
Arbitrum Benchmark
Arbitrum is measured across 9 live OpenChainBench benchmarks: Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more (ranks #2 of 10, 334 ms p50), Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery (ranks #2 of 17, 27.76 s p50), Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (ranks #5 of 6, 260 ms p50), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains (ranks #6 of 13, $0.00104 p50).
9 benchmarks
Related Arbitrum products: arbitrum-official
Optimistic rollup built on Nitro stack with a fast-finality sequencer. Sub-second block times (~250 ms) via a 250 ms default block interval, far below the 2 s OP Stack convention. 7-day fraud-proof window for L1 finality.
Last measured
Live benchmark results
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RPCs
Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains
Reliability incidents
data warming up
- #2of 10
Blockchains
Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more
Block time
334 ms
p50 · 24h
- #2of 17
Bridges
Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery
LayerZero delivery
27.76 s
p50 · 24h
- #5of 6
RPCs
Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency
RPC latency
260 ms
p50 · 24h
- #6of 13
Blockchains
Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains
Native transfer fee USD
$0.00104
p50 · 24h
- #6of 9
Bridges
Fastest Axelar GMP source chain by end-to-end delivery
Axelar GMP delivery
19.4 min
p50 · 24h
- #7of 12
RPCs
Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot)
RPC latency
#4 on Arbitrum
260 ms
p50 · 24h
- #8of 13
Bridges
Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency
CCIP delivery
17.5 min
p50 · 24h
- #10of 12
Bridges
Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency
VAA finalization
16.6 min
p50 · 24h
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