Ankr leads on 4 of 5 shared benchmarks, thirdweb on 1. Ankr wins on Kava RPC endpoints (39 ms vs 507 ms), Flare RPC endpoints (71 ms vs 515 ms), Core Chain RPC endpoints (83 ms vs 503 ms), TAC RPC endpoints (41 ms vs 581 ms). thirdweb wins on Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers ($171 vs $200). 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.
ThirdWeb operates a keyless public RPC gateway at `<chainid>.rpc.thirdweb.com` covering 2000+ EVM chains via chain-id routing. Free tier is rate-limited per IP with no signup; paid tiers unlock higher throughput and dedicated endpoints. Used keyless across 13 chains on the RPC latency cluster (arbitrum, ethereum, polygon, optimism, base, bnb, avalanche, linea, worldchain, kaia, ink, opbnb + more).
Ankr
Leads39 ms
thirdweb
Trails507 ms
Per region
| Region | Ankr | thirdweb |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 12 ms | 333 ms |
| EU-West | 96 ms | 579 ms |
| Singapore | 9 ms | 617 ms |
Ankr
Leads71 ms
thirdweb
Trails515 ms
Per region
| Region | Ankr | thirdweb |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 25 ms | 343 ms |
| EU-West | 27 ms | 586 ms |
| Singapore | 159 ms | 614 ms |
Ankr
Leads83 ms
thirdweb
Trails503 ms
Per region
| Region | Ankr | thirdweb |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 73 ms | 332 ms |
| EU-West | 152 ms | 568 ms |
| Singapore | 25 ms | 608 ms |
| Provider | Monthly cost, dapp mix at 10M requests | Effective cost per 1M requests | Billing units per request |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ankrprovisional | $200 | $20 | 200 |
| thirdwebprovisional | $171 | $17.10 | 1 |
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
Leads41 ms
thirdweb
Trails581 ms
Per region
| Region | Ankr | thirdweb |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 79 ms | 404 ms |
| EU-West | 26 ms | 651 ms |
| Singapore | 18 ms | 686 ms |
Ankr and thirdweb are compared on 5 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Ankr leads on Kava RPC endpoints. thirdweb 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 thirdweb at 507 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers benchmark, thirdweb leads at $171 (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.