OpenChainBench

Base vs MeowRPC

Split decision: Base leads on Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains (1 vs 86); MeowRPC leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (260 ms vs 262 ms).

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Base

Coinbase-operated optimistic rollup on the OP Stack. 2-second sequencer block time, shared bridge with Optimism via the OP Superchain, fastest-growing L2 by TVL since 2024.

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MeowRPC

Free public RPC service covering Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism and other EVM chains. No registration required, modest rate limits per IP.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

Base

Trails

262 ms

p99
503 ms
rank
#8
samples
4,316

MeowRPC

Leads

260 ms

p99
476 ms
rank
#7
samples
8,630

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.

Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains

RPCs

Base

Leads

1

rank
#1
samples
80provisional

MeowRPC

Trails

86

p99
61
rank
—
samples
166

A zero row means no incident was caught in the window, not a proof of correctness. Most providers post zero most days; this bench exists for the days they do not, and for the errors: a blocked eth_getLogs or a balance read gated behind a paid key at 40 blocks of depth counts as an incident because it is one from the caller's seat.

Rolling 24h · Reliability incidentsRaw JSON

Frequently asked questions

Base vs MeowRPC: which one is better?

Base and MeowRPC are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Base leads on Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains. MeowRPC 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 faster, Base or MeowRPC?

On the Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains benchmark, Base leads at 1 (provisional) versus MeowRPC at 86. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, Base or MeowRPC?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, MeowRPC leads at 260 ms versus Base at 262 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Base vs MeowRPC 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.