{"slug":"taiko-rpc","title":"Taiko RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Taiko RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":73.137,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":73.137},"leaders":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":73.137}],"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":73.137,"p90":87.2382,"p99":278.042,"mean":80.1712},"successRate":99.9768,"sampleSize":4319.72},{"name":"Taiko","slug":"taiko-official","ms":{"p50":127.602,"p90":140.707,"p99":488.064,"mean":143.474},"successRate":99.9536,"sampleSize":4315.72},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":142.454,"p90":190.216,"p99":353.731,"mean":158.875},"successRate":99.46730000000001,"sampleSize":4318.72},{"name":"Tenderly","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":154.051,"p90":160.254,"p99":167.591,"mean":154.571},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4319.72}],"sparkline":[81.9645,80.8937,76.6829,74.854,73.6634,72.7588,72.6813,74.6885,77.5689,79.7382,83.4615,80.0835,78.8545,74.6287,75.5004,75.3884,76.0035,77.3274,78.3602,75.5736,73.8225,71.3709,72.9064,76.0326,78.291,76.5727,73.3922,71.8915,71.6384,75.1363,78.4129,80.33,78.4059,76.0902,75.9596,76.0836,76.7009,77.7405,81.5424,80.4878,82.2965,78.259,84.5062,84.3282,87.8731,87.7406,85.6295,82.5333,79.0607,81.9172,80.7376,78.3851,75.4881,77.2972,79.9302,82.9287,84.7468,83.4754,81.3739,80.3088,83.0562,83.7912,85.9446,83.7841,83.8736,83.5709,82.0723,82.2614,82.7089,90.8783,107.885,105.987,98.3262],"sampleSize":17273.88,"asOf":"2026-10-06T19:35:17.669Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-06T19:35:17.669Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":4,"ranked":4,"headline":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Taiko RPC endpoints measured, 73 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Taiko RPC endpoints measured, 73 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/taiko-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Taiko RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-06. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/taiko-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_taiko_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Taiko RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/taiko-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-06}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Taiko RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 6, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/taiko-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Taiko RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/taiko-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-06\r\nER  - \r\n"},"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 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 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 Taiko-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=\"taiko\". Provider coverage: 4 no-key public-read endpoints live today, each listed with its URL in the endpoints table on this page. Exclusions follow the cluster-wide rules documented on the parent benchmark."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}