{"slug":"etherlink-rpc","title":"Fastest free Etherlink RPC, live no-key endpoint 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":5,"leader":{"name":"Etherlink Foundation","slug":"etherlink-official","value":5},"rankings":[{"name":"Etherlink Foundation","slug":"etherlink-official","ms":{"p50":5,"p90":28.3333,"p99":50,"mean":10.5086},"successRate":99.9768,"sampleSize":4317.75},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":205.333,"p90":340.333,"p99":426.667,"mean":196.576},"successRate":85.6019,"sampleSize":4320.75}],"sparkline":[33.8887,33.0042,32.3014,30.3833,30.5792,30.7208,29.0889,25.1571,21.1138,18.1345,14.075,9.98472,12.9847,16.975,21.0883,17.5457,18.2823,17.8426,16.8986,17.2715,14.0029,10.644,5.82222,5.69583,5.62778,5.7,5.68472,7.025,8.15556,8.19861,8.23889,7.53333,7.62083,6.51528,6.17222,6.07222,5.74722,5.94306,6.00779,5.97898,7.14049,9.21806,9.15,7.93333,6.12083,6.21806,6.11055,6.49051,7.62683,7.49167,7.09444,7.14306,7.07639,9.00139,7.77083,7.95972,6.3875,6.37917,6.85278,7.40694,7.55056,6.82587,5.69513,5.91806,5.94306,6.06806,5.96806,5.94583,6.2875,6.25,6.3125,6.87639,7.00802],"sampleSize":8638.5,"asOf":"2026-08-08T06:36:00.129Z","headline":"Etherlink Foundation leads rpc latency at 5 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Etherlink RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Etherlink Foundation leads rpc latency at 5 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Etherlink RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/etherlink-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Etherlink RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-08. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/etherlink-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_etherlink_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Etherlink RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/etherlink-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-08}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Etherlink RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 8, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/etherlink-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Etherlink RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/etherlink-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-08\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: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms to 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`, `stale` (more than 20 blocks behind the cross-provider tip), `timeout`.","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, cadence and exclusion rules apply on every chain.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"etherlink\"`. Provider coverage at launch: 4 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}