Alchemy vs Infura

Alchemy4.3/5

VS

Infura4.1/5

Feature	AlchemyVisit	InfuraVisit
Ratings
Our score	4.3/5	4.1/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Reliability	4.5	4.5
Chain coverage	4.5	4.0
Pricing	4.0	4.0
Developer experience	4.5	4.5
Support	4.0	3.5
Specs
Services	RPC / nodes, Data APIs, Wallet APIs, Account abstraction, Developer tooling	RPC / nodes, Data APIs
Chains supported	100	40
Free tier	Yes	Yes
Pricing from	$0.525 per 1,000,000 compute units	$50/month
Enterprise SLA	Yes	Yes
Uptime SLA	99.99%	99.99%
Free tier limits	30M compute units per month, up to 15 RPS, 5 apps, 5 webhooks	6 million credits/day, 2,000 credits/second
Company
Founded	2017	2016
Headquarters	United States	United States
Investors	Archetype	Not disclosed
Strengths and weaknesses
Pros	100+ supported blockchains Free tier includes 30M compute units monthly Enterprise SLAs reach 99.995% availability RPC, indexed data and wallet APIs share one platform	Free Core tier provides 6 million credits daily Direct native integration with MetaMask and Consensys tooling Supports over 40 blockchain networks and Layer 2s Target 99.99% uptime SLA on enterprise accounts
Cons	Applications face centralised provider and outage exposure Proprietary APIs can increase vendor lock-in Pay As You Go charges scale with compute usage Automated agent wallets add transaction-control risk	Centralized RPC architecture creates single-point-of-failure risks Paid subscriptions start at $50 per month Strict rate limits apply on free tier throughput
Best for	Multichain application teams, Solana developers, Account-abstraction products	Developers building on Ethereum and Linea, MetaMask SDK and Snaps integrations, Teams needing managed multi-chain RPC endpoints

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