dRPC’s open-source load balancer; its homepage also lists NodeCraft custom deployments (private endpoints, custom routing) as coming soon.
• Benchmark results. Chainstack runs these reports and is one of the ranked providers. In the October 2026 editions (entry paid plans, one 7-day window), dRPC scores 0.670 on Ethereum, 0.200 on BNB Chain and 0.124 on Hyperliquid, against 0.079, 0.087 and 0.019 for Chainstack (lower is better). The performance section gives the tables and the limits of the method.

dRPC alternatives compared

The table below summarizes public positioning as of October 2026. Plans and prices change often, so check each provider’s page before you decide.

Provider	Pricing model	Free tier	Dedicated nodes	Archive & trace	Standout
dRPC (for reference)	Pay as you go, flat $6 per 1M requests (20 CU each at $0.30 per 1M CU)	Yes, 210M CU per 30 days (about 10.5M requests), public nodes only, about 100 RPS per IP	No self-serve dedicated plan on the pricing page; NodeCore is open-source self-hosted	Same price for full and archive, debug and trace on Growth	130+ chains, open-source NodeCore, frontrunning protection
Chainstack	Flat request units, 1 RU full, 2 RU archive, debug and trace	Yes, Developer plan, 3M RU, 25 RPS, no card	Yes, from the Pro plan	Archive and debug and trace from Growth ($49)	Best score in its own October 2026 benchmarks (disclosed below), SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001
Dwellir	1 credit per response, no compute units	Yes, 100,000 daily responses, 20 RPS, no eth_getLogs	Dedicated Node Clusters, archive from $2,400 a month (Ink)	Trace and debug from the $49 Developer plan	150+ networks
OnFinality	Response units, 1 for most methods, 3 for eth_getLogs on Ethereum	Yes, 400,000 response units daily	Dedicated nodes, pay-as-you-go	Archive on every plan, Trace API from Growth	Substrate coverage, indexer hosting
Alchemy	Method-weighted CU, $0.525 per 1M CU	Yes, 30M CU a month, 15 RPS	Dedicated Clusters, quoted by sales	Archive billed as compute, debug and trace on Pay As You Go and Enterprise, not Free	Token, NFT and Portfolio APIs, 100+ chains, SOC 2 Type II
Quicknode	Credits with a per-chain multiplier, 20 per call on Ethereum	1-month trial, 10M credits, 15 RPS, no card	Dedicated Clusters on Enterprise	Archive on every plan; trace and debug listed from Build (method docs say the trial includes them with limited usage)	75+ chains, Streams, Webhooks, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 on its security page

True cost per call = (method’s unit weight × price per million units) ÷ 1,000,000. Multiply by monthly call volume for the real bill. Here it is for one method, eth_getLogs on Ethereum, at each provider’s entry paid plan, assuming you use the included allowance in full, where a plan has one.

Provider	Unit weight for eth_getLogs	Entry paid plan	Cost per 1M calls
dRPC (for reference)	Flat, 20 CU per request	Growth, $6 per 1M requests, no allowance	$6.00 at any volume
Chainstack	1 RU, 2 RU if fromBlock is 127 or more blocks behind	Growth, $49 with 20M RU, $15 per extra 1M RU	$2.45 in allowance ($4.90 archive), $15 at overage ($30 archive)
Dwellir	1 credit, 500-block range per call	Developer, $49 with 25M responses, $5 per extra 1M	$1.96 in allowance, $5.00 at overage
OnFinality	3 response units on Ethereum	Growth, $49 plus node and API usage costs, 20M response units, $6 per extra 1M	$7.35 in allowance, $18.00 at overage
Alchemy	60 CU	Pay As You Go, $0.525 per 1M CU on all usage with no platform fee (the 30M CU allowance belongs to the Free plan)	$31.50 (60 CU at $0.525 per 1M CU, no allowance)
Quicknode	20 credits on Ethereum	Build, $49 a month ($34 billed annually) with 80M credits, $0.62 per extra 1M	$12.25 in allowance on monthly billing ($8.50 on annual), $12.40 at overage

