Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Infura
The 20 closest blockchain node infrastructure alternatives to Infura, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 13 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Infura? The closest matches are NOWNodes, dRPC and HashiCorp. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About Infura
Infura infura.io
Infura - Home | Web3 Development Platform | Blockchain Node Service
Infura's development suite provides instant, scalable API access to Ethereum and other blockchain networks. Connect your app to Ethereum and other blockchain networks, for free!
Summary by Claude
Infura provides hosted blockchain node access via APIs, letting developers connect applications to Ethereum and other blockchain networks without running their own nodes. It is owned by Consensys and integrates with MetaMask and Linea.
- Who it’s for
- Web3 and dApp developers
- Business model
- Freemium API subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Infura’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Infura
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Infura, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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NOWNodes — Blockchain Nodes & RPC API for +120 Networks
Access to blockchain nodes for +120 networks and everything you need for Web3 development — WebSocket, Webhooks, JSON-RPC, gRPC, and Data API. 99.95% uptime.
Very close cos 0.895 - 02
AI-Powered RPC Infrastructure for dApps & Chains | dRPC
Modular RPC solutions to launch, scale, and monitor your blockchain data infrastructure.
Close cos 0.880 - 03
Vercel Security Checkpoint
American software company
Close cos 0.871 - 04
PublicNode
Fastest, free-est, and privacy first RPC endpoints for 76 blockchains. Connect reliably to Web3 with ease!
Close cos 0.869 - 05
Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
Close cos 0.870 - 06
MetaMask Crypto Wallet. Buy and Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana
Buy, sell, swap, earn, and spend BTC, ETH, SOL and more — all in one self-custody crypto wallet. Total control over your assets, trusted by millions of users.
Close cos 0.868 - 07
Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Close cos 0.868 - 08
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Close cos 0.868 - 09
Full-stack observability for the agentic era | Grafana Labs
Avoid lock-in and ensure reliability with Grafana Cloud, the AI-powered platform built on open standards unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data.
Close cos 0.862 - 10
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Close cos 0.864 - 11
NetBird - Open Source Zero Trust Networking
WireGuard®-based overlay network and Zero Trust Network Access in one platform for reliable and secure connectivity
Close cos 0.860 - 12
Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub
Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!
Close cos 0.861 - 13
The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai
Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Akamai
- Akamai Bot Manager
Close cos 0.861 - 14
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database of icons
Close cos 0.861 - 15
Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Close cos 0.861 - 16
Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog
See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.
Close cos 0.860 - 17
Zenodo
research data repository
Close cos 0.861 - 18
datadome.co
cybersecurity company
Close cos 0.860 - 19
Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation
The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …
Close cos 0.858 - 20
Vercel Security Checkpoint
news site about bitcoin and digital currencies, owned by Digital Currency Group
Close cos 0.862
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to infura.io’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Infura uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Infura is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Contentful page source: images.ctfassets.net
- JavaScript frameworks
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org include:mail.zende…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org include:mail.zende…
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=faf1787f70abb70859fb5e63b515f60ec163e55e43242d35b…
- Hosting
- Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::iad1::cvvcc-1793957750756-aa5da24eb3ec
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org include:mail.zende…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-338.awsdns-42.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=0Jf2I4taoS7nWhbFj27eyDaX/oVqsLOoH2wC18j…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=62MJJ7UlzWK98ystL8KzAYStjCE7pi7LsWsA6k6phks
- Miro TXT miro-verification=06aec59d07be7d0932c66052bef4e0ec9f560256
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Infura adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Next.js 8/20
- React 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on infura.io 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on infura.io 7/20
- Apple Business · not on infura.io 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Zendesk 6/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Vercel 6/20
- HubSpot 6/20
- OpenAI · not on infura.io 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on infura.io 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on infura.io 5/20
- DocuSign · not on infura.io 5/20