Sonic Labs leads on the only live benchmark. Sonic Labs wins on Fastest free Sonic RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (245 ms vs 498 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.
Lava Network
Trails498 ms
Sonic Labs
Leads245 ms
Per region
| Region | Lava Network | Sonic Labs |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 484 ms | 256 ms |
| EU-West | 505 ms | 249 ms |
| Singapore | 499 ms | 230 ms |
Lava Network and Sonic Labs are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Sonic Labs leads on Fastest free Sonic RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Fastest free Sonic RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, Sonic Labs leads at 245 ms versus Lava Network at 498 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
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.
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.
