The best Robinhood Chain provider in 2026 for RPC, a Data API, and notifications on one key is Tatum. The top five are Tatum, Chainstack, Alchemy, QuickNode, and dRPC.

Best for dedicated nodes: Chainstack. Best for the stack Robinhood recommends, with archive on the free tier: Alchemy. Best for Streams and webhooks: QuickNode. Best for a no-key endpoint and a 210 million CU free plan: dRPC.

Robinhood Chain, November 2, 2026

Robinhood Chain is an Arbitrum Layer 2. Chain ID 4663 on mainnet, 46630 on testnet, gas token ETH. Figures below were checked November 2, 2026 on each vendor page linked in Sources. The latency chart uses CompareNodes report 01a03809, captured August 25, 2026, because that run includes Tatum.

Best for, at a glance

Rank Provider Best for Why this slot
1 Tatum RPC + Data API + notifications Product score 3. The notifications reference lists Robinhood Mainnet with all notification types.
2 Chainstack Dedicated nodes Mainnet and testnet, WebSocket on every plan, archive from Growth. Developer plan is free at 3 million RU per month and 25 RPS.
3 Alchemy Chain-recommended stack, large free tier Product score 3. Robinhood's connecting docs name Alchemy as the recommended provider. Free tier is 30 million CU per month, with archive included.
4 QuickNode Streams and webhooks Product score 2. The Robinhood page documents JSON-RPC, archive, Streams, and webhooks.
5 dRPC No-key URL, large free CU pool Product score 1. Public URL https://robinhood.drpc.org. Free plan is 210 million CU, about 10 million requests, 100 RPS.
1
Tatum

Best Robinhood Chain provider in this guide for an app that needs JSON-RPC, an indexed Data API, and address notifications on one key. Mainnet and testnet gateways, WebSocket, archive listed on the chain page, Starter at $49 per month for 4 million credits and 200 RPS.

2
Chainstack

Second for a dedicated Robinhood node. Permanent Developer plan: 3 million request units per month, 25 RPS, WebSockets, archive from Growth ($49 per month, or $40 per month on annual). No indexed Data API and no webhook product on the Robinhood page.

3
Alchemy

Same product score as Tatum, and the provider Robinhood's connecting docs recommend. Free tier: 30 million CU per month, 300 CU per second, five webhooks, archive included. Pay as you go is $0.525 per million CU. Third because Chainstack holds the dedicated-node slot.

4
QuickNode

Best fit for Streams plus webhooks on Robinhood mainnet and testnet, with archive on the published plan grid. Entry is a one-month trial (10 million credits, 15 RPS), then Build at $49 per month for 80 million credits and 50 RPS.

5
dRPC

Best fit when you want a no-key Robinhood URL or a large free CU pool. Free plan: 210 million CU, 100 RPS, archive and WebSocket. No Robinhood Data API or webhook product is named on the dRPC chain page.

How this ranking was scored

The order is for a team shipping an application on Robinhood Chain that may need more than a node. Anyone can repeat the checks from the linked pages. Checked November 2, 2026.

Who is in the five: Tatum, because its own Robinhood pages document RPC, a Data API, and notifications, plus the four providers on Robinhood's connecting page whose pricing pages published both a numeric free allowance and a numeric paid price that day (Alchemy, QuickNode, Chainstack, dRPC). Blockdaemon, Validation Cloud, GlobalStake, and Pinax are on that Robinhood list. This guide does not rank them, because a comparable public price and rate limit were not captured on November 2, 2026. The official Robinhood RPC appears in the latency section, measured in the same CompareNodes run as Tatum.

Product score, one point each, only when the vendor's own Robinhood page or docs name the surface:

  1. Node. JSON-RPC on mainnet and testnet, plus a WebSocket.
  2. Data API. An indexed query API for balances, transfers, tokens, NFTs, or portfolio. A stream of raw blocks does not count.
  3. Notifications. Webhooks or an alerts API named for Robinhood addresses or events.

Tie-break when the score matches: the provider whose docs publish a Robinhood notification-type list (named event types for that chain) ranks above one that only says "webhooks" in a launch post. Tatum and Alchemy both score 3. Tatum's notifications reference lists Robinhood Mainnet as EVM with all notification types. Alchemy's Robinhood API overview lists Token, Transfers, NFT, Debug, Gas Manager, and Bundler APIs, and does not list webhooks. Alchemy's July 1, 2026 launch post does name webhooks in prose. That tie-break is why Tatum is 1 and Alchemy is not. It does not place Alchemy second.

Second place is Chainstack, for dedicated Robinhood nodes: mainnet and testnet, WebSocket on every plan, archive on the paid Growth plan. Chainstack's product score is 1. It stays second because that dedicated-node slot is the one this page holds open after the three-product tie-break.

The remaining slots follow product score: Alchemy 3, QuickNode 2, dRPC 1.

Latency on this page is only the CompareNodes run that measured Tatum and the official Robinhood RPC in the same regions. Cohorts that do not include Tatum are not used to line up the other providers.

Robinhood Chain providers compared

Rows are providers. Rank and Best for are columns. Cells cite the vendor page as of November 2, 2026. Prices change. Follow the link for the live number.

Rank Provider Best for Score Node Data API Notifications
1 Tatum RPC, Data API, notifications 3 Mainnet, testnet, WebSocket Yes, chain page Yes, all types on mainnet
2 Chainstack Dedicated nodes 1 Mainnet, testnet, WebSocket Not named Not named
3 Alchemy Recommended stack, free archive 3 Mainnet, testnet, WebSocket Token, Transfers, NFT Yes, named in the launch post
4 QuickNode Streams and webhooks 2 Mainnet, testnet, WebSocket Not named (Streams are a feed) Yes, on the chain page
5 dRPC No-key URL, free CU pool 1 Mainnet, testnet, WebSocket Not named Not named

How other 2026 lists order this market

Two public roundups rank Robinhood Chain RPC by measured reads and deployment fit. Both put Chainstack first. This page puts Chainstack second for dedicated nodes, and keeps first place for RPC plus a Data API plus notifications. Neither list includes Tatum.

List Checked Their order What they optimized
NOWPayments, five providers October 13, 2026 Chainstack, NOWNodes, Dwellir, RouteMesh, Alchemy Editorial fit. They say the list is not a benchmark ranking of all five.
Chainstack, six providers Updated October 21, 2026 Chainstack, NOWNodes, Dwellir, Blockdaemon, Alchemy, QuickNode Memecoin and NFT workloads: flat request units, archive, and dedicated nodes.

Providers those lists add, checked against the vendor page on November 2, 2026, and left out of this five because they are not on Robinhood's connecting list with both a numeric free allowance and a numeric paid price, and they do not publish a Robinhood Data API plus notifications:

Provider Best for, on those lists What the vendor page shows now
NOWNodes Multi-chain key Mainnet at https://robinhood.nownodes.io/, api-key header. START plan: 100,000 requests per month. The node page lists Debug and WSS. Paid plans state no predefined RPS cap. No dollar price was on that page, so NOWNodes is not scored here.
Dwellir Archive reads and flat per-response billing Mainnet archive hosts https://api-robinhood-mainnet-archive.n.dwellir.com/ and the matching wss:// URL. Pricing page: free is 20 responses per second with a 500,000 daily credit limit, trace and debug off, WebSocket on. Developer is $49 per month, 25 million responses, 100 per second, trace and debug on. One response is one credit, including trace and debug. The network page lists mainnet only.
Blockdaemon Institutional isolation Named on Robinhood's connecting page. No public numeric price was captured on November 2, so Blockdaemon is not scored.
RouteMesh Routed testnet access The October 13 list said its verified Robinhood listing was testnet. This guide did not re-check RouteMesh on November 2, so RouteMesh is not scored.

Pricing and free tiers

Each figure is from the vendor page linked in the row, checked November 2, 2026. "Permanent" means the vendor does not describe the allowance as a timed trial.

Provider Free tier Paid entry Pricing page
Tatum Permanent. 100,000 lifetime credits, 3 RPS, 2 API keys, 100 notifications per month, 5 subscriptions. The free-plan FAQ says 3 RPS on full nodes. Starter, 4 million credits, $49 per month, 200 RPS on the plans page. Dedicated keys on the chain page: 10 RPS $99, 25 RPS $249, 50 RPS $509, 100 RPS $1,049. Dedicated keys do not consume plan credits. tatum.io/pricing, plans and limits
Alchemy Permanent. 30 million CU per month, 300 CU per second, 5 apps, 5 webhooks, archive included. Debug and trace are off on the free tier. Pay as you go, $0.525 per million CU, 10,000 CU per second, 100 webhooks. The platform pricing page enables Debug and Trace on pay as you go. The Robinhood overview lists a Debug API and does not list a separate Trace API. No $49 monthly bundle is on the plans page. Alchemy pricing plans
QuickNode One-month trial, not a permanent free plan. 10 million API credits, 15 RPS, 1 webhook, archive included on the free column of the plan grid. Build, $49 per month or $42 per month billed annually. 80 million credits, extra credits $0.62 per million, 50 RPS, 10 webhooks. quicknode.com/pricing
dRPC Permanent. Public nodes, 210 million CU (about 10 million requests), 100 RPS, archive, debug and trace, WebSocket. Pro, $49 per month, 300 RPS. The same page prints $0.30 per million CU and a multi-chain overage of $6 per million requests. drpc.org/pricing
Chainstack Permanent Developer plan. 3 million RU per month, 25 RPS, 1 node, WebSockets. Archive is not on Developer. Growth, $49 per month or $40 per month on annual. 20 million RU, 250 RPS, archive and debug. Extra usage $15 per million RU. Full requests cost 1 RU. Archive requests cost 2 RU. chainstack.com/pricing

Tatum credit weights on the Robinhood chain page: 2 credits for a standard RPC method, 5 credits for eth_call, 50 credits for debug and trace. QuickNode lists Robinhood with the 20-credit method group on its Robinhood API credits page. Trace and debug on QuickNode are a 2x multiplier. Webhooks cost 30 API credits per matched block. Alchemy webhook delivery is 0.04 CU per byte, about 40 CU for a 1,000-byte event, from the webhook pricing article.

Rate limits

These are the published request caps, not a measured throughput test. Alchemy publishes compute units per second, not requests per second, so this guide does not convert Alchemy CU into an RPS guess.

Provider Free or trial cap First paid cap
Tatum 3 RPS, 100,000 lifetime credits 200 RPS on Starter. Dedicated 10 RPS is a separate $99 key.
Alchemy 300 CU per second, 30 million CU per month 10,000 CU per second on pay as you go
QuickNode 15 RPS during the one-month trial 50 RPS on Build
dRPC 100 RPS, 210 million CU 300 RPS on Pro
Chainstack 25 RPS, 3 million RU per month 250 RPS on Growth

Robinhood's own public RPC, https://rpc.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com, is documented as rate-limited and not for production. The connecting page does not print a numeric cap.

Archive and WebSocket

Provider WebSocket Archive Where it is written
Tatum wss://robinhood-mainnet.gateway.tatum.io and the testnet host Archive nodes are listed on the chain page. The free-plan FAQ limits free keys to full nodes at 3 RPS. This guide does not name a paid tier for archive, because the pricing page did not print an archive row on November 2, 2026. Tatum Robinhood
Alchemy wss://robinhood-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/{API_KEY} Full archive data is included on the free tier. Platform pricing turns Debug and Trace on for pay as you go. Alchemy's Robinhood overview, checked November 2, 2026, lists a Debug API and debug_executionWitness, and does not list a Trace API. An October 21 comparison had said Debug and Trace were unsupported. That older line is not what the overview says now. Robinhood's docs say historical reads should use an archive endpoint, available through providers such as Alchemy. Robinhood connecting
QuickNode WSS on mainnet and testnet, eth_subscribe Archive is checked on the free column and on Build. The chain page names debug_traceTransaction and debug_traceBlockByNumber. Trace and debug start on Build in the plan grid (the free column shows a dash). QuickNode Robinhood
dRPC wss://robinhood.drpc.org Archive, debug, and trace are listed on the free plan. dRPC Robinhood
Chainstack WebSocket on every plan, including Developer Archive starts on Growth. A full request is 1 RU. An archive request is 2 RU. Debug tracers are documented on the Robinhood methods page. Parity-style trace_* and arbtrace_* are not exposed. Chainstack methods

Data API and notifications

This is the split the product score is built on. A yes requires the vendor's own Robinhood material, not a general platform feature that never names the chain.

Provider Indexed Data API on Robinhood Notifications on Robinhood
Tatum Yes. The chain page says indexed data APIs ship with Robinhood. Portfolio and transaction history calls use chain=robinhood-mainnet. Yes. Robinhood Mainnet is listed with all notification types. Chain slug robinhood-mainnet. Create with POST /v4/subscription. Free plan: 100 notifications per month and 5 subscriptions.
Alchemy Yes. Token API, Transfers API, and NFT API are listed as supported on Robinhood Chain. Robinhood's own docs describe a Data API for balances, history, NFTs, and portfolio, and point that section at Alchemy. Yes, in the July 1, 2026 launch post: webhooks for onchain events. The Robinhood method overview does not list webhook types. Free plan allows 5 webhooks. Pay as you go allows 100.
QuickNode Not as a query API. Streams deliver blocks, logs, and traces. That is a feed, so the Data API point stays off. Yes. The Robinhood page documents webhooks for addresses and events. Trial allows 1 active webhook. Build allows 10. Cost is 30 credits per matched block.
dRPC Not named on the Robinhood chain page. Not named on the Robinhood chain page.
Chainstack Not named. Archive RPC can read historical state. That is still RPC, so the Data API point stays off. Not named. WebSocket eth_subscribe is a socket, not a webhook product, so the notifications point stays off.

Latency

The chart uses one same-run report: CompareNodes 01a03809, captured August 25, 2026. Both bars are eth_getBlockByNumber(latest, false) p95. Tatum was lower than the official Robinhood RPC in 22 of 30 regions. The five cities below are the lowest Tatum p95 values among those wins.

CompareNodes report 01a03809, captured August 25, 2026. eth_getBlockByNumber p95, Tatum versus official Robinhood RPC, five regions where Tatum is faster. N. Virginia 6.5 vs 27.6. Singapore 13.2 vs 281.2. London 19.0 vs 110.7. Paris 19.6 vs 109.0. Zurich 22.9 vs 210.7. Tatum was lower in 22 of 30 regions. Median of regional p95 values: Tatum 76.8 ms, official 175.2 ms.

CompareNodes cities, Tatum versus the official RPC

Report 01a03809. Lower is faster. Tatum bars use Tatum green. The official RPC bar is gray.

6.5 ms Tatum is lower in N. Virginia.

Tatum
6.5 ms
Official RPC
27.6 ms

13.2 ms Tatum is lower in Singapore.

Tatum
13.2 ms
Official RPC
281.2 ms

19.0 ms Tatum is lower in London.

Tatum
19.0 ms
Official RPC
110.7 ms

19.6 ms Tatum is lower in Paris.

Tatum
19.6 ms
Official RPC
109.0 ms

22.9 ms Tatum is lower in Zurich.

Tatum
22.9 ms
Official RPC
210.7 ms

76.8 ms Tatum's median p95 is lower.

Tatum
76.8 ms
Official RPC
175.2 ms

Across 30 regions. Tatum is ahead in 22. Bars are scaled inside each tab. The median is the median of those regional p95 values.

