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API Pricing Comparison: Blockscout vs Etherscan

BlockscoutEtherscan
TiersFree, Builder, Pro, BusinessFree, Lite, Standard, Advanced, Professional, Pro Plus, Enterprise
Price Range$0 to $999/mo (+ Enterprise custom)$0 to $899/mo (+ Enterprise custom)
Free Rate Limit5 req/sec3 req/sec
Free Calls100K credits /dayUp to 100K/day (90% chain coverage only)
Entry Paid ($49/mo)15 req/sec, 100M credits/mo5 req/sec, Up to 100K calls/day
Mid Tier ($199/mo)30 req/sec, 500M credits/mo10 req/sec, Up to 200K calls/day
Top Paid Tier$999/mo — 50 req/sec, 3B credits/mo$899/mo — 30 req/sec, Up to 1.5M calls/day
Overage PricingYes (0.50/1M extra)No hard cap overages
Pro EndpointsAll paid tiersStandard ($199/mo) and above only
Chain Coverage100+ EVM chains50+ chains
Open SourceYesNo
Support (top tier)DedicatedDedicated
Bold = better value. Blockscout credits are monthly; Etherscan calls are daily — at $49/mo, Blockscout’s 100M credits/mo ≈ 3×+ more throughput than Etherscan Lite’s 100K/day.

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Supported Chains Comparison: Blockscout vs Etherscan

Legend: ✅ Supported · ❌ Not supported · ⚠️ Paid tier only (Etherscan)Bold rows = exclusive to one explorer. \
  • Blockscout: 117 chains
    -  Etherscan: 68 chains \
  • Shared: 20 chains. 
Chain NameChain IDBlockscout Pro APIEtherscan API
Ethereum Mainnet1✅✅
Goerli Testnet5✅❌
OP Mainnet10✅⚠️ Paid only
Rootstock Mainnet30✅❌
Rootstock Testnet31✅❌
XDC Mainnet50❌✅
XDC Apothem Testnet51❌✅
BNB Smart Chain Mainnet56❌⚠️ Paid only
Ethereum Classic61✅❌
ETC Mordor Testnet63✅❌
Shibuya Testnet81✅❌
Viction Mainnet88✅❌
Viction Testnet89✅❌
BNB Smart Chain Testnet97❌⚠️ Paid only
Gnosis100✅✅
Fuse Mainnet122✅❌
Fuse Spark Testnet123✅❌
Unichain Mainnet130✅✅
Polygon Mainnet137✅✅
Monad Mainnet143❌✅
Sonic Mainnet146❌✅
ShimmerEVM Mainnet148✅❌
HashKey Chain Mainnet177✅❌
BitTorrent Chain Mainnet199❌✅
opBNB Mainnet204❌✅
TAC Mainnet239✅❌
Fraxtal Mainnet252❌✅
zkSync Sepolia Testnet300✅❌
Filecoin Mainnet314✅❌
zkSync Era Mainnet324✅❌
Shape Mainnet360✅❌
OP Goerli Testnet420✅❌
World Chain Mainnet480✅✅
Blackfort Mainnet488✅❌
Astar Mainnet592✅❌
Redstone Mainnet690✅❌
Matchain Mainnet698✅❌
Social Network Testnet749✅❌
Stable Mainnet988❌✅
HyperEVM Mainnet999❌✅
BitTorrent Chain Testnet1029❌✅
ShimmerEVM Testnet1073✅❌
IOTA EVM Testnet1076✅❌
Lisk Mainnet1135✅❌
Moonbeam Mainnet1284❌✅
Moonriver Mainnet1285❌✅
Moonbase Alpha Testnet1287❌✅
Unichain Sepolia Testnet1301✅✅
Story Aeneid Testnet1315✅❌
Sei Testnet1328❌✅
Sei Mainnet1329❌✅
Story Mainnet1514✅❌
Reya Network Mainnet1729✅❌
PlayBlock Mainnet1829✅❌
Soneium Mainnet1868✅❌
LightLink Phoenix Mainnet1890✅❌
LightLink Pegasus Testnet1891✅❌
Swellchain Mainnet1923❌✅
Swellchain Testnet1924❌✅
Soneium Minato Testnet1946✅❌
Stable Testnet2201❌✅
KiteAI Mainnet2365✅❌
KiteAI Mainnet (alt)2366✅❌
KiteAI Testnet2368✅❌
TAC St. Petersburg Testnet2391✅❌
Fraxtal Hoodi Testnet2523❌✅
Abstract Mainnet2741❌✅
Nexus Staging Testnet3941✅❌
Nexus Testnet3945✅❌
Lisk Sepolia Testnet4202✅❌
MegaETH Mainnet4326✅✅
Memecore Mainnet4352❌✅
World Chain Sepolia Testnet4801✅✅
Blackfort Testnet4888✅❌
Blackfort Mainnet (legacy)4999✅❌
Mantle Mainnet5000❌✅
Mantle Sepolia Testnet5003❌✅
opBNB Testnet5611❌✅
MegaETH Testnet6342✅✅
MegaETH Testnet v26343✅❌
Everclear Testnet6398✅❌
ZetaChain Mainnet7000✅❌
ZetaChain Testnet7001✅❌
Numine Mainnet8021✅❌
Zenchain Mainnet8408✅❌
Base Mainnet8453❌⚠️ Paid only
IOTA EVM Mainnet8822✅❌
Plasma Mainnet9745❌✅
Plasma Testnet9746❌✅
Monad Testnet10143❌✅
Gnosis Chiado Testnet10200✅❌
Tea Sepolia Testnet10218✅❌
Shape Sepolia Testnet11011✅❌
Abstract Sepolia Testnet11124❌✅
Immutable zkEVM Mainnet13371✅❌
Immutable zkEVM Testnet13473✅❌
Sonic Testnet14601❌✅
Ethereum Holesky Testnet17000✅❌
Zilliqa EVM Mainnet32769✅❌
Zilliqa EVM Testnet33101✅❌
ApeChain Curtis Testnet33111❌✅
ApeChain Mainnet33139❌✅
Mode Mainnet34443✅❌
EDU Chain Mainnet41923✅❌
Arbitrum One Mainnet42161✅✅
Arbitrum Nova Mainnet42170✅❌
Celo Mainnet42220✅✅
Etherlink Mainnet42793✅❌
Avalanche Fuji Testnet43113❌⚠️ Paid only
Avalanche C-Chain43114❌⚠️ Paid only
Memecore Testnet43521❌✅
Metabased Stratos Testnet51010✅❌
Ink Mainnet57073✅❌
Linea Sepolia Testnet59141❌✅
Linea Mainnet59144❌✅
ICB Testnet73114✅❌
ICB Mainnet73115✅❌
Polygon Amoy Testnet80002❌✅
Berachain Bepolia Testnet80069❌✅
Berachain Mainnet80094❌✅
Blast Mainnet81457❌✅
Base Goerli Testnet84531✅❌
Base Sepolia Testnet84532✅⚠️ Paid only
Creditcoin Mainnet102030✅❌
Creditcoin Testnet102031✅❌
Creditcoin Devnet102032✅❌
Etherlink Shadownet127823✅❌
Etherlink Testnet128123✅❌
Taiko Mainnet167000❌✅
Taiko Hoodi167013❌✅
Filecoin Calibration Testnet314159✅❌
World Mobile Testnet323432✅❌
Arbitrum Sepolia Testnet421614✅✅
Scroll Sepolia Testnet534351✅✅
Scroll Mainnet534352✅✅
Hoodi Testnet560048✅✅
Crosschain Testnet612044✅❌
Crosschain Mainnet612055✅❌
EDU Chain Testnet656476✅❌
Gensyn Testnet685685✅❌
Pyrope Chain Mainnet695569✅❌
Katana Bokuto737373❌✅
Katana Mainnet747474❌✅
Ink Sepolia Testnet763373✅❌
Arc Testnet5042002✅❌
Kaigan Mainnet5278000✅❌
Zora Mainnet7777777✅❌
Fluence Mainnet9999999✅❌
Spotlight Mainnet10058111✅❌
Spotlight Sepolia Testnet10058112✅❌
Celo Sepolia Testnet11142220✅✅
Ethereum Sepolia Testnet11155111✅✅
OP Sepolia Testnet11155420✅⚠️ Paid only
Citronus Testnet34949059✅❌
Fluence Testnet52164803✅❌
Reya Cronos Testnet89346162✅❌
Blast Sepolia Testnet168587773❌✅
Neon EVM Devnet245022926✅❌
Neon EVM Mainnet245022934✅❌
OP Interop Alpha 0 Testnet420120000✅❌
OP Interop Alpha 1 Testnet420120001✅❌
Polygon CDK Stavanger Testnet686669576✅❌
Eden Testnet3735928814✅❌
Arbitrum Blueberry Testnet88153591557✅❌

