Provider API Keys

[ddocs]

Ankr has been going since 2017 and has a free API plan (and free public RPC APIs). The free API plan has details as below. Happy to add this. (I'm an experienced Documentarian - also happy to work on other issues).
FREE PLAN
Rate limit per second
2

Requests per day
170,000

Requests per month in millions
5.1m

Archive Mode (Historical Data)
No

Terms
No Contract

Super helpful when people are just starting out in web3.

• Missing information or details?
• Wrong Information?
• Dead or wrong links?
• Something needs code examples?
• General feedback or anything else?

[ricmoo]

The services listed in the docs are those that provide a higher-capacity (preferably throttled) API key for ethers to provide a default API key for.

I can reach out to Ankr, I wasn’t really aware of them before, but most services do not have the capacity needed to provide default keys which can easily hit 20 million requests per day.

[ddocs]

Hi ricmoo, I write for Ankr as well. They have additional paid for plans here. You can gradually scale up to the 'Pro' plan which does enable 20 million requests per day. Plus there are free public RPC API's for a growing number of chains. These are viewable here https://www.ankr.com/protocol/public/

[ricmoo]

I am an open source project; I would never be able to upgrade to a “paid” plan and am not going to pay to scale up everyone else’s projects.

Ethers will continue to work fine with JSON-RPC services such as Ankr, but the documentation (and the default provider) is really more for calling out services which have donated large amounts of capacity to ethers as community resources.

[ddocs]

Hey thanks, I appreciate your honesty. I'll feed this back to the Ankr team.