OpenChainBench

NOWNodes vs Tenderly Gateway

Split decision: NOWNodes leads on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (186 ms vs 247 ms); Tenderly Gateway leads on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (273 ms vs 370 ms).

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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.

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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

NOWNodes

Trails

370 ms

p99
609 ms
rank
#11
samples
4,863

Tenderly Gateway

Leads

273 ms

p99
300 ms
rank
#9
samples
125,090

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderUS-EastEU-WestSingaporeAggregate
EthereumNOWNodes185 ms185 ms188 ms186 ms
Tenderly Gateway247 ms248 ms246 ms247 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.

Frequently asked questions

NOWNodes vs Tenderly Gateway: which one is better?

NOWNodes and Tenderly Gateway are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. NOWNodes leads on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Tenderly Gateway 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 Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, NOWNodes leads at 186 ms versus Tenderly Gateway at 247 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, NOWNodes or Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, Tenderly Gateway leads at 273 ms versus NOWNodes at 370 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the NOWNodes 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.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.