{"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":13.8811,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":13.8811},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":13.8811,"p90":202.685,"p99":829.341,"mean":83.3568},"successRate":99.8839,"sampleSize":4307.44},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":94.3221,"p90":239.275,"p99":4009.6,"mean":232.907},"successRate":98.3316,"sampleSize":4316.45},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":332.245,"p90":350.679,"p99":815.301,"mean":355.98},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4311.44}],"sparkline":[47.2517,43.5186,49.6802,51.5518,52.4066,50.768,51.0075,52.7589,52.5867,44.5403,46.3302,46.0268,53.6581,63.4305,80.6893,93.544,87.5433,86.5935,77.938,105.31,115.812,155.076,132.736,130.693,105.983,109.278,84.4927,74.6851,91.3526,116.862,115.76,95.0337,80.6705,79.8795,91.1181,84.9683,91.4245,87.8674,113.739,116.217,286.72,274.925,299.195,130.949,120.178,82.7893,66.3396,62.4717,71.9839,72.199,72.1862,58.5932,54.3232,50.5033,52.879,60.7248,73.162,75.4688,72.5735,63.3022,54.9128,50.1056,49.221,50.5631,46.4646,46.9222,47.1635,50.5095,47.0935,40.5641,43.9862,48.2426,54.9374],"sampleSize":17253.769999999997,"asOf":"2026-08-18T00:29:14.264Z","headline":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 14 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Polygon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 14 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 2026-08-18. 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 2026-08-18}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Polygon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 18, 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  - 2026-08-18\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"}