Providers
Compare RPC providers on measured data
The top 4 on the chosen chain are compared by default. Pick your own — up to 4 — and the selection moves into the URL, so a comparison can be sent to someone else and they will see exactly what you saw.
Providers on Ethereum
- PublicNode
- Tenderly
- dRPC
- NodeReal
- Blast API
- Merkle
- MEV Blocker
- 1RPC
- Cloudflare
Side by side
30d window · 3.0 days observed · generated 2026-08-27 21:22:01 UTC
| Metric | PublicNode | dRPC | Blast API | Merkle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| Score | 99.4 | 91.9 | 84.7 | 78.4 |
| Status | Excellent | Excellent | Good | Good |
| Availability | 99.98% | 99.94% | 99.98% | 99.98% |
| p50 latency | 19.4 ms | 33.9 ms | 105.3 ms | 107.0 ms |
| p95 latency | 36.0 ms | 71.8 ms | 122.7 ms | 195.2 ms |
| p99 latency | 78.4 ms | 170.8 ms | 148.1 ms | 241.4 ms |
| Correctness | 99.99% | 99.99% | 99.99% | 100.00% |
| Head lag | 0.49 blocks | 0.36 blocks | 0.42 blocks | 0.49 blocks |
| Rate limited | 0 | 668 | 1,235 | 18,913 |
| Unsupported | 0 | 0 | 0 | 228 |
| Samples | 118,721 | 115,860 | 117,217 | 27,332 |
9 providers scored against each other.
Where the gap comes from
Two scores side by side say one is higher. This says why: the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart, and each component’s share of the difference adds back to the difference exactly. Compared against PublicNode, the highest scorer of those selected.
PublicNodevsdRPC
+7.5points
- Latency+7.6
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness−0.0
The parts add to +7.5, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsBlast API
+14.7points
- Latency+14.8
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability−0.0
- Correctness−0.0
The parts add to +14.7, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsMerkle
+21.0points
- Latency+21.0
- Head freshness+0.0
- Availability−0.0
- Correctness−0.0
The parts add to +21.0, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.