{"slug":"bitcoin-rpc","title":"Fastest free Bitcoin RPC, live no-key endpoint 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":77.9549,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":77.9549},"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":77.9549,"p90":83.0427,"p99":161.772,"mean":90.7942},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":666.836},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":166.546,"p90":171.823,"p99":210.353,"mean":168.234},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":657.828},{"name":"NOWNodes","slug":"nownodes","ms":{"p50":613.807,"p90":664.624,"p99":913.186,"mean":528.849},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":668.838}],"sparkline":[81.5101,81.9396,80.2777,79.3834,78.519,78.4726,81.2186,119.729,119.607,118.597,79.6442,82.4154],"sampleSize":1993.502,"asOf":"2026-09-09T23:32:31.477Z","headline":"PublicNode posts the lowest rpc latency at 78 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Bitcoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"PublicNode posts the lowest rpc latency at 78 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Bitcoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitcoin-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Bitcoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-09-09. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitcoin-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_bitcoin_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Bitcoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitcoin-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-09-09}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Bitcoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved September 9, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitcoin-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Bitcoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitcoin-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-09-09\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"}