OpenChainBench

Flashbots Protect vs MeowRPC

Split decision: Flashbots Protect leads on Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains (63 vs 83); MeowRPC leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (269 ms vs 705 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks
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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.

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MeowRPC

Free public RPC service covering Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism and other EVM chains. No registration required, modest rate limits per IP.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

Flashbots Protect

Trails

705 ms

p99
1.06 s
rank
#11
samples
4,319

MeowRPC

Leads

269 ms

p99
510 ms
rank
#8
samples
8,635

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderUS-EastEU-WestSingaporeAggregate
EthereumFlashbots Protect699 ms687 ms728 ms705 ms
MeowRPC268 ms259 ms263 ms263 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

Leads

63

rank
—
samples
82provisional

MeowRPC

Trails

83

p99
24
rank
—
samples
164

Per chain

ChainFlashbots ProtectMeowRPC
Ethereum6341

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.

Rolling 24h · Reliability incidentsRaw JSON

Frequently asked questions

Flashbots Protect vs MeowRPC: which one is better?

Flashbots Protect and MeowRPC are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Flashbots Protect leads on Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains. MeowRPC 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 MeowRPC?

On the Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains benchmark, Flashbots Protect leads at 63 (provisional) versus MeowRPC at 83. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, Flashbots Protect or MeowRPC?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, MeowRPC leads at 269 ms versus Flashbots Protect at 705 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Flashbots Protect vs MeowRPC 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.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.