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
6h window · 6.0 hours observed · generated 2026-08-28 02:05:28 UTC
| Metric | PublicNode | Blast API | Merkle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Score | 99.4 | 83.5 | 77.8 |
| Status | Excellent | Good | Good |
| Availability | 99.99% | 99.99% | 100.00% |
| p50 latency | 19.1 ms | 104.1 ms | 106.4 ms |
| p95 latency | 31.1 ms | 119.8 ms | 192.9 ms |
| p99 latency | 63.6 ms | 147.8 ms | 281.6 ms |
| Correctness | 99.99% | 99.99% | 100.00% |
| Head lag | 0.48 blocks | 0.41 blocks | 0.46 blocks |
| Rate limited | 0 | 35 | 1,339 |
| Unsupported | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Samples | 8,316 | 8,246 | 1,963 |
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.
PublicNodevsBlast API
+15.9points
- Latency+16.0
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +15.9, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsMerkle
+21.6points
- Latency+21.6
- Head freshness−0.0
- Availability−0.0
- Correctness−0.0
The parts add to +21.6, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.