OpenChainBench

Ethereum vs Solana

Solana leads on all 7 live benchmarks. Solana wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (8.3 s vs 15.9 min), Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation (0.017% vs 0.021%), Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains (4.94% vs 2.52%), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.000573 vs $0.0160). Data as of 2026-09-24 UTC.

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Ethereum logo
Ethereum

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

Solana logo
Solana

Proof-of-History sequencing combined with Tower BFT consensus. Probabilistic finality at 32 confirmed slots. Slot time around 400 milliseconds.

Side by side measurements

Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation

Trading

Ethereum

Trails

0.021 %

p99
0.064%
rank
#6
samples
11,520

Solana

Leads

0.017 %

p99
0.062%
rank
#3
samples
11,520
Max cross-oracle deviation
Ethereumn/aSolanan/a

Three caveats. (1) Lower is better, but a non-zero floor (~5-20 bps) is normal, ticker last-traded prices have micro-jitter and Chainlink updates only on deviation/heartbeat. (2) XRP, ADA, DOGE measured on 3 sources because Chainlink deprecated those USD feeds on Ethereum mainnet, tag flags it. (3) POL/USD is the post-migration symbol for MATIC; we point at POLUSDT (not the frozen legacy MATICUSDT).

Rolling 24h · Max cross-oracle deviationRaw JSON

Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains

Blockchains

Ethereum

Trails

2.52 %

rank
#5
samples
1provisional

Solana

Leads

4.94 %

p99
5.41%
rank
#3
samples
200
Net yield
Ethereumn/aSolanan/a

Honest scope. (1) `net_yield = gross_apr × uptime`. NOT "yield net of MEV", Stakewiz `total_apy` already folds Jito MEV into gross, MEV is INCLUDED. `mev_share_bps` exists for transparency, not subtraction. (2) Solana median is dragged by ~42 vals at 0% APY (commission 100% or zero leader slots). (3) Hyperliquid: centralised sequencer, no separate MEV layer, ~30 vals only. (4) Ethereum: one network-average consensus-layer APR from the beacon spec formula, execution tips and MEV excluded.

Frequently asked questions

Ethereum vs Solana: which one is better?

Ethereum and Solana are compared on 7 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Solana leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, Ethereum or Solana?

On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Solana leads at 8.3 s versus Ethereum at 15.9 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Ethereum vs Solana 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.