{"slug":"ethereum-rpc","title":"Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Ethereum RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":48.6667,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":48.6667},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":48.6667,"p90":170,"p99":277.7,"mean":87.8882},"successRate":76.4353,"sampleSize":4214.81},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":93.6667,"p90":158,"p99":285.333,"mean":113.913},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4285.8},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":241.333,"p90":253.333,"p99":353,"mean":245.306},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4284.8},{"name":"MeowRPC","slug":"meowrpc","ms":{"p50":270,"p90":381,"p99":598.277,"mean":287.794},"successRate":99.69749999999999,"sampleSize":4298.81},{"name":"Nodies","slug":"nodies","ms":{"p50":272.333,"p90":308.333,"p99":454.333,"mean":285.476},"successRate":99.46589999999999,"sampleSize":4313.84},{"name":"Lava","slug":"lava","ms":{"p50":274,"p90":615.667,"p99":2397.37,"mean":350.639},"successRate":99.2957,"sampleSize":4260.8}],"sparkline":[79.3473,87.6478,74.9011,75.1593,79.7351,83.7775,76.1538,72.8384,74.1728,82.7586,84.8236,91.5949,92.7631,96.7344,88.6278,88.9826,95.2517,100.179,96.7806,99.3097,102.508,113.161,106.556,101.997,99.1182,105.057,102.702,95.4619,96.3749,103.539,107.658,96.803,92.9829,89.4501,86.6246,87.3619,92.8414,92.884,78.9147,67.5705,69.2065,71.8809,75.4991,77.1682,77.3843,91.5526,94.3666,97.9073,73.1496,66.8982,68.3941,75.2107,78.7223,81.7626,77.1407,77.7712,75.1521,94.6695,81.501,82.9706,69.8434,84.2677,101.821,97.0231,94.2918,76.972,71.409,62.8617,67.3092,80.3044,88.233,89.0841,92.652],"sampleSize":29945.66,"asOf":"2026-07-27T15:11:05.471Z","headline":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 49 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 49 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-07-27. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_ethereum_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-07-27}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-07-27\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/ethereum-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. Non-cacheable by design: the latest-header fetch with a rotating id defeats edge caches that answer eth_blockNumber without touching a node.","Latency: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms → 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`. Latency without reliability is a misleading ranking signal.","Archive depth: every 5 minutes we issue `eth_getBalance` at (head − depth) for depths from Geth's default pruned cap up to 5M blocks, exposing which free endpoints actually serve historical state.","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, methodology and exclusion rules apply on every chain.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=\"ethereum\". Provider coverage: 7 no-key public-read endpoints (PublicNode, dRPC, Tenderly, Nodies, Lava, MeowRPC, Cloudflare). MEV-protection RPCs (Flashbots, MEV Blocker, Blink, bloXroute) share this probe methodology but score on [mev-protect-rpc](/benchmarks/mev-protect-rpc), because their SLA optimises for send-tx privacy, not read speed."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}