Compare

Side-by-side comparison

Pick up to four tools and compare adoption, momentum and maintenance at a glance. The crown marks the leader in each row.

Go consensus client for Ethereum proof-of-stake, now maintained by Offchain Labs.

Go Ethereum, the original and still most-deployed Ethereum execution client.

Modular, high-performance Rust execution client from Paradigm; also an SDK for building custom chains.

Fast .NET Ethereum execution client and the second-largest by network share.

Head to head

Metric	Prysm	Geth	Reth	Nethermind
Stars	3.8k	51.5k	5.9k	1.6k
Weekly downloads	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Download growth	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	65/100	86/100	69/100	59/100
Forks	1.4k	22.1k	2.6k	760
Open issues	513	493	257	197
Last commit	1d ago	1d ago	6d ago	1w ago
License	GPL-3.0	LGPL-3.0	Apache-2.0	GPL-3.0
First released	2018	2013	2022	2017
Signals	None	Popular	Trending	None
Listed in	Blockchain & Web3 › Nodes & Clients	Blockchain & Web3 › Nodes & Clients	Blockchain & Web3 › Nodes & Clients	Blockchain & Web3 › Nodes & Clients

No download history for the selected tools.

Go consensus client for Ethereum proof-of-stake, now maintained by Offchain Labs.

Go Ethereum, the original and still most-deployed Ethereum execution client.

Modular, high-performance Rust execution client from Paradigm; also an SDK for building custom chains.

Fast .NET Ethereum execution client and the second-largest by network share.

Metric	Prysm	Geth	Reth	Nethermind
Stars	3.8k	51.5k	5.9k	1.6k
Weekly downloads	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Download growth	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	65/100	86/100	69/100	59/100
Forks	1.4k	22.1k	2.6k	760
Open issues	513	493	257	197
Last commit	1d ago	1d ago	6d ago	1w ago
License	GPL-3.0	LGPL-3.0	Apache-2.0	GPL-3.0
First released	2018	2013	2022	2017
Signals	None	Popular	Trending	None
Listed in	Blockchain & Web3 › Nodes & Clients	Blockchain & Web3 › Nodes & Clients	Blockchain & Web3 › Nodes & Clients	Blockchain & Web3 › Nodes & Clients

No download history for the selected tools.