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 23:24:27 UTC
| Metric | PublicNode | NodeReal | Blast API | Merkle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Score | 96.2 | 82.2 | 78.3 | 71.0 |
| Status | Excellent | Good | Good | Degraded |
| Availability | 100.00% | 99.97% | 99.92% | 100.00% |
| p50 latency | 22.8 ms | 87.1 ms | 106.6 ms | 107.6 ms |
| p95 latency | 43.7 ms | 99.0 ms | 123.9 ms | 187.6 ms |
| p99 latency | 100.2 ms | 118.1 ms | 151.6 ms | 236.0 ms |
| Correctness | 100.00% | 99.97% | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Head lag | 0.47 blocks | 0.33 blocks | 0.41 blocks | 0.51 blocks |
| Rate limited | 0 | 0 | 44 | 1,408 |
| Unsupported | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Samples | 8,842 | 8,613 | 8,751 | 2,097 |
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
+13.9points
- Latency+14.1
- Head freshness−0.2
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +13.9, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsBlast API
+17.9points
- Latency+18.0
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +17.9, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsMerkle
+25.2points
- Latency+25.1
- Head freshness+0.0
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +25.2, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.