{"slug":"fantom-rpc","title":"Fastest free Fantom RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Fantom EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":219.206,"leader":{"name":"Fantom Foundation","slug":"fantom-official","value":219.206},"rankings":[{"name":"Fantom Foundation","slug":"fantom-official","ms":{"p50":219.206,"p90":252.627,"p99":286.332,"mean":228.519},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4313.76},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":258.151,"p90":274.647,"p99":375.472,"mean":263.335},"successRate":95.5442,"sampleSize":4309.76}],"sparkline":[220.423,220.342,220.884,221.199,228.933,227.621,226.997,219.221,219.673,219.764,219.847,219.645,219.464,219.865,220.27,221.295,220.65,220.934,220.103,219.658,218.611,218.782,219.14,219.503,218.976,220.16,220.048,220.169,218.896,219.039,219.101,219.601,219.452,219.399,227.647,229.869,222.469,206.103,196.486,196.1,195.788,195.754,195.786,195.717,195.726,195.889,196.209,196.443,208.16,216.684,224.879,220.736,242.383,257.666,273.494,266.931,268.254,273.74,274.969,268.473,258.143,253.923,254.642,254.855,253.1,253.475,253.697,254.555,254.207,253.736,253.241,252.713,252.381],"sampleSize":12932.28,"asOf":"2026-09-10T03:59:03.901Z","headline":"Fantom Foundation posts the lowest rpc latency at 219 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Fantom RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Fantom Foundation posts the lowest rpc latency at 219 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Fantom RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/fantom-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Fantom RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-09-10. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/fantom-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_fantom_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Fantom RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/fantom-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-09-10}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Fantom RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved September 10, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/fantom-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Fantom RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/fantom-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-09-10\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/fantom-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/fantom-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` (HTTP 200 carrying an error body), `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=\"fantom\"`. Provider coverage at launch: 5 no-key endpoints (Fantom Foundation, dRPC, Ankr, Thirdweb, Blast API)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}