TPS (transactions per second)

TPS (transactions per second) measures how many transactions a network processes over a time interval. It may refer to execution, inclusion or finality and must specify what is counted. Voting transactions, user operations and laboratory benchmarks are not directly comparable.

Written by Pablo Gómez

Founder & CEO at Metlabs · Reviewed on October 11, 2026

TPS measurement must identify counted transactions, the time window and workload. Some figures include internal consensus operations; others count only user operations.

Peak benchmark throughput is not sustained production throughput. Transaction size, node resources and congestion affect results.

TPS alone does not measure latency or finality. Network comparisons require those parameters separately and comparable operations.