Lava Network vs Tenderly Gateway

Lava Network leads on 1 of 4 shared benchmarks, Tenderly Gateway on 3. Lava Network wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (275 ms vs 307 ms). Tenderly Gateway wins on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (244 ms vs 367 ms), Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (239 ms vs 287 ms), Fastest free Sonic RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (329 ms vs 452 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:14:48 UTCWindow: rolling 24h5 shared benchmarks

Lava Network

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.

Tenderly Gateway

Tenderly's public gateway exposes a no-key JSON-RPC endpoint per chain at `gateway.tenderly.co/public/<slug>`. Covers Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Avalanche, Linea, Scroll and Mantle. The same Tenderly platform behind the keyed Web3 dev suite.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

Lava Network

Leads

275 ms

p99: 2.28 s
rank: #6
samples: 30,194

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

307 ms

p99: 385 ms
rank: #9
samples: 125,194

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	Lava Network	362 ms	373 ms	366 ms	367 ms
Ethereum	Tenderly Gateway	245 ms	244 ms	243 ms	244 ms
Arbitrum	Lava Network	289 ms	281 ms	292 ms	287 ms
Arbitrum	Tenderly Gateway	240 ms	239 ms	239 ms	239 ms

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

Trails

367 ms

p99: 2.53 s
rank: #6
samples: 4,315

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

244 ms

p99: 293 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,318

Per region

Region	Lava Network	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	363 ms	245 ms
EU-West	373 ms	244 ms
Singapore	364 ms	243 ms

Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Lava Network

Trails

287 ms

p99: 4.12 s
rank: #5
samples: 4,311

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

239 ms

p99: 274 ms
rank: #2
samples: 4,315

Per region

Region	Lava Network	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	290 ms	240 ms
EU-West	280 ms	239 ms
Singapore	291 ms	239 ms

Fastest free Sonic RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Lava Network

Trails

452 ms

p99: 2.65 s
rank: #5
samples: 4,311

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

329 ms

p99: 382 ms
rank: #4
samples: 4,314

Per region

Region	Lava Network	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	496 ms	329 ms
EU-West	431 ms	329 ms
Singapore	431 ms	328 ms

Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains

RPCs

Lava Network

Trails

p99: 122
rank: #1
samples: 166

Tenderly Gateway

No data in window

A zero row means no incident was caught in the window, not a proof of correctness. Most providers post zero most days; this bench exists for the days they do not, and for the errors: a blocked eth_getLogs or a balance read gated behind a paid key at 40 blocks of depth counts as an incident because it is one from the caller's seat.

Frequently asked questions

Lava Network vs Tenderly Gateway: which one is better?

Lava Network and Tenderly Gateway are compared on 5 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Lava Network leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains. Tenderly Gateway leads on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, Lava Network or Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Lava Network leads at 275 ms versus Tenderly Gateway at 307 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, Lava Network or Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, Tenderly Gateway leads at 244 ms versus Lava Network at 367 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Lava Network vs Tenderly Gateway 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.