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 20:36:40 UTC
| Metric | PublicNode | dRPC | Blast API | Merkle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| Score | 94.4 | 88.9 | 78.4 | 70.7 |
| Status | Excellent | Good | Good | Degraded |
| Availability | 100.00% | 99.98% | 99.92% | 100.00% |
| p50 latency | 25.3 ms | 35.0 ms | 108.9 ms | 110.2 ms |
| p95 latency | 52.3 ms | 71.5 ms | 127.4 ms | 192.2 ms |
| p99 latency | 113.8 ms | 193.1 ms | 154.4 ms | 235.5 ms |
| Correctness | 100.00% | 99.99% | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Head lag | 0.47 blocks | 0.35 blocks | 0.41 blocks | 0.61 blocks |
| Rate limited | 0 | 24 | 67 | 1,456 |
| Unsupported | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Samples | 9,174 | 8,943 | 9,079 | 2,155 |
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
+5.5points
- Latency+5.7
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +5.5, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsBlast API
+16.0points
- Latency+16.1
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +16.0, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsMerkle
+23.7points
- Latency+23.5
- Head freshness+0.2
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +23.7, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.