XRP Ledger RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency
HTTP round-trip latency for ledger_current against every free, no-key public XRP Ledger node, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , Ripple is the only one of the 2 free public XRP Ledger RPC endpoints measured above the 50 % success floor, at 575 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xrp-rpc. 2 public endpoints, no key: s1.ripple.com:51234, xrplcluster.com. Full URLs with their 24h median are listed below.
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The XRP Ledger is a decentralized payment network using a federated consensus protocol (RPCA) that closes a new ledger every 3 to 4 seconds with instant, deterministic finality. Free public JSON-RPC endpoints are available without an API key from Ripple, XRPL Labs and PublicNode. Every provider was live-verified with consecutive keyless ledger_current probes at launch.
Methodology
XRP Ledger: 2 free public RPC endpoints answering `ledger_current` every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore, ranked by 24h median. Ripple leads at 575 ms. We measure the round-trip latency of a single JSON-RPC call (ledger_current) against every no-key public XRP Ledger node that sustains continuous probing: 2 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) with a XRPL-scaled staleness gap (75 ledgers, around 5 min). The cross-chain view lives on the parent rpc-capabilities benchmark; this page is the XRP-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Results: 2 free public XRP Ledger RPC endpoints measured, 1 ranked by p50 latency (24h, 3 regions)
Public XRP Ledger RPC endpoints measured
The 2 no-key endpoints answering our probes today, with their current 24h median; 1 of them sits below the 50 % success floor and is listed last. Paste one into a wallet or a client as is: no signup, no key. Private providers (API key) are never listed with a URL.
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 XRP Ledger nodes work without an API key?
3 endpoints are probed on this chain, each listed with its URL, 24h median and success rate in the endpoints table on this page. Every listed endpoint was live-verified with a ledger_current POST returning a parsable ledger index before inclusion.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities