{"slug":"near-rpc","title":"Fastest free NEAR RPC, live no-key endpoint 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":22.5929,"leader":{"name":"FastNEAR","slug":"fastnear","value":22.5929},"rankings":[{"name":"FastNEAR","slug":"fastnear","ms":{"p50":22.5929,"p90":32.3691,"p99":84.2596,"mean":26.041},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":3874.69},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":178.937,"p90":211.116,"p99":522.317,"mean":194.528},"successRate":91.33670000000001,"sampleSize":3867.7},{"name":"Lava","slug":"lava","ms":{"p50":282.313,"p90":682.397,"p99":1492.14,"mean":358.488},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":3850.69},{"name":"NEAR Foundation","slug":"near-org","ms":{"p50":3020.43,"p90":3029.37,"p99":3076.32,"mean":3023.91},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":3869.69}],"sparkline":[29.9308,22.3408,20.2619,16.9655,18.3318,19.8345,21.0903,19.6503,18.0543,16.8376,17.1505,17.6468,18.2754,18.595,19.587,20.2796,21.1335,21.5138,21.4786,21.8582,21.6908,22.4285,22.4549,22.793,22.646,29.4622,29.7299,31.0458,24.8839,25.497,26.1159,27.5651,27.7913,26.8574,27.877,27.5572,27.0084,24.0662,24.1039,24.2756,26.1342,25.4677,25.2195,23.6453,23.8172,25.6236,26.692,27.8028,28.2435,29.6234,30.484,32.8718,59.8581,62.0201,63.3996,40.4518,39.2173,33.224,27.2916,24.3825,23.118,22.4895,22.0498,22.5801,21.4034],"sampleSize":15462.77,"asOf":"2026-08-19T18:34:46.319Z","headline":"FastNEAR leads rpc latency at 23 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free NEAR RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"FastNEAR leads rpc latency at 23 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free NEAR RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/near-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free NEAR RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/near-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_near_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free NEAR RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/near-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-21}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free NEAR RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 21, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/near-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free NEAR RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/near-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-21\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: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms to 10 s), so percentiles are computed via Prometheus quantile_over_time over the last 24 hours.","Call-result classification: ok (HTTP 200 + parsable result.header.height), http_err, jsonrpc_err, stale (block more than 300 behind the cross-provider tip), timeout. Latency without reliability is a misleading ranking signal.","This page is part of the per-chain RPC cluster derived from the cross-chain rpc-capabilities benchmark; the identical harness, cadence and exclusion rules apply on every chain.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=near. Provider coverage at launch: 4 endpoints (NEAR Foundation, FastNEAR, Lava, dRPC)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}