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 (305 ms vs 309 ms). Tenderly Gateway wins on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (243 ms vs 395 ms), Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (236 ms vs 261 ms), Fastest free Sonic RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (327 ms vs 519 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:57:45 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

305 ms

p99: 2.89 s
rank: #9
samples: 23,784

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

309 ms

p99: 387 ms
rank: #10
samples: 124,838

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	Lava Network	391 ms	399 ms	397 ms	396 ms
Ethereum	Tenderly Gateway	242 ms	243 ms	243 ms	243 ms
Arbitrum	Lava Network	264 ms	256 ms	262 ms	261 ms
Arbitrum	Tenderly Gateway	235 ms	238 ms	236 ms	236 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

395 ms

p99: 2.61 s
rank: #6
samples: 4,288

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

243 ms

p99: 295 ms
rank: #4
samples: 4,300

Per region

Region	Lava Network	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	391 ms	242 ms
EU-West	399 ms	243 ms
Singapore	398 ms	243 ms

Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Lava Network

Trails

261 ms

p99: 4.40 s
rank: #5
samples: 4,262

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

236 ms

p99: 295 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,314

Per region

Region	Lava Network	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	264 ms	235 ms
EU-West	256 ms	238 ms
Singapore	262 ms	236 ms

Fastest free Sonic RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Lava Network

Trails

519 ms

p99: 4.72 s
rank: #5
samples: 4,281

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

327 ms

p99: 389 ms
rank: #4
samples: 4,276

Per region

Region	Lava Network	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	501 ms	327 ms
EU-West	578 ms	328 ms
Singapore	477 ms	327 ms

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

RPCs

Lava Network

Trails

p99: 58
rank: #3
samples: 168

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 305 ms versus Tenderly Gateway at 309 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 243 ms versus Lava Network at 395 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.