Best Robinhood Chain RPC Providers in 2027: Alchemy vs QuickNode vs Chainstack vs Spectrum

Updated October 26, 2026 · Spectrum Nodes
Short answer: The best RPC for Robinhood Chain in our 2027 ranking is Spectrum Nodes. Spectrum went live on Robinhood Chain the day after its July 1, 2026 mainnet launch, serves tracing and archive data on chain ID 4663, runs address activity and Custom Contract Webhooks there, and held a 99.97% or higher success rate from September 29 to October 14, 2026. QuickNode, Chainstack, Alchemy and Dwellir follow.
| # | Provider | Best for | Measured on Robinhood Chain | Security evidence | Free tier | Entry paid plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spectrum Nodes | RPC, tracing and webhooks on Robinhood Chain from one provider | 99.97%+ success rate, our monitor, Sep 29 to Oct 14, 2026 | SOC 2 Type II attested, own hardware, no breach | 10M credits, 25 RPS | Starter, $1.99 a month |
| 2 | QuickNode | Buyers who need SOC 1, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 reports | Not yet tested | SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 | One month trial, 10M credits | Build, $49 a month |
| 3 | Chainstack | Dedicated Robinhood Chain nodes with debug and trace | Not yet tested | SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 badges | 3M request units, 25 RPS, no archive or trace | Growth, $49 a month |
| 4 | Alchemy | Token, NFT and transfer data APIs on Robinhood Chain | Not yet tested | SOC 2, type named only in its blog | 30M compute units a month, 15 RPS | Pay as you go, $0.525 per 1M compute units |
| 5 | Dwellir | Flat pricing at one credit per response | Not yet tested | None published | 100K responses a day, 20 RPS, no eth_getLogs | Developer, $49 a month |
Competitor prices from each provider's pricing page, checked October 2026. Spectrum prices from spectrumnodes.com/pricing, October 22, 2026.
How Did We Rank These Providers?
We scored every provider on the same five criteria, in this order, and used the next criterion down to break ties.
- Measured performance on Robinhood Chain. We hold one measured figure there: the success rate of our own endpoint. No head to head speed test on Robinhood Chain exists yet, so this ranking makes no speed claim.
- Security and compliance evidence. A public SOC 2 Type II claim, the breach record and who owns the hardware.
- What you get on Robinhood Chain beyond RPC. APIs, webhooks, tracing and archive data.
- Launch and support speed. How soon after mainnet the provider went live, and how quickly you reach an engineer.
- Price of entry. The free tier and the first paid plan, dated.
We list only providers whose own docs, changelogs or launch posts confirm Robinhood Chain mainnet service.
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: wallets, trading apps and indexers that want RPC, tracing and webhooks on Robinhood Chain from one provider.
Spectrum went live on Robinhood Chain on July 2, 2026, the day after mainnet launched. We spun up a node for Robinhood Chain in less than 24 hours.
Our Robinhood Chain endpoint (chain ID 4663) serves tracing and archive data, so you can replay transactions and read historical state without running your own archive node. Robinhood Chain is on our free tier.
From September 29 to October 14, 2026, our RPC monitor recorded a success rate of 99.97% or higher on our Robinhood Chain endpoint.
Webhooks on Robinhood Chain:
- Address activity webhooks and Custom Contract Webhooks are both live
- Each event arrives as a signed HTTPS POST (HMAC SHA256), delivered at least once, reorg aware and batched up to 100 events
- Token events carry symbol, name and decimals, so your handler makes no second RPC call
- You choose the addresses to watch, a URL you own and optional token and category filters
Busy contracts on Robinhood Chain produce heavy event volume. An indexing write up from Envio counts tens of millions of USDG events a week. Polling for them with eth_getLogs costs requests on every block, while a webhook fires only when something you watch changes. See how Spectrum Webhooks handle signing and delivery.
What sits under it:
- Our own hardware in Tier III data centers in Malta, the Netherlands, and Canada, plus a bare metal deployment in Singapore
- SOC 2 Type II attested, and we have never had a breach
- Over a billion requests a day at 99.99% uptime
- Direct engineering access 24/7 via Slack
Pricing on spectrumnodes.com/pricing, October 22, 2026:
- Free: 10M credits at 25 RPS
- Starter: $1.99 a month for 14M credits at 50 RPS
- Developer: $9.99 a month for 70M credits
- Growth: $35 a month for 245M credits at 75 RPS
- Business: $150 a month for 1.15B credits at 200 RPS
- Enterprise: $500 a month for 4.2B credits at 350 RPS
Worth knowing: we have not run a head to head speed test on Robinhood Chain, so our #1 rests on security, tracing, webhooks, launch speed and price.
2. QuickNode
Best for: buyers whose procurement team asks for SOC 1, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 reports from one vendor.
QuickNode announced Robinhood Chain mainnet support on launch day, July 1, 2026, with HTTPS and WSS endpoints. Its security page lists SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001, the widest compliance set in this list.
- Free trial: one month, 10M API credits at 15 RPS
- Build: $49 a month for 80M credits at 50 RPS
- Business: from $999 a month for 500 RPS
Worth knowing: QuickNode's launch post does not say whether trace and archive methods are available on Robinhood Chain, so confirm in its docs before you build on them. API credits are weighted per method, and support targets run 8 to 24 hours below Enterprise.
3. Chainstack
Best for: teams that want dedicated Robinhood Chain nodes with debug and trace.
Chainstack added Robinhood Chain mainnet and testnet on July 17, 2026, on Global Nodes and Dedicated Nodes, in full and archive modes with debug and trace. Its pricing page shows SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 badges.
- Developer (free): 3M request units a month at 25 RPS, no archive or trace
- Growth: $49 a month for 20M request units at 250 RPS
- Enterprise: from $990 a month
Worth knowing: archive calls cost 2 request units, and 24/7 support is a paid add on.
4. Alchemy
Best for: apps that want token, NFT, transfer and gas sponsorship APIs on Robinhood Chain.
Alchemy was live at the July 1, 2026 launch, and Robinhood's chain docs list it for RPC. Its Robinhood Chain page lists RPC, WebSockets, Webhooks, Gas Manager, and Token, NFT, Prices and Transfers APIs.
- Free: 30M compute units a month at 15 RPS
- Pay as you go: $0.525 per 1M compute units, from 300 RPS
Worth knowing: the same page lists Alchemy's Debug API and Trace API as not supported on Robinhood Chain. That gap, and a narrower public compliance set than QuickNode and Chainstack, is why it ranks fourth. Its security page shows SOC 2 without naming the type, while its Robinhood Chain launch post says SOC 2 Type II.
5. Dwellir
Best for: flat pricing at one credit per response, with archive state and debug methods.
Dwellir serves Robinhood Chain mainnet from archive endpoints, with debug_* tracing methods on and Parity style trace_* methods off. Every endpoint needs an API key.
- Free: 100K responses a day at 20 RPS, without
eth_getLogs - Developer: $49 a month, with
eth_getLogsup to 500 blocks per request, about 50 seconds of Robinhood Chain history - Growth: $299 a month, with
eth_getLogsup to 10,000 blocks
Worth knowing: Dwellir's own comparison table shows no SOC 2, and we found no ISO 27001 claim.
How Do You Choose a Robinhood Chain RPC Provider?
Start from what Robinhood Chain does differently: it targets 100 ms blocks and orders transactions first come, first served.
Robinhood Chain is an Arbitrum chain that settles to Ethereum and uses ETH for gas. Mainnet went live on July 1, 2026, with Uniswap, Morpho, USDG from Paxos and Robinhood Wallet among the launch partners, per the ArbitrumDAO factsheet. Stock Tokens sit in the self custody Robinhood Wallet.
- You run a trading bot or a DEX router. The sequencer orders transactions first come, first served, with no fee priority, so a higher tip does not move you up the queue. How fast you read state and submit does. At ten blocks a second, the state behind your quote changes every 100 ms. Test
eth_callandeth_sendRawTransactionfrom the region your bot runs in. - You build a wallet or a tokenized stock app. Users expect transfers to show up at once. Webhooks on watched addresses push each transfer to your backend, so you stop polling. Check that payloads are signed and that the provider sends a follow up when a reorg removes an event.
- You index or analyze the chain. Ask for archive state, the
eth_getLogsrange on your plan and trace support. Alchemy lists no Debug or Trace API on Robinhood Chain, and Dwellir caps log ranges by plan. - You are prototyping. Robinhood runs a public endpoint at
https://rpc.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com. It is rate limited and meant for testing rather than production traffic. Every provider in this list has a free tier or a trial.
Robinhood Chain runs on Arbitrum technology. Our measured Arbitrum One results are in Top Arbitrum RPC Providers for 2027. For what success rate, latency and p95 tell you when you compare providers, see 5 RPC metrics that matter.
