{"slug":"berachain-rpc","title":"Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_blockNumber against every free, no-key public Berachain RPC endpoint, audited every 15 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"value":18,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":18},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":18,"p90":29,"p99":69.59,"mean":22.4034},"successRate":94.5689,"sampleSize":8618.61},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":80.3333,"p90":89.3333,"p99":205.033,"mean":85.2822},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":8629.61},{"name":"Berachain","slug":"berachain-official","ms":{"p50":170.667,"p90":189,"p99":193.667,"mean":172.774},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":8629.61},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":326,"p90":337,"p99":365.38,"mean":329.691},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":8627.61}],"sparkline":[22.1018,20.8275,19.7595,19.2281,17.9566,17.1354,16.0109,15.5169,15.5889,15.4663,15.9314,15.8828,15.9037,15.3952,14.7875,14.7955,14.8263,15.1285,14.9204,15.4792,15.8861,16.604,16.3261,18.7915,18.5573,19.6823,17.9613,19.0666,19.5964,19.5659,19.3009,19.7461,20.0124,20.0629,19.8386,20.8128,21.1509,20.5324,20.1854,20.2481,20.3833,20.0079,19.7057,19.9666,19.9996,20.672,21.1024,21.1737,20.4235,20.016,20.8753,21.5276,22.8397,22.4909,26.9691,27.7893,29.0536,25.9906,26.9216,29.7598,33.5979,33.6238,30.5105,27.189,26.1224,26.9028,28.9824,28.1577,26.8406,65.5889,66.3523,66.7367,21.0788],"sampleSize":34505.44,"asOf":"2026-07-04T17:54:04.877Z","headline":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 18 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 18 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 2026-07-04. 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 2026-07-04}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Berachain RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved July 4, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/berachain-rpc"},"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 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=\"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"}