Arbitrum RPC where DeFi trades

Built for DeFi protocols and trading bots, with Stylus contracts in Rust and Ethereum-grade security.

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PRICING

Arbitrum RPC plans and pricing

Free

$0 /month

Best for: prototypes, MVPs, hackathon builds and first integrations.

  • Shared Arbitrum endpoint on mainnet and Sepolia
  • 50K Compute Units a day, no card required
  • JSON-RPC and WebSocket access
  • Keys, usage and limits in one dashboard
  • Upgrade to a paid Shared plan whenever traffic grows

Shared Node

from $49 /month

Best for: wallets, DeFi apps, startups and mid-traffic workloads.

  • High-performance Arbitrum RPC endpoint
  • Scalable RPS tiers (250 – 800 RPS)
  • JSON-RPC and WebSocket on one API key
  • Monitoring & standard SLA (99.99% uptime guaranteed)

Limitless Node

from $150 /month

Best for: bots, indexers, and AI agents that need steady throughput at a flat price.

  • Isolated Arbitrum instance with guaranteed RPS
  • Fixed tiers: 25, 50, 150 or 300 RPS (archive: 15, 30, 50 or 100)
  • Unlimited requests inside the tier with no CU caps.
  • No concurrent connection limits
  • Frankfurt, Singapore and New York regions (archive: Frankfurt and New York)
  • JSON-RPC and WebSocket access
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BENCHMARKS

Fastest Arbitrum RPC on cold start

OpenChainBench probes keyed Arbitrum RPC from three regions every two minutes. GetBlock answers first.

  • OpenChainBench

    Cold start · P50 · eth_getBlockByNumber

    1. 1GetBlock 27 ms
    2. 2QuickNode 37 ms
    3. 3Chainstack 71 ms
    4. 4Blockmachine 306 ms

    eth_getBlockByNumber on paid API-key endpoints of 4 providers, every 120 s over 24 h, from Singapore, US East and EU West.

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AT A GLANCE

Arbitrum network specifications

Architecture & Consensus ModelEVM Layer 2, Stage 1 optimistic rollup on Ethereum (Nitro stack)
Launch DateAugust 31, 2021
Average Block Time~250 milliseconds
Throughput (TPS)~13 TPS average; peaks above 2,000 TPS
Gas TokenETH
Smart Contract SupportYes (EVM and Stylus WASM)
Programming LanguagesSolidity, Vyper; Rust, C and C++ via Stylus
Notable Use CasesDeFi, perpetuals, tokenized stocks and RWAs, gaming
Chain ID42161
Data AvailabilityEthereum L1 (calldata and blobs)
State ValidationInteractive fraud proofs (BoLD)
Sequencer / Block ProposerSingle sequencer operated by Offchain Labs
Network TypePublic
Transaction PrivacyNone
Transaction OrderingPriority fee in short rounds (Priority Gas Auctions)
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Why build on Arbitrum with GetBlock

Essential performance and infrastructure features for developers.

Low-latency API endpoints

Response times as low as 14 ms with globally distributed infrastructure for consistent performance.

High throughput capacity

Multiple connection protocols

Mainnet and testnet access

99.99%+ uptime

low-latency Arbitrum RPC
Low-latency API endpoints

Response times as low as 14 ms with globally distributed infrastructure for consistent performance.

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TRUST

Trusted by leading Web3 teams

From wallets and exchanges to DeFi protocols and infra teams, GetBlock powers production workloads across 130+ networks.

  • 400k+developers registered on the platform
  • 100,000+hours of Web3 DevOps engineering invested in the GetBlock infrastructure
  • 6 yearsof infrastructure development expertise
  • Non-Custodial Wallets
    124MActive users

    Trust Wallet consolidated 12 networks onto managed infrastructure, with an estimated 4,500 engineering hours saved.

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  • Hardware Wallets
    6MWallets sold

    Tangem has held three years of 99.99% uptime and doubled its supported network count on GetBlock infrastructure.

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  • Payment Processors
    7M+Payments processed

    CoinGate gained a DORA and GDPR framework built from scratch, with an estimated 1,400 hours of engineering work saved.

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  • DeFi Protocols
    $400B+Cumulative volume on Aerodrome

    Revert moved from trial to production analytics on Base, on the first production overlay-enabled Base node we know of.

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  • Web3 Security
    $500B+In digital assets protected

    Blockaid extended screening to networks with no commercial RPC support, with an estimated 1,500 hours of work saved.

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ENTERPRISE

Business-tuned Arbitrum infrastructure

Redundant, secure, and SOC 2 Type II attested. Engineered for enterprise-grade uptime and trust.

  • Dedicated Nodes & Clusters

  • Global node deployment

  • Tailored load-balancing

  • Guaranteed throughput

  • 99.99%+ uptime SLA

  • 24x7 dedicated support

FAQ

Everything you need to know about Arbitrum RPC nodes, network access, and choosing the right setup for your dApp.

Arbitrum performance notes

Arbitrum is an EVM Layer 2 that settles to Ethereum as a Stage 1 optimistic rollup on the Nitro stack. Blocks arrive about every 250 ms, and the BoLD protocol lets anyone with the required stake propose or challenge state. Since September 2026, Priority Gas Auctions order transactions by priority fee in short rounds, replacing Timeboost. Stylus runs Rust, C and C++ contracts alongside Solidity, though new Stylus activations have been paused since October 2. Orbit lets teams launch their own chains on the same stack.

GetBlock runs Arbitrum Nitro full and archive nodes on mainnet and Sepolia in Frankfurt, New York and Singapore, over JSON-RPC and WebSocket. Limitless Nodes give flat-rate throughput from 25 RPS, and Dedicated Nodes for exchanges and bridges add RPC failover and IP allowlists. In October 2026, OpenChainBench ranked GetBlock first among paid Arbitrum providers on cold-start latency, at 27 ms.

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