Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency
HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Moonbeam RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , dRPC leads rpc latency at 250 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Moonbeam RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/moonbeam-rpc.
Companion page
Comparing free RPC endpoints across every chain we measure? Open the cross-chain RPC matrix →
Moonbeam, the EVM chain of the Polkadot ecosystem, fields 4 no-key descoped cluster-wide to Ethereum and Arbitrum after its keyless per-IP daily budget proved too tight for continuous multi-chain probing; the remaining cohort covers the multi-chain gateways plus the chain-official endpoint. Probes every 60 seconds from three regions with the cluster's anti-cache payload.
Methodology
Per-chain member of the RPC latency cluster. We measure the round-trip latency of a single, identical RPC call (`eth_getBlockByNumber`) against every no-key public Moonbeam endpoint that sustains continuous probing, 4 providers, every 60 seconds, from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The harness also classifies every response (ok / http_err / jsonrpc_err / stale / timeout) and audits archive depth every 5 minutes, 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 Moonbeam-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Frequently asked
What is the fastest free Moonbeam RPC right now?
dRPC currently leads at 250 ms (`eth_getBlockByNumber` p50 over the last 24h), measured against 4 no-key providers probed every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The leaderboard re-sorts continuously against fresh Prometheus samples, so the answer on this page is the answer right now, not a quarterly snapshot. Use the region tabs to see the leader from the origin closest to your deployment.
Which Moonbeam RPCs work without an API key?
Four endpoints sustain continuous keyless probing: PublicNode, dRPC, Tenderly Gateway and the Moonbeam Foundation's official endpoint. 1RPC was descoped cluster-wide to Ethereum and Arbitrum because its keyless per-IP daily budget cannot sustain continuous multi-chain probing. Every listed endpoint was live-verified (eth_chainId match + anti-cache probe) before inclusion.
Does the fastest Moonbeam RPC change by region?
Frequently. The headline number averages three probe origins (us-east, eu-west, Singapore), but per-region leaders regularly diverge, a gateway that wins from Virginia can lose from Singapore by multiples. The region tabs at the top of the page re-scope every number on the page to a single origin; pick the one closest to where your requests actually originate.
How is Moonbeam RPC latency measured here?
One identical JSON-RPC POST (`eth_getBlockByNumber`) every 60 seconds against each provider from each of 3 regions, with the same plain HTTP client. Wall-clock round-trip is recorded at millisecond precision; p50/p90/p99 are computed via Prometheus `quantile_over_time` over 24 hours. Responses are classified (`ok` / `http_err` / `jsonrpc_err` / `stale` / `timeout`) so an endpoint stuck on an old head or returning errors behind HTTP 200 is never ranked as fastest. The harness is open source and every number on this page is a public Prometheus query you can run yourself.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities