{"slug":"moonbeam-rpc","title":"Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Moonbeam RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":94.5939,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":94.5939},"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":94.5939,"p90":261.042,"p99":526.61,"mean":152.338},"successRate":93.694,"sampleSize":4278.56},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":262.831,"p90":413.472,"p99":1249.93,"mean":257.32},"successRate":87.7876,"sampleSize":4299.82},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":324.384,"p90":335.614,"p99":395.868,"mean":327.353},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4284.8}],"sparkline":[153.657,170.562,169.595,147.258,116.507,119.08,138.087,152.847,151.367,148.361,141.525,141.58,140.046,140.57,138.996,130.335,123.562,124.931,127.034,126.753,124.474,132.32,151.154,146.94,149.676,151.402,173.561,171.464,162.007,149.321,148.65,157.521,170.936,169.712,165.605,159.949,170.837,170.446,170.263,167.158,169.544,163.671,164.63,161.379,166.056,167.657,163.523,168.137,174.224,185.677,185.669,183.095,182.746,158.661,130.265,102.908,105.072,110.009,111.384,113.733,131.28,149.698,159.654,171.346,173.266,179.371,167.692,172.383,170.741,169.294,148.355],"sampleSize":17168.99,"asOf":"2026-08-14T14:38:12.456Z","headline":"PublicNode leads rpc latency at 95 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"PublicNode leads rpc latency at 95 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/moonbeam-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-14. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/moonbeam-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_moonbeam_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/moonbeam-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/moonbeam-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/moonbeam-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-14\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/moonbeam-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/moonbeam-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. Non-cacheable by design: the latest-header fetch with a rotating id defeats edge caches that answer eth_blockNumber without touching a node.","Latency: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms → 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`. Latency without reliability is a misleading ranking signal.","Archive depth: every 5 minutes we issue `eth_getBalance` at (head − depth) for depths from Geth's default pruned cap up to 5M blocks, exposing which free endpoints actually serve historical state.","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, methodology and exclusion rules apply on every chain."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}