
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
- #2of 10
Blockchains
Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more
Block time
259 ms
p50 · 24h
- #3of 13
Bridges
Fastest Hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery
Hyperlane delivery
10.53 s
p50 · 24h
- #3of 17
Bridges
Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery
LayerZero delivery
32.32 s
p50 · 24h
- #5of 7
RPCs
Fastest free Arbitrum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency
RPC latency
252 ms
p50 · 24h
- #7of 15
Blockchains
Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains
Native transfer fee USD
$0.000822
p50 · 24h
- #7of 10
Bridges
Fastest Axelar GMP source chain by end-to-end delivery
Axelar GMP delivery
20.0 min
p50 · 24h
- #8of 10
Bridges
Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency
CCIP delivery
19.0 min
p50 · 24h
- #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
- #12of 15
Bridges
Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency
VAA finalization
16.5 min
p50 · 24h
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