MeowRPC vs PublicNode

PublicNode leads on all 4 live benchmarks. PublicNode wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (215 ms vs 276 ms), Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (133 ms vs 263 ms), Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (90 ms vs 289 ms), Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains (85 vs 93).

Read methodology Last measured Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:58:45 UTCWindow: rolling 24h4 shared benchmarks

MeowRPC

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

PublicNode

Public no-key RPC service operated by Allnodes covering 70+ chains. JSON-RPC and WebSocket endpoints with archive support on most networks.

Side by side measurements

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

RPCs

MeowRPC

Trails

276 ms

p99: 670 ms
rank: #8
samples: 8,626

PublicNode

Leads

215 ms

p99: 1.20 s
rank: #3
samples: 270,671

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	MeowRPC	274 ms	253 ms	262 ms	263 ms
Ethereum	PublicNode	109 ms	143 ms	146 ms	133 ms
Arbitrum	MeowRPC	294 ms	294 ms	277 ms	288 ms
Arbitrum	PublicNode	93 ms	88 ms	89 ms	90 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

MeowRPC

Trails

263 ms

p99: 654 ms
rank: #5
samples: 4,315

PublicNode

Leads

133 ms

p99: 6.45 s
rank: #2
samples: 4,300

Per region

Region	MeowRPC	PublicNode
US-East	274 ms	109 ms
EU-West	253 ms	143 ms
Singapore	262 ms	146 ms

Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

MeowRPC

Trails

289 ms

p99: 684 ms
rank: #6
samples: 4,311

PublicNode

Leads

90 ms

p99: 713 ms
rank: #1
samples: 4,295

Per region

Region	MeowRPC	PublicNode
US-East	294 ms	93 ms
EU-West	293 ms	88 ms
Singapore	277 ms	89 ms

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

RPCs

MeowRPC

Trails

p99: 79
rank: #5
samples: 186

PublicNode

Leads

p99: 54.0K
rank: #4
samples: 574

Per chain

Chain	MeowRPC	PublicNode
Ethereum	51	5
Arbitrum	43	4

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

MeowRPC vs PublicNode: which one is better?

MeowRPC and PublicNode are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. PublicNode leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, MeowRPC or PublicNode?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, PublicNode leads at 215 ms versus MeowRPC at 276 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the MeowRPC vs PublicNode 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.