OpenChainBench

MeowRPC vs Tenderly Gateway

Tenderly Gateway leads on all 3 live benchmarks. Tenderly Gateway wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (122 ms vs 180 ms), Ethereum RPC endpoints (122 ms vs 165 ms), Arbitrum RPC endpoints (106 ms vs 195 ms). Data as of 2026-10-06 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h4 shared benchmarks, 3 measured on both sides
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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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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

MeowRPC

Trails

180 ms

p99
382 ms
rank
#9
samples
8,635

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

122 ms

p99
146 ms
rank
#4
samples
129,588

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderUS-EastEU-WestSingaporeAggregate
EthereumMeowRPC174 ms89 ms232 ms165 ms
Tenderly Gateway51 ms30 ms285 ms122 ms
ArbitrumMeowRPC204 ms116 ms263 ms195 ms
Tenderly Gateway28 ms27 ms263 ms106 ms
RPC latency
MeowRPCn/aTenderly Gatewayn/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.

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

RPCs

MeowRPC

Trails

83

p99
6
rank
#7
samples
166

Tenderly Gateway

No data in window

Reliability incidents
MeowRPCn/aTenderly Gatewayn/a

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.

Rolling 24h · Reliability incidentsRaw JSON

Frequently asked questions

MeowRPC vs Tenderly Gateway: which one is better?

MeowRPC and Tenderly Gateway are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Tenderly Gateway 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 Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Tenderly Gateway leads at 122 ms versus MeowRPC at 180 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the MeowRPC 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.

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