{"slug":"bitlayer-rpc","title":"Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Bitlayer RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":151.544,"leader":{"name":"Bitlayer Official","slug":"bitlayer-official","value":151.544},"rankings":[{"name":"Bitlayer Official","slug":"bitlayer-official","ms":{"p50":151.544,"p90":210.726,"p99":392,"mean":165.998},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4320.84},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":316.725,"p90":452.266,"p99":668.605,"mean":325.549},"successRate":98.77329999999999,"sampleSize":4321.84}],"sparkline":[160.02,157.963,155.835,165.051,166.996,166.421,155.84,153.006,155.829,158.006,157.185,159.992,157.167,156.244,151.407,154.308,166.217,168.176,172.968,163.023,164.316,161.62,159.613,160.151,157.579,166.258,166.315,169.343,166.75,168.114,166.245,166.701,163.71,166.607,160.637,158.675,159.611,164.074,163.34,158.697,158.707,171.094,171.082,169.654,158.636,159.443,162.559,170.402,182.838,180.16,176.226,167.787,193.627,224.656,229.763,209.12,176.297,171.992,164.988,163.345,158.133,160.166,165.758,170.44,169.362,163.06,158.336,157.005,156.182,158.336,157.959,156.512,154.37],"sampleSize":12963.52,"asOf":"2026-09-18T22:21:00.958Z","headline":"Bitlayer Official posts the lowest rpc latency at 152 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Bitlayer Official posts the lowest rpc latency at 152 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitlayer-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-09-18. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitlayer-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_bitlayer_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitlayer-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-09-18}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitlayer-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitlayer-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-09-18\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitlayer-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/bitlayer-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.","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`.","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, cadence and exclusion rules apply on every chain.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"bitlayer\"`. Provider coverage at launch: 3 no-key endpoints (Bitlayer Official, dRPC, Ankr)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}