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Additional Blockscout feature set

An itemized list of over 60 features and views available on Blockscout that are not available on Optimistic Etherscan is available here.
  • DAppscout DApp marketplace providing dapp discovery and interaction features.
  • BENS in addition to ENS support, protocols can submit their subgraphs to be supported. Blockscout allows multiple protocols to co-exist within a single network.
  • Ads and banner control - Ability to add, remove and curate your own ads/banners
  • Public tagging - a central microservice allows tags enabled on mainnet to be shown on other chains. This is especially useful for malicious address display.
  • Vera and BytecodeDB Bytecode - works for verification info on multiple chains
  • Roadmap, research and rollup-specific features
    • Rollup-specific feature support (e.g. Fault proofs)
    • DA support (e.g. Celestia)

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API Differences

The following details endpoint differences between the Optimistic Etherscan and Blockscout Optimism instances. Endpoints vary slightly for different chains.

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1. Account/Address Endpointsmodule=account
BlockscoutEtherscanPurpose
action=eth_get_balance✅❌Mimics Ethereum JSON RPC’s eth_getBalance
action=balance✅✅Get Ether Balance for Single Address
action=balancemulti✅✅Get Ether Balance for Multiple Addresses
action=pendingtxlist✅❌Get Pending Transactions by Address
action=txlist✅✅Get Normal Transactions by Address
action=txlistinternal✅✅Get Internal Transactions by Address
action=tokentx✅✅Get ERC20 Token Transfers
action=tokennfttx✅✅Get ERC721 Token Transfers
action=token1155tx✅✅Get ERC1155 Token Transfers
action=token404tx✅❌Get ERC-404 token transfer events by address
action=tokenbalance✅❌Get Token Balance for Address
action=tokenlist✅❌Get list of tokens owned by address
action=getminedblocks✅✅Get list of blocks mined by address
action=listaccounts✅❌Get a list of accounts and their balances
action=txsBeaconWithdrawal❌✅Get Beacon Chain Withdrawals by Address and Block Range
action=balancehistory❌✅ (PRO)Get Historical Ether Balance for an Address By BlockNo

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2. Contract Endpoints

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module=contract

BlockscoutEtherscanPurpose
action=listcontracts✅❌Get list of any deployed contract
action=getabi✅✅Get Contract ABI for verified contracts
action=getsourcecode✅✅Get contract source code for a verified contract
action=getcontractcreation✅❌Get contract creator address hash and creation transaction hash
action=verify✅❌Verify Contract with Source Code
action=verifysourcecode✅✅Verify Contract with JSON file
action=checkverifystatus✅✅Check Verification Status
action=verifyproxycontract✅✅Get Internal Transactions by Address
action=checkproxyverification✅✅Get ERC20 Token Transfers
action=verify_via_scourcify✅❌Verify a contract through
Sourcify
action=verify_vyper_contract✅❌Verify a Vyper contract

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3. Transaction Endpoints

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module=transaction

BlockscoutEtherscanPurpose
action=gettxinfo✅❌Get Transaction info including block number, sender, gas, +++
action=gettxreceiptstatus✅✅Get Transaction Receipt Status
action=getstatus✅✅Get Transaction Execution Status

