MeowRPC vs Tenderly Gateway

MeowRPC leads on 1 of 3 shared benchmarks, Tenderly Gateway on 2. MeowRPC wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (278 ms vs 307 ms). Tenderly Gateway wins on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (241 ms vs 264 ms), Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (234 ms vs 292 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:57:15 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.

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

Leads

278 ms

p99: 723 ms
rank: #8
samples: 8,627

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

307 ms

p99: 385 ms
rank: #9
samples: 124,835

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	MeowRPC	276 ms	253 ms	263 ms	264 ms
Ethereum	Tenderly Gateway	241 ms	240 ms	241 ms	241 ms
Arbitrum	MeowRPC	297 ms	299 ms	276 ms	291 ms
Arbitrum	Tenderly Gateway	234 ms	234 ms	234 ms	234 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

264 ms

p99: 681 ms
rank: #5
samples: 4,316

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

241 ms

p99: 292 ms
rank: #4
samples: 4,300

Per region

Region	MeowRPC	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	276 ms	241 ms
EU-West	253 ms	240 ms
Singapore	263 ms	241 ms

Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

MeowRPC

Trails

292 ms

p99: 765 ms
rank: #6
samples: 4,311

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

234 ms

p99: 285 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,314

Per region

Region	MeowRPC	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	297 ms	234 ms
EU-West	299 ms	234 ms
Singapore	276 ms	234 ms

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

RPCs

MeowRPC

Trails

p99: 79
rank: #5
samples: 188

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

MeowRPC vs Tenderly Gateway: which one is better?

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

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, MeowRPC leads at 278 ms versus Tenderly Gateway at 307 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, MeowRPC or Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, Tenderly Gateway leads at 241 ms versus MeowRPC at 264 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.