Scroll RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency
HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Scroll RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Scroll RPC endpoints measured, 70 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/scroll-rpc. Chain ID 534352. 3 public endpoints, no key: scroll-rpc.publicnode.com, gateway.tenderly.co, scroll.drpc.org. Full URLs with their 24h median are listed below.
Companion page
Comparing free RPC endpoints across every chain we measure? Open the cross-chain RPC matrix →
Scroll runs the same gateway field as Linea (3 providers, listed in the endpoints table), making the two chains a natural controlled experiment: same providers, same probe, different chain infrastructure. The differences you see between this page and the Linea leaderboard are the chains, not the gateways. Probes every 60 seconds, three regions, stale-head detection against the cross-provider tip.
Methodology
Scroll: 3 free public RPC endpoints answering `eth_getBlockByNumber` every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore, ranked by 24h median. PublicNode leads at 70 ms. We measure the round-trip latency of a single, identical RPC call (`eth_getBlockByNumber`) against every no-key public Scroll endpoint that sustains continuous probing, 3 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 Scroll-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Results: 3 free public Scroll RPC endpoints ranked by p50 latency (24h, 3 regions)
| № | Providers | p50 | p90 | p99 | Success |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PublicNode | 70 ms | 79 ms | 203 ms | 99.93% |
| 2 | Tenderly | 148 ms | 155 ms | 216 ms | 100.00% |
| 3 | dRPC | 186 ms | 359 ms | 623 ms | 96.25% |
Public Scroll RPC endpoints measured
Chain ID 534352, currency ETH. 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.
PublicNodehttps://scroll-rpc.publicnode.com70 ms99.9%
Tenderlyhttps://gateway.tenderly.co/public/scroll-mainnet148 ms100.0%
dRPChttps://scroll.drpc.org186 ms96.3%
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.
Frequently asked
Which Scroll RPCs work without an API key?
The 3 providers on this page are listed with their URLs in the endpoints table above. Every (provider, chain) pair was live-verified no-key before inclusion, and anything that key-gates, region-blocks or rate-limits below our 60-second cadence is excluded rather than listed with an asterisk.
Which free RPC should I default to on Scroll?
Start from the current leader above, then check its per-region row for the origin closest to your deployment. With a 3-provider field the honest answer changes more often than on Ethereum, so a primary-plus-fallback pair (the top two on this page) is the resilient configuration rather than any single hardcoded URL.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities