{"slug":"apechain-rpc","title":"Fastest free ApeChain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the `eth_getBlockByNumber(\\\"latest\\\", false)` method against every free, no-key public ApeChain EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":165,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":165},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":165,"p90":181.667,"p99":235.667,"mean":169.106},"successRate":92.514,"sampleSize":1336.68},{"name":"ApeChain","slug":"apechain-official","ms":{"p50":190.667,"p90":201.333,"p99":492.667,"mean":197.473},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1324.65},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":325.667,"p90":339,"p99":371.333,"mean":327.683},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":187.647}],"sparkline":[177.121,182.174,180.954,179.149,176.249,173.086,172.453,171.435,170.189,168.326,168.149,167.305,166.485,165.222,165.66,165.847,166.636,167.34,167.475,166.731,165.24,166.431,166.547],"sampleSize":4175.657,"asOf":"2026-08-03T22:22:42.310Z","headline":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 165 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free ApeChain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 165 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free ApeChain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/apechain-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free ApeChain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-03. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/apechain-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_apechain_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free ApeChain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/apechain-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-03}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free ApeChain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Retrieved August 3, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/apechain-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free ApeChain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/apechain-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-03\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/apechain-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/apechain-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 rotating id defeats edge caches that would answer a bare head query 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 with a parsable hex block number), `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.","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, cadence and exclusion rules apply on every chain.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"apechain\"`. Provider coverage: 4 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}