MeowRPC vs NOWNodes 2026: 2 live benchmarks compared

Name: MeowRPC vs NOWNodes OpenChainBench measurements
Creator: OpenChainBench
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

OpenChainBench

MeowRPC vs NOWNodes

Split decision: MeowRPC leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (204 ms vs 216 ms); NOWNodes leads on Ethereum RPC endpoints (130 ms vs 208 ms). Data as of 2026-10-25 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:55:50 UTCWindow: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks

MeowRPC

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

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

Headline: All chains

MeowRPC

Leads

204 ms

p99: 536 ms
rank: #9
samples: 8,638

NOWNodes

Trails

216 ms

p99: 548 ms
rank: #11
samples: 17,270

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	MeowRPC	266 ms	101 ms	257 ms	208 ms
Ethereum	NOWNodes	132 ms	46 ms	211 ms	130 ms

RPC latency

MeowRPCn/aNOWNodesn/a

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.

Ethereum RPC endpoints: free public URLs and private API-key providers by latency

RPCs

MeowRPC

Trails

208 ms

p99: 612 ms
rank: #6
samples: 4,317

NOWNodes

Leads

130 ms

p99: 422 ms
rank: #4
samples: 4,314

Per region

Region	MeowRPC	NOWNodes
US-East	266 ms	132 ms
EU-West	102 ms	46 ms
Singapore	256 ms	211 ms

RPC latency

MeowRPCn/aNOWNodesn/a

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 Ethereum RPC endpoints. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster on rpc latency, MeowRPC or NOWNodes?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, MeowRPC leads at 204 ms versus NOWNodes at 216 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.