Popular Blockchain Node Hosting Services

If you stumbled upon this post searching for blockchain node hosting services, you likely already know what a node is. If you need a refresher, read this first.

Running blockchain nodes isn't for everyone. The operational overhead of keeping nodes active and up-to-date at all times can take valuable time away from your core business. But, if you need the ability to verify the integrity of the blockchain data without relying on intermediaries, your best bet is to run and query your own node. As a healthy side benefit, running nodes is also good for increasing the security and decentralization of the blockchain network. Broadly speaking, you have the following deployment options available:

1. Run a node manually on the cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean etc).
2. Run a dedicated node using the managed service providers listed below.
3. Use a shared node or access the blockchain data via API instead of running a dedicated node.

Of course, your decision depends on the extent to which decentralization matters for your project vs ease of operations but, if you choose the latter, here's a handy list of the most popular node hosting services available today.

ⓒ alphasec	Node Types	Blockchains Supported	Free Tier	Remarks
Alchemy	Shared nodes (API)	Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Flow, Starknet, more	Yes	Free 300M compute units/month, 6 chains, historical data
Allnodes	Masternodes, staking/validator nodes, full/sentry nodes	Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, Cardano, more	No	Eth2.0 support, 30+ chains
Ankr	Validator nodes, full nodes	Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Solana, BSC, Avalanche, Harmony, Fantom, more	No	Eth2.0 support, 30+ chains
Blockdaemon	Validator nodes, full nodes	Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, Cardano, Diem, Hyperledger, Quorum, more	No	Eth2.0 support, 40+ chains including permissioned
BlockSpaces	Full nodes	Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Avalanche, Cardano, Corda, Hyperledger, more	No	10+ chains, enterprise focus
Bloq	Full nodes	Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Algorand, Avalanche	No
Chainstack	Full nodes, archival nodes	Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, BSC, Avalanche, Corda, Hyperledger, Quorum, more	Yes	Free shared nodes, 10+ chains, GraphQL support
Coinbase Cloud	Validator nodes, full nodes, archival nodes	Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos, Algorand, EOS, Tezos, Diem, more	No	Eth2.0 support, 25+ chains
Figment DataHub	Shared nodes (API)	Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Solana, BSC, Avalanche, Polkadot, Cosmos, more	Yes	Free API access for 10+ chains, historical data
GetBlock	Full nodes, shared nodes	Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, BSC, Avalanche, Polkadot, Cosmos, more	Yes	Free shared nodes, 40+ chains, GraphQL support, node clusters
InfStones	Full nodes, shared nodes	Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Cosmos, Tezos, more	No	Free API access for 50+ chains
Infura	Shared nodes (API)	Ethereum, IPFS	Yes	Free API access for Ethereum, IPFS support
Kaleido	Full nodes	Ethereum, Hyperledger, Corda	Yes	Free small nodes, ISO27001/SOC2 certified
Moralis	Full nodes	Ethereum, Polygon, BSC	Yes	Free 10M API requests/month
OnFinality	Shared nodes (API)	Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche	Yes	Free 500K API requests/day
QuickNode	Full nodes, archival nodes	Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, BSC, Avalanche, Algorand, Fantom, Celo, more	Yes	Free 10M API credits/month, 15+ chains
RockX	Full nodes, shared nodes, archival nodes	Ethereum, Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Solana, Fantom, BSC, Avalanche, Cardano, more	No	30-day free trial for full nodes
WatchData	Full nodes, shared nodes	Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron	Yes	Free 100M watch units/month

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