Ankr leads on 5 of 7 shared benchmarks, dRPC on 2. Ankr wins on Kava RPC endpoints (39 ms vs 252 ms), Flare RPC endpoints (71 ms vs 173 ms), Core Chain RPC endpoints (77 ms vs 162 ms), Filecoin RPC endpoints (48 ms vs 248 ms). dRPC wins on Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers ($49 vs $200), Most requests a free RPC plan buys, across 13 providers (10.50M vs 1.00M). Data as of 2026-11-02 UTC.
Multi-chain RPC service covering 65+ chains on the freemium tier. One API key across chains; some networks are premium-gated.
Decentralized RPC mesh routing requests across third-party node providers with consensus checks. Free public tier plus higher-tier authenticated access.
Ankr
Leads39 ms
dRPC
Trails252 ms
Per region
| Region | Ankr | dRPC |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 12 ms | 191 ms |
| EU-West | 96 ms | 208 ms |
| Singapore | 9 ms | 358 ms |
Ankr
Leads71 ms
dRPC
Trails173 ms
Per region
| Region | Ankr | dRPC |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 25 ms | 49 ms |
| EU-West | 27 ms | 157 ms |
| Singapore | 159 ms | 313 ms |
Ankr
Leads77 ms
dRPC
Trails162 ms
Per region
| Region | Ankr | dRPC |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 73 ms | 161 ms |
| EU-West | 152 ms | 60 ms |
| Singapore | 9 ms | 263 ms |
Ankr
Leads48 ms
dRPC
Trails248 ms
Per region
| Region | Ankr | dRPC |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 26 ms | 156 ms |
| EU-West | 110 ms | 226 ms |
| Singapore | 9 ms | 363 ms |
| Provider | Monthly cost, dapp mix at 10M requests | Effective cost per 1M requests | Billing units per request | Free tier, requests per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ankrprovisional | $200 | $20 | 200 | 1.00M |
| dRPCprovisional | $49 | $4.90 | 20 | 10.50M |
Published prices, not invoices. Each figure is human-verified against the provider's own pricing page or API and carries the date it was read; the harness re-hashes 20 of those pages on a loop to catch an upstream edit. A 30-day month and flat traffic are assumed, the most generous reading. NOWNodes prices in EUR. A provider absent from a cell is not missing data: it has no plan that can serve that workload, usually a cap or a throughput ceiling rather than the price.
Ankr
Trails1.00M
dRPC
Leads10.50M
Allowance, not latency and not reliability. A plan that buys the most requests is not thereby the fastest or the most correct; those are measured on the per-chain RPC pages. Published allowances, human-verified against each provider's own pricing page with the date it was read. A free plan is one that costs nothing and renews, so QuickNode's one-month trial is not here. Where a provider publishes a daily cap it is multiplied by 30.
Ankr
Leads41 ms
dRPC
Trails192 ms
Per region
| Region | Ankr | dRPC |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 79 ms | 153 ms |
| EU-West | 26 ms | 61 ms |
| Singapore | 18 ms | 361 ms |
Ankr and dRPC are compared on 7 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Ankr leads on Kava RPC endpoints. dRPC leads on Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Kava RPC endpoints benchmark, Ankr leads at 39 ms versus dRPC at 252 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers benchmark, dRPC leads at $49 (provisional) versus Ankr at $200 (provisional). 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.