Sources: dRPC compute-unit and pricing pages, Chainstack request units, and the Dwellir, OnFinality, Alchemy and Quicknode pricing and method-cost docs. Range caps on eth_getLogs differ: dRPC’s free plan caps results at 10,000 log entries, Dwellir has none on Free, 500 blocks on Developer and 10,000 on Growth, Chainstack allows 100 blocks on Developer and 10,000 on Growth and above, Alchemy Free allows 10 (unlimited on Pay As You Go for Ethereum), and Quicknode’s trial allows 5 and paid plans 10,000. To model your own mix, use the interactive cost calculator.

Performance proof: Chainstack RPC benchmark reports

Chainstack publishes RPC benchmark reports for Ethereum, BNB Chain and Hyperliquid (September and October 2026 editions so far) that rank Chainstack, Quicknode, Alchemy and dRPC. Disclosure: Chainstack runs the monitoring service, the dashboard and the scoring formula, and is one of the four ranked providers. Data comes from Chainstack Compare: a rolling 7-day window, probes from DE, US and SG (JP instead of SG for Hyperliquid), each provider on its first paid plan. Score is the mean of each method’s p95 response time divided by success rate cubed, averaged across regions, so lower is better. dRPC appears in all six reports, and its figures are listed here as the reports give them.

The tables below are images of the October 2026 editions, all published October 8, 2026, each linking to its report: Ethereum, BNB Chain and Hyperliquid.

Ethereum, 7-day window ending October 8, 2026:

Ethereum scores: Chainstack 0.079 (P95 78 ms), Quicknode 0.097 (92 ms), Alchemy 0.114 (103 ms), dRPC 0.670 (641 ms). Availability is 99.98% for the first three and 99.96% for dRPC. dRPC’s P99 is 1,950 ms and its US and SG P95 are 875 and 895 ms (Chainstack: 143 and 42 ms); the report puts its score at 8.5 times Chainstack’s. Its DE P95 is 153 ms, in the range of the other providers’ weakest regions (138 to 164 ms).

BNB Chain, 7-day window ending October 8, 2026:

BNB Chain scores: Chainstack 0.087 (P95 76 ms), Alchemy 0.135 (126 ms), Quicknode 0.136 (135 ms), dRPC 0.200 (207 ms). The report treats second place as a tie. dRPC’s P99 is 1,080 ms, and its P50 (39 ms) is below Quicknode’s (50 ms).

Hyperliquid, 7-day window ending October 8, 2026:

Hyperliquid scores: Chainstack 0.019 (P95 22 ms), Alchemy 0.036 (40 ms), Quicknode 0.065 (76 ms), dRPC 0.124 (129 ms). dRPC’s P99 is 248 ms and its availability is 100.00%, the same as Alchemy.

Chainstack has the best score on all three chains, and the reports show where it does not lead:

• Ethereum, DE and US traffic. Quicknode has the lowest DE P95 (40 ms against Chainstack’s 47 ms) and Alchemy the lowest US P95 (80 ms), with Quicknode second at 98 ms against 143 ms for Chainstack.
• BNB Chain, median and tail. Alchemy has the lowest P50 (32 ms) and DE P95 (75 ms) and records 100.00% availability, and Quicknode (193 ms) and Alchemy (222 ms) have a lower P99 than Chainstack (270 ms).
• Hyperliquid, availability. Chainstack’s 99.74% is the lowest in the set, against 100.00% for Alchemy and dRPC and 99.98% for Quicknode. The report says this costs about 0.8% of score and does not change the ranking.

The September 2026 editions, published September 24 to 28 (Ethereum, BNB Chain, Hyperliquid), ranked the same four providers, with Chainstack first on all three. Between the editions dRPC’s score moved from 0.541 to 0.670 on Ethereum, 0.419 to 0.200 on BNB Chain and 0.074 to 0.124 on Hyperliquid. Each edition is one 7-day snapshot, so read the two sets as two points in time and not a trend. The October reports state their limits: one 7-day window, the entry paid plan only, synthetic probes from three cloud regions, and no measurement of throughput under load, correctness or cost (the September editions describe each provider’s standard shared endpoint). Chainstack chose the formula and operates the probes, so another formula could reorder close pairs, and the reports do not explain why a provider’s figures are what they are. No report covers Dwellir or OnFinality, and we do not imply a benchmark exists for them. If your users sit outside DE, the US, SG or JP, run your own probes from your regions.

Top 5 dRPC alternatives

Chainstack

Chainstack is a managed node provider across 70+ blockchains that bills flat request units: 1 RU for a full request and 2 RU for archive, debug and trace, with no per-method weights. The free Developer plan includes 3M RU and 25 RPS with no card required, and Growth starts at $49 a month ($40 billed annually) with 20M RU, 250 RPS, archive data and debug and trace APIs, per the pricing page.

Like dRPC, Chainstack uses a flat meter with no per-method weights (1 RU full, 2 RU archive, debug and trace), with a fixed monthly plan and included volume. Global Nodes route requests across Asia-Pacific, Europe and the United States, and Dedicated Nodes are single-tenant nodes from the Pro plan at $199 a month, billed on top for compute (from $0.50 an hour) and storage; an Ethereum mainnet full node lists from about $1,640 a month and an archive node from about $2,720. MEV protection is on by default at deployment, free on every plan on Global Nodes, and can be turned off from the node’s Add-ons tab (Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain). On Arbitrum, Base, Arc and Robinhood Chain, which have no public mempool, the add-on is called optimized submission. Chainstack holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, and its Enterprise SLA page states a 99.9% quarterly uptime commitment with service credits. Support is community-based on Discord and Telegram on the free plan; paid plans get email support with a response target under 24 hours (24×5), and the Professional ($100 a month) and Premium ($1,000 a month) tiers add under 6 hour and under 1 hour targets.

Limitations: The free plan includes 3M RU a month (extra usage is optional and billed at $20 per 1M RU, otherwise services stop at the quota), has no archive or debug and trace, and limits eth_getLogs to 100 blocks, and Dedicated Nodes require the Pro plan or higher. Growth overage ($15 per 1M RU) is above dRPC’s flat $6 per 1M requests, so very high volume is better on a custom Pay As You Go plan (from $2.5 per 1M RU, arranged with sales for high monthly spend) or an Unlimited Node add-on (a flat fee by RPS tier, from $149 a month at 25 RPS). Growth lists 250 RPS where dRPC’s pricing page lists 5,000 requests per second on its Growth plan. Chainstack lists 70+ chains, fewer than the vendor-stated counts of dRPC (130+), Dwellir (150+), OnFinality (130+) and Alchemy (100+), and its Hyperliquid availability in the October report (99.74%) is the lowest of the four ranked providers.

Fit by workload:

• Archive-heavy analytics and indexers: Excellent, since debug and trace calls cost a flat 2 RU on a plan with a fixed monthly price.
• Teams that need compliance paperwork or isolated nodes: Strong, with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 published and Dedicated Nodes from the Pro plan.
• Hyperliquid and BNB Chain trading infrastructure: Strong on the benchmark scores above, with the BNB Chain P99 and Hyperliquid availability (99.74%) caveats.

Dwellir

Dwellir is a bare-metal RPC provider covering 150+ networks across EVM, Substrate, Move and Cosmos, billed at one credit per response with no compute units, even for trace and debug. Its pricing page lists Free (20 RPS, 100,000 daily responses), Developer at $49 a month with 25M responses and 100 RPS, Growth at $299 with 150M and 500 RPS, and Scale at $999 with 500M and 5,000 RPS.

Trace and debug are included from Developer. Extra responses are billed at $5, $3 and $2 per 1M on Developer, Growth and Scale. The eth_getLogs block range is not available on Free, 500 blocks on Developer and 10,000 on Growth and Scale, and ranges wider than the cap must be split into several requests, each billed as one response. Flat-fee unmetered nodes start at $119 a month (25 to 1,000 RPS). Dedicated Node Clusters are redundant archive clusters with no request counting and a 99.99% uptime SLA, listed from $2,400 a month (Ink), with Base at $3,366 and Ethereum at $12,600; the final quote depends on regions and cluster size.

Limitations: The free plan is capped at 20 RPS and 100,000 daily responses and has no eth_getLogs, trace or debug access, the $49 Developer plan limits log queries to 500 blocks, and we found no published SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 on its site. Dedicated clusters are quoted per chain and region after a call, and the Chainstack benchmark does not include Dwellir, so there are no comparable latency figures here.

Fit by workload:

• A flat per-response meter: Excellent, since a trace call costs the same credit as a balance read.
• Polkadot, Substrate and long-tail chains: Strong, with 150+ networks by Dwellir’s own count (its pricing page names about 110).

OnFinality

OnFinality is a multi-chain node service that its homepage says covers 130+ networks (the same page also cites 90+ deployable networks), with RPC APIs, dedicated nodes, indexing services, and staking and validators. Its pricing page lists a free Developer plan with 400,000 response units a day, Growth at $49 a month with 20M units and $6 per extra million, Accelerate at $249 with 100M units and $3.75 per extra million, and a custom Ultimate plan.

Archive access is listed on every plan, the Trace API starts at Growth, and dedicated nodes are pay-as-you-go on every plan. Most methods are 1 response unit, but eth_getLogs is 3 on the Ethereum page and trace methods weigh 2 to 50 in the Trace API docs.

Limitations: Pricing is weighted by response unit, so heavy methods cost more than the headline suggests, and paying in crypto is listed only on the Ultimate plan. Growth and Accelerate list node and API usage costs on top of the monthly fee, we found no published SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 on its pages, and the Chainstack benchmark does not cover OnFinality.

Fit by workload:

• Substrate and Polkadot-ecosystem teams: Strong, since its tooling targets Substrate networks and it hosts indexers.
• Prototypes that need a larger free daily allowance: Good, at 400,000 response units a day.
• Log queries on a $49 budget: Moderate, since eth_getLogs counts 3 response units, or $7.35 per million calls inside the Growth allowance.

Alchemy

Alchemy is a multi-chain platform listing 100+ chains that bundles Node API access with Token, Prices, Transfers, Portfolio and NFT APIs, Webhooks and Wallet APIs. Its pricing page lists a Free plan with 30M compute units (CU) a month and 15 requests per second, and Pay As You Go at $0.525 per 1M CU with 300 requests per second included.

Alchemy weights methods: eth_blockNumber is 10 CU, eth_call 26 CU, eth_getLogs 60 CU and debug_traceTransaction 40 CU. Free limits each eth_getLogs call to a 10-block range and has no Debug or Trace API. Support targets are 48 hours on Free and 24 hours on Pay As You Go, with Premium Support on Enterprise only. Alchemy’s trust center lists a SOC 2 Type II report (access on request), and we found no ISO 27001 certification.

Limitations: Alchemy does not remove method weighting, so it is not a cost fix for log-heavy or trace-heavy workloads: a million eth_getLogs calls cost $31.50 at the marginal rate, against $6.00 at dRPC’s flat price. Dedicated Clusters are priced on provisioned capacity and quoted through sales, and its Ethereum P99 (188 ms) is above Chainstack’s 117 ms and Quicknode’s 142 ms.

Fit by workload:

• A standing free plan with a bigger allowance than a trial: Strong, with 30M CU a month on the Free plan.
• Apps that want token, NFT and wallet data next to RPC: Excellent, as these APIs ship in the same platform.
• US-weighted Ethereum reads: Alchemy posted the lowest US P95 (80 ms) in the October benchmark, against 98 ms for Quicknode and 143 ms for Chainstack.

