Alchemy leads on 0 of 1 shared benchmarks, Quicknode on 1. Quicknode wins on Fastest free-tier keyed RPC. Alchemy, Infura, Chainstack, Ankr, Helius (3 ms vs 7 ms).
Web3 infrastructure provider offering NFT API, RPC nodes, and blockchain data APIs. Multi-chain EVM coverage.
Keyed RPC infrastructure across 30+ chains. Endpoint-scoped API tokens; free and paid plans are served from the same shared fleet, dedicated clusters on higher tiers.
Alchemy
Trails7 ms
Quicknode
Leads3 ms
Per chain · per region
| Chain | Provider | US-East | EU-West | Singapore | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimism | Alchemy | 8 ms | 5 ms | 6 ms | 6 ms |
| Quicknode | 7 ms | 1 ms | 1 ms | 3 ms | |
| BNB Chain | Alchemy | 9 ms | 7 ms | 6 ms | 7 ms |
| Quicknode | 6 ms | 1 ms | 1 ms | 3 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.