dRPC vs NOWNodes 2026: 4 live benchmarks compared

Name: dRPC vs NOWNodes OpenChainBench measurements
Creator: OpenChainBench
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

OpenChainBench

dRPC vs NOWNodes

dRPC leads on all 4 live benchmarks. dRPC wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (200 ms vs 205 ms), Ethereum RPC endpoints (27 ms vs 126 ms), BNB Chain RPC endpoints (62 ms vs 149 ms), Bitcoin RPC endpoints (128 ms vs 262 ms). Data as of 2026-10-06 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:01:47 UTCWindow: rolling 24h4 shared benchmarks

dRPC

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

NOWNodes

Multi-chain node provider covering 110+ blockchains. Key-based REST and WebSocket RPC plus block explorers, with keyless public endpoints on a handful of chains (Ethereum, BNB, Bitcoin) rate-limited to 5 requests per second.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

dRPC

Leads

200 ms

p99: 511 ms
rank: #10
samples: 297,974

NOWNodes

Trails

205 ms

p99: 350 ms
rank: #11
samples: 21,597

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	dRPC	32 ms	30 ms	20 ms	27 ms
Ethereum	NOWNodes	128 ms	42 ms	208 ms	126 ms
BNB Chain	dRPC	135 ms	33 ms	17 ms	62 ms
BNB Chain	NOWNodes	151 ms	64 ms	231 ms	149 ms

RPC latency

dRPCn/aNOWNodesn/a

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.

Ethereum RPC endpoints: free public URLs and private API-key providers by latency

RPCs

dRPC

Leads

27 ms

p99: 150 ms
rank: #1
samples: 4,318

NOWNodes

Trails

126 ms

p99: 197 ms
rank: #4
samples: 4,319

Per region

Region	dRPC	NOWNodes
US-East	32 ms	128 ms
EU-West	30 ms	42 ms
Singapore	20 ms	208 ms

RPC latency

dRPCn/aNOWNodesn/a

BNB Chain RPC endpoints: free public URLs and private API-key providers by latency

RPCs

dRPC

Leads

62 ms

p99: 187 ms
rank: —
samples: 4,320

NOWNodes

Trails

149 ms

p99: 368 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,321

Per region

Region	dRPC	NOWNodes
US-East	135 ms	151 ms
EU-West	33 ms	64 ms
Singapore	17 ms	231 ms

RPC latency

dRPCn/aNOWNodesn/a

Bitcoin RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency

RPCs

dRPC

Leads

128 ms

p99: 239 ms
rank: #2
samples: 4,318

NOWNodes

Trails

262 ms

p99: 398 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,319

Per region

Region	dRPC	NOWNodes
US-East	153 ms	160 ms
EU-West	53 ms	67 ms
Singapore	177 ms	558 ms

RPC latency

dRPCn/aNOWNodesn/a

Frequently asked questions

dRPC vs NOWNodes: which one is better?

dRPC and NOWNodes are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. dRPC leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, dRPC or NOWNodes?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, dRPC leads at 200 ms versus NOWNodes at 205 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the dRPC vs NOWNodes 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.