{"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":263.96,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":263.96},"leaders":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":263.96}],"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":263.96,"p90":495.48,"p99":754.148,"mean":308.859},"successRate":99.6064,"sampleSize":4319.77}],"sparkline":[296.173,298.532,318.49,348.069,342.242,330.004,317.946,330.047,333.692,328.059,315.657,316.681,311.277,301.422,318.553,318.672,329.433,326.669,328.757,335.508,319.459,303.183,297.062,297.854,329.948,339.973,341.992,328.886,316.397,320.183,296.954,290.547,283.426,290.31,293.628,288.216,289.997,279.646,278.699,287.497,294.674,298.325,279.244,276.216,280.677,283.511,292.55,290.154,297.652,290.458,298.793,297.906,322.64,309.879,316.71,300.392,296.437,289.713,289.575,298.918,298.741,293.788,276.931,299.955,323.194,332.231,322.057,314.358,324.338,327.954,320.421,324.006,320.571],"sampleSize":4319.77,"asOf":"2026-09-28T01:35:19.666Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-09-28T01:35:19.666Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":1,"ranked":1,"headline":"dRPC is the only free public Ethereum Classic RPC endpoint measured, at 264 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"dRPC is the only free public Ethereum Classic RPC endpoint measured, at 264 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 2026-09-28. 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 2026-09-28}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Ethereum Classic RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved September 28, 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  - 2026-09-28\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"}