{"slug":"polygon-rpc","title":"Fastest free Polygon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Polygon RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":64.2068,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":64.2068},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":64.2068,"p90":180.016,"p99":342.563,"mean":87.1708},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4319.75},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":93.6453,"p90":358.195,"p99":4085.47,"mean":262.051},"successRate":97.7546,"sampleSize":4320.75},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":336.469,"p90":349.373,"p99":435.571,"mean":341.086},"successRate":99.8146,"sampleSize":4316.75}],"sparkline":[136.3,145.519,140.96,139.773,131.469,125.987,126.468,127.816,133.854,140.412,145.61,147.701,147.187,152.52,136.391,122.564,96.1865,92.8076,81.6239,77.5893,74.5373,73.545,74.9125,70.5754,70.7362,70.8015,80.5422,83.3707,75.6842,78.5865,73.3932,74.023,72.4331,73.4715,70.014,68.1088,65.5554,71.6834,65.7821,59.7913,57.231,50.9349,51.7121,48.6382,50.8304,56.315,59.2273,58.5456,62.7416,62.5869,62.2632,65.5561,66.8256,74.732,72.6021,74.1131,79.4807,86.0097,94.4165,99.2433,95.5713,94.0901,85.1694,85.4246,81.1481,75.0201,74.8937,70.6286,71.1022,83.5555,100.774,107.27,99.3749],"sampleSize":17278,"asOf":"2026-08-15T10:03:56.875Z","headline":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 64 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Polygon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 64 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Polygon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/polygon-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Polygon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/polygon-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_polygon_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Polygon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/polygon-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-15}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Polygon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 15, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/polygon-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Polygon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/polygon-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-15\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/polygon-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/polygon-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.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=\"polygon\". Provider coverage: 4 no-key endpoints (PublicNode, dRPC, Tenderly, Nodies). Exclusions follow the cluster-wide rules documented on the parent benchmark."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}