OpenChainBench

Algorand vs Ethereum

Algorand leads on all 4 live benchmarks. Algorand wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (2.8 s vs 15.8 min), Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain (4.67% vs 2.50%), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.0000854 vs $0.00483), Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain ($0.00862 vs $0.0947). Data as of 2026-11-14 UTC.

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Algorand

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.

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Ethereum

PoS chain using Gasper (Casper FFG plus LMD-GHOST). 12-second slots with deterministic finality every two epochs, roughly 12.8 minutes.

Side by side measurements

Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain

Blockchains

Algorand

Leads

4.67 %

rank
#6
samples
1provisional

Ethereum

Trails

2.50 %

rank
#11
samples
1provisional
Net yield
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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.

Frequently asked questions

Algorand vs Ethereum: which one is better?

Algorand and Ethereum are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Algorand leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, Algorand or Ethereum?

On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Algorand leads at 2.8 s versus Ethereum at 15.8 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Algorand vs Ethereum comparison measured?

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.

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How this pair was selected

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.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.