Nodies vs Tenderly Gateway

Nodies leads on 3 of 5 shared benchmarks, Tenderly Gateway on 2. Nodies wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (226 ms vs 312 ms), Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (187 ms vs 245 ms), Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (178 ms vs 240 ms). Tenderly Gateway wins on Fastest free Base RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (245 ms vs 268 ms), Fastest free Optimism RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (241 ms vs 271 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:40:39 UTCWindow: rolling 24h7 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.

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

Nodies

Leads

226 ms

p99: 394 ms
rank: #5
samples: 25,904

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

312 ms

p99: 413 ms
rank: #10
samples: 125,161

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	Nodies	185 ms	186 ms	189 ms	187 ms
Ethereum	Tenderly Gateway	245 ms	246 ms	244 ms	245 ms
Arbitrum	Nodies	178 ms	178 ms	179 ms	178 ms
Arbitrum	Tenderly Gateway	240 ms	240 ms	240 ms	240 ms
Optimism	Nodies	271 ms	272 ms	270 ms	271 ms
Optimism	Tenderly Gateway	241 ms	241 ms	240 ms	241 ms
Base	Nodies	267 ms	269 ms	268 ms	268 ms
Base	Tenderly Gateway	246 ms	246 ms	244 ms	245 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

Nodies

Leads

187 ms

p99: 398 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,318

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

245 ms

p99: 310 ms
rank: #4
samples: 4,316

Per region

Region	Nodies	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	185 ms	245 ms
EU-West	186 ms	246 ms
Singapore	189 ms	244 ms

Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Nodies

Leads

178 ms

p99: 332 ms
rank: #2
samples: 4,317

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

240 ms

p99: 314 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,318

Per region

Region	Nodies	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	178 ms	240 ms
EU-West	178 ms	240 ms
Singapore	179 ms	240 ms

Fastest free Base RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Nodies

Trails

268 ms

p99: 415 ms
rank: #5
samples: 4,316

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

245 ms

p99: 475 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,316

Per region

Region	Nodies	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	267 ms	246 ms
EU-West	269 ms	246 ms
Singapore	268 ms	244 ms

Fastest free Optimism RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Nodies

Trails

271 ms

p99: 432 ms
rank: #4
samples: 4,318

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

241 ms

p99: 275 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,318

Per region

Region	Nodies	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	271 ms	241 ms
EU-West	272 ms	241 ms
Singapore	270 ms	240 ms

Fastest free Polygon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Nodies

No data in window

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

332 ms

p99: 857 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,311

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

RPCs

Nodies

Trails

162

p99: 0.250
rank: #4
samples: 496

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

Nodies vs Tenderly Gateway: which one is better?

Nodies and Tenderly Gateway are compared on 7 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Nodies leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains. Tenderly Gateway leads on Fastest free Base RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, Nodies or Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Nodies leads at 226 ms versus Tenderly Gateway at 312 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, Nodies or Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free Base RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, Tenderly Gateway leads at 245 ms versus Nodies at 268 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Nodies 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.