Flashbots Protect vs Tenderly Gateway

Tenderly Gateway leads on the only live benchmark. Tenderly Gateway wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (270 ms vs 728 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:43:48 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.

Tenderly Gateway

Tenderly's public gateway exposes a no-key JSON-RPC endpoint per chain at `gateway.tenderly.co/public/<slug>`. Covers Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Avalanche, Linea, Scroll and Mantle. The same Tenderly platform behind the keyed Web3 dev suite.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

Flashbots Protect

Trails

728 ms

p99: 1.06 s
rank: #12
samples: 4,322

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

270 ms

p99: 304 ms
rank: #8
samples: 125,240

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	Flashbots Protect	728 ms	728 ms	728 ms	728 ms
Ethereum	Tenderly Gateway	245 ms	244 ms	243 ms	244 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

Tenderly Gateway

No data in window

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 Tenderly Gateway: which one is better?

Flashbots Protect and Tenderly Gateway are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Tenderly Gateway 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 Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Tenderly Gateway leads at 270 ms versus Flashbots Protect at 728 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Flashbots Protect vs Tenderly Gateway 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.