Lava Network leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks, Polkachu on 0. Lava Network wins on Fastest free Cosmos Hub RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency (87 ms vs 197 ms).
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.
Community-run Cosmos validator and public RPC network. Operates no-key Tendermint RPC endpoints across 40+ Cosmos SDK chains (osmosis-rpc.polkachu.com, cosmos-rpc.polkachu.com, etc.) with archive support on a paid tier.
Lava Network
Leads87 ms
Polkachu
Trails197 ms
Per region
| Region | Lava Network | Polkachu |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 85 ms | 197 ms |
| EU-West | 88 ms | 198 ms |
| Singapore | 89 ms | 198 ms |
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.