Quicknode

Quicknode is a multi-chain provider listing 75+ chains that bundles Streams and Webhooks with its node product and sells credits whose weight is set per chain. Its pricing page lists a one-month free trial (10M credits, 15 RPS, no card required) and Build at $49 a month ($34 billed annually) with 80M credits and 50 RPS.

On Ethereum and most EVM chains every method is 20 credits, most trace and debug methods carry a 2x multiplier, and specialized calls such as txpool_content and trace_replayTransaction are 4x, per the API credits table. Archive data is on every plan, trace and debug are listed from Build, and Dedicated Clusters are listed only on Enterprise. Quicknode’s security page states SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001, and its pricing page lists the reports on request under Enterprise.

Limitations: The free entry is a trial, not a standing plan, and during the trial eth_getLogs is limited to 5 blocks per call. A million 20-credit Ethereum calls cost $12.25 inside Build’s allowance on monthly billing, against $6.00 at dRPC’s flat price, and at Build’s $0.62 overage rate a 40-credit trace call is about $24.80 per million. In the benchmark, Quicknode’s Hyperliquid P95 is 76 ms against 22 ms for Chainstack, with 128 ms in JP.

Fit by workload:

• One vendor for RPC plus data streams: Strong, since Streams and Webhooks sit next to the node product.
• Ethereum reads from Germany or the US: Quicknode posted the lowest DE P95 (40 ms) and second-lowest US P95 (98 ms) in the October benchmark.

How to migrate from dRPC to Chainstack

Most migrations are an endpoint swap plus a testing pass. A coding agent can run the assessment from the Chainstack MCP migration runbook, and the dRPC switching page has a cost comparison and a pricing calculator you can fill with your own method mix.

1. Assess endpoints and usage. List every dRPC endpoint URL and key, its network, whether it runs on the free public nodes or a paid balance, and the methods and WebSocket subscriptions you use.
2. Deploy a node. Create a project and deploy a node per network, starting with Global Nodes and adding Dedicated Nodes if you need isolation.
3. Swap the endpoint URL. Replace the dRPC HTTPS and WebSocket URLs with your Chainstack endpoints behind a config flag so you can roll back.
4. Test methods. Run your real mix: eth_getLogs ranges, historical eth_call, debug and trace calls and subscriptions, and check block-range caps and error handling.
5. Compare cost. Export a billing period of usage, divide dRPC CU by 20 to get requests (methods that cost 0 CU aside), and check the result against the pricing page, where requests bill at 1 or 2 RU.
6. Cut over gradually. Shift a share of traffic, watch errors and latency from your regions, then move the rest.

Getting started with Chainstack

Deploy an Ethereum endpoint in a few steps:

1. Log in to the Chainstack console (or create an account).
2. Create a new project
3. Select Ethereum as your blockchain protocol
4. Choose network: Ethereum Mainnet or Sepolia / Hoodi testnet
5. Deploy the node
6. Open Access and credentials and copy your HTTPS and WebSocket endpoints

Then connect with ethers.js, using the setup from the Chainstack tooling docs:

import { ethers } from 'ethers';

// Using HTTP provider
const httpProvider = new ethers.JsonRpcProvider("YOUR_CHAINSTACK_ENDPOINT");
httpProvider.getBlockNumber().then(console.log);

// Using WebSocket provider
const wsProvider = new ethers.WebSocketProvider("YOUR_CHAINSTACK_WSS_ENDPOINT");
wsProvider.getBlockNumber().then((blockNumber) => {
  console.log(blockNumber);
  wsProvider.destroy();
});

📖 For the full integration guide, see the Chainstack Ethereum tooling documentation.

Need testnet ETH? The Chainstack Sepolia faucet tops an address up to 0.5 ETH every 24 hours (it needs a Chainstack API key and an address holding at least 0.08 ETH on Ethereum mainnet, with a history of holding ETH).

