{"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":100.271,"leader":{"name":"Tatum","slug":"tatum","value":100.271},"leaders":[{"name":"Tatum","slug":"tatum","value":100.271}],"rankings":[{"name":"Tatum","slug":"tatum","ms":{"p50":100.271,"p90":109.877,"p99":163.966,"mean":97.2478},"successRate":75.22569999999999,"sampleSize":4319.63},{"name":"Blockchair","slug":"blockchair","ms":{"p50":148.383,"p90":163.42,"p99":579,"mean":161.678},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4316.63},{"name":"Tatum (Zebra)","slug":"tatum-zebra","ms":{"p50":167.433,"p90":204.604,"p99":244.546,"mean":171.148},"successRate":74.3803,"sampleSize":4317.63}],"sparkline":[96.1002,96.5363,100.358,100.674,101.431,96.9591,94.5703,94.5685,96.2144,96.5842,97.8313,97.1974,96.7568,94.3921,94.4746,96.1044,101.936,100.956,100.021,94.2107,94.9548,94.8446,95.755,94.9023,95.8515,95.8067,96.782,96.24,94.886,94.4371,94.0717,97.7436,102.392,105.056,104.908,103.383,104.06,105.612,105.179,102.282,97.7776,96.4948,96.4878,98.0905,96.1164,96.9975,97.3098,99.5061,100.613,99.8017,98.1984,95.2521,95.0343,95.5247,95.6676,97.9566,96.706,97.0047,93.7776,93.6095,94.401,98.0054,97.7512,96.0932,91.97,92.2104,92.1284,93.0007,93.4928,94.3566,95.0516,96.409,98.0265],"sampleSize":12953.89,"asOf":"2026-10-12T01:50:20.034Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-12T01:50:20.034Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":3,"ranked":3,"headline":"Tatum has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Zcash RPC endpoints measured, 100 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"Tatum has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Zcash RPC endpoints measured, 100 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 2026-10-12. 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 2026-10-12}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Zcash RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 12, 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  - 2026-10-12\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"}