{"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":262.556,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":262.556},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":262.556,"p90":341.951,"p99":1522.83,"mean":257.234},"successRate":91.40129999999999,"sampleSize":4304.1}],"sparkline":[182.473,176.327,222.073,221.777,229.913,255.665,279.16,279.041,301.301,304.412,321.026,271.532,275.632,258.801,292.99,295.61,296.204,262.887,262.614,274.051,297.618,266.694,253.391,236.683,240.974,249.034,237.535,241.141,236.072,256.802,264.352,283.028,263.226,260.515,251.91,276.841,254.849,238.339,212.976,210.166,222.671,230.415,259.579,247.995,249.491,224.131,231.181,223.576,238.401,228.997,242.233,257.419,271.675,300.249,286.319,310.093,264.431,265.734,228.668,230.943,234.87,229.536,250.242,263.108,259.654],"sampleSize":17161.38,"asOf":"2026-08-19T10:43:48.032Z","headline":"dRPC posts the lowest rpc latency at 263 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC posts the lowest rpc latency at 263 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 2026-08-22. 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 2026-08-22}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 22, 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  - 2026-08-22\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"}