Fastest free-tier keyed RPC. Alchemy, Infura, Chainstack, Ankr, Helius
RPCsAnkr
Trails51 ms
- p99
- 304 ms
- rank
- #4
- samples
- 18,759
Helius
Leads40 ms
- p99
- 102 ms
- rank
- #3
- samples
- 3,748
Ankr vs Helius
Ankr leads on 0 of 1 shared benchmarks, Helius on 1. Helius wins on Fastest free-tier keyed RPC. Alchemy, Infura, Chainstack, Ankr, Helius (40 ms vs 51 ms).
Ankr
Multi-chain RPC service covering 65+ chains on the freemium tier. One API key across chains; some networks are premium-gated.
Helius
Solana RPC and data provider. Enhanced transactions, webhooks, DAS API for assets, and standard JSON-RPC.
Side by side measurements
How this pair was selected
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.