{"slug":"tezos-rpc","title":"Tezos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for GET /chains/main/blocks/head/header against every available public Tezos node, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":90.5181,"leader":{"name":"TezBeta","slug":"tzbeta","value":90.5181},"leaders":[{"name":"TezBeta","slug":"tzbeta","value":90.5181}],"rankings":[{"name":"TezBeta","slug":"tzbeta","ms":{"p50":90.5181,"p90":103.103,"p99":392.904,"mean":105.226},"successRate":99.1156,"sampleSize":4326.9},{"name":"SmartPy","slug":"smartpy","ms":{"p50":167.117,"p90":627.411,"p99":2004.64,"mean":316.246},"successRate":86.05120000000001,"sampleSize":4309.7},{"name":"TzKT (Baking Bad)","slug":"tzkt","ms":{"p50":204.327,"p90":384.636,"p99":694.99,"mean":252.437},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4317.64},{"name":"TCInfra","slug":"tcinfra","ms":{"p50":247.508,"p90":269.668,"p99":337.166,"mean":244.724},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4322.64}],"sparkline":[104.309,100.015,97.2685,117.121,119.561,122.877,122.515,147.859,146.552,130.593,105.209,105.566,103.709,103.9,105.231,107.095,105.653,104.602,103.707,102.878,107.819,100.293,98.5946,96.2242,95.0497,94.8759,93.7503,95.6553,103.14,104.738,111.064,112.242,107.028,99.7842,96.5564,95.4726,95.5756,99.5839,101.045,101.806,100.921,107.573,105.99,97.5226,94.713,95.2961,95.3275,94.7508,94.3535,94.4617,95.9926,122.058,129.347,128.709,107.521,109.87,114.127,118.563,107.766,101.358,95.8322,96.2439,96.5311,98.0221,97.9523,97.9292,96.6746,95.8155,94.1098,93.8995,95.0862,97.0986,99.0597],"sampleSize":17276.879999999997,"asOf":"2026-10-05T03:38:44.045Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-05T03:38:44.045Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":4,"ranked":4,"headline":"TezBeta has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Tezos RPC endpoints measured, 91 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"TezBeta has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Tezos RPC endpoints measured, 91 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/tezos-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Tezos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-05. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/tezos-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_tezos_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Tezos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/tezos-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-05}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Tezos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 5, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/tezos-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Tezos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/tezos-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-05\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/tezos-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/tezos-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: HTTP GET /chains/main/blocks/head/header. Plain REST call. The response carries a JSON object with the level field as a plain integer.","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 Tezos-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=tezos. Provider coverage today: 4 endpoints (SmartPy, TezBeta, TzKT, TCInfra)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}