Top Polygon RPC Providers for 2027

Updated October 26, 2026 · Spectrum Nodes

Short answer: Our pick for the best Polygon RPC provider in 2027 is Spectrum Nodes. In head to head testing from September 29 to October 14, 2026, Spectrum's Boosted Nodes answered first on 100% of about 50,000 same instant Polygon block trace requests against Alchemy, at a median of 77 ms vs 376 ms. Block receipts came back 22% faster than on Alchemy. Alchemy, QuickNode and Chainstack follow.

Competitor plans from each pricing page, checked October 2026. Spectrum plans from spectrumnodes.com/pricing, October 22, 2026.

How Did We Rank These Providers?

We scored every provider on five criteria, in this order. A provider we have measured on Polygon ranks above one we have not, and each later criterion breaks ties.

1. Measured performance on Polygon: our head to head block trace and block receipt test
2. Security and compliance evidence: public SOC 2 Type II, breach record, who owns the hardware
3. What you get beyond RPC: APIs, webhooks, a caching layer, tracing and archive
4. Launch and support speed: new chain support and how fast you reach an engineer
5. Price of entry: free tier and first paid plan, October 2026

Spectrum Nodes publishes this ranking. We scored ourselves on the same five criteria and list the evidence for each score below, so you can check it.

1. Spectrum Nodes

Best for: indexers that trace every Polygon block, and payments teams that need to know when a deposit lands.

Block Traces and Receipts: Spectrum's Boosted Nodes vs Alchemy

A block trace (debug_traceBlockByNumber) replays every transaction in a block and returns what each one did. Block receipts (eth_getBlockReceipts) return the receipt of every transaction in a block in one call.

On Polygon block traces, Spectrum's Boosted Nodes were 4.9× faster than Alchemy at the median, held 222 ms against 932 ms in the slowest 5%, and answered first on 100% of same instant requests across 14 days. Block receipts were 22% faster. The lead held from our second server in Canada.

Spectrum's Boosted Nodes are our caching and routing layer in front of our own nodes, live on Polygon and not priced separately. For when a cache helps and when you want the node directly, see cached vs direct blockchain node access.

Payments on Polygon: Detect Deposits Without Polling

Polygon raised its gas limit to 160M in June 2026 and says the chain now handles up to 5,000 payments a second (Polygon blog, June 17, 2026). Finality lands in about 2 to 5 seconds, per Polygon's docs. A payments backend has to catch every incoming stablecoin transfer and credit it once.

You can do that two ways on Spectrum:

• Pull: call eth_getBlockReceipts for each new block and scan the logs. Spectrum's Boosted Nodes answered it in 45 ms against 59 ms on Alchemy in our test.
• Push: Custom Contract Webhooks are live on Polygon. Point a webhook at the token contract, name the events you want, filter on indexed values such as your deposit addresses, and get named arguments back with no ABI decoding on your side.

Each HTTPS delivery is signed with HMAC SHA256, sent at least once, reorg aware and batched up to 100 events. Dedupe on the X-Spectrum-Event-Id header so a retried delivery never credits a deposit twice. More on setup in Spectrum Webhooks.

Security, Platform, Support and Price

• Security: SOC 2 Type II attested, never had a breach. Our own hardware in Tier III data centers in Malta, the Netherlands, and Canada, plus a bare metal deployment in Singapore. Over a billion requests a day at 99.99% uptime.
• Beyond RPC: Spectrum's Boosted Nodes, Custom Contract Webhooks, tracing and archive on Polygon mainnet and Amoy, and unified APIs for balances, token metadata, portfolios, NFTs and contract reads. One account covers RPC on 200+ chains.
• Support: direct engineering access 24/7 over Slack. Robinhood Chain support went live the day after that chain launched.
• Price: Free gives 10M credits at 25 RPS. Starter is $1.99 a month for 14M credits at 50 RPS, and plans run up to Enterprise at $500 for 4.2B credits at 350 RPS (pricing, October 22, 2026).

2. Alchemy

Best for: teams already built on Alchemy's SDKs, enhanced APIs and webhooks.

Alchemy lists Polygon PoS mainnet, and Polygon's docs name it among paid RPC providers. In our test it traced Polygon blocks in a median of 376 ms, with 932 ms at p95, and returned block receipts in 59 ms. Its security page shows a SOC 2 badge without stating the type. Pay as you go costs $0.525 per 1M compute units, and debug_traceBlockByNumber weighs 40 of them. Webhooks are capped at 5 on Free and 100 on pay as you go.

3. QuickNode

Best for: teams whose procurement needs SOC 1, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 reports from one vendor.

QuickNode serves Polygon PoS mainnet and Amoy, with Streams, webhooks and a Swap API. It lists SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001. Build costs $49 a month for 80M credits at 50 RPS. Trace and debug calls carry a 2× credit multiplier, and overage above $200 bills immediately, mid cycle.

4. Chainstack

Best for: trace heavy work on a budget, at 2 request units per debug or trace call.

Chainstack lists Polygon mainnet and Amoy with archive, debug and trace. Its pricing page shows SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 badges, without a public auditor or scope. The free plan leaves out archive and trace, and archive calls cost 2 request units. Round the clock support starts at $1,000 a year.

5. Ankr

Best for: high volume apps that want one flat price per call.

Ankr serves Polygon mainnet and Amoy. Its SOC 2 Type II belongs to its infrastructure operator, Asphere, audited by A-LIGN, and ISO 27001 is in progress. One EVM call costs 200 credits, about $20 per 1M requests on any method. Ankr says it also offers Verifiable RPC with signed responses.

6. Infura

Best for: teams already on Infura who want Polygon under the same keys.

Infura documents Polygon PoS, with debug and trace on paid plans. No Infura specific SOC 2 report is public; its parent, Consensys, holds ISO 27001:2022. Plans set a daily credit quota, and traffic stops when you reach it.

7. Dwellir

Best for: predictable bills, since every response costs one credit, trace included.

Dwellir lists Polygon among its supported chains. Its own comparison table shows no SOC 2, and it does not say it owns its hardware. eth_getLogs is capped at a 10,000 block range on its Growth and Scale plans.

How Do You Choose a Polygon RPC Provider?

Pick the provider that is fastest on the call your product repeats most, and test it from your own region.

• Indexers and explorers: you trace every block. Test debug_traceBlockByNumber at p95 as well as the median.
• Payments and wallets: test eth_getBlockReceipts, and ask whether the provider can push contract events to you instead of making you poll.
• Regulated teams: ask for the SOC 2 Type II report itself, with its type and audit period.
• Prototyping: start on Amoy, and check that the free tier includes tracing and archive.

Our block trace test also covers BSC RPC providers and Base RPC providers.

How Did We Test?

Spectrum's RPC monitor sent the same Polygon calls to Spectrum's Boosted Nodes and Alchemy at the same instant, every cycle, from September 29 to October 14, 2026. That came to about 50,000 requests per chain and call type from a test server in Finland, plus a second server in Canada for the North America figures. Latency runs from sending the request to the last byte of the response. "Answered first" is the share of same instant request pairs where Spectrum's Boosted Nodes replied first. QuickNode, Chainstack, Ankr, Infura and Dwellir were not in this test.

FAQ

What is the best Polygon RPC provider in 2027? Our pick is Spectrum Nodes. In our 2026 test, Spectrum's Boosted Nodes beat Alchemy on Polygon block traces and block receipts, and Custom Contract Webhooks are live on Polygon. Alchemy, QuickNode, Chainstack and Ankr complete our top five.

Is Spectrum faster than Alchemy on Polygon? Yes, in our test. From September 29 to October 14, 2026, Spectrum's Boosted Nodes returned Polygon block traces (debug_traceBlockByNumber) in a median of 77 ms against 376 ms on Alchemy, 4.9× faster, and answered first on 100% of about 50,000 same instant requests. Block receipts were 22% faster (45 vs 59 ms).

How do I detect stablecoin deposits on Polygon without polling? Use a contract webhook. On Spectrum, a Custom Contract Webhook on the token contract filters Transfer events to your deposit addresses and POSTs them to your HTTPS endpoint, signed and reorg aware. Dedupe on the event ID, because delivery is at least once.

What is the Polygon chain ID and RPC endpoint? Polygon PoS mainnet is chain ID 137 and the Amoy testnet is chain ID 80002. On Spectrum you create an endpoint for either in the dashboard and get HTTPS and WebSocket URLs. Our supported chains page lists tracing and archive for both.

Is there a public or free RPC node for Polygon? Yes. Polygon's RPC endpoints page lists public endpoints from several providers. Spectrum's free plan covers Polygon mainnet and Amoy with 10M credits at 25 requests per second (October 22, 2026). For production traffic, use a keyed endpoint with a published rate limit.

Which Polygon RPC providers offer archive data? Spectrum lists archive and tracing for Polygon mainnet and Amoy. Chainstack includes archive from its Growth plan, and QuickNode includes archive data on all plans. Archive requests read state from any past block, which explorers and accounting tools need.

References

• Polygon, 160M gas limit and 5,000 payments a second: https://polygon.technology/blog/polygon-chain-now-supports-5000-payments-per-second-hitting-the-speed-of-a-card-network-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost
• Polygon docs, finality: https://docs.polygon.technology/pos/concepts/finality/finality
• Polygon docs, RPC endpoints, checked October 2026: https://docs.polygon.technology/pos/reference/rpc-endpoints/
• Alchemy chains, checked October 2026: https://www.alchemy.com/docs/reference/node-supported-chains
• Alchemy pricing, checked October 2026: https://www.alchemy.com/pricing
• QuickNode Polygon, checked October 2026: https://www.quicknode.com/chains/polygon
• QuickNode pricing, checked October 2026: https://www.quicknode.com/pricing
• Chainstack chains, checked October 2026: https://docs.chainstack.com/docs/protocols-networks
• Chainstack pricing, checked October 2026: https://chainstack.com/pricing/
• Ankr Polygon, checked October 2026: https://www.ankr.com/rpc/polygon/
• Infura docs, checked October 2026: https://docs.infura.io/
• Infura pricing, checked October 2026: https://www.infura.io/pricing
• Dwellir Polygon, checked October 2026: https://www.dwellir.com/networks/polygon

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