Arbitrum vs Drpc

Side by side OpenChainBench measurements. Identical layout, no editorial verdict, the live data leads. Each panel surfaces the aggregate plus the chain and region breakdowns when the underlying bench exposes them, straight from the Prometheus queries that drive the parent benchmark pages.

Read methodology Last measured Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:44:04 UTCWindow: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks

Arbitrum

Optimistic rollup built on Nitro stack with a fast-finality sequencer. Sub-second block times (~250 ms) via a 250 ms default block interval, far below the 2 s OP Stack convention. 7-day fraud-proof window for L1 finality.

Drpc

Decentralized RPC mesh routing requests across third-party node providers with consensus checks. Free public tier plus higher-tier authenticated access.

Side by side measurements

Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 7 more EVM chains

RPCs

Arbitrum

Trails

130 ms

p99: 964 ms
rank: #9
samples: 8,641

Drpc

Leads

24 ms

p99: 500 ms
rank: #2
samples: 86,964

Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Arbitrum

Trails

130 ms

p99: 964 ms
rank: #5
samples: 8,641

Drpc

Leads

22 ms

p99: 726 ms
rank: #1
samples: 8,638

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.