Changelog

What’s new

2 October 2026 — 50% more monthly CU

  • Free: 3M; Hacker: 22.5M; Starter: 90M; Pro: 450M; Scale: 1.5B CU per month.
  • Existing and new accounts receive the higher allowance. Plan prices, request rates and method weights are unchanged. Usage is not reset; purchased extra CU remain intact.
  • The pricing page now compares the same Ethereum workload across six providers, with method-specific costs, sources and a verification date.

v1.8.0 — 23 August 2026

Mantle, Linea, Cronos and Arbitrum Nova removed

  • All four drew zero compute units across July and August. Linea, Cronos and Arbitrum Nova are mature chains: anyone who needs them already has a provider, so the demand was never going to arrive

  • Their chain pages, per-method pages and docs pages redirect rather than 404

  • The chain count is 18. Where the site states it, it now reads from the chain registry

  • The all-chains default price for /data/allowances and /data/wallet-report over x402 drops from the $0.06 cap to $0.0594 — fewer chains, less work, lower price

  • Still served, deliberately: the young chains at zero today (Ink, Mode, Plasma, Soneium, BOB). Sonic sat at zero in July and did 2M CU in August; that is the bet, and Robinhood Chain — now 91% of our traffic — was once exactly the same bet

  • If you were calling any of the four, the endpoint stops resolving. Mail us or ask on Discord and we will help you move

  • Mantle (Chain ID 5000) is no longer served. It drew zero compute units in August, and running a node for a chain nobody asks for is capacity that belongs elsewhere

  • The chain, its docs page and its blog post are gone rather than left answering — with a node withdrawn, /mantle would have been served by a third-party endpoint under our name, on a site that says we do not resell

  • /chains/mantle, its per-method pages, /docs/endpoints/mantle and the Mantle blog post now redirect

  • The chain count drops to 21. Where that number appears on the site it is now read from the chain registry or left out of the prose entirely, so the next fleet change cannot leave a stale figure behind

  • If you were calling /mantle, the endpoint stops resolving. Mail us or ask on Discord and we will help you move

v1.7.0 — 22 August 2026

Log queries cost a third of what they did

  • eth_getLogs and eth_getFilterLogs now cost 25 CU, down from 75 — the same call for a third of the quota
  • On the free tier that turns ~26,000 log queries a month into ~80,000, without any change to the 2,000,000 CU allowance
  • Pay-per-call over x402 drops with it: a 20-call log batch goes from $0.015 to $0.005, since x402 prices off the same table
  • Why: the old weight was set from what a log query costs our nodes, and that part was accurate — we measure a log query at roughly sixteen times an eth_call. But it priced capacity that is sitting idle, and it made us dearer per log query than providers who weight them at a fraction of that. Cost recovery on unused hardware is not a reason for a customer to pay more
  • Unchanged: trace_* and debug_* stay at 100 CU, and the Solana full-scan methods (getProgramAccounts, getSignaturesForAddress) stay at 75 — those are genuinely different work on different hardware
  • Full table on the rate limits page

v1.6.0 — 1 August 2026

Direct crypto payments — straight to our own wallet

  • Crypto checkout no longer goes through a payment processor: plans and CU top-ups are now paid directly to NodeFlare's own wallet — you send an exact amount, we verify it on-chain on our own nodes, and your plan activates the moment the transfer confirms
  • Four assets: USDC and USDT (on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism or Solana, where each is natively issued), native ETH (Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism) and native SOL — native coins quoted at the live market price when your invoice opens
  • 10-minute payment window with a live countdown; late payments keep being detected for 24 hours
  • Card payments via Stripe are unchanged

v1.5.0 — 1 July 2026

Per-method API reference, docs corrections, dashboard polish

  • New per-method API reference: every JSON-RPC method documented per chain — parameters, compute-unit cost, curl/ethers examples (browse from any chain page)
  • New per-chain landing pages and solutions pages (trading bots, indexing, wallets, DeFi)
  • WebSocket now available on all 7 chains through the gateway (previously Ethereum, Base and HyperEVM only) — format: wss://rpc.nodeflare.app/{chain}/ws/v1/{key}, with rate limiting and method guards applied
  • Dashboard: /app now redirects to the overview, paid plans get a Manage subscription button (Stripe portal — update card, download invoices, cancel), usage card shows an upgrade prompt above 80%, account page shows your profile
  • Blog now has an RSS feed and structured article metadata
  • Corrected stale compute-unit figures in older posts (current weights: rate limits)

v1.4.0 — 2 June 2026

Heavy methods on the free tier

  • eth_getLogs, eth_getFilterLogs, filter methods, trace_* and debug_* are now available on the Free plan (and all paid plans) — previously key-only on paid. They remain restricted on the public no-key endpoint
  • These heavy methods now carry higher CU weights so the monthly quota throttles abuse: eth_getLogs/eth_getFilterLogs = 75 CU, trace_*/debug_* = 100 CU, filter/proof methods = 20 CU (full table)
  • Requests are now capped at 100 calls per batch and a 256 KB body to protect upstream nodes
  • Public endpoint rate limit documented accurately: 2 req/sec · 500 req/day

v1.3.0 — 19 May 2026

Compute Units billing

  • Usage is now measured in Compute Units (CU) instead of raw request counts — heavier calls cost more quota, lighter calls cost less
  • Per-method CU weights: eth_blockNumber = 1 CU, eth_call = 5 CU, eth_getLogs = 15 CU, trace_* = 25 CU (full table)
  • Batch requests sum the CU of every call in the batch
  • Extra CU top-up (1M for €5) now deducts at the correct per-method rate instead of a flat 1 per request
  • Referral reward updated to 500,000 CU
  • Usage tracking is now real-time accurate — counts reflect all requests including the last 30 seconds
  • Dashboard usage card updated to show CU consumed with per-chain breakdown

v1.2.0 — 18 May 2026

5 regions, 17 nodes, WebSocket endpoints

  • Added London region: Base, BNB, Avalanche, Arbitrum nodes
  • Added Falkenstein region: BNB, Arbitrum, Optimism nodes
  • Added Los Angeles region: Base, Avalanche nodes
  • Added Avalanche C-Chain (chain ID 43114) — 7th supported chain
  • WebSocket endpoints now live for all chains — see individual chain docs
  • Health monitoring tracks all 17 nodes across 5 regions
  • Geo-aware routing sends requests to the nearest region automatically

v1.1.0 — 16 May 2026

Singapore region + geo routing

  • Added Singapore region: Base, BNB, Arbitrum nodes
  • Geo-aware routing via Cloudflare colo detection (APAC, AMER, London, EU)
  • Multi-node failover: automatic fallback to next healthy node on 5xx or timeout
  • Per-minute health checks across all nodes with 30-day uptime history

v1.0.0 — 15 May 2026

Initial launch

  • JSON-RPC proxy for 6 EVM chains: Ethereum, Base, BNB, Arbitrum, Optimism, HyperLiquid
  • Free tier: 100K CU/month
  • Paid plans: Starter (5M CU/mo) and Pro (50M CU/mo)
  • Stripe and crypto (NOWPayments) billing
  • Per-chain usage tracking in dashboard
  • Clerk authentication
  • GDPR-compliant privacy policy and Terms of Service