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Compute Units per Second
Latest value: 82.8 million CU on 3 November 2026.
30-day average: 95.8 million CU, up 33% from a year earlier (72 million CU).
Highest daily value since January 2025: 139.2 million CU on 24 August 2026.
The default network series of the Explorer (total_cu_per_second_avg). Download the data (CSV)
Compute units (CUs) that blocks consume per second of time. For the network, the mean is the CUs of the day divided by 86,400 seconds; for a client, scheduler or validator, it is the CUs of its blocks divided by the time of those blocks. The percentiles divide the CUs of each block by its duration: the time from its first shred to the first shred of the next slot, at one Ghost receiver. Durations start on 9 February 2026. Before 14 August 2025, the network mean of the Total view comes from Firedancer. Vote and Non-vote split the compute units by transaction type, and Successful and Failed by transaction outcome; the % view shows the share of the type's compute units.
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- Area
- Throughput & Block Production
- Frequency
- Daily
- Unit
- Compute units
- Split by
- Network, Client, Scheduler, Validator
- Source
- Firedancer
Monthly averages
| Month | Compute Units per Second |
|---|---|
| November 2026 (to 3 November) | 73.7 million CU |
| October 2026 | 99.6 million CU |
| September 2026 | 111.1 million CU |
| August 2026 | 103.9 million CU |
| July 2026 | 82.9 million CU |
| June 2026 | 84.9 million CU |
| May 2026 | 81.3 million CU |
| April 2026 | 89.1 million CU |
| March 2026 | 101.7 million CU |
| February 2026 | 106.8 million CU |
| January 2026 | 90.2 million CU |
| December 2025 | 68.8 million CU |
What it shows
Compute units (CUs) that blocks consume per second of time. When slots get shorter, CU per block falls, but CU per second shows whether the network does more or less work.
How it is computed
The network mean is the cost units of all blocks of the day divided by 86,400 seconds. For a client, scheduler or validator, the mean is the cost units of its blocks divided by the time of those blocks. The percentiles (P10, P50, P90) divide the cost units of each block by its own duration. A block has no duration when the next slot has no block, or when the duration is outside 0 to 5,000 ms. The Outcome, Type and % views work as on Compute Units Per Block.
Aggregation: The mean is a ratio of sums over the blocks of the group. The percentiles are true percentiles over the blocks of the group, not averages of validator percentiles.
Things to know
- The cost units of each block start on 14 August 2025. Dune has cost units from 12 August 2025, and on the first two days 2 to 5 percent of the blocks have none. Before 14 August 2025, the network mean of the Total view is the Firedancer CU of the day (mean CU per block times blocks) over 86,400 seconds. On the days that have both sources, the two means agree within 0.1 percent, except from 23 November 2025 to 7 January 2026, where the Firedancer mean is 1.2 to 2.0 percent lower.
- Block durations start on 9 February 2026, the first day of the Ghost data. Before that day, the per-second percentiles and the group means are empty; the network mean (CU of the day over 86,400 seconds) needs no durations.
- A day shows no per-second percentiles when Ghost has a duration for fewer than 90 percent of its blocks.
- Ghost sees each block at one receiver in Ogden, Utah. The duration includes the delivery time of the shreds to that receiver, so it is close to, but not the same as, the time the leader took to produce the block.
- The network mean counts the time of skipped slots, so it is a little lower than the per-block median.
Full method and formula in the Methodology