Fastest free MegaETH RPC, live no-key endpoint latency
HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public MegaETH RPC endpoint, audited every 30 seconds from 3 regions.
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MegaETH markets itself as the real-time Ethereum L2. 10 ms mini-blocks batched into 1 s EVM blocks, data availability on EigenDA and ZK fraud proofs via Kailua, live on mainnet since February 2026. Marketing aside, builders still reach it through ordinary JSON-RPC, and the free tier of that surface is what this page measures. the official mainnet.megaeth.com endpoint plus 1RPC, dRPC and Tenderly Gateway, probed every 30 seconds from three regions with the cluster's anti-cache payload. The chain's 10 ms story lives on its WebSocket realtime API; the HTTP numbers below are what a wallet, indexer or bot actually experiences when polling.
Methodology
We measure the round-trip latency of a single, identical RPC call (`eth_getBlockByNumber`) against every no-key public MegaETH endpoint that sustains continuous probing, 4 providers, every 30 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, honest availability rather than a fast error message. The cross-chain view lives on the parent rpc-capabilities benchmark; this page is the MegaETH-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns first-class.
Frequently asked
What is the fastest free MegaETH RPC right now?
MegaETH Official currently leads at 46 ms (p50 over 24h), measured against 4 no-key providers probed every 30 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The leaderboard re-sorts continuously against fresh Prometheus samples.
Which MegaETH RPCs work without an API key in 2026?
Four endpoints sustain continuous keyless probing: the official mainnet.megaeth.com/rpc (dynamic compute-unit limiting), 1RPC, dRPC and Tenderly Gateway. All were live-verified (eth_chainId 4326 + anti-cache probe) before inclusion. The 10 ms mini-block realtime API is WebSocket-only and out of scope for this HTTP latency page.
Does this page measure MegaETH's 10 ms real-time claim?
No, and deliberately so. The 10 ms figure refers to sequencer mini-blocks delivered over the WebSocket realtime API; this page measures the plain HTTP JSON-RPC surface that wallets, indexers and most tooling actually poll. Both numbers are real, they describe different transport layers. A WebSocket-level benchmark is a separate methodology.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities