Testnet faucets in 2026: where to get tokens, what each asks

Most testnet faucet lists are written for developers, so they sort by provider: here is Alchemy, here is QuickNode, here is Chainlink. If you are farming a testnet you come from the other side, because you already know the network and just need gas on it before the campaign closes. So this list is sorted by network, and for each one it says where the tokens are, how much you get, and what the faucet wants from you before it pays, which is usually the part that stops people. On 28 September 2026 we also measured which testnets still have real people on them, by counting distinct wallets sending transactions on 45 public testnets, so the last section tells you which ones are no longer worth the gas you're trying to get.

What a testnet faucet is, and why it keeps refusing you

A testnet faucet is a website that sends you a small amount of a test network's native token for free, so you can pay gas on that network. Test tokens have no market value, and that is why faucets have to ration them: if claiming were unlimited, bots would drain the wallet within minutes of every refill, and nobody else would get anything. Every rule a faucet puts in front of you is a way of pricing out bots, and each of those rules also happens to lock out a certain kind of real person.

There are four walls you will run into, and knowing which one a faucet uses saves you from trying five of them in a row.

Wall	What the faucet checks	Who it locks out	Faucets that use it
Mainnet balance	Your address holds about 0.001 ETH (0.08 ETH for Chainstack, 0.002 BNB on BNB Chain) on the real network, sometimes with past activity	Fresh wallets, which is most farming wallets	Alchemy, Chainstack, BNB Chain, Berachain
Account	A Google, Coinbase Developer, GitHub or provider account	People who don't want to link an identity to a wallet	Google Cloud, Coinbase CDP, Superchain console, Nodit
Proof of work	Your browser mines for a while before it pays	Phones and impatient people	pk910 faucets, GIWA's official faucet, Sui
Country or community	Your IP location, or membership in the project's Discord	Blocked regions, people outside the server	Circle (Arc), Orbinum

The practical rule that follows is to start with the faucets that match what you already have. If you have a Google account, Google Cloud's faucet costs you nothing. If you have a laptop and half an hour, a proof-of-work faucet needs nothing else. The mainnet-balance faucets are the most generous, and also the worst place for a brand-new wallet to start.

Every faucet, by network

The table is the short version, and the sections under it go into the networks people are farming right now. I kept the chain IDs in because a wrong network selected in the wallet is behind most claims that "didn't arrive".

Network · chain ID	Faucet	Gives	What it asks for
Ethereum Sepolia · 11155111	pk910 PoW faucet	Scales with mining time	Nothing, you mine in the browser tab
	Google Cloud	Varies	Google account, mainnet-balance check
	Alchemy	0.1 ETH per 24 h	0.001 ETH on mainnet plus mainnet activity
	QuickNode	One drip per 12 h	Nothing: no account, no mainnet balance
	Chainstack	Up to 0.5 ETH per 24 h	Chainstack API key and 0.08 ETH held on mainnet
GIWA Sepolia · 91342	GIWA faucet	0.005 ETH per 24 h	Browser proof of work
	Nodit	0.01 ETH per 24 h	Nodit console sign-up and API key
Arc testnet · 5042002 (gas is USDC)	Circle faucet	20 USDC per 2 h	Not reachable from some countries, including Ukraine
	thirdweb	1 USDC per day	Wallet connect
Robinhood Chain testnet · 46630	Robinhood faucet	0.01 ETH plus stock tokens, once per 24 h	Eligibility rules inside the page FAQ
	QuickNode	One drip per 12 h	Nothing: no account, no mainnet balance
Base Sepolia · 84532	Coinbase CDP	Up to 0.1 ETH per 24 h	Coinbase Developer account, no mainnet balance
	Superchain console	0.01 ETH per day	GitHub link
	Alchemy	0.1 ETH per 24 h	0.001 ETH on mainnet
Arbitrum Sepolia · 421614	Alchemy	0.1 ETH per 24 h	0.001 ETH on mainnet
BNB Smart Chain testnet · 97	BNB Chain faucet	0.3 tBNB per 24 h	0.002 BNB on BSC mainnet
Orbinum testnet · 2700	Orbinum faucet	5 ORB per 24 h	Verified member of the Orbinum Discord
Neura testnet · 267	In-app faucet	3 ANKR per day	50 Neura Points from in-app tasks first
Solana devnet	Solana faucet	2 requests per 8 h	Optional GitHub sign-in for higher limits
Sui testnet	Sui faucet	Small drips	Browser proof of work
Aptos testnet	Aptos faucet	Per request	Google sign-in
Many EVM testnets	Chainlink faucets	Native gas plus 25 LINK	Wallet connect

Sepolia faucet: the busiest testnet and the hardest gas to get

Sepolia is where most of the demand is. In our sample it had 3,087 distinct sending wallets, more than every other testnet we measured put together, and it's also the entry point for many other testnets, because GIWA, Aztec and several app-chains bridge from Sepolia ETH. That combination is why its faucets are the most guarded.

If your wallet is new and empty, go in this order. The pk910 proof-of-work faucet needs nothing but a browser tab left open, and the longer it mines the more it pays, so leave it running while you do something else. At today's Sepolia gas price a swap costs around 0.00016 ETH, which tells you how little you actually need. Google Cloud's faucet is next if you have a Google account. QuickNode asks for nothing at all and gives one drip every 12 hours. Alchemy and Chainstack pay the most per claim, but both check your mainnet balance first: Alchemy wants about 0.001 ETH on Ethereum, Chainstack 0.08 ETH and an API key.

One date to keep in mind: Sepolia takes the Glamsterdam upgrade on 6 October 2026 at 13:53 UTC, and it changes gas pricing, so the amount that covered your farming this week may cover more or less after that. The rumour that Sepolia shuts down at the end of September is false. The Ethereum Foundation has said it runs through Glamsterdam, and no retirement date has been published.

GIWA Sepolia: mining faucet, no mainnet yet

GIWA, the Upbit-backed OP Stack chain, was the second busiest testnet we measured, with 1,200 distinct senders, and it still has no mainnet, which is why airdrop hunters are on it. The official faucet is a proof-of-work faucet that pays 0.005 ETH per day while you mine in the tab, and Nodit gives 0.01 ETH per day after you sign up for their console. Gas on GIWA is close to zero, so one claim covers weeks of activity. Be careful with anything calling itself a GIWA mainnet RPC: a fake one circulated in September, and there is no GIWA mainnet to connect to.

Arc testnet: gas is USDC, and the faucet is region-locked

Arc is Circle's chain, and it uses USDC as its native gas token, so the faucet sends you USDC rather than ETH. Circle's faucet gives 20 USDC every two hours per address, which is generous, but both the faucet and the public testnet RPC return a Cloudflare country block from Ukraine, and we checked that from Lviv. If you are in a blocked region, thirdweb's Arc faucet gives 1 USDC a day, and one dollar of test USDC covers roughly two hundred swaps at today's gas price. Arc's mainnet launched on 16 September, and the testnet crowd is still there, hoping for a retroactive reward. If Arc is the reason you're here, I wrote a separate Arc airdrop guide on what counts beyond faucet loops.

Base Sepolia faucet and Arbitrum Sepolia faucet: gated by balance

Both are the default testnets for apps building on those L2s, which is why they keep appearing in farming campaigns long after the chains themselves launched. They had 299 and 315 distinct senders in our sample. For Base Sepolia, Coinbase's own developer faucet is the one to start with, because it asks for a developer account and no mainnet balance at all. The Superchain console gives 0.01 ETH a day to anyone who links a GitHub account. For Arbitrum Sepolia the big faucets all want 0.001 ETH on mainnet, so the easier route is to get Sepolia ETH first and bridge it through the official Arbitrum bridge.

BNB testnet, Robinhood Chain and the small ones

BNB Chain's official faucet pays 0.3 tBNB a day, but only to an address holding 0.002 BNB on mainnet. Robinhood Chain's testnet faucet gives 0.01 ETH plus test stock tokens once a day, and it undercounts in any sender sample because its blocks are a fifth of a second long, so it is busier than the numbers make it look. Orbinum's only faucet requires you to verify in their Discord first, and Neura locks its faucet until you have earned 50 points in the app, which means you do tasks before you get the gas to do tasks.

Which testnets still have people on them

A faucet only matters if the testnet it feeds is still worth your time. On 28 September 2026 we queried the public RPC of 45 testnets and counted distinct wallets sending transactions across 40 blocks sampled evenly over one hour. It is a sample rather than a daily total, so compare chains against each other and don't read the numbers as user counts. Bots inflate transaction counts, which is why we counted senders instead.

