{"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":118.288,"leader":{"name":"ETC Desktop","slug":"etcdesktop","value":118.288},"leaders":[{"name":"ETC Desktop","slug":"etcdesktop","value":118.288}],"rankings":[{"name":"ETC Desktop","slug":"etcdesktop","value":118.288,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":118.288,"p90":122.159,"p99":478.654,"mean":121.766},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4323.75},{"name":"ETC Network","slug":"etcnetwork","value":145.282,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":145.282,"p90":165.673,"p99":517.343,"mean":162.249},"successRate":95.2799,"sampleSize":4323.72},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":260.125,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":260.125,"p90":469.203,"p99":699.368,"mean":291.16},"successRate":99.90719999999999,"sampleSize":4310.75}],"sparkline":[121.047,122.237,122.115,123.301,122.341,122.928,121.495,122.139,122.396,121.625,122.336,133.392,132.812,132.93,125.114,125.042,125.003,118.806,119.647,120.443,120.174,119.383,118.621,118.161,117.894,117.643,124.454,124.97,125.451,124.993,124.956,124.896,124.947,124.738,124.62,125.913,126.247,126.505,126.878,126.775,126.642,127.063,126.826,126.49,118.199,126.375,126.902,127.231,133.997,136.712,137.206,123.058,119.626,118.395,123.406,122.206,120.66,112.068,109.806,108.396,107.996,109.602,110.931,112.128,112.759,112.633,118.5,118.587,118.516,118.161,117.772,118.652,112.392],"sampleSize":12958.220000000001,"asOf":"2026-11-13T22:51:47.609Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-11-13T22:51:47.609Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":3,"ranked":3,"headline":"ETC Desktop has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Ethereum Classic RPC endpoints measured, 118 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"ETC Desktop has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Ethereum Classic RPC endpoints measured, 118 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 2026-11-13. 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 2026-11-13}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Ethereum Classic RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved November 13, 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  - 2026-11-13\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: 3 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"}