Pricing
Simple pricing. All chains.
No per-chain fees. Published quotas and rate limits. Pay with fiat or crypto.
Prices exclude VAT. Any tax due is calculated from your billing country and shown before you pay — EU businesses with a VAT number are billed under reverse charge.
50% more monthly CU. Same plan prices.
From 2 October 2026, every Free, Hacker, Starter, Pro and Scale account gets a larger monthly allowance, including existing accounts. Your usage carries forward; rate limits and method weights stay the same.
Compare real request costs →Free
Explore and test your integration
$0 / month
- Compute units / month
- 3,000,000
- Requests / second
- 10
- Networks
- Every supported chain
Hacker
Your first production project
$10 / month
- Compute units / month
- 22,500,000
- Requests / second
- 50
- Networks
- Every supported chain
Starter
Apps with growing traffic
$30 / month
- Compute units / month
- 90,000,000
- Requests / second
- 150
- Networks
- Every supported chain
Pro
Higher-volume workloads
$100 / month
- Compute units / month
- 450,000,000
- Requests / second
- 500
- Networks
- Every supported chain
Scale
More capacity for your team
$299 / month
- Compute units / month
- 1,500,000,000
- Requests / second
- 1,500
- Networks
- Every supported chain
Paid plans: card subscription or a prepaid crypto period. Applicable taxes, network fees and the exact crypto quote are shown during checkout. Shared infrastructure; a key does not reserve private hardware.
Need help moving to production?
Discuss migration, workload sizing, private capacity and support in a scoped proposal.
Explore managed RPC →Compare the same workload
10 million requests. What would you pay?
A credit is not the same amount of work at every provider. Choose a standard Ethereum method to compare 10 million requests, spread evenly over a 30-day month (about 3.86 requests/second).
NodeFlare
$30.00
Starter
50M CU / month
Chainstack
$49.00
Growth · full-node requests
10M RU / month
QuickNode
$123.40
Build + 120M overage credits
200M credits / month
Alchemy
$136.50
Pay as You Go
260M CU / month
Ankr
$200.00
Premium PAYG · EVM HTTPS
2,000M credits / month
Infura
$225.00
Team
800M credits / month
NodeFlare Starter covers this scenario for $30.00 per month.
Assumptions, method weights and sources · checked 2 October 2026
- Monthly USD list rates before taxes. No annual discounts, introductory offers, enterprise quotes, Ankr Deal discounts, support add-ons or credits from other promotions.
- Standard Ethereum mainnet HTTPS requests at recent blocks. No archive, WebSocket, streaming, trace/debug or indexed-data workload. Identical method names do not guarantee identical supported query ranges, response sizes or performance.
- NodeFlare selects the smallest included-CU plan that fits. QuickNode includes Build overage at $0.62 per million credits; its one-month trial is not recurring free usage. Alchemy bills all PAYG usage at $0.525 per million CU.
- Chainstack full-node requests use 1 RU; archive requests use 2 RU and are excluded. Infura uses daily quotas: we select an included-quota plan without add-ons; where none fits, no price is invented.
- These are calculated price examples, not measured latency, availability, support quality or a claim of equivalent service. Check each provider before buying.
- NodeFlare: 5 CU per request · pricing · method costs
- Chainstack: 1 RU per request · pricing · method costs
- QuickNode: 20 credits per request · pricing · method costs
- Alchemy: 26 CU per request · pricing · method costs
- Ankr: 200 credits per request · pricing · method costs
- Infura: 80 credits per request · pricing · method costs
Every plan includes
What would your usage cost?
Estimate requests per day per category — heavier calls cost more compute units (CU).
Simple reads
eth_blockNumber, eth_chainId, eth_gasPrice · 1 CU
Standard reads
balances, blocks, receipts, tx lookups · 2 CU
Contract calls
eth_call, eth_estimateGas · 5 CU
Log queries
eth_getLogs, filters · 25 CU
Traces
debug_*, trace_* · 100 CU
Estimated usage: 495K CU/month
Fits the Free plan — $0, no credit card (17% of 3M CU)
Full per-method weights on the rate limits page. One key covers every chain we serve.
Prefer pay-per-call? See x402 pricing → from $0.001/call in USDC, no account. Or query multi-chain balances & portfolios → across all 18 chains in one call.
Frequently asked questions
Requests return HTTP 429 until the next billing cycle. You can upgrade your plan at any time from your dashboard, or buy a one-time top-up of 1,000,000 extra CU for $6 from your billing page.
Yes. Every paid plan and every CU top-up can be paid in crypto at checkout — no credit card, no KYC, and no payment processor: you send the exact amount straight to NodeFlare's own wallet and the plan activates the moment the transfer confirms on-chain. Pay in USDC or USDT (on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism or Solana, where each is natively issued), or in native ETH or SOL at the live market rate. Agents can also pay per call in USDC over x402 with no account at all.
Yes. Every plan — including the free tier — includes access to every chain on the platform.
Yes. Cancel from your billing dashboard at any time. You retain access until the end of the billing period.
The Free plan (3,000,000 CU/month) serves as your trial. No credit card required to start.