Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more
BlockchainsArbitrum
Leads259 ms
- p99
- 497 ms
- rank
- #2
- samples
- 343,841
Linea
Trails4.98 s
- p99
- 35.85 s
- rank
- #10
- samples
- 10,949
Arbitrum vs Linea
Arbitrum leads on 4 of 4 shared benchmarks, Linea on 0. Arbitrum wins on Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more (259 ms vs 4.98 s), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains ($0.000822 vs $0.0146), Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery (31.71 s vs 3.2 min), Fastest Hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery (10.54 s vs 1.0 min).
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.
Linea
ConsenSys zkEVM rollup with a prover-bound block cadence. Idle periods batch into longer intervals (p50 around 3-6 s) while busy periods produce blocks closer to the nominal 2 s mark.
Side by side measurements
Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains
BlockchainsArbitrum
Leads$0.000822
- p99
- $0.000851
- rank
- #7
- samples
- 40,317
Linea
Trails$0.0146
- p99
- $0.0518
- rank
- #12
- samples
- 40,317
Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency
BridgesArbitrum
Trails16.6 min
- p99
- 28.7 min
- rank
- #12
- samples
- 26
Linea
No data in window
Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency
BridgesArbitrum
Trails19.0 min
- p99
- 29.7 min
- rank
- #9
- samples
- 42
Linea
No data in window
Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery
BridgesArbitrum
Leads31.71 s
- p99
- 28.6 min
- rank
- #3
- samples
- 1,819
Linea
Trails3.2 min
- p99
- 9.5 min
- rank
- #15
- samples
- 74
Fastest Hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery
BridgesArbitrum
Leads10.54 s
- p99
- 56.48 s
- rank
- #4
- samples
- 576
Linea
Trails1.0 min
- p99
- 2.0 min
- rank
- #12
- samples
- 4
Fastest Axelar GMP source chain by end-to-end delivery
BridgesArbitrum
Trails19.7 min
- p99
- 35.7 min
- rank
- #7
- samples
- 43
Linea
No data in window
Frequently asked questions
Arbitrum vs Linea: which one is better?
Arbitrum and Linea are compared on 7 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Arbitrum leads on Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which is faster on fastest l2 block time, live across robinhood, arbitrum, base and 7 more, Arbitrum or Linea?
On the Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more benchmark, Arbitrum leads at 259 ms versus Linea at 4.98 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Arbitrum vs Linea 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.