OpenChainBench

PublicNode vs Tenderly Gateway

PublicNode leads on all 20 live benchmarks. PublicNode wins on Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (196 ms vs 312 ms), Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (101 ms vs 245 ms), Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (90 ms vs 240 ms), Fastest free Base RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (142 ms vs 246 ms).

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h22 shared benchmarks
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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.

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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

PublicNode

Leads

196 ms

p99
846 ms
rank
#3
samples
267,574

Tenderly Gateway

Trails

312 ms

p99
411 ms
rank
#10
samples
125,153

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderUS-EastEU-WestSingaporeAggregate
EthereumPublicNode99 ms102 ms101 ms101 ms
Tenderly Gateway245 ms246 ms244 ms245 ms
PolygonPublicNode96 ms92 ms92 ms93 ms
Tenderly Gateway333 ms332 ms332 ms332 ms
ArbitrumPublicNode91 ms86 ms92 ms90 ms
Tenderly Gateway240 ms241 ms240 ms240 ms
OptimismPublicNode84 ms91 ms90 ms88 ms
Tenderly Gateway241 ms241 ms240 ms241 ms
BasePublicNode142 ms142 ms142 ms142 ms
Tenderly Gateway246 ms247 ms244 ms246 ms
AvalanchePublicNode91 ms97 ms87 ms92 ms
Tenderly Gateway331 ms331 ms330 ms331 ms
LineaPublicNode81 ms83 ms90 ms85 ms
Tenderly Gateway328 ms328 ms328 ms328 ms
ScrollPublicNode94 ms89 ms97 ms93 ms
Tenderly Gateway329 ms329 ms328 ms329 ms
MantlePublicNode84 ms81 ms83 ms83 ms
Tenderly Gateway332 ms331 ms330 ms331 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.

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

RPCs

PublicNode

Trails

46

p99
52.5K
rank
#2
samples
576

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.

Rolling 24h · Reliability incidentsRaw JSON

Frequently asked questions

PublicNode vs Tenderly Gateway: which one is better?

PublicNode and Tenderly Gateway are compared on 22 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, PublicNode or Tenderly Gateway?

On the Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains benchmark, PublicNode leads at 196 ms versus Tenderly Gateway at 312 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the PublicNode 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.