RPC Market Competitive Landscape
AI summary of the linked articleThe author argues that the RPC market is inefficient because pricing is hard to compare, and that large providers can raise costs without customers noticing. The article says compute units, which vary by method, chain and provider, plus per-second throughput limits, let providers change prices silently. It states that one customer's RPC providers increased its costs by 5x to 10x over the past year. It also says that routing requests across multiple providers to avoid lock-in adds significant engineering complexity, and that smaller providers are harder to adopt because their performance is unclear. |
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2 comments I have never cared about RPC market, but this text is so written in such an interesting way that I read it all. Great submission! On a related note, we've created a simple, partially decentralised RPC monitoring tool that's free for everyone to use: It should give you a basic overview of your RPC provider's response latency, how well it's synchronised with the chain tip, and potential errors. PS: bear with us, it's still an MVP, so the code needs some love. |
