Fastest free Hedera RPC, live no-key endpoint latency
HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every available public Hedera EVM-compatible node, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , Hashio leads rpc latency at 243 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Hedera RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/hedera-rpc.
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Hedera is a proof-of-stake public distributed ledger using the Hashgraph consensus algorithm (asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant), targeting high throughput and deterministic finality in under 3 seconds. Hedera exposes an EVM-compatible JSON-RPC layer via Hashio, allowing standard eth_getBlockByNumber calls. Public EVM-compatible endpoints are available without an API key from Hashio (operated by the Hedera Foundation) and thirdweb. Every provider was live-verified with consecutive eth_getBlockByNumber probes at launch.
Methodology
Per-chain member of the RPC latency cluster, extended to Hedera. We measure the round-trip latency of a single eth_getBlockByNumber ("latest", false) call against every available public Hedera EVM node that sustains continuous probing: 2 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) with a Hedera-scaled staleness gap (100 blocks, around 5 min at 3 s/block). The cross-chain view lives on the parent rpc-capabilities benchmark; this page is the Hedera-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Frequently asked
What is the fastest free Hedera RPC right now?
Hashio currently leads at 243 ms (Hedera EVM block height p50 over the last 24h), measured against 2 providers probed every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The leaderboard re-sorts continuously against fresh Prometheus samples.
Which Hedera RPC endpoints work without an API key?
2 endpoints sustain continuous keyless probing at launch: Hashio (mainnet.hashio.io/api, operated by the Hedera Foundation) and thirdweb (295.rpc.thirdweb.com). Every listed endpoint was live-verified with an eth_getBlockByNumber call returning a parsable block number before inclusion.
Does the fastest Hedera RPC change by region?
Often. Public infra concentrates in specific regions; a gateway that wins from Amsterdam can lose from Singapore by multiples. The region tabs at the top of the page re-scope every number to a single origin.
How is Hedera RPC latency measured here, technically?
One eth_getBlockByNumber JSON-RPC call every 60 seconds against each provider from each of 3 regions. Wall-clock round-trip is recorded at millisecond precision; p50/p90/p99 are computed via Prometheus quantile_over_time over 24 hours. Best-effort measurements; p50 is the median, p90 the 90th percentile and p99 the 99th percentile of latency samples collected over the last 24 hours.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities