{"slug":"taiko-rpc","title":"Fastest free Taiko RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_blockNumber against every free, no-key public Taiko RPC endpoint, audited every 15 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"value":18.3333,"leader":{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":18.3333},"rankings":[{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":18.3333,"p90":31.3333,"p99":66.3433,"mean":22.2502},"successRate":87.0406,"sampleSize":8628.62},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":78.3333,"p90":88.6667,"p99":232.95,"mean":83.8419},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":8629.61},{"name":"Taiko","slug":"taiko-official","ms":{"p50":219,"p90":239,"p99":858.38,"mean":239.466},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":8611.61},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":325.333,"p90":336,"p99":341.667,"mean":327.575},"successRate":99.9768,"sampleSize":8628.61}],"sparkline":[22.1341,21.8911,20.6946,20.6359,18.8225,18.0684,16.1731,14.9093,14.5822,14.5874,15.3055,15.4239,15.704,15.5868,15.0837,14.9404,14.6104,14.677,14.9386,15.0327,15.1562,15.0153,15.5586,16.0247,16.2023,16.6364,16.9623,17.4019,17.2836,17.2858,17.6568,17.7915,17.7728,18.2869,21.2287,22.5099,22.7571,21.1377,21.1442,21.7373,21.3293,22.6998,22.6123,22.7683,22.1666,22.0074,22.3129,20.8996,20.9903,20.6404,22.4526,23.4523,23.7913,22.6279,21.6064,21.7426,22.2257,23.4889,29.672,31.4189,34.4564,31.716,31.6399,30.6687,31.6311,32.9685,32.0285,31.8935,30.3442,61.4737,60.4774,58.81,24.3596],"sampleSize":34498.450000000004,"asOf":"2026-07-04T18:00:19.881Z","headline":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 18 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Taiko RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"dRPC leads rpc latency at 18 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Taiko RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/taiko-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Taiko RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-07-04. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/taiko-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_taiko_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Taiko RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/taiko-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-07-04}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Taiko RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved July 4, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/taiko-rpc"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/taiko-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/taiko-rpc","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities","methodology":["Cadence: every 15 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\":1,\"method\":\"eth_blockNumber\",\"params\":[]}`. Plain HTTP POST, identical for every endpoint, no API key in any request.","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=\"taiko\". Provider coverage: 4 no-key endpoints (PublicNode, dRPC, Tenderly, Taiko). Exclusions follow the cluster-wide rules documented on the parent benchmark."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}