Base vs Flashbots

Base leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks, Flashbots on 0. Base wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 7 more EVM chains (261 ms vs 688 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h1 shared benchmark
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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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Flashbots

Flashbots Protect RPC sends transactions through a private mempool, shielding them from sandwich attacks. Read calls go to a standard Ethereum node behind the proxy.

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.

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