Fastest free Zora RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency
HTTP round-trip latency for the `eth_getBlockByNumber(\"latest\", false)` method against every free, no-key public Zora EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , Zora Network leads rpc latency at 175 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Zora RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/zora-rpc.
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Zora is an OP Stack rollup (chain 7777777) operated by Zora Network, optimised for NFT minting and creative media on-chain, ~2 s sequencer cadence, ETH gas token, blob calldata settlement on Ethereum. 2026-08-03 re-audit brings the total to 4 clean keyless providers: the Zora Network official endpoint (rpc.zora.energy), dRPC (zora.drpc.org), Thirdweb (7777777.rpc.thirdweb.com), and Conduit (rpc-zora-mainnet-0.t.conduit.xyz). Excluded: Tenderly Gateway (no zora route), Alchemy public (ZORA_MAINNET not enabled on public tier), Blast API (discontinued).
Methodology
Per-chain member of the RPC latency cluster, extended to Zora. We measure the round-trip latency of a single, identical JSON-RPC call (`eth_getBlockByNumber(\"latest\", false)`) against every no-key public Zora endpoint that sustains continuous probing, 4 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 Zora-scaled staleness gap (20 blocks at Zora's ~2 s block time). The cross-chain view lives on the parent `rpc-capabilities` benchmark; this page is the Zora-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Frequently asked
What is the fastest free Zora RPC right now?
Zora Network currently leads at 175 ms (`eth_getBlockByNumber("latest", false)` 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. Use the region tabs to see the leader from the origin closest to your deployment.
Which Zora RPCs work without an API key?
4 endpoints sustain continuous keyless probing: the Zora Network official endpoint (rpc.zora.energy), dRPC (zora.drpc.org), Thirdweb (7777777.rpc.thirdweb.com), and Conduit (rpc-zora-mainnet-0.t.conduit.xyz). Every listed endpoint was live-verified with a `eth_getBlockByNumber` POST returning a parsable response before inclusion. See the methodology section for the endpoints that were audited and excluded.
Does the fastest Zora 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; pick the one closest to where your requests originate.
How is Zora RPC latency measured here, technically?
One identical `eth_getBlockByNumber("latest", false)` POST every 60 seconds against each provider from each of 3 regions, using the same plain HTTP client the rest of the RPC cluster uses. 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.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities