{"slug":"berachain-rpc","title":"Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Berachain RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":172.252,"leader":{"name":"Berachain","slug":"berachain-official","value":172.252},"rankings":[{"name":"Berachain","slug":"berachain-official","ms":{"p50":172.252,"p90":214.317,"p99":531.107,"mean":185.229},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4312.6},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":211.968,"p90":605.238,"p99":2112.9,"mean":316.266},"successRate":99.8836,"sampleSize":4304.61},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":234.34,"p90":249.816,"p99":311.402,"mean":237.926},"successRate":92.5488,"sampleSize":4268.62},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":320.41,"p90":327.846,"p99":384.522,"mean":323.433},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4302.6}],"sparkline":[199.721,203.467,203.508,210.641,215.535,209.943,201.385,202.656,212.575,209.007,198.452,185.523,194.176,197.9,198.891,188.156,175.965,167.624,161.999,161.308,161.587,162.088,163.391,163.822,162.202,160.812,159.536,160.627,162.332,163.81,163.394,162.818,162.007,161.897,161.782,162.305,162.994,164.38,164.732,166.093,165.145,165.79,175.078,182.257,187.998,184.023,184.936,185.521,198.427,208.985,218.725,213.569,205.354,204.6,201.881,204.732,200.89,200.576,200.013,207.971,211.933,214.125,207.681,209.603,214.461,204.908,191.793,177.349,177.076,177.55,177.55,182.935,182.415],"sampleSize":17188.43,"asOf":"2026-08-19T18:34:16.251Z","headline":"Berachain leads rpc latency at 172 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Berachain leads rpc latency at 172 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/berachain-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/berachain-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_berachain_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/berachain-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-21}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 21, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/berachain-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/berachain-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-21\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/berachain-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/berachain-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=\"berachain\". Provider coverage: 4 no-key endpoints (PublicNode, dRPC, Tenderly, Berachain). Exclusions follow the cluster-wide rules documented on the parent benchmark."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}