Base vs Sonic

Base leads on 0 of 1 shared benchmarks, Sonic on 1. Sonic wins on Fastest Hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery (24.03 s vs 25.90 s).

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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.

Side by side measurements

Frequently asked questions

Base vs Sonic: which one is better?

Base and Sonic are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Sonic leads on Fastest Hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster on fastest hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery, Base or Sonic?

On the Fastest Hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery benchmark, Sonic leads at 24.03 s versus Base at 25.90 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Base vs Sonic 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

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.