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
- Tenderly
- PublicNode
- dRPC
- NodeReal
- Blast API
- Merkle
- MEV Blocker
- Cloudflare
- 1RPC
Side by side
6h window · 6.0 hours observed · generated 2026-08-27 17:48:42 UTC
| Metric | PublicNode | NodeReal | Blast API | Merkle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Score | 94.9 | 82.9 | 78.3 | 70.8 |
| Status | Excellent | Good | Good | Degraded |
| Availability | 100.00% | 100.00% | 99.99% | 100.00% |
| p50 latency | 25.5 ms | 87.5 ms | 109.0 ms | 110.7 ms |
| p95 latency | 50.5 ms | 99.5 ms | 127.6 ms | 191.8 ms |
| p99 latency | 112.1 ms | 127.4 ms | 154.9 ms | 235.0 ms |
| Correctness | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Head lag | 0.48 blocks | 0.33 blocks | 0.41 blocks | 0.55 blocks |
| Rate limited | 0 | 0 | 39 | 1,487 |
| Unsupported | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Samples | 9,493 | 9,256 | 9,405 | 2,199 |
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.
PublicNodevsNodeReal
+12.0points
- Latency+12.2
- Head freshness−0.2
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +12.0, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsBlast API
+16.6points
- Latency+16.7
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +16.6, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsMerkle
+24.1points
- Latency+24.0
- Head freshness+0.1
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +24.1, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.