{"slug":"boba-rpc","title":"Fastest free Boba Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Boba Network RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":248.248,"leader":{"name":"Boba Foundation","slug":"boba-official","value":248.248},"rankings":[{"name":"Boba Foundation","slug":"boba-official","ms":{"p50":248.248,"p90":259.055,"p99":949.711,"mean":261.273},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4290.87},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":308.706,"p90":470.864,"p99":758.072,"mean":348.491},"successRate":87.85549999999999,"sampleSize":4290.86}],"sparkline":[257.575,256.023,252.418,250.951,249.812,248.498,247.715,249.386,251.119,251.404,249.757,247.082,248.288,249.305,250.153,253.89,265.045,263.556,258.88,258.895,259.443,258.458,260.017,260.977,262.243,261.711,261.611,261.855,249.066,268.084,267.762,270.05,263.001,264.933,264.799,265.767,269.307,269.304,274.314,273.832,273.104,263.013,262.842,263.181,267.935,268.178,267.603,263.508,258.659,260.585,259.494,259.55,261.324,261.284,260.988,262.853,264.848,264.828,262.207,267.737,276.489,277.259,261.017,260.236,256.118,258.459,265.604,268.194,267.491,261.446,261.185,260.262,259.49],"sampleSize":8581.73,"asOf":"2026-08-14T16:03:11.933Z","headline":"Boba Foundation leads rpc latency at 248 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Boba Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Boba Foundation leads rpc latency at 248 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Boba Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/boba-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Boba Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-14. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/boba-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_boba_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Boba Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/boba-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Boba Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/boba-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Boba Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/boba-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-14\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/boba-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/boba-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 to 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=\"boba\"`. Provider coverage: 2 no-key endpoints (Boba Foundation, dRPC)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}