Base vs NOWNodes

Name: Base vs NOWNodes OpenChainBench measurements
Creator: OpenChainBench
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Base leads on the only live benchmark. Base wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (261 ms vs 370 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:36:03 UTCWindow: rolling 24h1 shared benchmark

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.

NOWNodes

Multi-chain node provider covering 110+ blockchains. Key-based REST and WebSocket RPC plus block explorers, with keyless public endpoints on a handful of chains (Ethereum, BNB, Bitcoin) rate-limited to 5 requests per second.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

Base

Leads

261 ms

p99: 458 ms
rank: #7
samples: 4,320

NOWNodes

Trails

370 ms

p99: 609 ms
rank: #11
samples: 4,953

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.

Frequently asked questions

Base vs NOWNodes: which one is better?

Base and NOWNodes are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Base 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 NOWNodes?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Base leads at 261 ms versus NOWNodes at 370 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Base vs NOWNodes 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.

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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.