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.

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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!

Top 10K · #4,461 English 13 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Infura

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

LinodePubNubApache Software FoundationGrafanaNLnet LabsMetaMaskinria.frHashiCorpdRPCNOWNodes

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Infura

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Infura, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    NOWNodes nownodes.io Top 10K English

    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.

  2. 02
    dRPC drpc.org Top 10K English

    AI-Powered RPC Infrastructure for dApps & Chains | dRPC

    Modular RPC solutions to launch, scale, and monitor your blockchain data infrastructure.

  3. 03
    HashiCorp hashicorp.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    American software company

  4. 04
    inria.fr Top 10K English

    Making sure you're not a bot!

    French research institution in computer science

  5. 05
    MetaMask metamask.io Top 10K English

    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.

  6. 06
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

  7. 07
    Grafana grafana.com Top 10K English

    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.

  8. 08
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

  9. 09
    NetBird netbird.io Top 10K English

    NetBird - Open Source Zero Trust Networking

    WireGuard®-based overlay network and Zero Trust Network Access in one platform for reliable and secure connectivity

  10. 10
    PubNub pubnub.com Top 10K English

    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!

  11. 11
    Linode linode.com Top 1K English

    The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai

    Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.

  12. 12
    Flaticon flaticon.com Top 10K English

    That request didn't go through. Our security filter flagged something. You don't have permission to access this page.

    database of icons

  13. 13
    Node.js nodejs.org Top 10K English

    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.

  14. 14
    datadoghq.com Top 1K English

    Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog

    See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.

  15. 15
    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

    Zenodo

    research data repository

  16. 16
    DataDome datadome.co Top 10K English

    datadome.co

    cybersecurity company

  17. 17
    Eclipse Foundation eclipse.org Top 10K English

    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 …

  18. 18
    CoinDesk coindesk.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    news site about bitcoin and digital currencies, owned by Digital Currency Group

  19. 19
    konghq.com Top 10K English

    Kong, The AI Connectivity Company | Kong Inc.

    From APIs to AI, Kong is the fabric of modern connectivity. Centralize LLM access, automate API workflows, and secure your digital ecosystem at scale.

  20. 20
    You.com you.com English

    You.com | Search and inference for AI

    The core AI infrastructure you need to maximize accuracy while reducing latency and costs.

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
JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js header x-powered-by: Next.js
  • React implied by Next.js (header x-powered-by: Next.js)
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
Email delivery
  • Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org include:mail.zende…
DNS hosting
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

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