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Arbitrum Benchmark

Arbitrum is measured across 10 live OpenChainBench benchmarks: Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more (ranks #2 of 10, 259 ms p50), Fastest Hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery (ranks #3 of 13, 10.53 s p50), Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery (ranks #3 of 17, 32.32 s p50), Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (ranks #5 of 7, 252 ms p50).

10 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

  2. #2of 10

    Blockchains

    Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more

    Block time

    259 ms

    p50 · 24h

  3. #3of 13

    Bridges

    Fastest Hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery

    Hyperlane delivery

    10.53 s

    p50 · 24h

  4. #3of 17

    Bridges

    Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery

    LayerZero delivery

    32.32 s

    p50 · 24h

  5. #5of 7

    RPCs

    Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

    RPC latency

    252 ms

    p50 · 24h

  6. #7of 15

    Blockchains

    Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains

    Native transfer fee USD

    $0.000822

    p50 · 24h

  7. #7of 10

    Bridges

    Fastest Axelar GMP source chain by end-to-end delivery

    Axelar GMP delivery

    20.0 min

    p50 · 24h

  8. #8of 10

    Bridges

    Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency

    CCIP delivery

    19.0 min

    p50 · 24h

  9. #8of 12

    RPCs

    Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot)

    RPC latency

    #5 on Arbitrum

    252 ms

    p50 · 24h

  10. #12of 15

    Bridges

    Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency

    VAA finalization

    16.5 min

    p50 · 24h

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