{"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":18.6639,"leader":{"name":"Etherlink Foundation","slug":"etherlink-official","value":18.6639},"leaders":[{"name":"Etherlink Foundation","slug":"etherlink-official","value":18.6639}],"rankings":[{"name":"Etherlink Foundation","slug":"etherlink-official","ms":{"p50":18.6639,"p90":29.3613,"p99":79.6707,"mean":22.8008},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4319.72},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":167.797,"p90":309.252,"p99":483.855,"mean":179.115},"successRate":98.9348,"sampleSize":4319.72}],"sparkline":[24.271,22.7233,21.6863,24.7355,29.0995,29.6045,26.6223,21.9235,21.3739,21.7802,21.5294,22.0281,21.8221,21.2843,21.1819,20.4697,21.9921,21.8106,22.2776,20.9762,20.9856,21.2281,21.9531,22.4318,22.0054,21.0668,21.616,21.2959,21.4314,21.1847,21.3202,22.3789,22.4327,23.3032,22.9076,22.7561,22.8647,23.3725,23.9919,27.6771,27.0159,25.7763,22.3986,22.1347,22.6906,22.4293,22.0624,23.1932,23.0891,24.3381,24.5062,24.639,24.0494,24.7968,24.4913,24.356,23.5448,23.6548,23.6331,22.2254,21.9382,22.1038,22.0358,21.7141,21.35,21.5162,21.6786,20.7603,20.1166,21.1955,22.0122,21.6808,20.9995],"sampleSize":8639.44,"asOf":"2026-10-07T01:05:47.689Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-07T01:05:47.689Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":2,"ranked":2,"headline":"Etherlink Foundation has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public Etherlink RPC endpoints measured, 19 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"Etherlink Foundation has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public Etherlink RPC endpoints measured, 19 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 2026-10-07. 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 2026-10-07}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Etherlink RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 7, 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  - 2026-10-07\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"}