OpenChainBench

dRPC vs Tenderly Gateway

dRPC leads on 28 of 30 shared benchmarks, Tenderly Gateway on 2. dRPC wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (214 ms vs 312 ms), Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (123 ms vs 245 ms), Fastest free Base RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (167 ms vs 245 ms), Fastest free Optimism RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (165 ms vs 241 ms). Tenderly Gateway wins on Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (240 ms vs 356 ms), Fastest free Immutable zkEVM RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency (328 ms vs 347 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h31 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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Tenderly Gateway

Tenderly's public gateway exposes a no-key JSON-RPC endpoint per chain at `gateway.tenderly.co/public/<slug>`. Covers Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Avalanche, Linea, Scroll and Mantle. The same Tenderly platform behind the keyed Web3 dev suite.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

dRPC

Leads

214 ms

p99
580 ms
rank
#4
samples
263,087

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

312 ms

p99
411 ms
rank
#10
samples
125,161

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderUS-EastEU-WestSingaporeAggregate
EthereumdRPC53 ms163 ms162 ms126 ms
Tenderly Gateway245 ms246 ms244 ms245 ms
PolygondRPC12 ms16 ms13 ms14 ms
Tenderly Gateway333 ms332 ms331 ms332 ms
ArbitrumdRPC359 ms357 ms353 ms356 ms
Tenderly Gateway240 ms240 ms240 ms240 ms
OptimismdRPC164 ms166 ms164 ms165 ms
Tenderly Gateway241 ms241 ms240 ms241 ms
BasedRPC168 ms168 ms167 ms167 ms
Tenderly Gateway246 ms246 ms244 ms245 ms
AvalanchedRPC203 ms203 ms201 ms202 ms
Tenderly Gateway331 ms331 ms330 ms331 ms
LineadRPC110 ms107 ms107 ms108 ms
Tenderly Gateway328 ms328 ms328 ms328 ms
ScrolldRPC198 ms197 ms207 ms201 ms
Tenderly Gateway329 ms329 ms328 ms329 ms
MantledRPC23 ms20 ms19 ms21 ms
Tenderly Gateway332 ms331 ms330 ms331 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

193

p99
26
rank
#5
samples
576

Tenderly Gateway

No data in window

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 Tenderly Gateway: which one is better?

dRPC and Tenderly Gateway are compared on 31 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. dRPC leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains. Tenderly Gateway leads on Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, dRPC or Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, dRPC leads at 214 ms versus Tenderly Gateway at 312 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, dRPC or Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, Tenderly Gateway leads at 240 ms versus dRPC at 356 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the dRPC vs Tenderly Gateway 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.