OpenChainBench

Avalanche vs PublicNode

Split decision: Avalanche leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (179 ms vs 197 ms); PublicNode leads on Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (90 ms vs 179 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks
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Avalanche

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

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PublicNode

Public no-key RPC service operated by Allnodes covering 70+ chains. JSON-RPC and WebSocket endpoints with archive support on most networks.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

Avalanche

Leads

179 ms

p99
339 ms
rank
#2
samples
4,318

PublicNode

Trails

197 ms

p99
851 ms
rank
#3
samples
267,574

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.

Frequently asked questions

Avalanche vs PublicNode: which one is better?

Avalanche and PublicNode are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Avalanche leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains. PublicNode leads on Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, Avalanche or PublicNode?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Avalanche leads at 179 ms versus PublicNode at 197 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, Avalanche or PublicNode?

On the Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, PublicNode leads at 90 ms versus Avalanche at 179 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Avalanche vs PublicNode 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

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.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.