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 (229 ms vs 307 ms), Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (195 ms vs 241 ms), Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (181 ms vs 234 ms). Tenderly Gateway wins on Fastest free Base RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (240 ms vs 268 ms), Fastest free Optimism RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (235 ms vs 273 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:21:15 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

229 ms

p99: 514 ms
rank: #5
samples: 25,860

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	Nodies	201 ms	186 ms	187 ms	192 ms
Ethereum	Tenderly Gateway	241 ms	240 ms	241 ms	241 ms
Arbitrum	Nodies	185 ms	180 ms	178 ms	181 ms
Arbitrum	Tenderly Gateway	234 ms	234 ms	234 ms	234 ms
Optimism	Nodies	276 ms	271 ms	270 ms	273 ms
Optimism	Tenderly Gateway	235 ms	234 ms	235 ms	235 ms
Base	Nodies	270 ms	266 ms	268 ms	268 ms
Base	Tenderly Gateway	240 ms	239 ms	240 ms	240 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

195 ms

p99: 527 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,320

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

241 ms

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

Per region

Region	Nodies	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	201 ms	241 ms
EU-West	186 ms	240 ms
Singapore	187 ms	241 ms

Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Nodies

Leads

181 ms

p99: 495 ms
rank: #2
samples: 4,314

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

234 ms

p99: 286 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,314

Per region

Region	Nodies	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	185 ms	234 ms
EU-West	180 ms	234 ms
Singapore	178 ms	234 ms

Fastest free Base RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Nodies

Trails

268 ms

p99: 448 ms
rank: #5
samples: 4,289

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

240 ms

p99: 473 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,300

Per region

Region	Nodies	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	270 ms	240 ms
EU-West	266 ms	239 ms
Singapore	268 ms	240 ms

Fastest free Optimism RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Nodies

Trails

273 ms

p99: 588 ms
rank: #4
samples: 4,325

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

235 ms

p99: 261 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,315

Per region

Region	Nodies	Tenderly Gateway
US-East	276 ms	235 ms
EU-West	271 ms	234 ms
Singapore	270 ms	235 ms

Fastest free Polygon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

Nodies

No data in window

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

326 ms

p99: 441 ms
rank: #3
samples: 4,277

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

RPCs

Nodies

Trails

164

p99: 0
rank: #6
samples: 504

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 229 ms versus Tenderly Gateway at 307 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 240 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.