GetBlock vs Infura (MetaMask Developer) 2026: 2 live benchmarks compared

Name: GetBlock vs Infura (MetaMask Developer) OpenChainBench measurements
Creator: OpenChainBench
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

OpenChainBench

GetBlock vs Infura (MetaMask Developer)

Split decision: GetBlock leads on Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers ($150 vs $225); Infura (MetaMask Developer) leads on Most requests a free RPC plan buys, across 13 providers (902.3K vs 75.0K). Data as of 2026-11-13 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:20:36 UTCWindow: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks

GetBlock

Multi-chain RPC provider covering 130+ networks, billed in Compute Units. Keyed JSON-RPC runs on shared nodes with the serving region selectable between New York, Frankfurt and Singapore. Cost is a chain multiplier times a method multiplier, with archive priced from an independent column rather than as a fixed surcharge.

Infura (MetaMask Developer)

RPC infrastructure by Consensys, now part of the MetaMask Developer platform. Keyed endpoints across 40+ networks; free tier meters 3M credits per day.

Side by side measurements

Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers

RPCs

GetBlock

Leads

$150

rank: —
samples: 4provisional

Infura (MetaMask Developer)

Trails

$225

rank: #14
samples: 4provisional

Monthly cost, dapp mix at 10M requests

GetBlockn/aInfura (MetaMask Developer)n/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

GetBlock

Trails

75.0K

rank: #10

Infura (MetaMask Developer)

Leads

902.3K

rank: #8

Free allowance

GetBlockn/aInfura (MetaMask Developer)n/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

GetBlock vs Infura (MetaMask Developer): which one is better?

GetBlock and Infura (MetaMask Developer) are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. GetBlock leads on Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers. Infura (MetaMask Developer) 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, GetBlock or Infura (MetaMask Developer)?

On the Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers benchmark, GetBlock leads at $150 (provisional) versus Infura (MetaMask Developer) at $225 (provisional). Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which has the higher free allowance, GetBlock or Infura (MetaMask Developer)?

On the Most requests a free RPC plan buys, across 13 providers benchmark, Infura (MetaMask Developer) leads at 902.3K versus GetBlock at 75.0K. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the GetBlock vs Infura (MetaMask Developer) 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.