{"slug":"tezos-rpc","title":"Fastest free Tezos RPC, live no-key endpoint 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":193.891,"leader":{"name":"TezBeta","slug":"tzbeta","value":193.891},"rankings":[{"name":"TezBeta","slug":"tzbeta","ms":{"p50":193.891,"p90":208.018,"p99":842.128,"mean":218.133},"successRate":99.6528,"sampleSize":1473.81},{"name":"TzKT (Baking Bad)","slug":"tzkt","ms":{"p50":269.826,"p90":445.034,"p99":720.848,"mean":313.704},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1469.69},{"name":"SmartPy","slug":"smartpy","ms":{"p50":293.53,"p90":300.562,"p99":395.892,"mean":297.178},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":562.69},{"name":"TCInfra","slug":"tcinfra","ms":{"p50":594.241,"p90":1129.3,"p99":2191.37,"mean":742.899},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":562.691}],"sparkline":[278.167,224.699,212.902,204.605,204.064,221.319,208.522,209.122,202.735,203.561,204.346,236.933,237.821,242.154,211.119,239.111,264.738,251.648,223.04,203.674,204.523,204.852,203.65,205.197,202.352],"sampleSize":4068.8810000000003,"asOf":"2026-08-19T18:35:16.264Z","headline":"TezBeta leads rpc latency at 194 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Tezos RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"TezBeta leads rpc latency at 194 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Tezos RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/tezos-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Tezos RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/tezos-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_tezos_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Tezos RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/tezos-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-21}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Tezos RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 21, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/tezos-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Tezos RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/tezos-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-21\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: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms to 10 s), so percentiles are computed via Prometheus quantile_over_time over the last 24 hours.","Call-result classification: ok (HTTP 200 + parsable level integer), http_err, jsonrpc_err, stale (block more than 10 behind the cross-provider tip), timeout. Latency without reliability is a misleading ranking signal.","This page is part of the per-chain RPC cluster derived from the cross-chain rpc-capabilities benchmark; the identical harness, cadence and exclusion rules apply on every chain.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=tezos. Provider coverage at launch: 4 endpoints (SmartPy, TezBeta, TzKT, TCInfra)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}