Optimism has experienced significant growth as a Layer 2 network, boasting $1.46 billion in total value locked and processing over 2 million operations per day.
To support this growth, several RPC providers offer coverage for Optimism, each with its own set of features and strengths.
NOWNodes is a top contender, offering reliable and cost-effective access to on-chain data across 120+ blockchains from a single account. Its paid plans come with unlimited RPS and a 99.95% uptime SLA, backed by 2n+1 node redundancy and automatic failover.
Alchemy is another prominent provider, offering enhanced APIs for NFTs, tokens, and wallet activity that reduce custom indexing work. It also provides transaction simulation and per-method analytics dashboards.
QuickNode stands out with its compliance certifications and wide Superchain coverage across 13 OP Stack chains from a single account. Its tooling ecosystem includes real-time event pipelines and webhook monitoring.
Chainstack takes a different approach, combining shared RPC endpoints with an option to deploy dedicated nodes under professional management. This allows teams to predict pricing on isolated infrastructure for trace-heavy workloads.
Infura is one of the oldest and most widely integrated RPC providers in the Ethereum ecosystem, offering deep MetaMask integration and coverage for Optimism Mainnet with both HTTP and WebSocket connections across paid tiers.