Performance and Benchmarking

gRPC Performance

The latest gRPC stream speed report was generated on August 25, 2026 from a 3-minute local receive-time comparison of TxStream, ShredStream, and Yellowstone. The benchmark matched identical transaction signatures and used the account-include filter pAMMBay6oceH9fJKBRHGP5D4bD4sWpmSwMn52FMfXEA.

TxStream and ShredStream were nearly even on shared transactions (49.1% vs 50.9% first-arrival share). Both shred-derived streams arrived before Yellowstone in more than 99.8% of matched races.

You can track the streaming metrics comparison in our Grafana dashboard.

Geolocation: Currently, we are present in Frankfurt, Equinix FR13 data center.

For the most efficient performance and lowest latency, we recommend deploying your app in the same region data center or close. Recommended providers: Cherry Servers, Teraswitch, Latitude, AWS, GCP.

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Benchmarking Against Competitors

Use GeyserBench to compare multiple Solana gRPC endpoints simultaneously and measure their speed and reliability in detecting transactions. Compare latency percentile profiles and reliability for each RPC endpoint.

👉 RPC Fast vs. Shyft (Sept 1, 2026)

• TxStream vs. Rabbitstream

• Yellowstone gRPC comparison (with the Shyft's recent Beta version)

Note: 0.06ms ping between the servers compared.

👉 RPC Fast vs. Triton (May 13, 2026)

Yellowstone gRPC comparison

Note: The competitor's endpoint in this test was masked to avoid exposing the client's data.

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Benchmarking RPC Fast gRPC Services

TxStream vs. ShredStream vs. Yellowstone

Open the full benchmark report (August 25, 2026)

The test measured local receive time for identical transaction signatures over 3 minutes. All endpoints used the same account-include filter.

Faster endpoint in the report	Compared with	Shared transactions	Arrived first	Median lead when first	p95 lead when first
TxStream	Yellowstone	103,073	99.8%	5.02 ms	17.08 ms
ShredStream	Yellowstone	58,688	99.9%	4.82 ms	16.04 ms
ShredStream	TxStream	58,688	50.9%	30 us	571 us

TxStream and ShredStream were effectively tied in the matched-signature comparison: TxStream arrived first in 49.1% of shared transactions and ShredStream in 50.9%.

Endpoint	Unique transactions	Coverage	Overall first-arrival share
TxStream	103,073	99.9%	70.9%
ShredStream	58,688	56.9%	29.0%
Yellowstone	103,177	100.0%	0.1%

The overall first-arrival share reflects both latency and which signatures each endpoint observed. Use the pairwise rows for a direct speed comparison because they include only signatures shared by both endpoints. Coverage is specific to this run and filter, not a general reliability guarantee.

All endpoints were timestamped at the receive event on the same observer. See the full report for configured endpoints, batch-position analysis, and raw JSON.

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WebSockets Performance

According to independent benchmark results by CompareNodes (as of July 14), RPC Fast WebSockets deliver messages about Solana slots faster than Alchemy.

Measured from 30 locations including Frankfurt using CompareNodes' public RPC Inspector Pro.

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Transaction Landing Performance: Beam

Benchmark code on Github. Create the type of transaction you need and check real-world performance.

Beam Providers Performance Scoring

We evaluate each provider across five key performance metrics:

• Landing latency (milliseconds)

• Landing latency (slots)

• Transaction position within the block

• Same-slot landing rate

• Overall success rate

Each metric is normalized on a 0–100 scale relative to the best-performing provider in the comparison set.

For latency-related metrics, p90 performance is weighted 4× more heavily than average performance, prioritizing consistency under load and minimizing tail latency.

Block position uses equal weighting between average and p90 values.

The final performance score is calculated as the unweighted average of all five metric scores.

Five buckets:

landed_ms = 0.2 × avg_score(submit_to_landed_grpc_ms)
+ 0.8 × p90_score(submit_to_landed_grpc_ms)

landed_slots = 0.2 × avg_score(submit_to_landed_slots)
+ 0.8 × p90_score(submit_to_landed_slots)

landed_idx = 0.5 × avg_score(landed_index_in_block)
+ 0.5 × p90_score(landed_index_in_block)

same_slot = higher_is_better_score(same_slot_landed_count)

success_ratio = higher_is_better_score(landed_runs / total_runs)

Final score:

performance_rate_pct = (landed_ms + landed_slots + landed_idx + same_slot + success_ratio) / 5

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Beam Providers Comparison

• Generated: 2026-05-19T15:16:33.756079549+00:00

• Runs per provider: 10

• Selected providers: beam-astralane, beam-bloxroute, beam-falcon

Provider	Avg Ack ms	P90 Ack ms	Avg Landed ms	P90 Landed ms	Avg Block ms	P90 Block ms	Avg Landed slots	P90 Landed slots	Avg Idx-in-Block	P90 Idx-in-Block	Avg Priority Fee	Max Slots	Min Slots	Same-slot landed	Landed runs	Block seen	Total runs	Success ratio %	Performance rate %
beam-astralane	51.793	54.891	231.625	443.929	393.336	453.750	0.700	1.000	526.30	773.00	10000.000	1	0	3	10	10	10	100.00	99.78
beam-bloxroute	53.163	54.728	232.784	443.948	391.469	453.708	0.700	1.000	655.50	829.00	10000.000	1	0	3	10	10	10	100.00	99.66
beam-falcon	53.888	54.612	229.601	443.934	390.611	453.725	0.700	1.000	658.30	830.00	10000.000	1	0	3	10	10	10	100.00	100.00

Note: The benchmark is optimized for same-slot landing. A streaming slot signal triggers transaction submission immediately as a new slot begins, and landing confirmation is determined from multiple data sources. Yellowstone gRPC is the default signal source unless another stream is explicitly selected.

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Beam vs RPC Comparison

• Generated: 2026-05-19T15:22:23.427708898+00:00

• Runs per provider: 20

• Selected providers: beam-astralane, rpcfast-rpc

Provider	Avg Ack ms	P90 Ack ms	Avg Landed ms	P90 Landed ms	Avg Block ms	P90 Block ms	Avg Landed slots	P90 Landed slots	Avg Idx-in-Block	P90 Idx-in-Block	Avg Priority Fee	Max Slots	Min Slots	Same-slot landed	Landed runs	Block seen	Total runs	Success ratio %	Performance rate %
beam-astralane	52.586	55.406	330.392	589.025	345.213	589.025	0.400	1.000	704.45	1092.00	10000.000	1	0	12	20	20	20	100.00	97.42
rpcfast-rpc	27.570	38.891	457.492	1065.526	503.728	1065.526	0.650	2.000	574.65	1012.00	10000.000	4	0	12	20	20	20	100.00	82.20

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RPC Fast Endpoint Checker

Quick health checker for your Solana endpoint (mainnet): https://check.rpcfast.com/