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Filecoin RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency

HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Filecoin FEVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.

TL;DR. As of , Ankr has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Filecoin RPC endpoints measured, 48 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/filecoin-rpc. 3 public endpoints, no key: rpc.ankr.com, api.node.glif.io, filecoin.drpc.org. Full URLs with their 24h median are listed below.

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Filecoin's EVM-compatible runtime (FEVM, chain 314) makes the storage network directly addressable via standard Ethereum tooling. Glif's public node (`api.node.glif.io/rpc/v1`) is the canonical keyless entry point operated by Glif.io, with dRPC and Ankr providing multi-cloud alternatives. Every provider is live-verified with consecutive keyless probes before inclusion.

Methodology

Filecoin: 3 free public RPC endpoints answering `eth_getBlockByNumber` every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore, ranked by 24h median. Ankr leads at 48 ms. We measure the round-trip latency of a single, identical RPC call (`eth_getBlockByNumber`) against every no-key public Filecoin FEVM endpoint that sustains continuous probing, 3 providers live today, 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 Filecoin-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.

  • 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.
  • 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](openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities#methodology); this page is the Filecoin-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.
  • Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain="filecoin"`. Provider coverage today: 3 no-key endpoints.

Results: 3 free public Filecoin RPC endpoints ranked by p50 latency (24h, 3 regions)

Filecoin RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency: RPC latency per provider (p50, 24h).
№Providersp50p90p99Success
1Ankr48 ms65 ms126 ms100.00% (n=4321)
2Glif117 ms200 ms391 ms100.00% (n=4324)
3dRPC253 ms508 ms624 ms100.00% (n=4316)

Public Filecoin RPC endpoints measured

The 3 no-key endpoints answering our probes today, with their current 24h median. Paste one into a wallet or a client as is: no signup, no key. Private providers (API key) are never listed with a URL.

  • Ankr logoAnkrhttps://rpc.ankr.com/filecoin48 ms100.0%
  • Glif logoGlifhttps://api.node.glif.io/rpc/v1117 ms100.0%
  • dRPC logodRPChttps://filecoin.drpc.org253 ms100.0%

Median round-trip and success rate over the last 24 hours across the probe regions; the ranked table above carries p90, p99 and the per-region split.

Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities