When backfills and sync time matter, the gap between indexers is enormous.
Indexing speed is dominated by how fast you can read historical data. Standard RPC is the bottleneck; purpose-built data engines win. In the Sentio Uniswap V2 benchmark, Envio finished in seconds while others took minutes to hours.
Fastest — HyperSync is up to 2000× faster than RPC; ~142× faster than The Graph.
Second-fastest — its data lake also avoids slow RPC.
Great DX, but RPC-based and slower on large backfills.
For raw sync speed, Envio leads, Subsquid follows — both because they replace slow RPC with a purpose-built data layer.