The Best Public RPC Endpoint on Fantom Mainnet?

The goal of our analysis is to determine the best public RPC endpoint on Fantom mainnet for each continent as well as the best overall, globally. According to our infrastructure directory for Fantom, there are at least 13 public endpoints for the mainnet on February 4, 2024 (list).

We are using our own (rpc) Performance Inspector which is a public web application. RPC providers change/expand their infrastructure and locations all the time which is why it might be useful for you to repeat test steps at your convenience here.

Please note that this performance comparison is not benchmarking. It would not make sense to use flood, chainbench (by Chainstack), k6 or another stress test / benchmarking tool for at least these reasons:

The endpoints are being used by the public and suffocating them with requests might degrade the experience for other unsuspecting users;
In most cases, the providers limit inbound traffic to public endpoints based on IP address and we would probably hit http429 errors very quickly.

Our Methodology

We believe in WAGMI to mean the entire world. Therefore, we send simultaneous RPC requests from 27 locations on 6 continents. Our “probes” are in AWS and not “in” your laptop browser.
For this analysis we configured the inspector to use the eth_blockNumber method and you can choose to use eth_getBalance instead.
Another setting for our runs was the limit to “not more than 1 request per region per second” whereas the alternative is to let each probe run as fast as it gets the previous response.
You can create an account with other providers like Infura, Alchemy, QuickNode and use their private endpoints to perform a similar analysis. We omitted providers without public endpoints but you can include them. We don’t record endpoints and our results contain just the domain names of the URLs which were included in the runs.
Since there were 13 providers and our inspector form accepts two at a time, we did 7 runs and combined their results for complete rankings. Although each run is for 2 providers, their computations are independent as each utilizes a separate instance of our RPC probe. See this Google Sheet or view “raw” individual results on the bottom of the page.
Each pair of providers was run for 30 seconds and should have been measured for 30 requests from each region for a total of 810 measures. Requests are dispatched sequentially, one at a time. Latency duration is the sum of timings of milliseconds from the moment the request is sent until a success response gets back to us. Btw, we do a warmup request in each region which is omitted from the results.
Additional info is in the FAQ on the bottom of the RPC Performance Inspector control form.

Eliminated Endpoints

POKT Network endpoint errored out twice in a row from Frankfurt (2nd time).
OnFinality is the only provider to have triggered http429 and did so from each of the 27 regions.
OMNIA Protocol had 15 errors out of 810 requests like “Error (504) on request no.2: {"error":{"message":"Connection timeout","code":504}}“. You can read the error responses in the results pages (we capture up to 4 errors from each location for debugging purposes).

The Top 10 Public Endpoints on Fantom Mainnet

Overall / Global Ranking

(27 AWS regions on February 4, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	thirdweb	82.41	0	0	810	66,751
2	Blast API	86.18	0	0	810	69,807
3	Ankr	98.66	0	0	810	79,911
4	BlockPI Network	101.35	0	0	810	82,096
5	Nodies	133.14	0	0	810	107,841
6	Gateway.fm	135.19	0	0	810	109,507
7	Fantom Foundation	141.54	0	0	810	114,650
8	Allnodes	163.70	0	0	810	132,598
9	1RPC	204.58	0	0	810	165,709
10	DRPC	333.01	0	0	810	269,738

Best Public Endpoints on Fantom Mainnet for North America

(5 AWS regions on February 4, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	Nodies	57.74	0	0	150	8,661
2	Blast API	63.57	0	0	150	9,535
3	thirdweb	73.91	0	0	150	11,086
4	Ankr	74.21	0	0	150	11,131
5	BlockPI Network	76.22	0	0	150	11,433
6	Allnodes	84.65	0	0	150	12,698
7	Fantom Foundation	123.91	0	0	150	18,586
8	Gateway.fm	130.65	0	0	150	19,598
9	1RPC	133.45	0	0	150	20,017
10	DRPC	283.66	0	0	150	42,549

Best Public Endpoints on Fantom Mainnet for South America

(1 AWS region on February 4, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	thirdweb	100.40	0	0	30	3,012
2	Nodies	125.40	0	0	30	3,762
3	Blast API	133.53	0	0	30	4,006
4	Allnodes	148.87	0	0	30	4,466
5	Ankr	149.83	0	0	30	4,495
6	BlockPI Network	190.10	0	0	30	5,703
7	Gateway.fm	200.17	0	0	30	6,005
8	Fantom Foundation	208.87	0	0	30	6,266
9	1RPC	267.90	0	0	30	8,037
10	DRPC	423.73	0	0	30	12,712

