{"slug":"litecoin-rpc","title":"Fastest free Litecoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for block-height queries against every available public Litecoin endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":171.635,"leader":{"name":"LitecoinSpace","slug":"litecoinspace","value":171.635},"rankings":[{"name":"LitecoinSpace","slug":"litecoinspace","ms":{"p50":171.635,"p90":182.293,"p99":201.701,"mean":175.076},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":530.003},{"name":"Tatum","slug":"tatum","ms":{"p50":194.516,"p90":232.443,"p99":596.636,"mean":207.175},"successRate":75.4278,"sampleSize":526.004}],"sparkline":[174.88,176.82,175.686,176.833,175.417,174.738,173.862,173.91,174.854],"sampleSize":1580.1730000000002,"asOf":"2026-08-28T02:38:45.573Z","headline":"LitecoinSpace posts the lowest rpc latency at 172 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Litecoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"LitecoinSpace posts the lowest rpc latency at 172 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Litecoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/litecoin-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Litecoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-28. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/litecoin-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_litecoin_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Litecoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/litecoin-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-28}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Litecoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 28, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/litecoin-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Litecoin RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/litecoin-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-28\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/litecoin-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/litecoin-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 (Tatum): {\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":<rotating>,\"method\":\"getblockcount\",\"params\":[]}. Plain HTTP POST. The result is a decimal integer.","Payload (BlockCypher): GET https://api.blockcypher.com/v1/ltc/main. Returns a JSON object with a height field containing the current block height.","Payload (LitecoinSpace): GET https://litecoinspace.org/api/blocks/tip/height. Returns the block height as a plain ASCII integer with no JSON wrapping.","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 (parsable block height returned), http_err, jsonrpc_err, stale (block more than 4 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=litecoin. Provider coverage at launch: 3 endpoints (Tatum, BlockCypher, LitecoinSpace)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}