OpenChainBench

MeowRPC vs NOWNodes

Split decision: MeowRPC leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (269 ms vs 370 ms); NOWNodes leads on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (186 ms vs 264 ms).

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MeowRPC

Free public RPC service covering Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism and other EVM chains. No registration required, modest rate limits per IP.

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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

MeowRPC

Leads

269 ms

p99
548 ms
rank
#8
samples
8,635

NOWNodes

Trails

370 ms

p99
609 ms
rank
#11
samples
4,923

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderUS-EastEU-WestSingaporeAggregate
EthereumMeowRPC263 ms260 ms268 ms264 ms
NOWNodes185 ms185 ms188 ms186 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.

Frequently asked questions

MeowRPC vs NOWNodes: which one is better?

MeowRPC and NOWNodes are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. MeowRPC leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains. NOWNodes leads on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, MeowRPC or NOWNodes?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, MeowRPC leads at 269 ms versus NOWNodes at 370 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, MeowRPC or NOWNodes?

On the Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, NOWNodes leads at 186 ms versus MeowRPC at 264 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the MeowRPC 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.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.