Cardano vs Ethereum

Cardano leads on 2 of 3 shared benchmarks, Ethereum on 1. Cardano wins on Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation (0.12% vs 0.12%), Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains (4.95% vs 2.60%). Ethereum wins on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains ($0.00815 vs $0.0314).

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Cardano

Ouroboros Praos PoS with 20-second slots and 1 block per 20 seconds on average. Probabilistic finality after about 2,160 blocks (k parameter).

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Ethereum

PoS chain using Gasper (Casper FFG plus LMD-GHOST). 12-second slots with deterministic finality every two epochs, roughly 12.8 minutes.

Side by side measurements

Frequently asked questions

Cardano vs Ethereum: which one is better?

Cardano and Ethereum are compared on 3 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Cardano leads on Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation. Ethereum leads on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster on chainlink vs pyth vs binance vs coinbase, live oracle deviation, Cardano or Ethereum?

On the Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation benchmark, Cardano leads at 0.12% versus Ethereum at 0.12%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster on cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 l1 and l2 chains, Cardano or Ethereum?

On the Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains benchmark, Ethereum leads at $0.00815 versus Cardano at $0.0314. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Cardano vs Ethereum 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.