dRPC leads on 3 of 5 shared benchmarks, Lava Network on 2. dRPC wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot) (227 ms vs 268 ms), Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (85 ms vs 349 ms), Fastest free Sonic RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (197 ms vs 469 ms). Lava Network wins on Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (221 ms vs 337 ms), Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains (1 vs 164).
Decentralized RPC mesh routing requests across third-party node providers with consensus checks. Free public tier plus higher-tier authenticated access.
Lava Network is a decentralized RPC mesh with permissionless validators. Public no-key endpoints work for Ethereum (`eth1.lava.build`) and Arbitrum (`arb1.lava.build`); other chains require an account-issued key.
dRPC
Leads227 ms
Lava Network
Trails268 ms
Per chain · per region
| Chain | Provider | US-East | EU-West | Singapore | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | dRPC | 45 ms | 117 ms | 95 ms | 86 ms |
| Lava Network | 372 ms | 364 ms | 304 ms | 347 ms | |
| Arbitrum | dRPC | 340 ms | 338 ms | 318 ms | 332 ms |
| Lava Network | 217 ms | 223 ms | 224 ms | 221 ms |
dRPC
Leads85 ms
Lava Network
Trails349 ms
Per region
| Region | dRPC | Lava Network |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 44 ms | 371 ms |
| EU-West | 117 ms | 366 ms |
| Singapore | 93 ms | 302 ms |
dRPC
Trails337 ms
Lava Network
Leads221 ms
Per region
| Region | dRPC | Lava Network |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 339 ms | 216 ms |
| EU-West | 338 ms | 226 ms |
| Singapore | 312 ms | 225 ms |
dRPC
Leads197 ms
Lava Network
Trails469 ms
Per region
| Region | dRPC | Lava Network |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 197 ms | 476 ms |
| EU-West | 199 ms | 435 ms |
| Singapore | 195 ms | 488 ms |
dRPC
Trails164
Lava Network
Leads1
Per chain
| Chain | dRPC | Lava Network |
|---|---|---|
| Arbitrum | 45 | 1 |
dRPC and Lava Network are compared on 5 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. dRPC leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot). Lava Network leads on Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot) benchmark, dRPC leads at 227 ms versus Lava Network at 268 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, Lava Network leads at 221 ms versus dRPC at 337 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
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.
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.