Performance and Benchmarking

gRPC Performance

Check out our Grafana dashboard with metrics here.

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


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.

Example: RPC Fast vs. Triton (May 13, 2026)

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


Benchmarking RPC Fast gRPC Services

Yellowstone vs Aperture

Benchmark overview (May 19, 2026)

Aperture vs. Shredstream

Benchmark overview (May 19, 2026)

Note: Shredstream includes shreds from our partners + Jito shreds.

Review: Aperture is faster than Yellowstone by 10.7ms on average, by 35.5ms in the top 5% of the results, and by 50.7ms in 1% of the results.

ShredStream is only 0.1ms faster than Aperture on average, 0.4ms in the top 5% of the results, and 2.1ms in 1% of the results.

This signals about strong performance of the Aperture gRPC, considering that Aperture supports server-side filters and offers reduced bandwidth usage, compared to Shredstream.


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:

Final score:


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. We subscribe to Aperture gRPC to detect new slot signals and trigger transaction submission immediately as a new slot begins. Transaction landing confirmation is determined through consensus between Aperture and Yellowstone data sources.

Aperture is not required for performance testing — unless explicitly specified, Yellowstone gRPC is used by default.


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


RPC Fast Endpoint Checker

Quick health checker for your Solana endpoint – works both on mainnet and devnet:

https://check.rpcfast.com/

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