Parity vs PublicNode

PublicNode leads on the only live benchmark. PublicNode wins on Fastest free Polkadot RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (104 ms vs 177 ms).

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Parity

Parity Technologies is the primary implementation shop behind Polkadot and Substrate, and the operator of the reference public relay RPC at rpc.polkadot.io. Also builds the Polkadot-JS Apps UI, Kusama tooling, and enterprise Substrate deployments.

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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

Frequently asked questions

Parity vs PublicNode: which one is better?

Parity and PublicNode are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. PublicNode leads on Fastest free Polkadot RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, Parity or PublicNode?

On the Fastest free Polkadot RPC, live no-key endpoint latency benchmark, PublicNode leads at 104 ms versus Parity at 177 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Parity 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.

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