{"slug":"ethereum-rpc","title":"Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Ethereum RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":20.3274,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":20.3274},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":20.3274,"p90":199.903,"p99":289.807,"mean":80.4376},"successRate":95.9713,"sampleSize":4319.75},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":99.2477,"p90":177.922,"p99":498.952,"mean":136.499},"successRate":99.9074,"sampleSize":4320.75},{"name":"Nodies","slug":"nodies","ms":{"p50":183.064,"p90":276.061,"p99":395.379,"mean":209.255},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4320.75},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":245.874,"p90":257.6,"p99":265.336,"mean":246.528},"successRate":99.5368,"sampleSize":4318.75},{"name":"MeowRPC","slug":"meowrpc","ms":{"p50":251.718,"p90":368.399,"p99":570.737,"mean":275.125},"successRate":99.9074,"sampleSize":4320.75}],"sparkline":[70.5155,66.2824,66.4455,65.4872,67.2779,74.4259,80.2998,82.7034,72.0105,69.2376,74.9873,80.5854,77.8412,76.1465,69.5842,72.2004,59.5191,68.0556,69.5865,80.8458,74.2942,89.5657,92.1913,92.0305,81.1037,89.9884,89.9207,88.6251,72.9148,75.6455,74.695,73.2365,76.5432,76.1164,89.0355,83.0529,89.7298,91.7459,98.5284,92.8102,90.644,88.8318,99.9867,93.2887,94.5079,87.6292,96.3402,90.4143,89.7673,85.0138,92.7606,86.6658,90.2352,87.1009,83.5084,73.7683,68.6396,77.6067,79.8977,98.2397,96.3242,93.2831,70.826,57.6179,61.7593,65.1385,69.2781,66.3113,71.0971,78.1407,73.0712,71.3967,72.9617],"sampleSize":25919.5,"asOf":"2026-09-01T08:12:28.680Z","headline":"dRPC posts the lowest rpc latency at 20 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC posts the lowest rpc latency at 20 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-09-01. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_ethereum_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-09-01}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved September 1, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-09-01\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/ethereum-rpc","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities","methodology":["Cadence: every 60 seconds per provider, from each of 3 probe regions (us-east Virginia, eu-west Amsterdam, sgp Singapore). Headline p50/p90/p99 aggregate across all 3 regions via Prometheus `avg(quantile_over_time(...))`; per-region breakdowns are first-class on this page via the region tabs.","Payload: `{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":<rotating>,\"method\":\"eth_getBlockByNumber\",\"params\":[\"latest\",false]}`. Plain HTTP POST, identical for every endpoint, no API key in any request. Non-cacheable by design: the latest-header fetch with a rotating id defeats edge caches that answer eth_blockNumber without touching a node.","Latency: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms → 10 s), so percentiles are computed via Prometheus `quantile_over_time` over the last 24 hours.","Call-result classification: `ok` (HTTP 200 + non-empty result), `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err` (HTTP 200 carrying an error body), `stale` (more than 20 blocks behind the cross-provider tip), `timeout`. Latency without reliability is a misleading ranking signal.","Archive depth: every 5 minutes we issue `eth_getBalance` at (head − depth) for depths from Geth's default pruned cap up to 5M blocks, exposing which free endpoints actually serve historical state.","This page is part of the per-chain RPC cluster derived from the cross-chain [rpc-capabilities](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities) benchmark; the identical harness, methodology and exclusion rules apply on every chain.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=\"ethereum\". Provider coverage: 6 no-key public-read endpoints (PublicNode, dRPC, Tenderly, Nodies, Lava, MeowRPC). Cloudflare removed (persistent JSON-RPC -32603). MEV-protection RPCs (Flashbots, MEV Blocker, Blink, bloXroute) share this probe methodology but score on [mev-protect-rpc](/benchmarks/mev-protect-rpc), because their SLA optimises for send-tx privacy, not read speed."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}