How Did We Test?
We measured one figure on Robinhood Chain: the success rate of our own endpoint.
- Tool: Spectrum's RPC monitor
- Window: September 29 to October 14, 2026
- Result: a success rate of 99.97% or higher on our Robinhood Chain endpoint, meaning at least 9,997 of every 10,000 requests succeeded
- Not measured: speed or success rate for QuickNode, Chainstack, Alchemy or Dwellir on Robinhood Chain. Their entries rest on criteria 2 to 5 and their own public pages
FAQ
What is the best RPC for Robinhood Chain? Spectrum Nodes ranks first in our 2027 list. It went live on Robinhood Chain the day after the July 1, 2026 mainnet launch, serves tracing and archive data, runs address activity and Custom Contract Webhooks, and held a 99.97% or higher success rate from September 29 to October 14, 2026. QuickNode, Chainstack, Alchemy and Dwellir follow.
What is the Robinhood Chain chain ID and RPC URL?
Robinhood Chain mainnet is chain ID 4663 and its testnet is 46630. Robinhood's public endpoint is https://rpc.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com, rate limited and meant for testing. For production, Spectrum gives you a private mainnet endpoint from the dashboard, on the free tier or any paid plan.
Is there a free RPC for Robinhood Chain? Yes. Spectrum's free tier includes Robinhood Chain with 10M credits at 25 RPS. Alchemy, Chainstack and Dwellir also have free plans, QuickNode offers a one month trial, and Robinhood runs a rate limited public endpoint for testing.
Which Robinhood Chain RPC providers support debug and trace?
Spectrum serves tracing and archive data on Robinhood Chain. Chainstack supports debug and trace on full and archive nodes, and Dwellir enables debug_* methods but not trace_*. Alchemy's Robinhood Chain page lists its Debug API and Trace API as not supported.
Can I get webhooks for Robinhood Chain transfers? Yes. Spectrum runs address activity webhooks and Custom Contract Webhooks on Robinhood Chain, delivered as signed HTTPS POSTs, at least once and reorg aware. Alchemy also lists Webhooks among its Robinhood Chain products.
How fast are Robinhood Chain blocks? Robinhood Chain targets 100 ms blocks through configurable block times and preconfirmations, per the ArbitrumDAO factsheet. That is ten blocks a second, or 36,000 an hour, which is why archive access and log range limits matter for indexers.
References
- ArbitrumDAO factsheet, Robinhood Chain mainnet launch: https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/arbitrumdao-factsheet-robinhood-chain-mainnet-launch/31041 (checked October 2026)
- Robinhood Chain docs: https://docs.robinhood.com/chain/ (checked October 2026)
- Robinhood Chain public endpoint, QuickNode builders guide: https://www.quicknode.com/builders-guide/tools/robinhood-chain-public-rpc-by-robinhood-markets (checked October 2026)
- Alchemy Robinhood Chain mainnet page: https://www.alchemy.com/rpc/robinhood (checked October 2026)
- Alchemy Robinhood Chain testnet page: https://www.alchemy.com/rpc/robinhood-testnet (checked October 2026)
- Alchemy launch post: https://www.alchemy.com/blog/robinhood-chain-mainnet-is-live-on-alchemy (checked October 2026)
- Alchemy pricing: https://www.alchemy.com/pricing (checked October 2026)
- Alchemy security page: https://www.alchemy.com/security (checked October 2026)
- QuickNode launch post: https://www.quicknode.com/blog/quicknode-now-supports-robinhood-chain-mainnet (checked October 2026)
- QuickNode pricing: https://www.quicknode.com/pricing (checked October 2026)
- QuickNode security: https://www.quicknode.com/security (checked October 2026)
- Chainstack changelog, July 17, 2026: https://docs.chainstack.com/changelog/chainstack-updates-july-17-2026 (checked October 2026)
- Chainstack pricing: https://chainstack.com/pricing/ (checked October 2026)
- Dwellir Robinhood Chain docs: https://www.dwellir.com/docs/robinhood (checked October 2026)
- Dwellir pricing: https://www.dwellir.com/docs/getting-started/pricing (checked October 2026)
- Envio, Robinhood Chain indexing write up: https://dev.to/envio/robinhood-chain-ecosystem-live-apps-and-how-to-index-them-37j0 (checked October 2026)
