OpenChainBench

Chainstack vs Validation Cloud

Chainstack leads on 9 of 10 shared benchmarks, Validation Cloud on 1. Chainstack wins on Ethereum RPC endpoints (69 ms vs 118 ms), Arbitrum RPC endpoints (69 ms vs 305 ms), Base RPC endpoints (30 ms vs 138 ms), BNB Chain RPC endpoints (63 ms vs 134 ms). Validation Cloud wins on Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 18 ranked providers ($167 vs $198). Data as of 2026-10-16 UTC.

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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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Validation Cloud

Node API provider with keyed endpoints on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Robinhood Chain and Arc, plus staking and data products. Probed in the private cohort on the chain RPC pages. Its RPC product is a sliding pay-as-you-go band on monthly Compute Units with no subscription and, by policy, no rate limits.

Side by side measurements

Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 18 ranked providers

RPCs

Chainstack

Trails

$198

rank
—
samples
4provisional

Validation Cloud

Leads

$167

rank
#9
samples
4provisional
Monthly cost, dapp mix at 10M requests
Chainstackn/aValidation Cloudn/a

Published prices, not invoices. Each figure is human-verified against the provider's own pricing page or API and carries the date it was read; the harness re-hashes 23 of those artifacts on a loop to catch an upstream edit. A 30-day month and flat traffic are assumed, the most generous reading. NOWNodes prices in EUR. A provider absent from a cell is not missing data: it has no plan that can serve that workload, usually a cap or a throughput ceiling rather than the price.

Rolling 24h · Monthly cost, dapp mix at 10M requestsRaw JSON

Frequently asked questions

Chainstack vs Validation Cloud: which one is better?

Chainstack and Validation Cloud are compared on 10 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Chainstack leads on Ethereum RPC endpoints. Validation Cloud leads on Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 18 ranked providers. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, Chainstack or Validation Cloud?

On the Ethereum RPC endpoints benchmark, Chainstack leads at 69 ms versus Validation Cloud at 118 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is cheaper, Chainstack or Validation Cloud?

On the Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 18 ranked providers benchmark, Validation Cloud leads at $167 (provisional) versus Chainstack at $198 (provisional). Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Chainstack vs Validation Cloud 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

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.