Flashbots Protect vs Lava Network

Lava Network leads on both live benchmarks. Lava Network wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (277 ms vs 707 ms), Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains (1 vs 84).

Read methodology Last measured Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:09:18 UTCWindow: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks

Flashbots Protect

Flashbots Protect RPC sends transactions through a private mempool, shielding them from sandwich attacks. Read calls go to a standard Ethereum node behind the proxy.

Lava Network

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.

Side by side measurements

Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot)

RPCs

Flashbots Protect

Trails

707 ms

p99: 1.02 s
rank: #12
samples: 4,318

Lava Network

Leads

277 ms

p99: 2.33 s
rank: #7
samples: 30,193

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	Flashbots Protect	726 ms	724 ms	672 ms	707 ms
Ethereum	Lava Network	361 ms	374 ms	359 ms	366 ms

Latency is conditional on success: the harness times only calls returning a valid fresh block, so a mostly-failing endpoint can post a fast p50. Rows below 50 percent success are degraded; unresponsive probes pin below the table. The All chains aggregate favours single-chain foundation endpoints (Base, Binance, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche officials) since they rank on one chain only; use a chain tab for honest comparison. Dead endpoints (cloudflare-eth POST returns -32603) are excluded.

Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains

RPCs

Flashbots Protect

Trails

rank: —
samples: 84provisional

Lava Network

Leads

p99: 129
rank: #1
samples: 168

Per chain

Chain	Flashbots Protect	Lava Network
Ethereum	84	1

A zero row means no incident was caught in the window, not a proof of correctness. Most providers post zero most days; this bench exists for the days they do not, and for the errors: a blocked eth_getLogs or a balance read gated behind a paid key at 40 blocks of depth counts as an incident because it is one from the caller's seat.

Frequently asked questions

Flashbots Protect vs Lava Network: which one is better?

Flashbots Protect and Lava Network are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Lava Network leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, Flashbots Protect or Lava Network?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Lava Network leads at 277 ms versus Flashbots Protect at 707 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Flashbots Protect vs Lava Network 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.

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.