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 (224 ms vs 370 ms), Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (17 ms vs 186 ms), Fastest free BNB Chain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (14 ms vs 238 ms), Fastest free Bitcoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (167 ms vs 614 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:36:03 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

224 ms

p99: 603 ms
rank: #4
samples: 293,778

NOWNodes

Trails

370 ms

p99: 609 ms
rank: #11
samples: 4,923

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	dRPC	15 ms	16 ms	21 ms	17 ms
Ethereum	NOWNodes	185 ms	185 ms	188 ms	186 ms
BNB Chain	dRPC	15 ms	14 ms	13 ms	14 ms
BNB Chain	NOWNodes	237 ms	240 ms	236 ms	238 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.

Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

dRPC

Leads

17 ms

p99: 311 ms
rank: #1
samples: 4,303

NOWNodes

Trails

186 ms

p99: 366 ms
rank: #3
samples: 1,459

Per region

Region	dRPC	NOWNodes
US-East	15 ms	185 ms
EU-West	16 ms	185 ms
Singapore	21 ms	188 ms

Fastest free BNB Chain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

dRPC

Leads

14 ms

p99: 166 ms
rank: —
samples: 4,309

NOWNodes

Trails

238 ms

p99: 636 ms
rank: #3
samples: 1,464

Per region

Region	dRPC	NOWNodes
US-East	15 ms	237 ms
EU-West	14 ms	240 ms
Singapore	13 ms	236 ms

Fastest free Bitcoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

dRPC

Leads

167 ms

p99: 210 ms
rank: #2
samples: 658

NOWNodes

Trails

614 ms

p99: 913 ms
rank: #3
samples: 669

Per region

Region	dRPC	NOWNodes
US-East	165 ms	619 ms
EU-West	166 ms	606 ms
Singapore	168 ms	620 ms

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 224 ms versus NOWNodes at 370 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.