Alchemy leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks, Helius on 0. Alchemy wins on Fastest free-tier keyed RPC. Alchemy, Infura, Chainstack, Ankr, Helius (7 ms vs 40 ms).
Web3 infrastructure provider offering NFT API, RPC nodes, and blockchain data APIs. Multi-chain EVM coverage.
Solana RPC and data provider. Enhanced transactions, webhooks, DAS API for assets, and standard JSON-RPC.
Alchemy
Leads7 ms
Helius
Trails40 ms
Per chain · per region
| Chain | Provider | US-East | EU-West | Singapore | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solana | Alchemy | 8 ms | 6 ms | 6 ms | 7 ms |
| Helius | 41 ms | 34 ms | 45 ms | 40 ms |
A pair is published when all four conditions hold. Both providers run in the same OpenChainBench benchmark for at least seven consecutive days. Each provider has at least 1000 samples in the measurement window. The head to head query has observable third party search demand. Both providers have a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo so the methodology is externally verifiable.