NOWNodes leads on both live benchmarks. NOWNodes wins on LUKSO RPC endpoints (298 ms vs 564 ms), Cheapest RPC provider, priced per workload across 19 providers ($102.20 vs $171). Data as of 2026-10-25 UTC.
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.
ThirdWeb operates a keyless public RPC gateway at `<chainid>.rpc.thirdweb.com` covering 2000+ EVM chains via chain-id routing. Free tier is rate-limited per IP with no signup; paid tiers unlock higher throughput and dedicated endpoints. Used keyless across 13 chains on the RPC latency cluster (arbitrum, ethereum, polygon, optimism, base, bnb, avalanche, linea, worldchain, kaia, ink, opbnb + more).
NOWNodes
Leads298 ms
thirdweb
Trails564 ms
Per region
| Region | NOWNodes | thirdweb |
|---|---|---|
| US-East | 200 ms | 411 ms |
| EU-West | 89 ms | 555 ms |
| Singapore | 604 ms | 726 ms |
| Provider | Monthly cost, dapp mix at 10M requests | Effective cost per 1M requests | Billing units per request |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOWNodesprovisional | $102.20 | $10.22 | 1 |
| thirdwebprovisional | $171 | $17.10 | 1 |
Published prices, not invoices. Each figure is human-verified against the provider's own pricing page or API and carries the date it was read; the harness re-hashes 25 of those artifacts on a loop to catch an upstream edit. A 30-day month and flat traffic are assumed, the most generous reading. NOWNodes prices in EUR. A provider absent from a cell is not missing data: it has no plan that can serve that workload, usually a cap or a throughput ceiling rather than the price.
NOWNodes and thirdweb are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. NOWNodes leads on LUKSO RPC endpoints. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the LUKSO RPC endpoints benchmark, NOWNodes leads at 298 ms versus thirdweb at 564 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
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.
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.