{"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":34.5657,"leader":{"name":"FastNEAR","slug":"fastnear","value":34.5657},"leaders":[{"name":"FastNEAR","slug":"fastnear","value":34.5657}],"rankings":[{"name":"FastNEAR","slug":"fastnear","ms":{"p50":34.5657,"p90":66.9807,"p99":116.914,"mean":41.6903},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.64},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":105.211,"p90":143.071,"p99":276.98,"mean":119.22},"successRate":99.55969999999999,"sampleSize":4316.64},{"name":"NEAR Foundation","slug":"near-org","ms":{"p50":3032.94,"p90":3064.44,"p99":3095.21,"mean":3038.95},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4311.64}],"sparkline":[40.7116,38.1058,38.7839,36.9054,38.118,37.071,40.7349,41.2982,40.659,38.586,38.1892,43.4321,49.2659,48.7,46.3984,44.3441,47.6988,46.3841,44.3489,45.338,46.302,43.175,37.1203,35.2328,35.845,36.9712,38.0495,40.2348,44.1253,44.1667,49.2186,50.4815,52.0321,47.1184,47.3969,47.9986,48.8584,46.3067,45.6979,48.4119,47.9245,47.5193,45.8194,45.9446,45.638,43.1439,42.6846,40.7712,39.5433,39.0822,38.997,40.3504,37.6234,35.0581,31.4473,33.6374,35.5133,36.8727,36.7101,37.6908,38.7573,39.2957,39.4749,39.614,38.0611,37.7572,40.7627,42.8971,42.1954,40.5816,42.4373,43.6067,45.0721],"sampleSize":17242.55,"asOf":"2026-10-05T03:38:14.048Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-05T03:38:14.048Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":3,"ranked":3,"headline":"FastNEAR has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public NEAR RPC endpoints measured, 35 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"FastNEAR has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public NEAR RPC endpoints measured, 35 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 2026-10-05. 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 2026-10-05}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). NEAR RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 5, 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  - 2026-10-05\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"}