Using Hosted ENSNode Instances

Hosted Instances

NameHash Labs provides freely available hosted instances for ENS developers looking to get started quickly.

These instances are provided free of charge with no API key required, have no rate limiting, and are maintained and monitored by the NameHash Labs team.

No Uptime / Performance Guarantees

These hosted instances are provided free of charge to the ENS community, and while we strive for strong uptime and performance, neither of these can be guaranteed. By using these instances you accept the possibility of downtime, degraded performance, or other unforeseen events. If you’d like to run ENSNode in production, consider hosting your own ENSNode instance.

Available ENSNode Instances

The key differences between these hosted deployments is the ENS deployment being indexed (mainnet vs a testnet) and the list of ENSNode plugins that are activated. See the table below for details. Main difference from client perspective is chain being indexed and list of plugins being handled. Here is the table listing differences between those.

	ENSNode ‘Alpha’
URL	api.alpha.ensnode.io
Active Plugins	eth, base.eth, linea.eth
Purpose	Demonstration of ENSNode’s multichain ENS indexing capability. Provides a superset of the data indexed by the ENS Subgraph

	ENSNode ‘Mainnet’
URL	api.mainnet.ensnode.io
Active Plugins	eth
Purpose	1:1 Subgraph compatible data

	ENSNode ‘Sepolia’
URL	api.sepolia.ensnode.io
Active Plugins	eth
Purpose	Sepolia chain data

	ENSNode ‘Holesky’
URL	api.holesky.ensnode.io
Active Plugins	eth
Purpose	Holesky chain data

Endpoints

For more details on how to use these instances, refer to the ENSNode Quickstart.