OpenChainBench

Cardano vs Solana

Cardano leads on 1 of 4 shared benchmarks, Solana on 2 (1 tied). Cardano wins on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 7 non-EVM L1 chains ($0.2276 vs $0.6475). Solana wins on Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation (0.082% vs 0.082%), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains ($0.000486 vs $0.0323).

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h4 shared benchmarks
Cardano logo
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).

Solana logo
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

Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation

Trading

Cardano

Trails

0.082 %

p99
0.18%
rank
#4
samples
8,640

Solana

Leads

0.082 %

p99
0.14%
rank
#2
samples
11,520

Three caveats. (1) Lower is better, but a non-zero floor (~5-20 bps) is normal, ticker last-traded prices have micro-jitter and Chainlink updates only on deviation/heartbeat. (2) XRP, ADA, DOGE measured on 3 sources because Chainlink deprecated those USD feeds on Ethereum mainnet, tag flags it. (3) POL/USD is the post-migration symbol for MATIC; we point at POLUSDT (not the frozen legacy MATICUSDT).

Rolling 24h · Max cross-oracle deviationRaw JSON

Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains

Blockchains

Cardano

4.95 %

rank
#4
samples
50provisional

Solana

4.95 %

p99
5.42%
rank
#3
samples
200

Honest scope. (1) `net_yield = gross_apr × uptime`. NOT "yield net of MEV", Stakewiz `total_apy` already folds Jito MEV into gross, MEV is INCLUDED. `mev_share_bps` exists for transparency, not subtraction. (2) Solana median is dragged by ~42 vals at 0% APY (commission 100% or zero leader slots). (3) Hyperliquid: centralised sequencer, no separate MEV layer, ~30 vals only. (4) Ethereum: one network-average consensus-layer APR from the beacon spec formula, execution tips and MEV excluded.

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 cheaper, Cardano or Solana?

On the Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 7 non-EVM L1 chains benchmark, Cardano leads at $0.2276 versus Solana at $0.6475. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is cheaper, Cardano or Solana?

On the Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation benchmark, Solana leads at 0.082% versus Cardano at 0.082%. 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.

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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.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.