🤖 You can also access Chainstack Ethereum RPC directly from Claude, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Antigravity, Claude.ai, or ChatGPT using Chainstack MCP. For a fuller agent stack — MCP, the Chainstack skill, llms.txt for context ingestion, and WebMCP for agentic browsers — see the Chainstack Agents page.

Conclusion

The deciding question when you leave dRPC is whether you want a flat per-request meter with no monthly allowance or a plan with included volume, because the same traffic costs different amounts under each. Run your real calls through each provider’s rules and test latency from your users’ regions.

• Archive, trace and indexing workloads on a fixed monthly plan: Chainstack for flat 2 RU archive and trace billing, or Dwellir for one flat per-response credit.
• Dedicated infrastructure and compliance paperwork: Chainstack Dedicated Nodes with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, or a Quicknode Enterprise contract.
• Substrate, Polkadot and long-tail networks: Dwellir or OnFinality.
• A standing free plan plus data APIs: Alchemy.
• RPC plus data streams from one vendor: Quicknode.

Frequently asked questions

Q: What is the cheapest dRPC alternative?

It depends on the method and your volume. For eth_getLogs, a million calls cost $2.45 on Chainstack and $1.96 on Dwellir inside the plan allowance, against dRPC’s flat $6.00; inside their allowances dRPC’s $6.00 is also below OnFinality ($7.35) and Quicknode ($12.25). At overage Dwellir is $5.00, below dRPC’s rate, while Chainstack is $15, OnFinality $18, Quicknode $12.40 and Alchemy $31.50 are above it. Model your own mix with the cost calculator.

Q: Is there a free alternative to dRPC’s free plan?

Yes. Chainstack’s Developer plan offers 3M RU and 25 RPS, Dwellir 100,000 daily responses, OnFinality 400,000 response units a day and Alchemy 30M CU a month. Quicknode offers a one-month trial instead. dRPC’s free plan is 210M CU per 30 days, about 10.5M requests, on public nodes only.

Q: How do I migrate from dRPC to Chainstack?

Inventory your dRPC URLs, keys and methods, deploy a node per network, swap the endpoint, test heavy methods and compare cost before cutting over. The migration runbook lets a coding agent handle the assessment.

Q: Which provider is fastest according to benchmarks?

In the Chainstack October 2026 reports, Chainstack has the best score on Ethereum, BNB Chain and Hyperliquid, while Quicknode has the lowest DE P95 on Ethereum (40 ms), Alchemy the lowest US P95 (80 ms), and Quicknode a lower BNB Chain P99 (193 ms against 270 ms). dRPC scores 0.670, 0.200 and 0.124 on the three chains, against 0.079, 0.087 and 0.019 for Chainstack. Chainstack runs the benchmark and is ranked in it, and Dwellir and OnFinality are not covered.

Q: Which alternatives publish SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001?

Chainstack publishes SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. We found no published SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 for dRPC, Dwellir or OnFinality, so request reports from each vendor. Alchemy’s trust center lists a SOC 2 Type II report (access on request), and we found no ISO 27001 certificate there. Quicknode’s security page states SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001, and its pricing page lists the reports on request under Enterprise.

Q: What limits does dRPC’s free plan have?

The free plan includes 210M CU per 30 days on public nodes, and each request counts 20 CU (a few methods such as eth_chainId cost 0), so it covers about 10.5M requests. The docs set about 100 requests per second per IP (down to about 40 under high regional demand), 3-item batches, a 10,000-entry log cap and a 2-second timeout.

Additional resources

• How to get an Ethereum RPC endpoint in 2026
• Chainstack RPC benchmark reports
• Debug and trace APIs — Chainstack Docs
• Ethereum available methods — Chainstack Docs
• Request units — Chainstack Docs
• Most cost-effective blockchain API: Chainstack vs Quicknode vs Alchemy