NOWNodes vs PublicNode

PublicNode leads on all 5 live benchmarks. PublicNode wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (158 ms vs 370 ms), Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (87 ms vs 186 ms), Fastest free BNB Chain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (85 ms vs 238 ms), Fastest free Coreum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (115 ms vs 220 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:36:03 UTCWindow: rolling 24h5 shared benchmarks

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.

PublicNode

Public no-key RPC service operated by Allnodes covering 70+ chains. JSON-RPC and WebSocket endpoints with archive support on most networks.

Side by side measurements

Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot)

RPCs

NOWNodes

Trails

370 ms

p99: 609 ms
rank: #11
samples: 4,953

PublicNode

Leads

158 ms

p99: 545 ms
rank: #2
samples: 294,041

Per chain · per region

Chain	Provider	US-East	EU-West	Singapore	Aggregate
Ethereum	NOWNodes	185 ms	185 ms	188 ms	186 ms
Ethereum	PublicNode	94 ms	84 ms	85 ms	87 ms
BNB Chain	NOWNodes	237 ms	240 ms	236 ms	238 ms
BNB Chain	PublicNode	83 ms	86 ms	87 ms	85 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

NOWNodes

Trails

186 ms

p99: 366 ms
rank: #3
samples: 1,465

PublicNode

Leads

87 ms

p99: 332 ms
rank: #2
samples: 4,315

Per region

Region	NOWNodes	PublicNode
US-East	185 ms	94 ms
EU-West	185 ms	84 ms
Singapore	188 ms	85 ms

Fastest free BNB Chain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

NOWNodes

Trails

238 ms

p99: 636 ms
rank: #3
samples: 1,470

PublicNode

Leads

85 ms

p99: 402 ms
rank: #2
samples: 4,312

Per region

Region	NOWNodes	PublicNode
US-East	237 ms	83 ms
EU-West	240 ms	86 ms
Singapore	236 ms	87 ms

Fastest free Coreum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

NOWNodes

Trails

220 ms

p99: 377 ms
rank: #2
samples: 664

PublicNode

Leads

115 ms

p99: 712 ms
rank: #1
samples: 4,316

Per region

Region	NOWNodes	PublicNode
US-East	219 ms	100 ms
EU-West	219 ms	117 ms
Singapore	224 ms	125 ms

Fastest free Bitcoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

RPCs

NOWNodes

Trails

614 ms

p99: 913 ms
rank: #3
samples: 675

PublicNode

Leads

78 ms

p99: 170 ms
rank: #1
samples: 673

Per region

Region	NOWNodes	PublicNode
US-East	619 ms	77 ms
EU-West	606 ms	78 ms
Singapore	620 ms	79 ms

Frequently asked questions

NOWNodes vs PublicNode: which one is better?

NOWNodes and PublicNode are compared on 5 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. PublicNode 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, NOWNodes or PublicNode?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, PublicNode leads at 158 ms versus NOWNodes at 370 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the NOWNodes vs PublicNode 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.