The bottom of that list is the useful part. These are the testnets that still show up in older farming guides, and that we would not spend an afternoon of faucet claims on today.

Testnet	Status now	Senders in our sample
Monad testnet	Mainnet live since November 2025	14
MegaETH testnet	Mainnet live since February 2026, docs say the testnet is not incentivized	30, mostly bots
Berachain Bepolia	Mainnet live since February 2025, faucet wants mainnet ETH	2
Pharos Atlantic	Mainnet and token live since April 2026	1
0G Galileo	Mainnet live since September 2025	1
Citrea testnet	Mainnet live, token trading	2
Unichain Sepolia	322 transactions from 4 wallets	4
Holesky	Shut down in October 2025	none

Once a chain has a mainnet and a token, its testnet usually stops paying anyone for activity, and the only people left are developers and bots running loops. So if an older guide still sends you there, I'd skip the faucet run and spend the time on a testnet that is still waiting for its token.

Monad is the clearest case: its first airdrop already paid out. DAC Chain is the opposite one: its faucet works again, but its Inception season is over, so testnet activity there no longer earns anything.

How to get test tokens with an empty wallet, step by step

This is the route for a fresh farming wallet with nothing on mainnet, which is the situation most faucet pages are built to refuse.

#	Step	Time	Cost	What it gets you
1	Add the testnet to your wallet with the correct chain ID from the table above	2 min	$0	Claims land where you can see them
2	Try the faucet with no wall first: pk910 for Sepolia, Coinbase CDP for Base Sepolia, Superchain console with GitHub	5 to 30 min	$0	Enough gas for most campaigns
3	If the chain has only a Sepolia-funded path, claim Sepolia ETH and bridge it through the chain's official bridge	10 min	$0	Gas on GIWA, Arbitrum Sepolia and others
4	If you'll farm for weeks, keep about 0.001 ETH on mainnet in the same address	5 min	A few dollars	Unlocks Alchemy, one of the most generous faucets
5	Claim little and often instead of maxing out once	2 min a day	$0	Most limits reset every 12 or 24 hours, and steady use reads better than one big pull
6	Check the transaction on the explorer before assuming the faucet failed	1 min	$0	Most "missing" claims are the wrong network selected in the wallet

Step 4 is the only one that costs money, and the balance doesn't get spent: it only proves the address belongs to someone who has touched the real chain, which is the cheapest filter a faucet has against a script generating ten thousand empty wallets. The same logic runs through sybil filtering in airdrops generally, which I wrote about from the operator's side in what airdrop farming actually pays now.

Faucet checklist before you claim

• The URL is the one linked from the project's own docs, not from a reply under a tweet.
• The faucet asks for your public address only. No real faucet ever asks for a seed phrase, a private key, or a signature that approves spending.
• You have selected the right network in your wallet, with the chain ID from the project's docs.
• You are not paying for test tokens. Anyone selling testnet ETH is selling something with no value, and often it's the first step of a scam.
• You're using a wallet that holds nothing valuable on mainnet, as a habit for everything you farm. If you still need one, here's how to set up a crypto wallet for this.

Where I get my test gas now

Most of the pain in this article comes from one mismatch: faucets are built for developers who need a little gas once, and farmers need a little gas on a new network every week. At Syndicate, where I work as community manager, we've started fixing that for our own users. Every testnet guide in the Syndicate app is getting its own faucet, which lives in our Discord, pays out on the network the guide runs on, and lets you claim once a week per network. It skips the mainnet-balance wall and the region lock, and its only gate is an anti-bot one: your Discord account has to be at least 30 days old and a week inside the server. The same data behind this article decided which networks got a faucet first.

If you'd rather farm with the guide and the gas in one place, open the guides in the Syndicate app and join us, the faucet link is inside each guide.

Sources

First-party (not published elsewhere): the distinct-sender counts come from our own probe of 45 testnet public RPCs on 28 September 2026, counting unique transaction senders in 40 blocks sampled evenly over one hour. The Circle faucet and Arc RPC country block was checked from a Ukrainian connection.

Official faucet and project pages: faucet limits and requirements are taken from each faucet's own page or documentation as linked in the tables, read on 28 and 29 September 2026. Faucet rules change often, so check the faucet page before relying on an amount. The Sepolia Glamsterdam date comes from the Ethereum Foundation and the eth-clients/sepolia repository. Mainnet launch dates come from each project's own announcements.