Chainstack leads on 0 of 1 shared benchmarks, Quicknode on 1. Quicknode wins on Fastest free-tier keyed RPC. Alchemy, Infura, Chainstack, Ankr, Helius (3 ms vs 54 ms).
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.
Keyed RPC infrastructure across 30+ chains. Endpoint-scoped API tokens; free and paid plans are served from the same shared fleet, dedicated clusters on higher tiers.
Chainstack
Trails54 ms
Quicknode
Leads3 ms
Per chain · per region
| Chain | Provider | US-East | EU-West | Singapore | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimism | Chainstack | 14 ms | 181 ms | 180 ms | 125 ms |
| Quicknode | 7 ms | 1 ms | 1 ms | 3 ms | |
| BNB Chain | Chainstack | 13 ms | 18 ms | 17 ms | 16 ms |
| Quicknode | 6 ms | 1 ms | 1 ms | 3 ms |
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.