{"slug":"xlayer-rpc","title":"X Layer RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the `eth_getBlockByNumber(\"latest\", false)` method against every free, no-key public X Layer EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":150.337,"leader":{"name":"X Layer","slug":"xlayer-official","value":150.337},"leaders":[{"name":"X Layer","slug":"xlayer-official","value":150.337}],"rankings":[{"name":"X Layer","slug":"xlayer-official","value":150.337,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":150.337,"p90":183.306,"p99":332.03,"mean":161.167},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.75},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":159.976,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":159.976,"p90":190.521,"p99":449.796,"mean":169.084},"successRate":99.9305,"sampleSize":4316.75}],"sparkline":[156.234,156.012,157.454,154.881,155.361,156.676,162.372,161.3,160.168,156.455,158.809,164.861,168.126,166.49,160.655,156.751,156.125,156.906,155.107,153.744,162.319,165.866,168.11,157.879,155.87,153.482,157.791,161.682,163.518,160.958,159.429,161.862,161.869,158.648,154.766,154.539,154.856,160.544,161.434,163.187,163.737,162.149,160.84,156.844,157.487,160.239,158.793,160.556,160.905,161.521,165.28,165.344,166.913,159.367,156.737,154.213,157.25,162.727,166.043,166.729,163.22,165.122,165.685,164.35,163.024,163.939,175.453,176.995,175.501,165.881,160.512,159.736,158.998],"sampleSize":12955.25,"asOf":"2026-11-03T05:59:21.094Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-11-03T05:59:21.094Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":2,"ranked":2,"headline":"X Layer has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public X Layer RPC endpoints measured, 150 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"X Layer has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public X Layer RPC endpoints measured, 150 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xlayer-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"X Layer RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-11-03. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xlayer-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_xlayer_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {X Layer RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xlayer-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-11-03}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). X Layer RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xlayer-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - X Layer RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xlayer-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-11-03\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xlayer-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/xlayer-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. The request id rotates, but that does not guarantee a cache miss: many caches normalise `id` away. Measured 2026-10-08, fixed and rotating ids answer within 2 to 4 percent of each other.","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 X Layer-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"xlayer\"`. Provider coverage: 2 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}