{"slug":"moonbeam-rpc","title":"Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_blockNumber against every free, no-key public Moonbeam RPC endpoint, audited every 15 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"value":15.6667,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":15.6667},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":15.6667,"p90":27.3333,"p99":60.9033,"mean":19.7274},"successRate":88.684,"sampleSize":8626.61},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":79.6667,"p90":88.3333,"p99":215.72,"mean":84.1326},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":8624.61},{"name":"Moonbeam","slug":"moonbeam-official","ms":{"p50":256,"p90":284.333,"p99":710.667,"mean":251.907},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":8631.61},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":327.667,"p90":339,"p99":357.903,"mean":330.257},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":8623.61},{"name":"1RPC","slug":"1rpc","ms":{"p50":418.667,"p90":4704.57,"p99":6722.67,"mean":1277.66},"successRate":1.50745,"sampleSize":8625.61}],"sparkline":[18.2929,17.1435,16.6749,16.1471,15.2342,14.393,14.2771,14.4852,13.9417,14.5081,14.0723,14.6982,13.6907,13.6755,13.4707,13.301,13.4861,13.3427,13.2773,16.7215,17.1927,17.5643,14.0731,14.9001,16.8383,17.5642,17.5245,17.137,17.8482,17.7056,17.2268,17.4652,17.824,18.1355,22.2601,22.5891,22.9461,18.4363,18.4576,18.6283,20.0823,20.4285,19.4702,18.7577,18.364,18.1138,17.0647,16.8213,16.8032,17.3611,18.0598,19.8156,19.2533,18.7974,18.589,20.0086,21.0111,22.2212,23.4113,25.9665,27.5067,28.8882,27.9088,26.6435,25.4688,24.9706,26.4195,26.2286,26.2105,49.2383,47.5056,47.0644,21.5523],"sampleSize":43132.05,"asOf":"2026-07-04T18:01:19.878Z","headline":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 16 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 16 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 2026-07-04. 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 2026-07-04}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved July 4, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/moonbeam-rpc"},"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 15 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\":1,\"method\":\"eth_blockNumber\",\"params\":[]}`. 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 → 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.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=\"moonbeam\". Provider coverage: 5 no-key endpoints (PublicNode, dRPC, 1RPC, Tenderly, Moonbeam). Exclusions follow the cluster-wide rules documented on the parent benchmark."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}