{"slug":"apechain-rpc","title":"ApeChain RPC endpoints: free public URLs by 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":179.863,"leader":{"name":"ApeChain","slug":"apechain-official","value":179.863},"leaders":[{"name":"ApeChain","slug":"apechain-official","value":179.863}],"rankings":[{"name":"ApeChain","slug":"apechain-official","value":179.863,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":179.863,"p90":212.74,"p99":367.963,"mean":187.811},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4311.75}],"sparkline":[179.631,179.268,178.804,179.241,178.342,176.55,174.981,176.966,178.072,180.049,177.879,179.789,182.434,182.1,180.296,187.884,189.005,186.178,174.929,177.937,187.739,194.429,203.253,209.044,221.387,222.836,218.494,209.305,201.195,194.902,188.457,184.662,185.509,192.036,195.214,198.448,193.778,190.743,185.934,183.407,180.431,179.755,181.643,184.53,180.827,178.7,180.047,185.18,183.666,178.995,174.851,173.808,172.832,173.654,176.245,180.188,200.436,205.567,203.894,185.246,178.966,179.94,183.023,186.01,187.378,189.208,192.711,200.821,198.742,195.219,189.101,191.837,192.775],"sampleSize":17262,"asOf":"2026-11-02T09:08:51.108Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-11-02T09:08:51.108Z","ageHours":0.2,"stale":false},"measured":2,"ranked":1,"headline":"ApeChain is the only one of the 2 free public ApeChain RPC endpoints measured above the 50 % success floor, at 180 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"ApeChain is the only one of the 2 free public ApeChain RPC endpoints measured above the 50 % success floor, at 180 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/apechain-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"ApeChain RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-11-02. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/apechain-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_apechain_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {ApeChain RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/apechain-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-11-02}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). ApeChain RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/apechain-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - ApeChain RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/apechain-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-11-02\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. The request id rotates, but that does not guarantee a cache miss: many caches normalise `id` away. Measured 2026-10-08, fixed and rotating ids answer within 2 to 4 percent of each other.","Latency measurement, call-result classification (`ok`, `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale`, `timeout`) and the archive-depth audit follow the cluster method documented on [rpc-capabilities](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities#methodology); this page is the ApeChain-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"apechain\"`. Provider coverage: 2 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}