Alchemy Alternatives for Web3 Node APIs and Wallet SDKs

Alchemy is a Web3 developer platform: node and RPC access across many chains, data APIs for tokens, NFTs, transfers and prices, webhooks, and wallet and gas APIs for account abstraction. Its pricing page lists three plans. Free includes 30M compute units (CUs) a month at 300 CU/s with 5 apps. Pay as You Go charges $0.52 per 1M CUs, includes 10,000 CU/s, and sells more throughput at $160 per 5,000 CU/s block per month, up to 30,000 CU/s self-serve. Enterprise is custom.

Teams usually look around for one of three reasons. CU pricing is hard to compare, because each method has its own CU weight and other providers count credits or requests differently. Some teams want a second provider for failover. And proprietary methods can go away: Alchemy retired the alchemy_simulateExecution and alchemy_simulateAssetChanges family on September 30, 2026 and pointed developers to eth_simulateV1 and debug_traceCall, per Alchemy support.

The seven picks below cover the same jobs: RPC endpoints, indexed data, wallet SDKs and transaction debugging. Prices are monthly unless noted. Standard JSON-RPC calls move between providers with a URL change; Alchemy-specific methods such as its enhanced APIs need rewriting.

Prices below are as of November 6, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.

Quick comparison

QuickNode

QuickNode is the closest like-for-like replacement: managed RPC on many chains with a marketplace of add-ons for indexed data, plus streams and functions. Plans count API credits instead of CUs, and each plan sets endpoints and requests per second.

The pricing page starts with a free trial of 10M credits at 15 requests per second. Build is $49 a month for 80M credits and 50 RPS, Accelerate $249 for 450M, Scale $499 for 950M and Business from $999 for 2 billion. Annual billing lowers Build to $34 a month.

Best for: Teams leaving Alchemy who want a similar managed product with fixed monthly budgets.

Pricing:

• Free trial: 10M credits, 15 RPS, 1 endpoint, no overage
• Build: $49 a month ($34 a month billed yearly), 80M credits, 50 RPS
• Accelerate: $249 a month, 450M credits, 125 RPS
• Scale: $499 a month, 950M credits, 250 RPS
• Business: from $999 a month, 2B credits

Watch out for:

• Overage above $200 past your limit is billed immediately, not at the end of the cycle. Overage costs $0.62 per 1M credits on Build, $0.56 on Accelerate, $0.53 on Scale and $0.50 on Business; the lower per-million figures on the plan cards are the effective rate for included credits.

Official site: QuickNode.

Infura

Run by Consensys, the company behind MetaMask, Infura is the other long-standing Ethereum node provider. Every plan includes full archive data and a Gas API across 40+ networks. Quotas are daily instead of monthly.

Core is free with 3 million credits a day at 500 credits per second. Developer costs $50 a month for 15 million a day and adds the Debug and Trace APIs. Team is $225 a month for 75 million a day and unlimited API keys. A 55 million credit add-on costs $200 a month.

Best for: Ethereum and L2 projects that want archive data and trace calls on a modest flat fee.

Pricing:

• Core: free, 3M credits a day, 500 credits/s
• Developer: $50 a month, 15M a day, 4,000 credits/s
• Team: $225 a month, 75M a day, 40,000 credits/s
• Enterprise: custom

Watch out for:

• Debug and Trace APIs are not on the free plan. Per the Infura pricing page, the free tier allows 3 million credits a day at 500 credits a second (the FAQ cites a higher figure), so check your dashboard.

Official site: Infura.

dRPC

dRPC routes requests across a network of node operators and sells them by the request. Pay as You Go is $6 per 1M requests with no commitment, topped up by card or crypto, according to its pricing page.

The free tier is large: a 210M CU pool, up to about 10M requests, at 100 RPS. Pro is $49 a month and Scale $199 a month with bigger pools and up to 600 RPS. The page lists 120+ supported chains.

Best for: Projects that want a cheap second RPC provider for failover, or no monthly plan at all.

Pricing:

• Free: $0, 210M CU pool, 100 RPS, public nodes only
• Pay as You Go: $6 per 1M requests
• Pro: $49 a month; Scale: $199 a month
• Enterprise: from $990 a month

Watch out for:

• The free tier uses public nodes only, so production traffic needs a paid plan.
• There are no indexed data APIs like Alchemy's Token or NFT APIs; it is RPC only.

Official site: dRPC.

Chainstack

Chainstack sells shared RPC by request units and adds dedicated nodes from the Pro plan up, with compute from $0.50 an hour. For a team that expects to need its own node later, both live in one account.

Developer is free with 3M request units a month at 25 RPS. Growth costs $49 a month for 20M, Pro $199 for 80M, Business $499 for 200M. A yearly toggle saves 16%.

Best for: Teams that want shared endpoints today and a dedicated node without changing vendors.

Pricing:

• Developer: free, 3M RUs a month, 25 RPS, extra $20 per 1M RUs
• Growth: $49 a month, 20M RUs, 250 RPS
• Pro: $199 a month, 80M RUs, 400 RPS, dedicated nodes
• Business: $499 a month, 200M RUs
• Enterprise: from $990 a month

Watch out for:

• Extra usage is pricey on low tiers: $20 per 1M request units on Developer and $15 on Growth, per the Chainstack pricing page.

Official site: Chainstack.

Moralis

Moralis replaces Alchemy's data layer rather than its nodes. Its Wallet, Token and NFT APIs return balances, transfers, prices and metadata already indexed, and Streams pushes on-chain events to your backend like Alchemy's webhooks.

The pricing page lists Starter at $149 a month for 2M compute units and 40 RPS, Pro at $249 for 100M and Business at $749 for 500M. A separate Data Feeds plan is $10 a month for 10 GB.

Best for: Wallet trackers, portfolio apps and dashboards that need indexed data more than raw RPC.

Pricing:

• Starter: $149 a month, 2M CUs, 40 RPS, $11.25 per extra 1M CUs
• Pro: $249 a month, 100M CUs, 80 RPS
• Business: $749 a month, 500M CUs, 200 RPS
• Enterprise: custom

Watch out for:

• Starter includes only 2M CUs for $149, so most apps will land on Pro at $249 a month.
• Moralis CU weights differ from Alchemy's, so usage numbers do not carry over one to one.

Official site: Moralis.

thirdweb

Alchemy's Smart Wallets and gas manager have a direct rival in thirdweb, which bundles user wallets, account abstraction, gas sponsorship and RPC behind one SDK and one bill.

Every plan on the pricing page includes the first 1,000 monthly active wallets, 1M RPC requests and 1,000 sponsored transactions. After that, wallets cost $0.015 per MAU and RPC $8 per million requests. Growth is $99 a month, Scale $499 and Pro from $1,499.

Best for: Consumer apps that want email or social login wallets and sponsored gas without stitching vendors together.

Pricing:

• Growth: $99 a month, 250 request units/s
• Scale: $499 a month, 1,000 request units/s
• Pro: from $1,499 a month
• Overage: $0.015 per MAU, $8 per 1M RPC requests, $1 per 1,000 sponsored transactions

Watch out for:

• Sponsored mainnet gas carries a 2.5% surcharge on top of the gas itself.
• Only 1M RPC requests are included, so heavy read traffic is cheaper on a dedicated RPC provider.

Official site: thirdweb.

Tenderly

Teams that used Alchemy's simulation methods need somewhere else to trace and simulate transactions. Tenderly is the usual choice: a debugger, an explorer and single-transaction simulation in the browser.

The free plan is "Free, indefinitely" and covers one chain in the explorer. API access, virtual testnets and team features sit in Tenderly Console, sold on a custom contract. Our Tenderly alternatives page compares Phalcon, BuildBear and Foundry for the same job.

Best for: Debugging failed transactions and replacing alchemy_simulate calls with a visual tool.

Pricing:

• Free: debugger, single-chain explorer, single-transaction simulation
• Tenderly Console: contact sales, no public tiers

Watch out for:

• The Tenderly pricing page says there is no API access on Free, so simulating from code needs a Console contract.

Official site: Tenderly.

How to choose

When to stay with Alchemy

Stay on Alchemy if your app leans on its enhanced APIs, webhooks and Smart Wallets together, since replacing all three means two or three vendors. Its 30M CU free tier is also generous for prototypes. Many teams keep Alchemy as the primary provider and add dRPC or QuickNode as a fallback endpoint. If you are also moving off an old local toolchain, see our Truffle alternatives guide.

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