{"slug":"zcash-rpc","title":"Zcash RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for getblockcount against every available public Zcash endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":98.9463,"leader":{"name":"Tatum","slug":"tatum","value":98.9463},"leaders":[{"name":"Tatum","slug":"tatum","value":98.9463}],"rankings":[{"name":"Tatum","slug":"tatum","ms":{"p50":98.9463,"p90":108.625,"p99":146.925,"mean":95.878},"successRate":74.6697,"sampleSize":4315.79},{"name":"Blockchair","slug":"blockchair","ms":{"p50":142.022,"p90":166.233,"p99":588.648,"mean":162.2},"successRate":99.9536,"sampleSize":4314.79},{"name":"Tatum (Zebra)","slug":"tatum-zebra","ms":{"p50":164.552,"p90":203.421,"p99":271.138,"mean":171.23},"successRate":74.4186,"sampleSize":4300.79}],"sparkline":[96.4233,97.0468,93.9982,93.2246,92.8398,91.7769,93.6742,94.9336,96.2635,95.2273,93.4245,93.2261,92.5892,93.5164,93.1822,92.9227,93.313,92.502,93.4086,91.8911,91.3413,91.184,95.676,98.0001,100.08,99.0528,99.1974,98.0187,95.6153,95.3614,96.7909,96.806,96.3669,96.3163,97.5187,97.0732,92.5675,89.8419,90.6578,94.5256,95.4371,94.5567,96.7658,100.888,101.481,98.2551,96.6965,97.6082,99.7257,99.2453,98.2211,96.7892,96.8651,94.7308,94.023,94.0567,95.1296,94.5253,94.3522,96.2187,96.7852,97.0967,96.2239,97.8197,98.366,101.008,100.213,101.196,98.9551,100.337,98.8087,97.8989,95.8317],"sampleSize":12931.369999999999,"asOf":"2026-10-10T05:04:48.800Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-10T05:04:48.800Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":3,"ranked":3,"headline":"Tatum has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Zcash RPC endpoints measured, 99 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"Tatum has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Zcash RPC endpoints measured, 99 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/zcash-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Zcash RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-10. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/zcash-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_zcash_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Zcash RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/zcash-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-10}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Zcash RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 10, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/zcash-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Zcash RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/zcash-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-10\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/zcash-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/zcash-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 (Tatum zcashd, Tatum Zebra): {\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":<rotating>,\"method\":\"getblockcount\",\"params\":[]}. Plain HTTP POST. The result is a decimal integer (block count = current height + 1).","Payload (Blockchair): GET https://api.blockchair.com/zcash/stats. Returns a JSON object with a data.best_block_height field containing the current block height.","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 Zcash-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=zcash. Provider coverage today: 3 endpoints (Tatum zcashd, Tatum Zebra, Blockchair)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}