Infura is the RPC provider most teams start with — but plenty end up looking for an alternative, whether for better pricing, more chains, enhanced APIs, or simply to avoid depending on one company. Here are the best Infura alternatives in 2026, and which one to pick for each reason you might be leaving.
The short answer
- Best overall alternative: Alchemy — more enhanced APIs and account-abstraction tooling.
- Best for multi-chain: QuickNode — widest chain coverage including Solana.
- Best value: Chainstack — predictable request-based pricing, no compute units.
- Best for redundancy: dRPC — aggregates many providers behind one endpoint.
- Best for Solana: Helius.
Why teams leave Infura
Infura is reliable and well-integrated with the Consensys/MetaMask stack, so people rarely leave because it is bad. They leave for specific reasons: they need chains Infura covers less well, they want enhanced APIs Infura does not match, its pricing steps up steeply at scale, or they simply do not want a single point of failure. Match your reason to the right alternative below rather than switching blindly.
Alchemy — if you want more tooling
Alchemy is the most common Infura alternative and an upgrade in tooling. Beyond reliable RPC it offers decoded token and NFT APIs, webhooks, transaction simulation, and full account-abstraction infrastructure — the higher-level features that save real engineering time. Pricing starts at $49/month after a generous free tier. If you are leaving Infura because you want more than raw RPC, this is the default answer.
QuickNode — if you need more chains
QuickNode supports a wider range of chains than Infura and, crucially, treats Solana as a first-class citizen. If Infura's chain coverage is the constraint — especially if you are expanding to Solana or less-common networks — QuickNode is the natural move, giving you one vendor across many ecosystems.
Chainstack — if pricing is the issue
Chainstack is frequently chosen for its transparent, request-based pricing — no opaque compute-unit maths that makes your bill unpredictable. It offers strong performance, global node reach, and trace/debug APIs, with paid plans from $49/month. If Infura's cost or metering frustrated you, Chainstack's predictability is the fix.
dRPC and Grove — if you want to stop depending on one provider
If your real reason for leaving is single-provider risk, the answer is not another single provider — it is redundancy. dRPC aggregates many independent providers behind one endpoint and routes each request to the best-performing node, building resilience in by design. Grove (the managed gateway on Pocket Network) taps a decentralised node supply with a normal developer experience. Either reduces the single-point-of-failure that plain Infura represents.
Helius — if you are on Solana
Infura is Ethereum-centric, so if your work has shifted to Solana, the right alternative is a specialist. Helius outperforms every generalist on Solana specifically — staked connections for reliable transaction landing, parsed transactions, and the DAS API for compressed NFTs. For Solana, this is not a compromise alternative; it is an upgrade.
The decentralised route
If you object philosophically to depending on centralised RPC companies at all, Pocket Network distributes requests across thousands of independent node operators. Be realistic about the trade-off — performance depends on the node set's health — but for censorship-resistance and provider diversity, it is the most principled alternative to Infura.
How to choose
- Want more enhanced APIs? Alchemy.
- Need more chains / Solana? QuickNode (or Helius for Solana-first).
- Pricing was the problem? Chainstack.
- Worried about single-provider risk? dRPC or Grove — and run it alongside, not instead of, a primary.
Whatever you switch to, take the opportunity to set up a fallback provider at the same time. The best time to add redundancy is when you are already changing your RPC config.
Tools referenced in this article
- All RPC and node providers — full category with 17 providers reviewed
- Alchemy, QuickNode, Chainstack
- dRPC, Helius, Grove
- Alchemy vs Infura vs QuickNode — the full head-to-head