{"slug":"avalanche-rpc","title":"Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Avalanche RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":90.9748,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":90.9748},"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":90.9748,"p90":257.493,"p99":979.012,"mean":156.514},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4295.81},{"name":"Avalanche","slug":"avalanche-official","ms":{"p50":176.797,"p90":189.815,"p99":327.202,"mean":180.923},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4317.81},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":200.313,"p90":322.097,"p99":488.554,"mean":242.339},"successRate":88.3671,"sampleSize":4281.81},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":326.227,"p90":340.132,"p99":508.99,"mean":333.601},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4327.81}],"sparkline":[296.009,315.001,281.79,205.327,233.895,208.758,205.216,156.862,157.08,136.922,139.288,141.362,138.292,125.336,114.995,116.869,120.065,121.798,125.128,121.023,113.231,106.315,111.956,117.765,119.81,111.416,106.633,103.433,104.916,110.117,116.419,115.573,112.603,117.745,130.941,178.67,182.707,206.426,187.228,207.245,187.494,214.858,232.172,232.782,187.912,145.822,141.096,164.136,186.687,191.271,172.378,158.782,177.209,177.59,169.018,140.968,159.202,169.04,170.329,141.093,128.511,127.133,120.778,122.014,150.657,171.257,224.261,202.407,197.983,166.21,185.965,193.835,182.871],"sampleSize":17223.24,"asOf":"2026-08-14T15:01:56.590Z","headline":"PublicNode leads rpc latency at 91 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"PublicNode leads rpc latency at 91 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-14. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_avalanche_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-14\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/avalanche-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=\"avalanche\". Provider coverage: 4 no-key endpoints (PublicNode, dRPC, Tenderly, Avalanche). Nodies was delisted 2026-07 when its Avalanche endpoint moved behind a paid plan. Exclusions follow the cluster-wide rules documented on the parent benchmark."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}