10 best Quicknode alternatives

exchangerate.host

ExchangeRate.host provides a free forex and currency conversion API with optional paid subscriptions for higher request volumes.

• From $14.99/mo
• Free plan
• API available

Best for: Developers building multi-currency apps who need scalable rate limits beyond the free entry tier.

Anam.ai

Anam provides a real-time interactive AI avatars API for building video agents with lip-synced personas, custom voices, and multilingual support. Developers embed avatars in apps with session limits, concurrent streams, and per-minute overage billing on paid tiers.

getstream.io

Stream provides hosted APIs and SDKs for in-app chat, video, activity feeds, moderation, and voice AI agents. Product teams integrate real-time messaging and feeds with enterprise SLAs and vertical-specific solution templates.

• From $499/mo
• Free plan
• API available

Best for: Mobile and web engineering teams shipping social, marketplace, or support experiences needing managed real-time infrastructure.

Kompy

Plans meter monthly credits with concurrency and request-rate limits for developers and AI agents.

• From $25.99/mo
• Free tier unknown
• API available

Best for: Developers and agent builders who need structured Walmart catalog and pricing history without maintaining scrapers.

Context.dev

Context.dev is a web data API for AI agents and LLMs to scrape pages into Markdown, crawl sites, map domains, run batches, research the web, monitor changes, and retrieve brand data through one REST platform with SDKs and MCP support.

• From $19/mo
• Free plan

geoapify.com

Geoapify is a location platform offering maps, geocoding, routing, isochrones, and places APIs backed by a credit-based billing model. Developers start on a free daily quota and scale through tiered API plans with published rate limits and support levels.

• From $59/mo
• Free plan

Artie

Artie streams database change data to warehouses and lakes with sub-minute latency and exactly-once delivery. It replaces heavy Kafka or DMS setups with managed connectors for Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, and more, targeting AI and analytics teams that need fresh relational data without operating their own replication stack.

• From $600/mo
• Free plan
• API available

Data and AI teams that need real-time warehouse replication without building Debezium or Kafka infrastructure themselves.

Cerebrium

Cerebrium is a serverless GPU platform for deploying real-time AI workloads such as voice agents, video models, and LLMs with sub-second cold starts and elastic scaling. Teams run Python apps on managed GPUs across multiple regions and pay for compute by the second rather than reserved capacity.

• From $100/mo
• Free plan
• API unknown

Best for: ML engineers and product teams shipping production voice, video, or LLM apps that need bursty GPU scale without managing clusters.

Ably

Ably provides managed realtime infrastructure for pub/sub messaging, chat, collaborative state, and AI transport with global delivery guarantees. The vendor packages Free, Standard, Pro, and Enterprise tiers plus usage-based message, connection, and channel metering for production workloads.

• From $29/mo
• Free plan
• API unknown

Best for: Teams shipping chat, live dashboards, or agentic apps that need dependable realtime delivery without operating their own message brokers.

Manufact

Manufact Cloud deploys, tests, and monitors MCP servers and apps for ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and other clients. It includes cross-client testing, publishing checks, traffic inspection, analytics, and templates from the mcp-use ecosystem.

• From $30/mo
• Free plan
• API available

Best for: Developers and product teams shipping MCP integrations who need hosted infrastructure, testing, and marketplace readiness.