OpenChainBench

Chainstack vs Infura

Chainstack leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks, Infura on 0. Chainstack wins on Fastest free-tier keyed RPC. Alchemy, Infura, Chainstack, Ankr, Helius (55 ms vs 163 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h1 shared benchmark
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Chainstack

Managed blockchain node platform. Deploys dedicated Global Nodes per chain with keyed HTTPS/WSS endpoints; free plan includes one node and 3M requests per month.

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Infura

RPC infrastructure by Consensys, now part of the MetaMask Developer platform. Keyed endpoints across 40+ networks; free tier meters 3M credits per day.

Side by side measurements

Fastest free-tier keyed RPC. Alchemy, Infura, Chainstack, Ankr, Helius

RPCs

Chainstack

Leads

55 ms

p99
532 ms
rank
#5
samples
32,059

Infura

Trails

163 ms

p99
408 ms
rank
#6
samples
22,522

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderUS-EastEU-WestSingaporeAggregate
EthereumChainstack17 ms19 ms23 ms20 ms
Infura15 ms235 ms234 ms161 ms
BaseChainstack15 ms90 ms93 ms66 ms
Infura16 ms235 ms235 ms162 ms
ArbitrumChainstack20 ms92 ms89 ms67 ms
Infura20 ms236 ms238 ms165 ms
OptimismChainstack14 ms181 ms180 ms125 ms
Infura18 ms236 ms237 ms164 ms
BNB ChainChainstack14 ms18 ms17 ms16 ms
Infura18 ms236 ms238 ms164 ms
PolygonChainstack22 ms92 ms94 ms69 ms
Infura16 ms234 ms235 ms162 ms

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.