{"slug":"avalanche-rpc","title":"Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_blockNumber against every free, no-key public Avalanche RPC endpoint, audited every 15 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"value":23,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":23},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":23,"p90":35.3333,"p99":1368.81,"mean":56.2954},"successRate":96.50189999999999,"sampleSize":8634.14},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":35.6667,"p90":80,"p99":171.447,"mean":48.5657},"successRate":99.9884,"sampleSize":8636.14},{"name":"Avalanche","slug":"avalanche-official","ms":{"p50":76,"p90":185.333,"p99":206.527,"mean":96.8785},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":8643.14},{"name":"Nodies","slug":"nodies","ms":{"p50":101.667,"p90":139,"p99":271.42,"mean":112.306},"successRate":0,"sampleSize":8636.14},{"name":"1RPC","slug":"1rpc","ms":{"p50":135.667,"p90":363.3,"p99":2601.72,"mean":249.707},"successRate":1.75031,"sampleSize":8628.14},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":154.333,"p90":334.333,"p99":350.013,"mean":188.645},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":8644.14}],"sparkline":[27.1639,28.2306,27.9875,28.2333,28.2722,26.9681,26.0264,24.5708,25.4181,25.1486,24.8681,24.2097,52.6194,156.865,263.96,331.84,320.599,246.572,231.929,250.642,242.793,212.057,114.408,97.1847,47.1111,33.1903,25.3972,25.1681,25.3042,25.1097,24.7639,25.0069,25.6778,27.3056,27.3236,27.5208,26.2583,25.8931,25.5375,26.1833,27.3764,27.8361,27.425,27.3222,27.3361,27.2806,26.2722,25.5444,26.7514,27.5681,28.3306,27.6417,28.8458,29.4417,30.0444,29.55,30.5139,30.3125,29.7931,26.7866,25.8073,23.8908,23.6551,21.9607,20.9609,18.2988,16.5144,14.4216,14.0463,12.7243,12.5137,12.0142,12.2232],"sampleSize":51821.84,"asOf":"2026-07-03T20:08:21.507Z","headline":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 23 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 23 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 2026-07-03. 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 2026-07-03}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Avalanche RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved July 3, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc"},"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 15 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\":1,\"method\":\"eth_blockNumber\",\"params\":[]}`. Plain HTTP POST, identical for every endpoint, no API key in any request.","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: 6 no-key endpoints (PublicNode, dRPC, 1RPC, Tenderly, Nodies, Avalanche). Exclusions follow the cluster-wide rules documented on the parent benchmark."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}