{"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":74.6667,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":74.6667},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":74.6667,"p90":175,"p99":268.157,"mean":94.1136},"successRate":90.4983,"sampleSize":4315.6},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":141,"p90":260.733,"p99":3873,"mean":260.909},"successRate":99.6057,"sampleSize":4312.61},{"name":"Nodies","slug":"nodies","ms":{"p50":179.667,"p90":269.667,"p99":376.157,"mean":199.33},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.6},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":244.333,"p90":257.667,"p99":286.333,"mean":246.153},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4316.6},{"name":"MeowRPC","slug":"meowrpc","ms":{"p50":263,"p90":360.667,"p99":515,"mean":271.327},"successRate":99.3276,"sampleSize":4314.61},{"name":"Lava","slug":"lava","ms":{"p50":346.333,"p90":786.667,"p99":4137,"mean":478.352},"successRate":98.7709,"sampleSize":4312.6}],"sparkline":[59.8827,79.4938,83.2613,93.0913,88.1068,87.8212,82.6694,84.7098,78.2405,74.428,70.4804,83.7529,104.909,107,112.201,100.933,99.923,91.7097,96.5596,100.418,111.688,101.715,102.462,84.6431,82.9,80.0417,88.0208,88.3327,88.641,83.057,86.2545,83.0301,95.4426,103.263,111.254,107.968,108.376,102.039,92.8194,85.1225,96.5205,102.416,103.74,95.2009,90.8288,83.295,79.555,82.7611,94.0348,88.2284,80.5941,73.2206,80.3982,87.3667,88.5617,92.6299,91.1793,94.1217,94.5214,97.5007,96.2951,104.256,106.714,104.838,99.3327,100.72,104.045,95.4573,93.7696,95.2171,103.194,103.698,110.383],"sampleSize":25890.620000000003,"asOf":"2026-08-08T12:57:47.465Z","headline":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 75 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 75 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 2026-08-08. 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 2026-08-08}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Ethereum RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 8, 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  - 2026-08-08\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"}