{"slug":"avalanche-rpc","title":"Avalanche RPC endpoints: free public URLs by 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":68.908,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":68.908},"leaders":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":68.908}],"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":68.908,"p90":81.2642,"p99":623.843,"mean":86.7421},"successRate":99.79090000000001,"sampleSize":4311.72},{"name":"Avalanche","slug":"avalanche-official","ms":{"p50":85.7669,"p90":104.524,"p99":124.114,"mean":88.4899},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4322.71},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":104.32,"p90":110.498,"p99":120.956,"mean":105.324},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4331.71},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":170.023,"p90":354.521,"p99":583.105,"mean":201.312},"successRate":97.9803,"sampleSize":4308.71}],"sparkline":[69.3069,68.9171,68.9561,68.8241,68.9452,68.8804,69.3599,69.6192,70.6159,69.6657,69.3361,68.146,68.1379,68.4797,69.929,70.9879,71.5009,72.4443,72.1207,72.3322,71.8896,71.9764,73.686,84.1353,76.0402,68.3684,69.353,78.7399,86.0641,66.4516,62.5024,54.811,59.8587,71.0819,112.12,169.216,240.56,332.329,341.904,264.518,140.107,76.1864,76.8116,79.4947,81.4771,78.6373,79.4892,77.6383,77.7706,74.4586,77.66,78.579,81.9675,78.4178,79.5986,75.1597,74.1003,71.247,70.6571,71.2781,71.0886,73.4156,73.9472,76.7955,73.8443,71.8141,70.7277,71.4462,72.8063,70.8769,71.6773,70.1423,70.8925],"sampleSize":17274.85,"asOf":"2026-10-02T01:43:50.124Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-02T01:43:50.124Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":4,"ranked":4,"headline":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Avalanche RPC endpoints measured, 69 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Avalanche RPC endpoints measured, 69 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Avalanche RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-02. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_avalanche_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Avalanche RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-02}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Avalanche RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 2, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Avalanche RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/avalanche-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-02\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 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 Avalanche-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=\"avalanche\". Provider coverage: 4 no-key public-read endpoints live today, each listed with its URL in the endpoints table on this page. 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"}