Ankr leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks, Bitlayer Official on 0. Ankr wins on Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (5 ms vs 19 ms).
Multi-chain RPC service covering 65+ chains on the freemium tier. One API key across chains; some networks are premium-gated.
Bitlayer Labs-operated public RPC (rpc.bitlayer.org) for Bitlayer mainnet (chain 200901), the first EVM-compatible Bitcoin L2 using BitVM. Standard EVM JSON-RPC, keyless, rate-limited per IP.
Ankr
Leads5 ms
Bitlayer Official
Trails19 ms
Per region
| Region | Ankr | Bitlayer Official |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 4 ms | 19 ms |
| EU-West | 5 ms | 18 ms |
| Singapore | 5 ms | 20 ms |
Ankr and Bitlayer Official are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Ankr leads on Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, Ankr leads at 5 ms versus Bitlayer Official at 19 ms. 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.
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.