Arbitrum vs Avalanche 2026: 6 live benchmarks compared

Name: Arbitrum vs Avalanche OpenChainBench measurements
Creator: OpenChainBench
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

OpenChainBench

Arbitrum vs Avalanche

Arbitrum leads on 2 of 6 shared benchmarks, Avalanche on 4. Arbitrum wins on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.00107 vs $0.00143), Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery (24.45 s vs 26.62 s). Avalanche wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (84 ms vs 132 ms), Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency (4.17 s vs 16.7 min), Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency (12.22 s vs 18.0 min), Fastest Axelar GMP source chain by end-to-end delivery (47.50 s vs 19.4 min). Data as of 2026-10-11 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:25:05 UTCWindow: rolling 24h7 shared benchmarks, 6 measured on both sides

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.

Avalanche

Primary Network runs the Snowman BFT consensus derived from Snow protocols. Sub-second deterministic finality with no chain reorganizations.

Side by side measurements

Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot)

RPCs

Arbitrum

Trails

132 ms

p99: 1.06 s
rank: #6
samples: 4,320

Avalanche

Leads

84 ms

p99: 296 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,321

RPC latency

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Latency is conditional on success: the harness times only calls returning a valid fresh block, so a mostly-failing endpoint can post a fast p50. Rows below 50 percent success are degraded; unresponsive probes pin below the table. The All chains aggregate favours single-chain foundation endpoints (Base, Binance, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche officials) since they rank on one chain only; use a chain tab for honest comparison. Dead endpoints (cloudflare-eth POST returns -32603) are excluded.

Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains

Blockchains

Arbitrum

Leads

$0.00107

p99: $0.00110
rank: #12
samples: 20,160

Avalanche

Trails

$0.00143

p99: $0.0197
rank: #13
samples: 20,160

Native transfer fee USD

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Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency

Bridges

Arbitrum

Trails

16.7 min

rank: #9
samples: 26provisional

Avalanche

Leads

4.17 s

rank: #3
samples: 52provisional

VAA finalization

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Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency

Bridges

Arbitrum

Trails

18.0 min

rank: #9
samples: 19provisional

Avalanche

Leads

12.22 s

rank: #1
samples: 13provisional

CCIP delivery

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Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery

Bridges

Arbitrum

Leads

24.45 s

p99: 27.5 min
rank: #3
samples: 1,134

Avalanche

Trails

26.62 s

p99: 2.8 min
rank: #5
samples: 141

LayerZero delivery

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Fastest Axelar GMP source chain by end-to-end delivery

Bridges

Arbitrum

Trails

19.4 min

rank: #7
samples: 23provisional

Avalanche

Leads

47.50 s

rank: #4
samples: 15provisional

Axelar GMP delivery

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Stablecoin flow by chain: where dollars actually moved over 30 days

Blockchains

Provider	30d change	Stablecoin float	Net 7d	7d change
Arbitrum	-	$4.11B	$743.8K	0.018%
Avalanche	-	$1.46B	-	-

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Stablecoin float is where dollars are parked, not what they do. A chain can take in a billion that sits idle, and lose float to a single issuer redeeming. The figure is DefiLlama's chain-wide pegged-USD aggregate, every issuer combined; it does not separate a bridge inflow from a native mint, and a dollar bridged to an L2 counts on both chains, so rows are not additive. Read the net dollars with the percentage beside them: the same $400M is a rounding error on Ethereum and a doubling elsewhere.

Frequently asked questions

Arbitrum vs Avalanche: which one is better?

Arbitrum and Avalanche are compared on 7 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Arbitrum leads on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains. Avalanche leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is cheaper, Arbitrum or Avalanche?

On the Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains benchmark, Arbitrum leads at $0.00107 versus Avalanche at $0.00143. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, Arbitrum or Avalanche?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Avalanche leads at 84 ms versus Arbitrum at 132 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Arbitrum vs Avalanche comparison measured?

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.

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How this pair was selected

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.