Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains
BlockchainsArbitrum
Leads$0.000783
- p99
- $0.000804
- rank
- #7
- samples
- 40,319
Cardano
Trails$0.0314
- p99
- $0.0325
- rank
- #12
- samples
- 40,319
Arbitrum vs Cardano
Arbitrum leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks, Cardano on 0. Arbitrum wins on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains ($0.000783 vs $0.0314).
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.
Cardano
Ouroboros Praos PoS with 20-second slots and 1 block per 20 seconds on average. Probabilistic finality after about 2,160 blocks (k parameter).
Side by side measurements
Frequently asked questions
Arbitrum vs Cardano: which one is better?
Arbitrum and Cardano are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Arbitrum leads on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which is faster on cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 l1 and l2 chains, Arbitrum or Cardano?
On the Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains benchmark, Arbitrum leads at $0.000783 versus Cardano at $0.0314. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Arbitrum vs Cardano 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.
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.