Cardano vs Solana

Cardano leads on 1 of 4 shared benchmarks, Solana on 3. Cardano wins on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 7 non-EVM L1 chains ($0.2148 vs $0.6660). Solana wins on Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation (0.097% vs 0.11%), Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains (5.20% vs 4.95%), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains ($0.000365 vs $0.0305).

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h4 shared benchmarks
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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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Solana

Proof-of-History sequencing combined with Tower BFT consensus. Probabilistic finality at 32 confirmed slots. Slot time around 400 milliseconds.

Side by side measurements

Frequently asked questions

Cardano vs Solana: which one is better?

Cardano and Solana are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Cardano leads on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 7 non-EVM L1 chains. Solana leads on Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster on cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live usd cost across 7 non-evm l1 chains, Cardano or Solana?

On the Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 7 non-EVM L1 chains benchmark, Cardano leads at $0.2148 versus Solana at $0.6660. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

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

On the Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation benchmark, Solana leads at 0.097% versus Cardano at 0.11%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Cardano vs Solana 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.