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
24h window · 24 hours observed · generated 2026-08-27 03:54:33 UTC
| Metric | PublicNode | NodeReal | Blast API | Merkle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Score | 99.4 | 86.5 | 84.0 | 78.0 |
| Status | Excellent | Good | Good | Good |
| Availability | 99.98% | 100.00% | 99.98% | 100.00% |
| p50 latency | 18.3 ms | 87.2 ms | 104.5 ms | 107.1 ms |
| p95 latency | 35.1 ms | 99.9 ms | 121.2 ms | 194.7 ms |
| p99 latency | 74.0 ms | 124.3 ms | 142.3 ms | 240.0 ms |
| Correctness | 100.00% | 100.00% | 99.99% | 100.00% |
| Head lag | 0.49 blocks | 0.34 blocks | 0.42 blocks | 0.46 blocks |
| Rate limited | 0 | 0 | 285 | 6,205 |
| Unsupported | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 |
| Samples | 39,028 | 38,093 | 38,506 | 8,889 |
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
+12.9points
- Latency+13.0
- Head freshness−0.2
- Availability−0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +12.9, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsBlast API
+15.4points
- Latency+15.5
- Head freshness−0.1
- Correctness+0.0
- Availability−0.0
The parts add to +15.4, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsMerkle
+21.4points
- Latency+21.5
- Head freshness−0.0
- Availability−0.0
- Correctness−0.0
The parts add to +21.4, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.