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
- 1RPC
- Cloudflare
Side by side
6h window · 6.0 hours observed · generated 2026-08-27 04:12:40 UTC
| Metric | PublicNode | Blast API | Merkle | 1RPC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 2 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| Score | 99.2 | 84.1 | 77.7 | 59.0 |
| Status | Excellent | Good | Good | Degraded |
| Availability | 99.99% | 99.99% | 100.00% | 76.94% |
| p50 latency | 17.4 ms | 103.0 ms | 104.4 ms | 2024.4 ms |
| p95 latency | 33.2 ms | 115.4 ms | 193.2 ms | 6590.4 ms |
| p99 latency | 80.7 ms | 139.1 ms | 251.0 ms | 9196.2 ms |
| Correctness | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 96.63% |
| Head lag | 0.49 blocks | 0.42 blocks | 0.45 blocks | 0.95 blocks |
| Rate limited | 0 | 76 | 1,316 | 1,424 |
| Unsupported | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| Samples | 8,515 | 8,387 | 1,861 | 1,990 |
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.
PublicNodevsBlast API
+15.1points
- Latency+15.2
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability+0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +15.1, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevsMerkle
+21.5points
- Latency+21.5
- Head freshness−0.1
- Availability−0.0
- Correctness+0.0
The parts add to +21.5, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.
PublicNodevs1RPC
+40.2points
- Latency+29.8
- Availability+9.2
- Correctness+0.7
- Head freshness+0.5
The parts add to +40.2, exactly — the score is a weighted sum, so it comes apart.