Solana Node Performance
RPC Fast nodes typically outperform default self-hosted RPC node solutions, especially in the speed of receiving events from Solana blockchain, with the help of Jito's ShredStream.
Jito's ShredStream boosts arrival time of processed transactions by up to 270ms when using Yellowstone gRPC geyser subscription.
You can find the benchmarking tools for comparison between two gRPC endpoints here: https://github.com/dysnix/solana-test/tree/main/yellowstone-bench.
The test comparing node performance with/without Jito: With Jito, the node receives 99.71% of transactions faster with an average advantage of 120ms.
[SUMMARY]
Matching txns: 185141
Avg delta: 120.360582 ms
75th percentile delta: 165.634304 ms
90th percentile delta: 218.932224 ms
95th percentile delta: 239.485952 ms
99th percentile delta: 270.596147 ms
99.71% of txns: JITO.json is faster than NONE.json
0.29% of txns: JITO.json is slow than NONE.json
On average, RPC Fast Solana node receives same transactions 120ms earlier, and in some rare cases, it receives it even faster by 270ms.
Case Studies
Performance Metrics
The metrics displayed were tracked on one of our dedicated nodes.
Note: When it comes to the speed of receiving transactions via gRPC, we subtract 500ms from the latency since Solana doesn’t store milliseconds, which leads to a loss of precision. For instance, a transaction occurring at 07:46:46:900 would have a block time of 07:46:46:000. It's better to use the middle of the second for calculations.





Tests: Jito Shredstream vs. bloXroute OFR

The test comparing node performance with/without bloXroute OFR: On average, transactions with OFR arrive on Yellowstone 100ms earlier.
[SUMMARY]
Matching txns: 169094
Avg Δ createdAt: 106.345049 ms
75th percentile Δ: 154.814720 ms
90th percentile Δ: 203.478195 ms
95th percentile Δ: 223.160205 ms
99th percentile Δ: 251.815347 ms
97.93% of txns: OFR.json is earlier than NONE.json
2.07% of txns: OFR.json is later than NONE.json
The test comparing node performance with OFR vs. Jito: Jito Shredstream is 13ms faster than bloXroute OFR in 96% of all transactions.
[SUMMARY]
Matching txns: 188852
Avg Δ createdAt: -13.102159 ms
75th percentile Δ: -7.517952 ms
90th percentile Δ: -3.375872 ms
95th percentile Δ: -0.875571 ms
99th percentile Δ: 10.711762 ms
96.03% of txns: JITO.json is earlier than OFR.json
3.97% of txns: JITO.json is later than OFR.json
Therefore, according to our tests, Jito performs better than bloXroute OFR (as of summer 2025).
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