CompareNodes

CompareNodes provides independent and transparent RPC benchmarking services for blockchain nodes and endpoints. Since May 2024 we have served private benchmarks for partners in the Decentralized Infrastructure Network (DIN) including Infura, Chainstack, Validation Cloud, Bware Labs, NorthWest Nodes, Liquify, InfStones, 0xFury, Artifact Systems, Grove, Nebula Block, BlockPI, Nodefleet and others. Starting in January 2025, our benchmarking-as-service is in general availability to everyone. Our default regions are North America, Europe and Asia. Other regions are also available upon request. RPC benchmarking-as-a-service is intended for RPC consumers like Dune Analytics as well as RPC “producers” such as Alchemy, QuickNode, GetBlock etc. RPC consumers can utilize our services to obtain normalized benchmarking results about multiple RPC sellers during vendor selection activities. For example, we can run multiple rounds of benchmarks on Ethereum mainnet up to 20,000 RPC/s or more, against Alchemy and QuickNode so that the data team at Dune can choose the best provider for Dune’s use case. Similarly, firms which sell RPC services can use our independent benchmarking results in their marketing and sales to demonstrate performance levels to potential customers. Our benchmarking stack is built on k6, Prometheus and Grafana. In the case of the EVM protocols, we use a suite of 24 scenarios which correspond to the most popular 24 RPC methods. A typical benchmark run will dispatch ~1 to 5 million RPC requests to process their responses for successes, failures and timeouts, their counts and latencies. Results are charted in Grafana dashboards and error logs are available for further analysis if necessary. Completed results are delivered for private viewing in Grafana dashboard(s). The buyer of the benchmark can also decide if they wish the results to be published on CompareNodes.com and/or on their site using