Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 7 more EVM chains
RPCsAvalanche
Leads194 ms
- p99
- 274 ms
- rank
- #3
- samples
- 8,640
Merkle
Trails242 ms
- p99
- 581 ms
- rank
- #6
- samples
- 17,279
Avalanche vs Merkle
Avalanche leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks, Merkle on 0. Avalanche wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 7 more EVM chains (194 ms vs 242 ms).
Avalanche
Primary Network runs the Snowman BFT consensus derived from Snow protocols. Sub-second deterministic finality with no chain reorganizations.
Merkle
Merkle exposes per-chain RPC subdomains (`eth.merkle.io`, `base.merkle.io`, `bsc.merkle.io`). Stable on Base + BSC for no-key benchmarking; Ethereum is fronted by an aggressive Cloudflare bot filter (20-minute lockout after a single request) so we exclude it from the leaderboard.
Side by side measurements
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.