{"slug":"world-chain-rpc","title":"Fastest free World Chain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the `eth_getBlockByNumber(\\\"latest\\\", false)` method against every free, no-key public World Chain EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":6.26284,"leader":{"name":"World Chain","slug":"worldchain-official","value":6.26284},"rankings":[{"name":"World Chain","slug":"worldchain-official","ms":{"p50":6.26284,"p90":7.398,"p99":22.0861,"mean":6.83776},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4309.75},{"name":"Tenderly Gateway","slug":"tenderly","ms":{"p50":236.127,"p90":245.384,"p99":276.125,"mean":237.602},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4290.74},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":339.719,"p90":949.858,"p99":1699.34,"mean":429.643},"successRate":86.919,"sampleSize":4281.74}],"sparkline":[6.88037,6.68214,7.9611,9.35223,12.2999,12.4491,11.5478,8.28105,6.94714,6.36231,6.59081,6.53551,6.59396,6.32519,6.50615,6.48231,6.76249,6.73598,6.77469,6.51532,6.37797,6.61582,6.97143,6.98541,6.88947,6.44538,6.47201,6.30972,6.32878,6.31792,6.26435,6.25607,6.255,6.39867,6.44375,6.54211,6.58582,6.74597,6.80652,6.96697,6.82194,6.74886,6.85074,6.82496,6.82268,6.5922,6.50599,6.42651,6.40187,6.51681,6.58124,6.47775,6.50074,6.45509,6.46724,6.4052,6.47447,6.4371,6.6757,6.58561,6.61072,6.37419,6.41628,6.36353,6.39942,6.45936,6.53523,6.53812,6.44726,6.56032,6.57429,6.6242,6.42754],"sampleSize":12882.23,"asOf":"2026-08-14T15:48:11.732Z","headline":"World Chain leads rpc latency at 6 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free World Chain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency.","quote":"World Chain leads rpc latency at 6 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free World Chain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/world-chain-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free World Chain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-14. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/world-chain-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_world_chain_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free World Chain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/world-chain-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free World Chain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/world-chain-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free World Chain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/world-chain-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-14\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/world-chain-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/world-chain-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 rotating id defeats edge caches that would answer a bare head query without touching a node.","Latency: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms → 10 s), so percentiles are computed via Prometheus `quantile_over_time` over the last 24 hours.","Call-result classification: `ok` (HTTP 200 + non-empty result with a parsable hex block number), `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err` (HTTP 200 carrying an error body), `stale` (more than 25 blocks 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](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/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=\"world-chain\"`. Provider coverage at launch: 3 no-key endpoints (World Chain, dRPC, Tenderly Gateway)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}