CompareNodes lists the Tatum gateway on its Robinhood provider directory. Directory order on that page is not a latency rank.

Tatum vs Alchemy

Tatum and Alchemy are the only two providers in this five with a product score of 3. The comparison is product surface, price, and what Robinhood itself writes.

Check Tatum Alchemy
Rank in this guide 1, on the notification-type tie-break 3, same product score
Robinhood's own docs Not in the provider table on the connecting page Named as the recommended provider, with RPC and WebSocket URL templates
Data API Indexed data, chain=robinhood-mainnet Token, Transfers, NFT, plus Gas Manager and Bundler
Notifications All types listed for Robinhood Mainnet. Slug robinhood-mainnet. 100 per month on the free plan. Webhooks named in the July 1, 2026 launch post. 5 webhooks on the free plan.
Free tier 100,000 lifetime credits, 3 RPS 30 million CU per month, 300 CU per second, archive included
Paid entry Starter $49 per month, 4 million credits, 200 RPS $0.525 per million CU, no monthly bundle on the plans page
Other chains on the key 142 networks, stated on the Robinhood chain page Multi-chain, not given a Robinhood-page count here

Pick Tatum when the app already uses Tatum's Data API and Notifications, or when one key must cover Robinhood plus the other networks on that chain page. Pick Alchemy when you want the provider Robinhood documents as recommended, archive on the free tier, or the larger monthly free allowance.

1. Tatum

Verdict: Tatum is the best Robinhood Chain provider in this guide for RPC, a Data API, and notifications on one key.

Docs: Robinhood chain page. Pricing: tatum.io/pricing. Limits: plans and limits. Notifications: supported chains.

JSON-RPC and WebSocket cover Robinhood mainnet and testnet. Hosts: https://robinhood-mainnet.gateway.tatum.io, wss://robinhood-mainnet.gateway.tatum.io, and the robinhood-testnet pair. Auth on the chain page is the x-api-key header. Methods called out there include standard RPC, eth_call at 5 credits, and debug and trace at 50 credits. The same page lists archive nodes, batch RPC, and 142 networks on one key. The chain page states 99.9% uptime. That figure is the vendor's claim, not a measurement from this guide.

Free plan, from the pricing FAQ: 100,000 lifetime credits, 3 requests per second on full nodes, 2 API keys, 100 notifications per month, 5 subscriptions. Paid Starter checked November 2, 2026: $49 per month for 4 million credits. Plans and limits put Starter at 200 RPS, with a 4 million or 7 million credit choice. Dedicated throughput on the chain page starts at $99 per month for 10 RPS and does not consume plan credits.

Data API and notifications are both named for Robinhood. The notifications reference lists Robinhood Mainnet with every notification type on that page (address events, native and token transfers, NFTs, contract logs, internal transactions, fee payments). The chain slug is robinhood-mainnet. This guide does not claim testnet notifications, because that table lists mainnet.

Latency: CompareNodes report 01a03809, captured August 25, 2026, measured Tatum and the official Robinhood RPC together. Tatum's eth_getBlockByNumber p95 was lower in 22 of 30 regions. Among those wins, the five lowest Tatum p95 values are N. Virginia 6.5 ms, Singapore 13.2 ms, London 19.0 ms, Paris 19.6 ms, and Zurich 22.9 ms. The median of all 30 regional p95 values is 76.8 ms for Tatum and 175.2 ms for the official endpoint. That median is a summary of the report rows, not a number CompareNodes prints as one global headline.

2. Chainstack

Verdict: Chainstack is the best fit for a dedicated Robinhood node. It is second here for that dedicated-node slot.

Docs: Chainstack Robinhood. Methods: Robinhood methods. Pricing: chainstack.com/pricing.

Robinhood's docs give the host pattern https://robinhood-mainnet.core.chainstack.com/{ENDPOINT}. Chainstack documents mainnet and testnet, WebSockets on every plan, and debug tracers (callTracer, prestateTracer, 4byteTracer, noopTracer). trace_* and arbtrace_* are not exposed.

Developer is free: 3 million RU per month, 25 RPS, one node, no archive. Growth is $49 per month, or $40 per month on annual: 20 million RU, 250 RPS, archive and debug. Archive requests cost 2 RU. Full requests cost 1 RU. Overage on Growth is $15 per million RU.

3. Alchemy

Verdict: Alchemy is the best fit when you want the provider Robinhood recommends, with archive on a permanent free tier and data APIs already in that stack.

Docs: Robinhood Chain API overview. Launch: mainnet post, July 1, 2026. Pricing: pricing plans.

Robinhood's connecting page gives the URL templates https://robinhood-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/{API_KEY} and wss://robinhood-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/{API_KEY}, plus the testnet pair. Related APIs on the overview: Bundler, Gas Manager, Token, Transfers, Debug, NFT. The launch post adds webhooks and says data APIs cover prices, NFTs, tokens, and transfers.

Free tier: 30 million CU per month, 300 CU per second, archive on, Debug and Trace off on the platform grid, 5 webhooks. Pay as you go: $0.525 per million CU, 10,000 CU per second, 100 webhooks. The same grid turns Debug and Trace on for pay as you go. The Robinhood overview itself lists a Debug API and does not name a Trace API. Webhook bytes cost 0.04 CU each.

4. QuickNode

Verdict: QuickNode is the best fit when Robinhood Streams and address webhooks should sit on the same plan as archive RPC.

Docs: QuickNode Robinhood. Pricing: quicknode.com/pricing. Credits: Robinhood API credits.

The chain page documents mainnet and testnet, HTTPS and WSS, full archive, debug_traceTransaction, Streams for blocks, logs, and traces, and webhooks for addresses and events. Endpoint shape from Robinhood's docs: https://{ENDPOINT}.robinhood-mainnet.quiknode.pro/{TOKEN}.

Free entry is a one-month trial: 10 million credits, 15 RPS, 1 stream, 1 webhook, archive on. Build is $49 per month ($42 on annual): 80 million credits, 50 RPS, 10 webhooks, trace and debug on. Robinhood sits in the 20-credit method group. Webhooks are 30 credits per matched block.

Product score is 2, not 3, because Streams are a feed rather than an indexed portfolio API.

5. dRPC

Verdict: dRPC is the best fit for a no-key Robinhood URL or for a free plan with a large CU pool and archive included.

Docs: dRPC Robinhood mainnet. Pricing: drpc.org/pricing.

Public HTTP is https://robinhood.drpc.org. Public WebSocket is wss://robinhood.drpc.org. The chain page lists mainnet and testnet, chain ID 4663. No Data API and no webhook product are named there.

Free plan: $0, public nodes, 210 million CU, about 10 million requests, 100 RPS, archive, debug and trace, WebSocket. Pro is $49 per month at 300 RPS. The pricing page also prints $0.30 per million CU and multi-chain overage at $6 per million requests.

Read a Robinhood block on Tatum

Production calls send x-api-key. This checks the mainnet gateway, then reads a portfolio and opens an address alert. The alert chain is robinhood-mainnet.

JSON-RPC, Data API, notification
curl --request POST \
  --url https://robinhood-mainnet.gateway.tatum.io \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"eth_blockNumber","params":[]}'

curl 'https://api.tatum.io/v4/data/wallet/portfolio?chain=robinhood-mainnet&addresses=0xYourAddress&tokenTypes=fungible' \
  --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://api.tatum.io/v4/subscription?type=mainnet' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --data '{"type":"ADDRESS_EVENT","attr":{"chain":"robinhood-mainnet","address":"0xYourAddress","url":"https://example.com/webhook"}}'

Testnet RPC uses https://robinhood-testnet.gateway.tatum.io. Notification setup, filters, and finality are in Robinhood Chain alerts.

FAQ

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