{"slug":"aptos-rpc","title":"Aptos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the Aptos REST ledger endpoint (block_height) against every free, no-key public Aptos node, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":41.8297,"leader":{"name":"Aptos Labs","slug":"aptoslabs","value":41.8297},"leaders":[{"name":"Aptos Labs","slug":"aptoslabs","value":41.8297},{"name":"Aptos Labs (Fullnode)","slug":"aptos-fullnode","value":42.1541}],"rankings":[{"name":"Aptos Labs","slug":"aptoslabs","ms":{"p50":41.8297,"p90":62.292,"p99":173.229,"mean":50.7624},"successRate":99.9306,"sampleSize":4323.71},{"name":"Aptos Labs (Fullnode)","slug":"aptos-fullnode","ms":{"p50":42.1541,"p90":53.1939,"p99":218.569,"mean":52.4336},"successRate":99.9075,"sampleSize":4322.71}],"sparkline":[48.617,47.9996,47.5183,48.6945,48.7358,46.0729,44.8776,43.9356,46.266,46.1399,47.6949,46.8999,49.8142,47.9706,48.1216,47.4354,48.9046,48.6829,67.9865,68.2889,65.9463,46.6813,44.4565,56.6113,68.6164,85.3916,73.566,59.1854,43.3697,43.198,49.3817,53.104,52.8587,50.4363,45.9912,50.9834,49.675,49.1588,52.7821,52.0548,64.446,71.232,78.6403,66.4283,51.678,44.344,45.0232,44.2093,45.8541,45.4058,46.2038,45.5691,47.7754,46.5244,46.7998,45.2267,46.2296,44.7058,43.931,44.2026,44.2916,45.9627,45.8073,45.5581,44.9997,45.9174,45.7344,46.8367,46.2151,46.447,45.4871,46.167,51.4314],"sampleSize":8646.42,"asOf":"2026-10-08T10:16:17.565Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-08T10:16:17.565Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":2,"ranked":2,"headline":"Aptos Labs has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public Aptos RPC endpoints measured, 42 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"Aptos Labs has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public Aptos RPC endpoints measured, 42 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/aptos-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Aptos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-08. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/aptos-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_aptos_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Aptos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/aptos-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-08}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Aptos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 8, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/aptos-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Aptos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/aptos-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-08\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/aptos-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/aptos-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: HTTP GET to <base>/v1/ with Accept: application/json. Pure REST endpoint, no API key in any request. The response JSON includes block_height (decimal string) and ledger_version.","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 Aptos-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=aptos. Provider coverage today: 2 no-key endpoints (Aptos Labs api, Aptos Labs fullnode)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}