Base vs Tenderly Gateway

Base leads on 1 of 3 shared benchmarks, Tenderly Gateway on 2. Base wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (105 ms vs 115 ms). Tenderly Gateway wins on Base RPC endpoints (96 ms vs 105 ms), Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains (2 vs 41). Data as of 2026-10-14 UTC.

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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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Tenderly Gateway

Tenderly's public gateway exposes a no-key JSON-RPC endpoint per chain at `gateway.tenderly.co/public/<slug>`. Covers Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Avalanche, Linea, Scroll and Mantle. The same Tenderly platform behind the keyed Web3 dev suite.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

Base

Leads

105 ms

p99
139 ms
rank
#4
samples
4,320

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

115 ms

p99
148 ms
rank
#5
samples
129,589
RPC latency
Basen/aTenderly Gatewayn/a

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

Trails

41

rank
#6
samples
82provisional

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

2

p99
0
rank
#4
samples
492
Reliability incidents
Basen/aTenderly Gatewayn/a

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 Tenderly Gateway: which one is better?

Base and Tenderly Gateway are compared on 3 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Base leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains. Tenderly Gateway leads on Base RPC endpoints. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster on rpc latency, Base or Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Base leads at 105 ms versus Tenderly Gateway at 115 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Base vs Tenderly Gateway 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.