What is an alternative to Infura for blockchain development?

High-quality alternative RPC providers to Infura include Alchemy which has a 99.99% upttime, helping you avoid costly outages and allowing customers to continually use your dApp.

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Alchemy is more reliable than Infura.
Metamask user? You’re down when Infura is down.
Alchemy’s speed and data correctness is unmatched.

How does Infura compare to Alchemy?

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Real-time collaboration
Share prototype links
Developer handoff
Includes a powerful native Mac app
Full offline workflow
User control over who sees your work
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Alchemy Supernode is our team's secret weapon. I used to worry about blockchain infrastructure daily, but Supernode works so well I haven't had to think about node infrastructure for over a year!

Asaf Shachaf
Head of Product

Why are people switching from Infura to Alchemy?

Always up

On April 22nd 2022, Infura had an outage lasting for 3 hours, sparking an outcry in the web3 community, taking down countless dApps and protocols that depend on infra reliability for their users. This is not the first time Infura has had an outage.

There were other outages on February 5th 2022 and April 5th 2022.

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Upgrade your metamask for free

Infura is the default RPC endpoint for Metamask wallet users so when Infura goes down Metamask users who are using the default Infura RPC endpoint are  unable to use their wallet. Alchemy offers an alternative RPC endpoint for metamask users that is both fast and reliable.

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Spit out data correctness

Several DeFi and NFT dapps have been impacted by slow transactions, degraded performance, and questions about data correctness. This is essential in order to provide a trusted dapp in Web3.

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Ease of use

Infura has restrictions on requests per day and rate limits that have limited ease of use for some developers. Archive data is an extra service available for an additional fee, which is offered for free through Alchemy and other providers that also provided enhanced APIs and more.

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Alchemy Supernode is our team's secret weapon. I used to worry about blockchain infrastructure daily, but Supernode works so well I haven't had to think about node infrastructure for over a year!

Asaf Shachaf
Head of Product

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What is an alternative to Infura for blockchain development?

Alchemy is an RPC provider like Infura that offers 99.99% uptime, and helps web3 developers avoid costly outages.

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What is Infura?

Infura is a suite of developer tools created by ConsenSys to help developers connect their apps to the Ethereum network and other blockchains.

Infura offers core APIs for Ethereum, alternative L1s, L2s like Arbitrum, archive node access, smart contract deployment tools, and an IPFS API to connect to distributed storage.

Why are people switching from Infura to Alchemy?

Node Reliability

Alchemy is widely known as the most reliable provider in the space with 99.99%+ uptime. Notably, Alchemy’s services have been up and supporting dapps, developers, and protocols even during periods where Infura and others experienced major, 3+ hour outages.

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Metamask Outages

Infura is the default RPC node provider for MetaMask, the most popular web3 wallet, but Alchemy offers a faster, more reliable, more accurate RPC endpoint that can be swapped in to power your MetaMask wallet in less than 5 minutes.

Switch your MetaMask RPC URL to Alchemy

Data Correctness

DeFi and NFT dapps require accurate data from their RPC node provider to deliver an excellent user experience to their customers.

Alchemy has invested 100s of 1000s of engineering hours to develop Alchemy Supernode and a novel consensus layer that guarantees every blockchain request returns a consistent result.

See how Alchemy solves web3's data accuracy problem

Ease of Use

Getting started with Alchemy is as easy as changing a single URL in your smart contract.

Are you a new web3 developer?

You can connect your dapp to Ethereum and popular L2s using the Alchemy SDK with just two lines of code!

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