{"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":94.7597,"leader":{"name":"TezBeta","slug":"tzbeta","value":94.7597},"leaders":[{"name":"TezBeta","slug":"tzbeta","value":94.7597}],"rankings":[{"name":"TezBeta","slug":"tzbeta","ms":{"p50":94.7597,"p90":105.227,"p99":405.768,"mean":104.138},"successRate":99.95349999999999,"sampleSize":4321.8},{"name":"SmartPy","slug":"smartpy","ms":{"p50":182.579,"p90":1725.87,"p99":5264.19,"mean":582.468},"successRate":87.6769,"sampleSize":4309.79},{"name":"TzKT (Baking Bad)","slug":"tzkt","ms":{"p50":209.306,"p90":445.997,"p99":768.884,"mean":274.492},"successRate":99.9768,"sampleSize":4318.79},{"name":"TCInfra","slug":"tcinfra","ms":{"p50":257.456,"p90":289.587,"p99":487.9,"mean":258.84},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4319.79}],"sparkline":[107.839,100.387,102.208,102.724,103.059,103.932,101.978,99.5994,97.2765,110.911,113.199,114.305,109.625,107.096,105.755,95.5115,95.9178,97.1588,98.5136,98.4666,97.958,100.522,110.678,110.058,101.073,96.7854,96.4251,97.5931,97.7752,99.1988,100.109,103.075,101.808,99.1536,94.7725,101.232,112.924,109.997,104.851,117.117,116.875,116.495,101.081,103.222,104.467,104.612,105.674,117.575,118.226,114.479,102.807,100.706,101.324,99.4899,99.0603,98.086,99.0678,100.465,103.214,103.349,103.416,104.627,106.523,107.655,106.808,104.959,105.344,102.325,102.6,102.527,104.648,106.298,105.776],"sampleSize":17270.170000000002,"asOf":"2026-10-10T05:58:48.813Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-10T05:58:48.813Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":4,"ranked":4,"headline":"TezBeta has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Tezos RPC endpoints measured, 95 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"TezBeta has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Tezos RPC endpoints measured, 95 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 2026-10-10. 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 2026-10-10}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Tezos RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 10, 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  - 2026-10-10\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"}