Solana is quietly doing what most blockchains only promise on whitepapers. The network’s real transaction throughput, stripped of validator vote transactions that inflate the numbers, is consistently clearing 2,500 transactions per second.
That distinction matters more than you’d think. Solana’s approach of separating “true” user-initiated transactions from the consensus-related vote transactions that validators produce gives a cleaner picture of actual network utility.
The numbers behind the noise
Analytics data from mid-2026 shows Solana’s non-vote TPS averaging between 1,600 and 3,800, depending on network demand. During high-activity periods, total TPS frequently spikes above 6,000.
Historical peaks have exceeded 4,500 TPS on particularly busy days. For context, Ethereum’s base layer processes roughly 15-30 TPS, relying on Layer-2 rollups to scale beyond that.