Best Public Endpoints on Fantom Mainnet for Europe

(8 AWS regions on February 4, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	Fantom Foundation	19.73	0	0	240	4,736
2	Gateway.fm	29.42	0	0	240	7,060
3	Nodies	40.58	0	0	240	9,739
4	Allnodes	66.15	0	0	240	15,876
5	BlockPI Network	68.93	0	0	240	16,544
6	Blast API	69.24	0	0	240	16,618
7	thirdweb	89.20	0	0	240	21,408
8	Ankr	108.52	0	0	240	26,045
9	DRPC	265.41	0	0	240	63,699
10	1RPC	272.53	0	0	240	65,407

Best Public Endpoints on Fantom Mainnet for the Middle East and Africa

(3 AWS regions on February 4, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	Fantom Foundation	121.07	0	0	90	10,896
2	Gateway.fm	130.43	0	0	90	11,739
3	thirdweb	138.48	0	0	90	12,463
4	Nodies	143.21	0	0	90	12,889
5	Blast API	169.98	0	0	90	15,298
6	BlockPI Network	173.26	0	0	90	15,593
7	Allnodes	175.41	0	0	90	15,787
8	Ankr	176.37	0	0	90	15,873
9	1RPC	351.17	0	0	90	31,605
10	DRPC	386.39	0	0	90	34,775

Best Public Endpoints on Fantom Mainnet for Asia

(8 AWS regions on February 4, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	thirdweb	62.34	0	0	240	14,962
2	Ankr	71.71	0	0	240	17,211
3	Blast API	72.37	0	0	240	17,369
4	BlockPI Network	92.29	0	0	240	22,149
5	1RPC	136.04	0	0	240	32,649
6	Gateway.fm	195.88	0	0	240	47,012
7	Nodies	233.94	0	0	240	56,146
8	Fantom Foundation	235.11	0	0	240	56,426
9	Allnodes	277.18	0	0	240	66,524
10	DRPC	376.62	0	0	240	90,389

Best Public Endpoints on Fantom Mainnet for Australia

(2 AWS regions on February 4, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	thirdweb	63.67	0	0	60	3,820
2	Ankr	85.93	0	0	60	5,156
3	Blast API	116.35	0	0	60	6,981
4	1RPC	133.23	0	0	60	7,994
5	BlockPI Network	177.90	0	0	60	10,674
6	Nodies	277.40	0	0	60	16,644
7	Allnodes	287.45	0	0	60	17,247
8	Fantom Foundation	295.67	0	0	60	17,740
9	Gateway.fm	301.55	0	0	60	18,093
10	DRPC	426.90	0	0	60	25,614

Overall Winner on February 4, 2024

Congratulations to thirdweb as the best public RPC endpoint on Fantom mainnet (all endpoints).

Likewise, thirdweb was the best Fantom mainnet RPC for Australia, Asia and S.America.

Fantom Foundation’s own RPC endpoint was best for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Nodies was the best Fantom public endpoint in N. America!

Honorable mention goes to Ankr as the 2nd best public RPC endpoint on Fantom in Australia and Asia.

Gateway.fm also did well as the 2nd best Fantom public endpoint in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Complete data and rankings for each of the 27 locations are in this sheet.

The IP addresses show the following clouds & CDNs:

MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK: 1RPC
CLOUDFLARENET: Allnodes, Ankr, Blast API, BlockPI, DRPC, thirdweb, Nodies
velia.net Internetdienste GmbH: Fantom Foundation
Cloudsigma Ag: Gateway.fm

Raw Results

1RPC + Allnodes https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/32b74adf-0173-4fd6-a3d4-c79f06ea2085/
Ankr + Blast API https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/65266569-ddce-46de-81df-ad4e2b57e8c4/
BlockPI + DRPC https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/44b240fb-f056-4f2d-9da3-9be597499ec1/
Fantom Foundation + Gateway.fm https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/c4b6551f-4cd1-4317-aa36-4c7a7f5cfc2c/
thirdweb https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/ae73f113-4598-4a9c-96ff-11c3e32d2e66/
Nodies https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/54b75cb8-6b81-4f40-a843-ca023a2973ea/