{"slug":"near-rpc","title":"NEAR RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for block (finality=final) against every available public NEAR Protocol node, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":36.1976,"leader":{"name":"FastNEAR","slug":"fastnear","value":36.1976},"leaders":[{"name":"FastNEAR","slug":"fastnear","value":36.1976}],"rankings":[{"name":"FastNEAR","slug":"fastnear","ms":{"p50":36.1976,"p90":72.7128,"p99":271.91,"mean":49.2766},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4319.79},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":107.683,"p90":133.012,"p99":221.976,"mean":114.072},"successRate":99.7453,"sampleSize":4321.8},{"name":"NEAR Foundation","slug":"near-org","ms":{"p50":3040.71,"p90":3093.29,"p99":3347.78,"mean":3056.32},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4315.79}],"sparkline":[48.2867,45.0413,45.9624,41.0747,41.4323,39.9705,38.9092,38.2282,39.7353,41.4939,41.8478,42.7987,41.4962,42.0158,42.149,42.8003,41.4329,41.3347,40.1192,40.24,40.506,40.6881,52.3222,54.4773,62.3826,81.6391,88.2765,85.6673,57.7615,52.3998,53.5984,55.9371,63.8434,89.0184,94.9288,84.1758,60.6565,56.9937,64.9904,71.8287,69.8354,65.4418,52.7168,49.0838,44.4197,44.3259,44.5278,43.4297,43.5987,43.2587,41.5765,40.4982,39.5519,42.376,43.0904,41.9334,39.2289,38.4213,39.2757,39.1938,40.309,41.0353,42.9653,43.457,45.1326,44.5659,41.8264,39.7346,39.3414,39.2287,42.158,47.5552,50.0797],"sampleSize":17259.17,"asOf":"2026-10-10T05:42:48.790Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-10T05:42:48.790Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":3,"ranked":3,"headline":"FastNEAR has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public NEAR RPC endpoints measured, 36 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"FastNEAR has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public NEAR RPC endpoints measured, 36 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/near-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"NEAR RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-10. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/near-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_near_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {NEAR RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/near-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-10}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). NEAR RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 10, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/near-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - NEAR RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/near-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-10\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/near-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/near-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\":\"block\",\"params\":{\"finality\":\"final\"}}. Plain HTTP POST. The response carries result.header.height as a decimal uint64.","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 NEAR-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=near. Provider coverage today: 3 endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}