{"slug":"thundercore-rpc","title":"Fastest free ThunderCore RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every available public ThunderCore node, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":36.5984,"leader":{"name":"ThunderToken","slug":"thundertoken","value":36.5984},"rankings":[{"name":"ThunderToken","slug":"thundertoken","ms":{"p50":36.5984,"p90":199.046,"p99":505.908,"mean":72.2786},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":559.691},{"name":"ThunderCore Official","slug":"thundercore-official","ms":{"p50":36.8819,"p90":133.121,"p99":376.536,"mean":59.6513},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1465.69},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":209.912,"p90":296.128,"p99":1608.63,"mean":230.519},"successRate":76.1611,"sampleSize":1464.7}],"sparkline":[37.6009,50.8297,64.0568,71.5301,77.8541,69.2115,78.1495,75.4196,83.6622,71.9566],"sampleSize":3490.081,"asOf":"2026-08-19T18:35:16.295Z","headline":"ThunderToken leads rpc latency at 37 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free ThunderCore RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"ThunderToken leads rpc latency at 37 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free ThunderCore RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/thundercore-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free ThunderCore RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/thundercore-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_thundercore_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free ThunderCore RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/thundercore-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-21}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free ThunderCore RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 21, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/thundercore-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free ThunderCore RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/thundercore-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-21\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/thundercore-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/thundercore-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. Standard Ethereum JSON-RPC 2.0.","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 block number), http_err, jsonrpc_err, stale, 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=thundercore. Provider coverage at launch: 3 endpoints (ThunderCore Official, ThunderToken, dRPC)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}