{"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":19.6791,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":19.6791},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":19.6791,"p90":206.391,"p99":287.976,"mean":83.0599},"successRate":97.0951,"sampleSize":4303.91},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":87.0158,"p90":151.966,"p99":313.959,"mean":113.61},"successRate":99.9768,"sampleSize":4307.92},{"name":"NOWNodes","slug":"nownodes","ms":{"p50":187.136,"p90":205.281,"p99":334.6,"mean":195.064},"successRate":86.1979,"sampleSize":4311.93},{"name":"Nodies","slug":"nodies","ms":{"p50":196.496,"p90":289.454,"p99":425.947,"mean":225.687},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4321.92},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":244.983,"p90":258.411,"p99":291.995,"mean":250.423},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4308.92},{"name":"MeowRPC","slug":"meowrpc","ms":{"p50":257.486,"p90":354.564,"p99":602.332,"mean":270.794},"successRate":87.4844,"sampleSize":4315.97}],"sparkline":[76.2221,72.1899,78.8498,91.5987,99.058,96.561,82.5629,76.9511,73.254,74.5887,69.7615,67.2044,69.5325,81.2859,83.2627,83.6576,74.2732,72.7704,74.8554,88.0491,106.143,119.486,118.43,108.157,88.4298,82.319,73.6831,79.7096,80.2179,78.2836,85.1365,84.9217,92.1384,89.3298,89.3047,82.2635,77.788,73.6874,77.9118,73.6375,71.2811,65.3298,63.4281,64.7125,68.8249,74.1553,77.6636,76.4361,73.6035,75.6543,73.4379,70.8768,74.0014,93.6594,100.926,93.8202,81.8548,79.5211,83.5292,77.4589,74.3526,76.2148,76.4847,76.0477,77.837,84.713,81.8733,84.9461,90.0303,99.829,92.4178,97.7093,96.5511],"sampleSize":30181.489999999998,"asOf":"2026-09-10T17:45:28.901Z","headline":"dRPC posts the lowest rpc latency at 20 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC posts the lowest rpc latency at 20 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 2026-09-10. 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 2026-09-10}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved September 10, 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  - 2026-09-10\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: 6 no-key public-read endpoints (PublicNode, dRPC, Tenderly, Nodies, Lava, MeowRPC). Cloudflare removed (persistent JSON-RPC -32603). 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"}