Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain
BlockchainsAlgorand
Trails2.8 s
- p99
- 2.8 s
- rank
- #11
- samples
- 31,305
Avalanche
Leads1.1 s
- p99
- 2.8 s
- rank
- #9
- samples
- 92,192
Algorand leads on 3 of 4 shared benchmarks, Avalanche on 1. Algorand wins on Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain (4.67% vs 4.11%), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.0000852 vs $0.00155), Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain ($0.00861 vs $0.0343). Avalanche wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (1.1 s vs 2.8 s). Data as of 2026-11-14 UTC.
Pure proof-of-stake L1 where a randomly selected committee agrees on each block, so a block is final as soon as it is committed, with rounds of roughly 3 seconds.
Primary Network runs the Snowman BFT consensus derived from Snow protocols. Sub-second deterministic finality with no chain reorganizations.
Algorand
Trails2.8 s
Avalanche
Leads1.1 s
Algorand
Leads4.67 %
Avalanche
Trails4.11 %
Nominal yield in the staked token, not real yield: a 19% APR on a token that inflates 12% a year is worth less than it looks, and price moves dominate both. MEV is included on Solana only and excluded on Ethereum. ICP is one neuron profile (2 year dissolve delay), Algorand one opt-in solo node, Ethereum one network average. Stellar and Somnia are not ranked, see the methodology.
Algorand
Leads$0.0000852
Avalanche
Trails$0.00155
Algorand
Leads$0.00861
Avalanche
Trails$0.0343
Algorand and Avalanche are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Algorand leads on Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain. Avalanche leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain benchmark, Algorand leads at 4.67% (provisional) versus Avalanche at 4.11%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Avalanche leads at 1.1 s versus Algorand at 2.8 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.
Auto-generated pairs require: both providers in the same benchmark for seven consecutive days, at least 1000 samples per provider, observable third-party search demand, and a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. Editorially curated pairs (like this one) may publish early when search demand is high and data is accruing; panels with fewer than 100 samples are shown as provisional. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo.