{"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":42.1538,"leader":{"name":"Aptos Labs","slug":"aptoslabs","value":42.1538},"leaders":[{"name":"Aptos Labs","slug":"aptoslabs","value":42.1538},{"name":"Aptos Labs (Fullnode)","slug":"aptos-fullnode","value":42.3404}],"rankings":[{"name":"Aptos Labs","slug":"aptoslabs","ms":{"p50":42.1538,"p90":47.8403,"p99":143.487,"mean":47.2193},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4317.72},{"name":"Aptos Labs (Fullnode)","slug":"aptos-fullnode","ms":{"p50":42.3404,"p90":77.5545,"p99":204.8,"mean":53.6026},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.72}],"sparkline":[47.3013,46.8946,46.5147,47.7615,48.5965,48.0315,47.1537,48.5862,49.3809,45.948,44.7085,46.7596,46.7214,47.9075,47.261,47.3242,44.1514,41.7148,44.0109,43.951,43.6529,43.7249,46.3443,48.2895,50.142,48.4772,48.5687,47.6725,46.8754,45.2288,44.326,44.4965,45.8474,45.4101,45.5656,49.1457,48.4196,52.7483,48.2432,48.9857,46.4171,48.987,48.9897,49.9267,47.7242,47.9793,45.9656,45.9429,47.0915,50.0799,49.4866,47.8424,45.2747,48.1255,46.8736,48.6243,46.5582,48.0015,47.5896,47.0092,47.8844,45.0919,47.1806,46.6511,47.0004,47.5375,46.9001,50.7579,48.17,52.0564,50.675,50.5283,45.2613],"sampleSize":8636.44,"asOf":"2026-10-07T01:19:47.678Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-07T01:19:47.678Z","ageHours":0.2,"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 2026-10-07. 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 2026-10-07}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Aptos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 7, 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  - 2026-10-07\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"}