{"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":136.241,"leader":{"name":"Boba Foundation","slug":"boba-official","value":136.241},"rankings":[{"name":"Boba Foundation","slug":"boba-official","ms":{"p50":136.241,"p90":167.159,"p99":596.78,"mean":159.557},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4314.84},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":264.904,"p90":451.135,"p99":618.452,"mean":294.176},"successRate":98.49419999999999,"sampleSize":4317.85}],"sparkline":[175.662,194.954,194.388,186.846,176.082,167.424,166.893,155.985,159.306,149.349,158.454,161.517,163.921,153.697,153.595,158.216,163.58,161.426,161.559,155.749,152.294,159.209,165.581,171.369,159.761,171.28,177.505,199.055,193.976,190.565,188.778,223.601,227.115,210.037,179.691,194.206,201.458,182.308,162.663,149.98,149.005,138.099,136.792,133.583,131.881,131.008,131.646,134.163,139.955,139.004,138.279,137.804,140.659,142.173,143.321,140.768,147.824,141.692,146.997,151.095,155.72,150.113,145.157,147.028,148.264,145.819,149.649,158.142,157.147,145.274,139.264,140.797,148.917],"sampleSize":8632.69,"asOf":"2026-09-19T03:29:30.957Z","headline":"Boba Foundation posts the lowest rpc latency at 136 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Boba Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Boba Foundation posts the lowest rpc latency at 136 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 2026-09-19. 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 2026-09-19}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Boba Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved September 19, 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  - 2026-09-19\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"}