Ethereum leads on 1 of 4 shared benchmarks, Internet Computer on 3. Ethereum wins on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain ($0.1017 vs $0.6728). Internet Computer wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (0.95 s vs 15.8 min), Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain (10.0% vs 2.50%), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.000258 vs $0.00547). Data as of 2026-11-14 UTC.
PoS chain using Gasper (Casper FFG plus LMD-GHOST). 12-second slots with deterministic finality every two epochs, roughly 12.8 minutes.
The Internet Computer: subnets of nodes run canister smart contracts and sign state with chain-key cryptography; ICP pays ledger fees and is converted into cycles for compute.
Ethereum
Trails15.8 min
Internet Computer
Leads0.95 s
Ethereum
Trails2.50 %
Internet Computer
Leads10.0 %
Nominal yield in the staked token, not real yield: a 19% APR on a token that inflates 12% a year is worth less than it looks, and price moves dominate both. MEV is included on Solana only and excluded on Ethereum. ICP is one neuron profile (2 year dissolve delay), Algorand one opt-in solo node, Ethereum one network average. Stellar and Somnia are not ranked, see the methodology.
Ethereum
Trails$0.00547
Internet Computer
Leads$0.000258
Ethereum
Leads$0.1017
Internet Computer
Trails$0.6728
Ethereum and Internet Computer are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Ethereum leads on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain. Internet Computer leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain benchmark, Ethereum leads at $0.1017 versus Internet Computer at $0.6728. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Internet Computer leads at 0.95 s versus Ethereum at 15.8 min. 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.
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