{"slug":"ink-rpc","title":"Ink RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the `eth_getBlockByNumber(\\\"latest\\\", false)` method against every free, no-key public Ink EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":74.1472,"leader":{"name":"QuickNode","slug":"ink-quicknode","value":74.1472},"leaders":[{"name":"QuickNode","slug":"ink-quicknode","value":74.1472}],"rankings":[{"name":"QuickNode","slug":"ink-quicknode","ms":{"p50":74.1472,"p90":83.0995,"p99":118.899,"mean":75.7462},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4336.75},{"name":"Gelato","slug":"ink-official","ms":{"p50":93.1764,"p90":104.916,"p99":316.322,"mean":105.081},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4322.75},{"name":"Tenderly Gateway","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":96.268,"p90":101.05,"p99":117.351,"mean":95.7094},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4337.75},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":148.699,"p90":258.005,"p99":659.245,"mean":174.511},"successRate":99.8379,"sampleSize":4319.75}],"sparkline":[78.7257,78.8669,83.2608,83.53,81.92,76.951,75.9666,76.429,76.3893,76.0652,76,78.5646,78.356,78.4521,75.2685,75.4339,74.9135,75.0268,75.513,74.615,73.8933,72.4219,72.0308,71.0149,70.4645,70.1474,70.7296,71.9533,72.2366,71.917,73.4777,74.0166,74.361,72.0036,72.1824,72.4372,72.8933,72.9215,73.4446,73.3027,73.4975,72.8706,72.8214,72.5479,72.9121,73.5342,73.7343,74.6527,76.237,76.6321,79.6658,91.9458,91.7055,88.2215,73.7289,73.8254,73.5295,76.914,77.3911,77.3612,74.597,73.9765,74.5286,74.8491,73.9201,73.5069,74.3452,76.3895,77.3192,76.7882,78.9382,79.5728,81.015],"sampleSize":17317,"asOf":"2026-10-23T15:12:20.445Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-23T15:12:20.445Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":4,"ranked":4,"headline":"QuickNode has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Ink RPC endpoints measured, 74 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"QuickNode has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Ink RPC endpoints measured, 74 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ink-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Ink RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-23. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ink-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_ink_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Ink RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ink-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-23}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Ink RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ink-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Ink RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ink-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-23\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ink-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/ink-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. The request id rotates, but that does not guarantee a cache miss: many caches normalise `id` away. Measured 2026-10-08, fixed and rotating ids answer within 2 to 4 percent of each other.","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 Ink-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"ink\"`. Provider coverage today: 4 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}