{"slug":"bitcoin-rpc","title":"Bitcoin RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for block-height queries against every available public Bitcoin endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":75.8383,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":75.8383},"leaders":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":75.8383}],"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":75.8383,"p90":94.216,"p99":262.121,"mean":84.828},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4319.75},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":127.869,"p90":170.675,"p99":228.165,"mean":141.148},"successRate":99.90719999999999,"sampleSize":4312.75},{"name":"NOWNodes","slug":"nownodes","ms":{"p50":289.605,"p90":352.403,"p99":496.505,"mean":273.553},"successRate":99.76859999999999,"sampleSize":4322.75}],"sparkline":[82.7456,80.6204,81.3809,82.2332,81.1681,79.561,78.0839,76.8917,81.6606,85.1757,87.5133,86.6035,83.3263,80.4159,78.3749,78.0094,77.707,74.8796,77.09,77.5768,78.1993,76.1669,77.2799,81.2979,80.9325,82.0815,79.231,80.8723,80.93,85.3199,86.1326,84.7875,80.5071,79.6015,80.4678,81.0473,83.1107,83.0798,83.883,85.3989,86.6082,85.995,83.0375,84.5806,85.8129,87.8,85.3176,87.0641,84.1931,83.2543,81.9912,82.7589,82.2209,78.3156,76.8188,78.5833,97.8841,127.542,145.036,145.279,114.618,94.9884,76.0837,79.0306,79.9326,80.3071,82.4671,83.3109,86.1036,83.2476,81.3314,80.8145,78.5755],"sampleSize":12955.25,"asOf":"2026-10-25T04:54:31.476Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-25T04:54:31.476Z","ageHours":0.2,"stale":false},"measured":3,"ranked":3,"headline":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Bitcoin RPC endpoints measured, 76 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Bitcoin RPC endpoints measured, 76 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitcoin-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Bitcoin RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-25. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitcoin-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_bitcoin_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Bitcoin RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitcoin-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-25}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Bitcoin RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 25, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitcoin-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Bitcoin RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitcoin-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-25\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitcoin-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/bitcoin-rpc","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities","methodology":["Probe: a single getblockcount JSON-RPC POST every 60 seconds per provider from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. Latency is the client-side wall-clock round trip.","Classification: ok (HTTP 200 with a usable height), http_err, jsonrpc_err (HTTP 200 with an error body), stale (tip more than 20 blocks behind the cross-provider max), timeout. Only ok responses contribute latency.","Providers: PublicNode (bitcoin-rpc.publicnode.com), dRPC (bitcoin.drpc.org), NOWNodes (public-btc.nownodes.io, no key, 5 RPS).","Aggregation: p50/p90/p99 via Prometheus quantile_over_time over 24h; the headline cites the cross-region figure and the region tabs re-scope it."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}