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4. Block Endpoints

module=block
BlockscoutEtherscanPurpose
action=getblockreward✅✅Get Block Rewards
action=getblockcountdown✅✅Get Block Countdown
action=getblocknobytime✅✅Get Block Number by Time
action=eth_block_number✅❌Mimics Ethereum JSON RPC’s eth_blockNumber.



action=dailyavgblocksize		❌✅ (PRO)Get Daily Average Block Size
action=dailyblkcount❌✅ (PRO)Get Daily Block Count and Rewards
action=dailyblockrewards❌✅ (PRO)Get Daily Block Rewards
action=dailyavgblocktime❌✅ (PRO)Get Daily Average Time for A Block to be Included in the chain
action=dailyuncleblkcount❌✅ (PRO)Get Daily Uncle Block Count and Rewards

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5. Token Endpoints

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module=token

Note other endpoints contain token specific information including module=stats and module=account.
BlockscoutEtherscanPurpose
action=getToken✅❌Get Token Information
action=getTokenHolders✅❌Get Token Holders
action=bridgedtokenlist✅❌Get Bridged Tokens
action=tokenholderlist❌✅ (PRO)Get Token Holders
action=tokenholdercount❌✅ (PRO)Number of ERC20 token holders
action=tokeninfo❌✅ (PRO)Token project info

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6. Logs/Events Endpoints

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module=logs

Both Etherscan and Blockscout use the getLogs endpoint which includes enhanced filtering capabilities
  • ✅ action=getLogs - Get Event Logs by Address/Topics/Block Range

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7. Proxy/ETH RPC Endpoints

Etherscan uses the Proxy module module=proxy to retrieve standard Ethereum JSON-RPC methods.For Blockscout, send post requests to
api.blockscout.com//json-rpcThe following methods are supported:
  • eth_blockNumber
  • eth_getBalance
  • eth_getLogs
  • eth_gasPrice
  • eth_getTransactionByHash
  • eth_getTransactionReceipt
  • eth_chainId
  • eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas
  • eth_getTransactionCount
  • eth_getCode
  • eth_getStorageAt
  • eth_estimateGas
  • eth_getBlockByNumber
  • eth_getBlockByHash
  • eth_sendRawTransaction
  • eth_call

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8. Stats/Network Information

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module=stats

In addition to these stats, Blockscout provides general chain stats via the REST API.
BlockscoutEtherscanPurpose
tokensupply✅✅Get Token Information
ethsupplyexchange✅❌total supply in Wei from exchange
ethsupply✅✅Get total supply in Wei from DB
ethsupply2❌✅Get amount of Ether in circulation, ETH2 Staking rewards, EIP1559 burnt fees, and total withdrawn ETH from the beacon chain
coinsupply✅❌Get total coin supply from DB minus burnt number
ethprice✅✅Get latest price of native coin in USD and BTC
coinprice✅❌Get latest price of native coin in USD and BTC in more general format
totalfees✅❌Get total transaction fees in Wei paid by users to validators per day
chainsize❌✅Get the size of the Ethereum blockchain, in bytes, over a date range.
nodecount❌✅ (PRO)Get total number of discoverable Ethereum nodes
dailytxnfee❌✅ (PRO)Get Daily Network Transaction Fee
dailynewaddress❌✅ (PRO)Get Daily New Address Count
dailynetutilization❌✅ (PRO)Get Daily Network Utilization
dailyavghashrate❌✅ (PRO)Get Daily Average Network Hash Rate
dailytx❌✅ (PRO)Get Daily Transaction Count
dailyavgnetdifficulty❌✅ (PRO)Get Daily Average Network Difficulty
ethdailyprice❌✅ (PRO)Get Ether Historical Price

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9. Gas Tracking

Etherscan Gas Tracker (module=gastracker)
  • ✅ action=gasoracle - Get Gas Oracle
  • ✅ action=gasestimate - Get Gas Estimate
Blockscout
  • ✅ Gas information integrated into transaction and block data