{"slug":"flashbots-protect","name":"Flashbots Protect","domain":null,"best_rank":2,"categories":1,"brief":{"category":"best-mev-protected-rpc-for-ethereum-transactions","title":"Best MEV-protected RPC for Ethereum transactions","rank":2,"of":7,"top":"MEV Blocker","day":"2026-07-18","why":[{"t":"Battle-tested private routing and protection","m":["Claude","ChatGPT","Gemini"],"q":"Battle-tested private routing with exceptionally broad builder reach, frontrunning and revert protection"},{"t":"Configurable privacy-to-rebate settings","m":["Claude","ChatGPT","Gemini"],"q":"highly configurable data disclosure settings (via MEV-Share) that allow advanced practitioners to optimize the exact privacy-to-rebate ratio they want"},{"t":"Deep builder reach and ecosystem maturity","m":["Claude","ChatGPT"],"q":"deepest builder connectivity means best inclusion reliability among private RPCs"},{"t":"MEV-Share backrun rebates","m":["Claude","ChatGPT"],"q":"refunds a share of backrun value via MEV-Share"}],"gap":[{"t":"Seamless zero-config rebate mechanism","m":["Gemini"],"q":"seamless, zero-config rebate mechanism"},{"t":"Returns about 90% of captured value","m":["Gemini","Claude"],"q":"returns ~90% of captured value to the user"},{"t":"Wide wallet adoption","m":["Claude"],"q":"free, permissionless, wide wallet adoption"}],"fix":[{"t":"Trust, privacy, and censorship assumptions","m":["ChatGPT"],"q":"associated trust, privacy, and censorship-policy assumptions"},{"t":"Delayed or slower block inclusion","m":["Claude","Gemini"],"q":"maximum-privacy default settings can result in delayed block inclusion"},{"t":"High configuration complexity","m":["Claude","Gemini"],"q":"high configuration complexity for non-technical users"}]},"entries":[{"slug":"best-mev-protected-rpc-for-ethereum-transactions","title":"Best MEV-protected RPC for Ethereum transactions","rank":2,"of":7,"score":13,"appearances":3,"modelRanks":{"ChatGPT":2,"Claude":1,"Gemini":2},"reason":"The reference implementation of MEV protection — free, no signup, one-click RPC swap that routes transactions privately to builders, refunds a share of backrun value via MEV-Share, offers configurable privacy/speed hints and revert protection, and is operated by the team that defined the MEV mitigation space; deepest builder connectivity means best inclusion reliability among private RPCs","reasons":[{"model":"Claude","reason":"The reference implementation of MEV protection — free, no signup, one-click RPC swap that routes transactions privately to builders, refunds a share of backrun value via MEV-Share, offers configurable privacy/speed hints and revert protection, and is operated by the team that defined the MEV mitigation space; deepest builder connectivity means best inclusion reliability among private RPCs"},{"model":"ChatGPT","reason":"Battle-tested private routing with exceptionally broad builder reach, frontrunning and revert protection, MEV-Share rebates, configurable refund-versus-inclusion-speed settings, open-source infrastructure, and more than 66 million processed transactions; a near-tie with MEV Blocker and preferable when Flashbots ecosystem maturity matters most."},{"model":"Gemini","reason":"The pioneer in private mempool routing and the benchmark for stability. It is in a near-tie with MEV Blocker, earning its high rank due to its highly configurable data disclosure settings (via MEV-Share) that allow advanced practitioners to optimize the exact privacy-to-rebate ratio they want."}],"fixes":[{"model":"ChatGPT","fix":"Transactions depend on Flashbots’ private order-flow infrastructure and its associated trust, privacy, and censorship-policy assumptions."},{"model":"Claude","fix":"Inclusion can be slower than the public mempool during low-priority-fee periods since transactions only land via connected builders, and its default privacy settings share some order-flow hints — maximally privacy-sensitive users must tune hints manually"},{"model":"Gemini","fix":"It has high configuration complexity for non-technical users, and its maximum-privacy default settings can result in delayed block inclusion when searchers cannot bid to backrun."}],"updated":"2026-07-18","api":"https://modelsagree.com/api/v1/best/best-mev-protected-rpc-for-ethereum-transactions.json"}],"page":"https://modelsagree.com/product/flashbots-protect","check":"https://modelsagree.com/check?q=Flashbots%20Protect","updated":"2026-07-18T15:34:13.852Z","attribution":"modelsagree.com, CC BY 4.0"}