How To Compare Base vs Arbitrum

Compare Base and Arbitrum with growthepie using live dashboards and the API.

Use growthepie to compare Base and Arbitrum when you want a grounded view of activity, costs, value, and app usage. Start on the live chain pages, then use master.json and the metric exports to reproduce the comparison programmatically.

Explore It Live

• Base: https://www.growthepie.com/chains/base

• Arbitrum: https://www.growthepie.com/chains/arbitrum

API Paths

• Discovery: https://api.growthepie.com/v1/master.json

• Chain overview: https://api.growthepie.com/v1/chains/base/overview.json

• Chain overview: https://api.growthepie.com/v1/chains/arbitrum/overview.json

Example Request

curl -s https://api.growthepie.com/v1/chains/base/overview.json

What To Compare

• txcount for raw activity

• daa for address-level activity

• txcosts for median transaction costs

• stables_mcap or tvl for value

Caveats

• Different metrics answer different questions. Do not compare txcount and tvl as if they measured the same thing.

• Exclude any chain whose deployment or deployment_flag is DEV or ARCHIVED.

Related Pages

• How To Find Which Metrics A Chain Supports

• How To Get Chain Overview Data For Arbitrum