BlockPI vs OnFinality 2026: 2 live benchmarks compared

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

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BlockPI vs OnFinality

Split decision: BlockPI leads on Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 18 ranked providers ($29.50 vs $49); OnFinality leads on Most requests a free RPC plan buys, across 12 providers (6.86M vs 1.82M). Data as of 2026-10-18 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:02:56 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.

OnFinality

Multi-chain infrastructure provider. Public keyless endpoints on 80+ networks with generous daily limits, plus dedicated and API-key tiers.

Side by side measurements

Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 18 ranked 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
OnFinalityprovisional	$49	$4.90	2	6.86M

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BlockPIn/aOnFinalityn/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 23 of those artifacts 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 12 providers

RPCs

BlockPI

Trails

1.82M

rank: #4

OnFinality

Leads

6.86M

rank: #2

Free allowance

BlockPIn/aOnFinalityn/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 OnFinality: which one is better?

BlockPI and OnFinality are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. BlockPI leads on Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 18 ranked providers. OnFinality leads on Most requests a free RPC plan buys, across 12 providers. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is cheaper, BlockPI or OnFinality?

On the Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 18 ranked providers benchmark, BlockPI leads at $29.50 (provisional) versus OnFinality at $49 (provisional). Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which has the higher free allowance, BlockPI or OnFinality?

On the Most requests a free RPC plan buys, across 12 providers benchmark, OnFinality leads at 6.86M versus BlockPI at 1.82M. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the BlockPI vs OnFinality 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.