Fastest free XRP Ledger RPC, live no-key endpoint 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 leads rpc latency at 818 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free XRP Ledger RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/xrp-rpc.
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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
Per-chain member of the RPC latency cluster, extended to XRP Ledger. 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: 3 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 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.
Frequently asked
What is the fastest free XRP Ledger RPC right now?
Ripple currently leads at 818 ms (XRPL ledger_current p50 over the last 24h), measured against 3 no-key providers probed every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The leaderboard re-sorts continuously against fresh Prometheus samples.
Which XRP Ledger nodes work without an API key?
3 endpoints sustain continuous keyless probing at launch: Ripple's public s1 node, XRPL Labs cluster and PublicNode. Every listed endpoint was live-verified with a ledger_current POST returning a parsable ledger index before inclusion.
Does the fastest XRP 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 XRP Ledger RPC latency measured here, technically?
One identical ledger_current POST 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