OpenChainBench

Ethereum vs NEAR

Ethereum leads on 1 of 4 shared benchmarks, NEAR on 3. Ethereum wins on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain ($0.1006 vs $7.87). NEAR wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (1.1 s vs 15.8 min), Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain (5.18% vs 2.50%), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.000157 vs $0.00533). Data as of 2026-11-14 UTC.

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Ethereum

PoS chain using Gasper (Casper FFG plus LMD-GHOST). 12-second slots with deterministic finality every two epochs, roughly 12.8 minutes.

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NEAR

Sharded proof-of-stake L1 (Nightshade) with roughly one-second blocks; a block is final once a supermajority of stake has endorsed its successors.

Side by side measurements

Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain

Blockchains

Ethereum

Trails

2.50 %

rank
#11
samples
1provisional

NEAR

Leads

5.18 %

p99
5.57%
rank
#4
samples
200
Net yield
Ethereumn/aNEARn/a

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.

Frequently asked questions

Ethereum vs NEAR: which one is better?

Ethereum and NEAR are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Ethereum leads on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain. NEAR leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is cheaper, Ethereum or NEAR?

On the Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain benchmark, Ethereum leads at $0.1006 versus NEAR at $7.87. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, Ethereum or NEAR?

On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, NEAR leads at 1.1 s versus Ethereum at 15.8 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Ethereum vs NEAR 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.

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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.