{"slug":"hedera-rpc","title":"Fastest free Hedera RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every available public Hedera EVM-compatible node, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":243.326,"leader":{"name":"Hashio","slug":"hashio","value":243.326},"rankings":[{"name":"Hashio","slug":"hashio","ms":{"p50":243.326,"p90":268.303,"p99":488.609,"mean":255.455},"successRate":99.6097,"sampleSize":3843.69}],"sparkline":[283.299,279.018,270.477,265.157,260.533,255.871,251.028,252.576,259.484,273.815,269.552,262.386,247.353,245.838,246.775,245.433,243.835,244.975,244.947,244.641,243.221,243.539,242.731,244.145,247.506,249.223,246.375,245.68,244.109,253.353,250.508,249.525,240.152,238.977,243.644,245.772,249.548,247.594,251.215,248.748,248.957,244.869,248.365,249.769,249.932,259.022,285.496,290.092,280.332,258.324,257.341,262.183,261.323,274.229,273.913,276.322,264.419,271.881,266.271,271.245,257.769,259.47,253.444,257.742,255.151],"sampleSize":7685.389999999999,"asOf":"2026-08-19T18:34:46.338Z","headline":"Hashio leads rpc latency at 243 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Hedera RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Hashio leads rpc latency at 243 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Hedera RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/hedera-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Hedera RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/hedera-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_hedera_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Hedera RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/hedera-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-21}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Hedera RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 21, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/hedera-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Hedera RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/hedera-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-21\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/hedera-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/hedera-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. Standard Ethereum JSON-RPC 2.0; Hedera's Hashio layer is EVM-compatible.","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 + parsable block number), http_err, jsonrpc_err, stale (block more than 100 behind the cross-provider tip), timeout. Latency without reliability is a misleading ranking signal.","This page is part of the per-chain RPC cluster derived from the cross-chain 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=hedera. Provider coverage at launch: 2 endpoints (Hashio, thirdweb)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}