Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 7 more EVM chains
RPCsBase
Leads258 ms
- p99
- 1.05 s
- rank
- #8
- samples
- 8,636
Lava
Trails337 ms
- p99
- 1.85 s
- rank
- #12
- samples
- 25,867
Base vs Lava
Base leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks, Lava on 0. Base wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 7 more EVM chains (258 ms vs 337 ms).
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.
Lava
Lava Network is a decentralized RPC mesh with permissionless validators. Public no-key endpoints work for Ethereum (`eth1.lava.build`) and Arbitrum (`arb1.lava.build`); other chains require an account-issued key.
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.