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
30d window · 2.9 days observed · generated 2026-08-27 18:15:08 UTC
| Metric | PublicNode | dRPC | Blast API | Merkle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| Score | 99.4 | 92.1 | 84.8 | 78.4 |
| Status | Excellent | Excellent | Good | Good |
| Availability | 99.98% | 99.93% | 99.98% | 99.98% |
| p50 latency | 19.2 ms | 33.9 ms | 105.1 ms | 106.9 ms |
| p95 latency | 35.5 ms | 71.8 ms | 122.7 ms | 195.6 ms |
| p99 latency | 75.9 ms | 170.2 ms | 147.5 ms | 242.7 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 | 659 | 1,193 | 18,093 |
| Unsupported | 0 | 0 | 0 | 221 |
| Samples | 113,628 | 110,904 | 112,175 | 26,110 |
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
+7.3points
- Latency+7.4
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness−0.0
The parts add to +7.3, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsBlast API
+14.6points
- Latency+14.7
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability−0.0
- Correctness−0.0
The parts add to +14.6, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsMerkle
+21.0points
- Latency+21.0
- Availability−0.0
- Correctness−0.0
- Head freshness−0.0
The parts add to +21.0, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.