{"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":201.984,"leader":{"name":"Berachain","slug":"berachain-official","value":201.984},"rankings":[{"name":"Berachain","slug":"berachain-official","ms":{"p50":201.984,"p90":206.563,"p99":223.603,"mean":203.669},"successRate":99.9056,"sampleSize":4307.92},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":202.734,"p90":271.78,"p99":612.724,"mean":221.088},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4303.87},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":240.66,"p90":370.295,"p99":972.436,"mean":283.125},"successRate":88.5609,"sampleSize":4275.76},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":323.587,"p90":333.475,"p99":359.524,"mean":324.795},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4300.87}],"sparkline":[172.882,184.499,190.586,224.167,248.477,251.881,222.4,198.935,199.316,200.204,201.234,201.926,201.891,201.598,201.663,201.184,201.303,201.003,201.768,202.27,202.862,203.057,202.335,201.698,200.545,201.909,202.313,202.546,201.218,202.325,203.529,203.818,202.789,201.689,201.166,200.402,200.423,200.173,200.289,200.119,201.838,202.435,203.008,202.426,201.75,201.723,201.895,202.188,202.188,202.893,203.612,203.366,202.583,202.581,202.324,201.875,202.366,202.43,202.18,200.957,201.267,201.263,200.968,202.226,201.979,202.571,201.823,202.661,202.856,203.225,204.127,204.301,204.153],"sampleSize":17188.42,"asOf":"2026-08-14T16:03:11.642Z","headline":"Berachain leads rpc latency at 202 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Berachain leads rpc latency at 202 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 2026-08-14. 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 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 14, 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  - 2026-08-14\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"}