OpenChainBench

dRPC vs Flashbots Protect

Split decision: dRPC leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (220 ms vs 729 ms); Flashbots Protect leads on Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains (84 vs 110).

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks
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dRPC

Decentralized RPC mesh routing requests across third-party node providers with consensus checks. Free public tier plus higher-tier authenticated access.

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Flashbots Protect

Flashbots Protect RPC sends transactions through a private mempool, shielding them from sandwich attacks. Read calls go to a standard Ethereum node behind the proxy.

Side by side measurements

Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot)

RPCs

dRPC

Leads

220 ms

p99
540 ms
rank
#4
samples
297,998

Flashbots Protect

Trails

729 ms

p99
1.06 s
rank
#12
samples
4,322

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderUS-EastEU-WestSingaporeAggregate
EthereumdRPC21 ms25 ms14 ms20 ms
Flashbots Protect730 ms728 ms728 ms729 ms

Latency is conditional on success: the harness times only calls returning a valid fresh block, so a mostly-failing endpoint can post a fast p50. Rows below 50 percent success are degraded; unresponsive probes pin below the table. The All chains aggregate favours single-chain foundation endpoints (Base, Binance, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche officials) since they rank on one chain only; use a chain tab for honest comparison. Dead endpoints (cloudflare-eth POST returns -32603) are excluded.

Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains

RPCs

dRPC

Trails

110

p99
29
rank
#3
samples
576

Flashbots Protect

Leads

84

rank
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samples
84provisional

Per chain

ChaindRPCFlashbots Protect
Ethereum284

A zero row means no incident was caught in the window, not a proof of correctness. Most providers post zero most days; this bench exists for the days they do not, and for the errors: a blocked eth_getLogs or a balance read gated behind a paid key at 40 blocks of depth counts as an incident because it is one from the caller's seat.

Rolling 24h · Reliability incidentsRaw JSON

Frequently asked questions

dRPC vs Flashbots Protect: which one is better?

dRPC and Flashbots Protect are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. dRPC leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains. Flashbots Protect leads on Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, dRPC or Flashbots Protect?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, dRPC leads at 220 ms versus Flashbots Protect at 729 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, dRPC or Flashbots Protect?

On the Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains benchmark, Flashbots Protect leads at 84 (provisional) versus dRPC at 110. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the dRPC vs Flashbots Protect 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.