{"slug":"ethereum-classic-rpc","title":"Ethereum Classic RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Ethereum Classic EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":306.462,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":306.462},"leaders":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":306.462}],"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":306.462,"p90":608.262,"p99":832.847,"mean":353.755},"successRate":99.6294,"sampleSize":4318.72}],"sparkline":[329.266,311.298,282.231,297.858,324.735,368.523,419.858,456.141,473.526,487.69,459.484,441.625,373.527,350.603,320.256,323.645,315.034,326.887,344.604,384.241,389.016,373.441,360.846,375.193,397.442,392.979,361.305,319.413,293.005,297.109,279.33,282.254,272.48,291.197,298.669,320.805,344.529,362.415,383.464,417.32,428.75,411.74,401.164,413.188,421.874,400.968,377.63,384.024,416.466,403.567,374.996,376.167,387.332,382.416,331.423,332.809,338.454,331.436,308.105,294.326,296.728,314.907,341.083,352.729,335.644,321.874,321.364,335.225,312.326,311.152,302.697,306.132,281.84],"sampleSize":4318.72,"asOf":"2026-10-07T00:20:47.671Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-07T00:20:47.671Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":1,"ranked":1,"headline":"dRPC is the only free public Ethereum Classic RPC endpoint measured, at 306 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"dRPC is the only free public Ethereum Classic RPC endpoint measured, at 306 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-classic-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Ethereum Classic RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-07. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-classic-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_ethereum_classic_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Ethereum Classic RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-classic-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-07}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Ethereum Classic RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 7, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-classic-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Ethereum Classic RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-classic-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-07\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-classic-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/ethereum-classic-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 measurement, call-result classification (`ok`, `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale`, `timeout`) and the archive-depth audit follow the cluster method documented on [rpc-capabilities](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities#methodology); this page is the Ethereum Classic-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"ethereum-classic\"`. Provider coverage: 1 no-key public-read endpoints live today, each listed with its URL in the endpoints table on this page. ETCDesktop and ETCMC stopped responding to probes and have been removed."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}