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Base is measured across 10 live OpenChainBench benchmarks: Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains (ranks #2 of 15, $0.000247 p50), Fastest free Base RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (ranks #4 of 5, 248 ms p50), Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more (ranks #5 of 10, 1.94 s p50), Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot) (ranks #6 of 12, 248 ms p50).

10 benchmarks

Related Base products: base-official

Coinbase-operated optimistic rollup on the OP Stack. 2-second sequencer block time, shared bridge with Optimism via the OP Superchain, fastest-growing L2 by TVL since 2024.

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 15

    Blockchains

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

    Native transfer fee USD

    $0.000247

    p50 · 24h

  3. #4of 5

    RPCs

    Fastest free Base RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

    RPC latency

    248 ms

    p50 · 24h

  4. #5of 10

    Blockchains

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

    Block time

    1.94 s

    p50 · 24h

  5. #6of 12

    RPCs

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

    RPC latency

    #4 on Base

    248 ms

    p50 · 24h

  6. #8of 10

    Bridges

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

    Axelar GMP delivery

    25.2 min

    p50 · 24h

  7. #9of 10

    Bridges

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

    CCIP delivery

    24.8 min

    p50 · 24h

  8. #10of 13

    Bridges

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

    Hyperlane delivery

    23.43 s

    p50 · 24h

  9. #12of 17

    Bridges

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

    LayerZero delivery

    1.2 min

    p50 · 24h

  10. #14of 15

    Bridges

    Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency

    VAA finalization

    20.4 min

    p50 · 24h

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