{"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":5,"leader":{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","value":5},"rankings":[{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","ms":{"p50":5,"p90":17.3333,"p99":40.6667,"mean":8.19696},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4320.6},{"name":"Bitlayer Official","slug":"bitlayer-official","ms":{"p50":12.6667,"p90":16.6667,"p99":29.6667,"mean":13.6743},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.6},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":320,"p90":366.333,"p99":512.333,"mean":255.955},"successRate":90.04860000000001,"sampleSize":4321.6}],"sparkline":[9.96752,6.00777,5.17222,5.26111,5.35,5.60556,5.54583,5.55,5.18333,5.30972,5.16667,5.19306,5.35556,5.41111,5.51667,5.3,5.21806,4.99722,4.85278,4.74444,4.82639,4.88611,4.97639,4.95556,5.06667,5.15556,5.25902,5.25229,5.14333,5.08194,4.96667,4.97222,4.88194,4.85,4.8,4.82778,4.90556,5.01667,5.10278,5.22083,5.33889,5.31389,5.26667,5.17222,5.24444,5.6375,5.83194,5.76111,5.24167,4.98611,5.01667,5.22639,5.2625,6.62883,16.0843,24.0235,29.4667,23.4861,19.0292,15.0861,11.5528,9.22639,5.85694,10.3319,13.9014,17.2361,16.3542,17.1514,18.1167,18.4819,17.1833,16.5375,12.5111],"sampleSize":12960.800000000001,"asOf":"2026-08-08T13:12:47.536Z","headline":"Ankr leads rpc latency at 5 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Ankr leads rpc latency at 5 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 2026-08-08. 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 2026-08-08}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 8, 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  - 2026-08-08\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"}