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
7d window · 3.1 days observed · generated 2026-08-27 23:44:10 UTC
| Metric | PublicNode | dRPC | Blast API | Merkle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| Score | 99.4 | 91.8 | 84.6 | 78.3 |
| Status | Excellent | Excellent | Good | Good |
| Availability | 99.98% | 99.94% | 99.98% | 99.98% |
| p50 latency | 19.4 ms | 33.8 ms | 105.2 ms | 107.0 ms |
| p95 latency | 35.8 ms | 71.5 ms | 122.7 ms | 194.9 ms |
| p99 latency | 77.5 ms | 170.6 ms | 148.2 ms | 242.6 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 | 670 | 1,237 | 19,554 |
| Unsupported | 0 | 0 | 0 | 238 |
| Samples | 122,600 | 119,639 | 121,056 | 28,280 |
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
+7.6points
- Latency+7.7
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness−0.0
The parts add to +7.6, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsBlast API
+14.8points
- Latency+14.9
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability−0.0
- Correctness−0.0
The parts add to +14.8, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsMerkle
+21.1points
- Latency+21.1
- Availability−0.0
- Correctness−0.0
- Head freshness+0.0
The parts add to +21.1, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.