Ethereum vs Solana

Ethereum leads on 1 of 8 shared benchmarks, Solana on 7. Ethereum wins on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain ($0.0539 vs $0.5940). Solana wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (0.40 s vs 15.8 min), Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation (0.14% vs 0.15%), Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain (4.79% vs 2.50%), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.000446 vs $0.00238). Data as of 2026-11-08 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h9 shared benchmarks, 8 measured on both sides
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

0.15 %

p99
0.17%
rank
#10
samples
8,640

Solana

Leads

0.14 %

p99
0.17%
rank
#5
samples
8,640
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 net APR by proof-of-stake chain

Blockchains

Ethereum

Trails

2.50 %

rank
#11
samples
1provisional

Solana

Leads

4.79 %

p99
5.31%
rank
#5
samples
200
Net yield
Ethereumn/aSolanan/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.

Stablecoin flow by chain: where dollars actually moved over 30 days

Blockchains
Provider30d changeStablecoin floatNet 7d7d change
Ethereum-$135.72B--
Solana-$14.85B--
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Ethereumn/aSolanan/a

Stablecoin float is where dollars are parked, not what they do. A chain can take in a billion that sits idle, and lose float to a single issuer redeeming. The figure is DefiLlama's chain-wide pegged-USD aggregate, every issuer combined; it does not separate a bridge inflow from a native mint, and a dollar bridged to an L2 counts on both chains, so rows are not additive. Read the net dollars with the percentage beside them: the same $400M is a rounding error on Ethereum and a doubling elsewhere.

Latest value · Net stablecoin flow (30d)Raw JSON

Frequently asked questions

Ethereum vs Solana: which one is better?

Ethereum and Solana are compared on 9 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Ethereum leads on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain. 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 cheaper, Ethereum or Solana?

On the Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain benchmark, Ethereum leads at $0.0539 versus Solana at $0.5940. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, Ethereum or Solana?

On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Solana leads at 0.40 s versus Ethereum at 15.8 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

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