BlockPI vs Chainstack 2026: 2 live benchmarks compared

Name: BlockPI vs Chainstack OpenChainBench measurements
Creator: OpenChainBench
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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BlockPI vs Chainstack

Split decision: BlockPI leads on Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers ($29.50 vs $198); Chainstack leads on Most requests a free RPC plan buys, across 13 providers (3.00M vs 1.82M). Data as of 2026-11-06 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:20:39 UTCWindow: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks

BlockPI

BlockPI multi-chain RPC provider offering public keyless endpoints across many EVM chains. Merlin Chain public endpoint: merlin.blockpi.network/v1/rpc/public.

Chainstack

Managed blockchain node platform. Deploys dedicated Global Nodes per chain with keyed HTTPS/WSS endpoints; free plan includes one node and 3M requests per month.

Side by side measurements

Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers

RPCs

Provider	Monthly cost, dapp mix at 10M requests	Effective cost per 1M requests	Billing units per request	Free tier, requests per month
BlockPIprovisional	$29.50	$2.95	28	1.82M
Chainstackprovisional	$198	$4.90	1	3.00M

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BlockPIn/aChainstackn/a

Published prices, not invoices. Each figure is human-verified against the provider's own pricing page or API and carries the date it was read; the harness re-hashes 20 of those pages on a loop to catch an upstream edit. A 30-day month and flat traffic are assumed, the most generous reading. NOWNodes prices in EUR. A provider absent from a cell is not missing data: it has no plan that can serve that workload, usually a cap or a throughput ceiling rather than the price.

Most requests a free RPC plan buys, across 13 providers

RPCs

BlockPI

Trails

1.82M

rank: #4

Chainstack

Leads

3.00M

rank: #3

Free allowance

BlockPIn/aChainstackn/a

Allowance, not latency and not reliability. A plan that buys the most requests is not thereby the fastest or the most correct; those are measured on the per-chain RPC pages. Published allowances, human-verified against each provider's own pricing page with the date it was read. A free plan is one that costs nothing and renews, so Quicknode's one-month trial is not here. Where a provider publishes a daily cap it is multiplied by 30.

Frequently asked questions

BlockPI vs Chainstack: which one is better?

BlockPI and Chainstack are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. BlockPI leads on Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers. Chainstack leads on Most requests a free RPC plan buys, across 13 providers. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is cheaper, BlockPI or Chainstack?

On the Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers benchmark, BlockPI leads at $29.50 (provisional) versus Chainstack at $198 (provisional). Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which has the higher free allowance, BlockPI or Chainstack?

On the Most requests a free RPC plan buys, across 13 providers benchmark, Chainstack leads at 3.00M versus BlockPI at 1.82M. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the BlockPI vs Chainstack comparison measured?

Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.

How this pair was selected

Auto-generated pairs require: both providers in the same benchmark for seven consecutive days, at least 1000 samples per provider, observable third-party search demand, and a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. Editorially curated pairs (like this one) may publish early when search demand is high and data is accruing; panels with fewer than 100 samples are shown as provisional. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo.