Fastest free-tier keyed RPC. Alchemy, Infura, Chainstack, Ankr, Helius
RPCsHelius
Trails40 ms
- p99
- 101 ms
- rank
- #3
- samples
- 3,700
Quicknode
Leads3 ms
- p99
- 7 ms
- rank
- #1
- samples
- 7,187
Helius vs Quicknode
Helius leads on 0 of 1 shared benchmarks, Quicknode on 1. Quicknode wins on Fastest free-tier keyed RPC. Alchemy, Infura, Chainstack, Ankr, Helius (3 ms vs 40 ms).
Helius
Solana RPC and data provider. Enhanced transactions, webhooks, DAS API for assets, and standard JSON-RPC.
Quicknode
Keyed RPC infrastructure across 30+ chains. Endpoint-scoped API tokens; free and paid plans are served from the same shared fleet, dedicated clusters on higher tiers.
Side by side measurements
How this pair was selected
A pair is published when all four conditions hold. Both providers run in the same OpenChainBench benchmark for at least seven consecutive days. Each provider has at least 1000 samples in the measurement window. The head to head query has observable third party search demand. Both providers have a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo so the methodology is externally verifiable.