Binance vs NOWNodes

Binance leads on both live benchmarks. Binance wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (74 ms vs 370 ms), Fastest free BNB Chain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (74 ms vs 238 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:34:03 UTCWindow: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks

Binance

Official BNB Chain RPC endpoints operated by Binance. Multiple dataseed hosts (`bsc-dataseed1.binance.org` etc.) round-robin for load distribution.

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

Binance

Leads

74 ms

p99: 351 ms
rank: #1
samples: 4,315

NOWNodes

Trails

370 ms

p99: 609 ms
rank: #11
samples: 4,923

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
BNB Chain	Binance	74 ms	74 ms	74 ms	74 ms
BNB Chain	NOWNodes	237 ms	240 ms	236 ms	238 ms

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.

Fastest free BNB Chain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Binance

Leads

74 ms

p99: 351 ms
rank: #1
samples: 4,315

NOWNodes

Trails

238 ms

p99: 636 ms
rank: #3
samples: 1,464

Per region

Region	Binance	NOWNodes
US-East	74 ms	237 ms
EU-West	74 ms	240 ms
Singapore	74 ms	236 ms

Frequently asked questions

Binance vs NOWNodes: which one is better?

Binance and NOWNodes are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Binance 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, Binance or NOWNodes?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Binance leads at 74 ms versus NOWNodes at 370 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Binance 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.

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.