Lava Network vs NOWNodes

Lava Network vs NOWNodes on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks, awaiting live measurements.

Read methodology Last measured Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:36:03 UTCWindow: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks

Lava Network is a decentralized RPC mesh with permissionless validators. Public no-key endpoints work for Ethereum (`eth1.lava.build`) and Arbitrum (`arb1.lava.build`); other chains require an account-issued key.

NOWNodes

Multi-chain node provider covering 110+ blockchains. Key-based REST and WebSocket RPC plus block explorers, with keyless public endpoints on a handful of chains (Ethereum, BNB, Bitcoin) rate-limited to 5 requests per second.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

Lava Network

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NOWNodes

Trails

370 ms

p99: 609 ms
rank: #11
samples: 4,953

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.

Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Lava Network

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NOWNodes

Trails

186 ms

p99: 366 ms
rank: #3
samples: 1,465

Frequently asked questions

Lava Network vs NOWNodes: which one is better?

Lava Network and NOWNodes are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. See the live table on this page for every metric.

How is the Lava Network vs NOWNodes 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.