{"slug":"etherlink-rpc","title":"Etherlink RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Etherlink EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":17.2454,"leader":{"name":"Etherlink Foundation","slug":"etherlink-official","value":17.2454},"rankings":[{"name":"Etherlink Foundation","slug":"etherlink-official","ms":{"p50":17.2454,"p90":39.3209,"p99":108.513,"mean":27.0309},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4316.76},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":204.554,"p90":297.512,"p99":517.991,"mean":196.323},"successRate":99.3056,"sampleSize":4320.76}],"sparkline":[21.3092,21.6081,20.6718,23.9545,29.7783,33.478,35.7624,31.836,29.3539,24.3223,23.7277,21.7709,21.2998,20.5341,20.8466,21.3784,21.1939,22.2294,22.1626,23.5684,22.3852,21.3195,20.7123,21.2449,24.1022,27.128,30.0685,30.2733,25.9682,22.1094,18.3282,18.1834,19.7555,21.6115,22.9486,20.928,22.2808,25.3997,30.3471,31.7472,27.3873,23.0921,20.324,21.8573,21.3879,24.0361,26.7425,27.7307,23.6951,25.406,29.4268,34.3354,30.1461,26.8444,30.8372,32.6017,34.9671,38.4489,40.1063,39.5847,30.5797,30.9085,31.5484,32.3275,31.1304,27.1549,23.1081,19.9955,20.6432,22.0929,22.1114,42.2303,50.4535],"sampleSize":8637.52,"asOf":"2026-09-22T11:08:01.403Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-09-22T11:08:01.403Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":2,"headline":"Etherlink Foundation has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public Etherlink RPC endpoints measured, 17 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"Etherlink Foundation has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public Etherlink RPC endpoints measured, 17 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/etherlink-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Etherlink RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-09-22. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/etherlink-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_etherlink_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Etherlink RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/etherlink-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-09-22}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Etherlink RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved September 22, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/etherlink-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Etherlink RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/etherlink-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-09-22\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/etherlink-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/etherlink-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 Etherlink-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"etherlink\"`. Provider coverage today: 2 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}