Ethereum RPC endpoints: free public URLs and private API-key providers by latency
RPCsDwellir
Trails76 ms
- rank
- #6
Validation Cloud
Leads37 ms
- rank
- #5
Dwellir leads on 2 of 6 shared benchmarks, Validation Cloud on 4. Dwellir wins on Base RPC endpoints (31 ms vs 50 ms), Arc RPC endpoints (76 ms vs 80 ms). Validation Cloud wins on Ethereum RPC endpoints (37 ms vs 76 ms), Arbitrum RPC endpoints (94 ms vs 96 ms), Polygon RPC endpoints (111 ms vs 133 ms), Robinhood Chain RPC endpoints (72 ms vs 88 ms). Data as of 2026-10-14 UTC.
Web3 Foundation grantee running production-grade Substrate infrastructure across globally distributed bare-metal servers. Keyless public gateways on Polkadot, Kusama and every major parachain, plus dedicated node service.
Dwellir
Trails76 ms
Validation Cloud
Leads37 ms
Dwellir
Trails96 ms
Validation Cloud
Leads94 ms
Dwellir
Leads31 ms
Validation Cloud
Trails50 ms
Dwellir
Trails133 ms
Validation Cloud
Leads111 ms
Dwellir
Trails88 ms
Validation Cloud
Leads72 ms
Dwellir
Leads76 ms
Validation Cloud
Trails80 ms
Dwellir and Validation Cloud are compared on 6 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Dwellir leads on Base RPC endpoints. Validation Cloud leads on Ethereum RPC endpoints. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Base RPC endpoints benchmark, Dwellir leads at 31 ms versus Validation Cloud at 50 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.
Auto-generated pairs require: both providers in the same benchmark for seven consecutive days, at least 1000 samples per provider, observable third-party search demand, and a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. Editorially curated pairs (like this one) may publish early when search demand is high and data is accruing; panels with fewer than 100 samples are shown as provisional. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo.