{"slug":"xrp-rpc","title":"Fastest free XRP Ledger RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for ledger_current against every free, no-key public XRP Ledger node, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":818.201,"leader":{"name":"Ripple","slug":"ripple","value":818.201},"rankings":[{"name":"Ripple","slug":"ripple","ms":{"p50":818.201,"p90":893.985,"p99":1450.56,"mean":844.989},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4312.6}],"sparkline":[865.936,858.256,845.386,832.058,824.488,827.605,831.099,829.128,822.869,815.218,811.906,824.551,827.069,829.774,822.534,823.524,825.079,829.04,833.859,837.496,834.272,834.244,837.779,848.265,871.649,877.847,874.593,854.739,851.318,847.87,845.187,844.162,841.51,843.469,833.004,840.613,834.517,835.176,830.02,838.129,844.692,849.739,846.404,845.175,839.221,838.258,841.717,844.853,842.954,837.494,829.326,826.434,829.33,841.24,861.46,865.386,903.112,1043.26,1067.28,1018.87,854.99,817.077,815.9,814.338,824.848,825.493,827.938,821.562,820.178,820.346,818.7,818.393,815.011],"sampleSize":12954.3,"asOf":"2026-08-19T18:35:16.509Z","headline":"Ripple leads rpc latency at 818 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free XRP Ledger RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Ripple leads rpc latency at 818 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free XRP Ledger RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xrp-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free XRP Ledger RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xrp-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_xrp_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free XRP Ledger RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xrp-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-21}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free XRP Ledger RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 21, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xrp-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free XRP Ledger RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xrp-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-21\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xrp-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/xrp-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: {\"method\":\"ledger_current\",\"params\":[{}]}. Plain HTTP POST. XRPL uses its own JSON-RPC envelope (no jsonrpc:2.0 field); errors are signalled via result.status='error'. Non-cacheable by design.","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 + result.ledger_current_index present and non-zero), http_err, jsonrpc_err, stale (ledger more than 75 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=xrp. Provider coverage at launch: 3 no-key endpoints (Ripple, XRPL Labs, PublicNode)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}