OpenChainBench

Internet Computer vs NEAR

Internet Computer leads on 3 of 4 shared benchmarks, NEAR on 1. Internet Computer wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (0.93 s vs 1.1 s), Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain (10.0% vs 5.17%), Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain ($0.6725 vs $7.49). NEAR wins on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.000149 vs $0.000239). Data as of 2026-11-14 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h4 shared benchmarks
Internet Computer logo
Internet Computer

The Internet Computer: subnets of nodes run canister smart contracts and sign state with chain-key cryptography; ICP pays ledger fees and is converted into cycles for compute.

NEAR logo
NEAR

Sharded proof-of-stake L1 (Nightshade) with roughly one-second blocks; a block is final once a supermajority of stake has endorsed its successors.

Side by side measurements

Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain

Blockchains

Internet Computer

Leads

10.0 %

rank
#3
samples
1provisional

NEAR

Trails

5.17 %

p99
5.56%
rank
#4
samples
200
Net yield
Internet Computern/aNEARn/a

Nominal yield in the staked token, not real yield: a 19% APR on a token that inflates 12% a year is worth less than it looks, and price moves dominate both. MEV is included on Solana only and excluded on Ethereum. ICP is one neuron profile (2 year dissolve delay), Algorand one opt-in solo node, Ethereum one network average. Stellar and Somnia are not ranked, see the methodology.

Frequently asked questions

Internet Computer vs NEAR: which one is better?

Internet Computer and NEAR are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Internet Computer leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. NEAR leads on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, Internet Computer or NEAR?

On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Internet Computer leads at 0.93 s versus NEAR at 1.1 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is cheaper, Internet Computer or NEAR?

On the Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains benchmark, NEAR leads at $0.000149 versus Internet Computer at $0.000239. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Internet Computer vs NEAR 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.