Fastest free Aurora RPC, live no-key endpoint latency
HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Aurora RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , Aurora Labs leads rpc latency at 197 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Aurora RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/aurora-rpc.
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Aurora is the EVM runtime on NEAR Protocol (chain 1313161554), exposing full Ethereum tooling to NEAR's sharded execution environment. The official endpoint (`mainnet.aurora.dev`) is operated by Aurora Labs with dRPC and Ankr providing additional keyless alternatives. Every provider is live-verified before inclusion.
Methodology
Per-chain member of the RPC latency cluster, extended to Aurora. We measure the round-trip latency of a single, identical RPC call (`eth_getBlockByNumber`) against every no-key public Aurora endpoint that sustains continuous probing, 3 providers at launch, every 60 seconds, from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The harness classifies every response (ok / http_err / jsonrpc_err / stale / timeout) so the leaderboard rewards sustained availability rather than fast error messages. The cross-chain view lives on the parent `rpc-capabilities` benchmark; this page is the Aurora-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Frequently asked
What is the fastest free Aurora RPC right now?
Aurora Labs currently leads at 197 ms (`eth_getBlockByNumber` p50 over the last 24h), measured against 3 no-key providers probed every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The leaderboard re-sorts continuously against fresh Prometheus samples.
Which Aurora RPCs work without an API key?
3 endpoints sustain continuous keyless probing at launch: Aurora Official, dRPC, Ankr. Every listed endpoint was live-verified before inclusion.
Does the fastest Aurora RPC change by region?
Often. The region tabs at the top of the page re-scope every number to a single origin; pick the one closest to where your requests originate.
How is Aurora RPC latency measured here?
One identical JSON-RPC POST (`eth_getBlockByNumber`) every 60 seconds against each provider from each of 3 regions. Responses are classified so an endpoint stuck on an old head or returning errors is never ranked as fastest.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities