FastNEAR leads on the only live benchmark. FastNEAR wins on Fastest free NEAR RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (23 ms vs 282 ms).
FastNEAR is a high-performance NEAR Protocol RPC service offering a free public tier at free.rpc.fastnear.com, no API key required.
Lava Network is a decentralized RPC mesh with permissionless validators. Public no-key endpoints work for Ethereum (`eth1.lava.build`) and Arbitrum (`arb1.lava.build`); other chains require an account-issued key.
FastNEAR
Leads23 ms
Lava Network
Trails282 ms
Per region
| Region | FastNEAR | Lava Network |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 22 ms | 282 ms |
| EU-West | 23 ms | 286 ms |
| Singapore | 23 ms | 279 ms |
FastNEAR and Lava Network are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. FastNEAR leads on Fastest free NEAR RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Fastest free NEAR RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, FastNEAR leads at 23 ms versus Lava Network at 282 ms. 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.
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.