{"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":90.3897,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":90.3897},"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":90.3897,"p90":258.736,"p99":492.515,"mean":142.032},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4317.44},{"name":"Avalanche","slug":"avalanche-official","ms":{"p50":179.345,"p90":198.477,"p99":338.718,"mean":186.862},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.44},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":202.506,"p90":270.916,"p99":426.562,"mean":219.734},"successRate":91.0039,"sampleSize":4313.44},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":330.942,"p90":344.952,"p99":409.311,"mean":334.299},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.44}],"sparkline":[124.968,130.246,137.467,131.673,133.943,127.9,135.869,129.866,131.758,135.973,142.423,144.386,137.724,140.872,136.839,132.313,128.112,122.809,131.812,137.086,145.316,141.275,140.658,141.802,148.914,144.744,143.913,135.741,137.783,132.515,134.239,141.091,147.875,148.656,149.669,158.993,154.581,184.575,192.563,217.901,197.408,195.456,177.452,163.027,169.501,175.577,193.454,175.229,222.001,199.049,192.906,139.45,144.274,140.541,136.016,125.147,120.805,116.502,115.726,115.922,111.805,108.826,107.961,108.635,110.465,114.608,114.147,111.759,113.991,118.584,118.804,113.322,113.557],"sampleSize":17267.76,"asOf":"2026-08-18T00:21:44.247Z","headline":"PublicNode leads rpc latency at 90 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"PublicNode leads rpc latency at 90 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 2026-08-18. 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 2026-08-18}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 18, 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  - 2026-08-18\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"}