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# Node API Pricing

> Learn how pricing works for Node API requests and transport protocols.

> Blockchain requests measure in *API Credits*.

We charge per method used in request. Various methods have different API credit values per request. An API credit value calculates based on a method's usage intensity and multiple factors that include using the computational, memory, storage, and network resources.

![Node API](/_fern-img/607a6dc88a8b909d6a4d78bad5d6e4f976b58c62b90ffd10c359467c03d3e7c8.webp)

**The price of our API Credits is pegged to USD**:

> 0.10 USD = 1M API Credits

## Price/request: RPC over HTTPS

| API Type        | Method      | API Credits | USD       |
| --------------- | ----------- | ----------- | --------- |
| EVM-compatible  | all methods | 200         | \$0.00002 |
| Solana          | all methods | 500         | \$0.00005 |
| Beacon Chains   | all methods | 700         | \$0.00007 |
| Other (non-EVM) | all methods | 200         | \$0.00002 |
| Advanced API    | all methods | 700         | \$0.00007 |

## Price/request: RPC over WSS

WebSockets interaction consists of the following actions:

* **Subscription**: Establishing WSS connection and subscribing to events.
* **Notification**: Receiving notifications from the events you've subscribed to.

| Action Type  | Chain          | API Credits | USD       |
| ------------ | -------------- | ----------- | --------- |
| Subscription | Solana         | 500         | \$0.00005 |
|              | EVM-compatible | 200         | \$0.00002 |
| Notification | Solana         | 500         | \$0.00005 |
|              | Other          | 100         | \$0.00001 |

## Price: gRPC

gRPC interaction consists of the following actions:

* **Method call**: Establishing gRPC connection using a particular method call.
* **Receiving data**: Receiving binary data pertaining to the method you've established connection with.

| Action Type              | Billing Metric | API Credits | USD        |
| ------------------------ | -------------- | ----------- | ---------- |
| Method call (all chains) | per 1 request  | 10          | \$0.000001 |
| Receiving data           | per 1 GB       | 5,000,000   | \$0.5      |