Flashbots Protect vs PublicNode 2026: 2 live benchmarks compared

Name: Flashbots Protect vs PublicNode OpenChainBench measurements
Creator: OpenChainBench
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

OpenChainBench

Flashbots Protect vs PublicNode

Split decision: Flashbots Protect leads on Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains (50 vs 51); PublicNode leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (124 ms vs 345 ms). Data as of 2026-10-05 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:01:50 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.

PublicNode

Public no-key RPC service operated by Allnodes covering 70+ chains. JSON-RPC and WebSocket endpoints with archive support on most networks.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

Flashbots Protect

Trails

345 ms

p99: 494 ms
rank: #12
samples: 4,325

PublicNode

Leads

124 ms

p99: 330 ms
rank: #4
samples: 297,666

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	Flashbots Protect	59 ms	298 ms	675 ms	344 ms
Ethereum	PublicNode	18 ms	26 ms	181 ms	75 ms

RPC latency

Flashbots Protectn/aPublicNoden/a

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

rank: —
samples: 88provisional

PublicNode

Trails

p99: 3
rank: #6
samples: 576

Reliability incidents

Flashbots Protectn/aPublicNoden/a

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 PublicNode: which one is better?

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

On the Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains benchmark, Flashbots Protect leads at 50 (provisional) versus PublicNode at 51. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster on rpc latency, Flashbots Protect or PublicNode?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, PublicNode leads at 124 ms versus Flashbots Protect at 345 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Flashbots Protect vs PublicNode 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.