Nodies vs NOWNodes 2026: 2 live benchmarks compared

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

OpenChainBench

Nodies vs NOWNodes

Split decision: Nodies leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (156 ms vs 216 ms); NOWNodes leads on Ethereum RPC endpoints (130 ms vs 147 ms). Data as of 2026-10-25 UTC.

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

Nodies

Nodies is the surviving public-RPC frontend for POKT Network's decentralized infrastructure. Per-chain subdomains like `eth-pokt.nodies.app`, `polygon-pokt.nodies.app`, `arb-pokt.nodies.app`. Covers most major EVM chains no-key.

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

Nodies

Leads

156 ms

p99: 418 ms
rank: #7
samples: 17,275

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	Nodies	29 ms	119 ms	292 ms	147 ms
Ethereum	NOWNodes	132 ms	46 ms	211 ms	130 ms

RPC latency

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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

Nodies

Trails

147 ms

p99: 436 ms
rank: #5
samples: 4,319

NOWNodes

Leads

130 ms

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

Per region

Region	Nodies	NOWNodes
US-East	29 ms	132 ms
EU-West	119 ms	46 ms
Singapore	292 ms	211 ms

RPC latency

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Frequently asked questions

Nodies vs NOWNodes: which one is better?

Nodies and NOWNodes are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Nodies 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, Nodies or NOWNodes?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Nodies leads at 156 ms versus NOWNodes at 216 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Nodies 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.