The Best 14 Public Polygon PoS RPC Endpoints and Providers in 2024?

The goal of our analysis is to determine the best public Polygon PoS RPC endpoint on mainnet for each continent as well as the best overall, globally. According to our infrastructure directory for Polygon PoS, there are at least 22 public endpoints for the mainnet on October 30, 2024 (list).

We are using our own (rpc) Performance Inspector which is a public web application. RPC providers change/expand their infrastructure and locations all the time which is why it might be useful for you to repeat test steps at your convenience here.

Please note that this performance comparison is not benchmarking. It would not make sense to use flood, chainbench (by Chainstack), k6 or another stress test / benchmarking tool for at least these reasons:

The endpoints are being used by the public and suffocating them with requests might degrade the experience for other unsuspecting users;
In most cases, the providers limit inbound traffic to public endpoints based on IP address and we would probably hit http429 errors very quickly.

Our Methodology

We believe in WAGMI to mean the entire world. Therefore, we send simultaneous RPC requests from 27 locations on 6 continents. Our “probes” are in AWS and not “in” your laptop browser.
For this analysis we configured the inspector to use the eth_blockNumber method and you can choose to use eth_getBalance instead.
Another setting for our runs was the limit to “not more than 1 request per region per second” whereas the alternative is to let each probe run as fast as it gets the previous response.
You can create an account with other providers like Infura, Alchemy, QuickNode and use their private endpoints to perform a similar analysis. We omitted providers without public endpoints but you can include them. We don’t record endpoints and our results contain just the domain names of the URLs which were included in the runs.
Since there were 22 providers and our inspector form accepts two at a time, we did 11 runs and combined their results for complete rankings. Although each run is for 2 providers, their computations are independent as each utilizes a separate instance of our RPC probe. See this Google Sheet or view “raw” individual results on the bottom of the page.
Each pair of providers was run for 30 seconds and should have been measured for 30 requests from each region for a total of 810 measures. Requests are dispatched sequentially, one at a time. Latency duration is the sum of timings of milliseconds from the moment the request is sent until a success response gets back to us. Btw, we do a warmup request in each region which is omitted from the results.
Additional info is in the FAQ on the bottom of the RPC Performance Inspector control form.

Eliminated Endpoints

1RPC and GetBlock had 15 errors like {"error":{"message":"Connection timeout","code":504}}
BlockEden.xyz and Node RPC blocked our probes from multiple regions and for too many requests.
Nodies and OMNIA had 49 errors like {"error":{"message":"Connection timeout","code":504}}
SubQuery Network and RPC Fast also had 17 errors.

The Top 14 Public Polygon PoS RPC Endpoints on Mainnet

Overall / Global Ranking

(27 AWS regions on October 30, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	Polygon Labs	63.16	0	0	810	51,160
2	BlockPI Network	85.62	0	0	810	69,350
3	dRPC	92.45	0	0	810	74,884
4	Ankr	118.54	0	0	810	96,014
5	Blast API	125.21	0	0	810	101,420
6	POKT Network	129.26	0	0	810	104,698
7	QuickNode	140.20	0	0	810	113,561
8	Tenderly	173.82	0	0	810	140,794
9	LlamaNodes	188.30	0	0	810	152,525
10	Allnodes	205.87	0	0	810	166,757
11	Flare Network	210.32	0	0	810	170,359
12	thirdweb	277.43	0	0	810	224,719
13	Etherspot	294.30	0	0	810	238,383
14	OnFinality	367.03	1	0	809	296,928

Best Public Polygon PoS RPC Endpoints on Mainnet for North America

(5 AWS regions on October 30, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	Polygon Labs	14.67	0	0	150	2,200
2	Ankr	15.17	0	0	150	2,276
3	QuickNode	35.52	0	0	150	5,328
4	dRPC	42.05	0	0	150	6,307
5	POKT Network	53.71	0	0	150	8,057
6	BlockPI Network	59.07	0	0	150	8,860
7	LlamaNodes	61.93	0	0	150	9,289
8	Allnodes	83.65	0	0	150	12,548
9	Blast API	85.74	0	0	150	12,861
10	Tenderly	137.93	0	0	150	20,689
11	Flare Network	162.89	0	0	150	24,433
12	thirdweb	169.43	0	0	150	25,415
13	OnFinality	218.17	0	0	150	32,725
14	Etherspot	263.81	0	0	150	39,572

Best Public Polygon PoS RPC Endpoints on Mainnet for South America

(1 AWS region on October 30, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	Ankr	15.27	0	0	30	458
2	dRPC	17.00	0	0	30	510
3	Polygon Labs	23.93	0	0	30	718
4	QuickNode	129.23	0	0	30	3,877
5	POKT Network	155.03	0	0	30	4,651
6	BlockPI Network	160.50	0	0	30	4,815
7	LlamaNodes	171.50	0	0	30	5,145
8	Blast API	205.83	0	0	30	6,175
9	Tenderly	218.07	0	0	30	6,542
10	Allnodes	219.67	0	0	30	6,590
11	thirdweb	247.53	0	0	30	7,426
12	Flare Network	252.83	0	0	30	7,585
13	OnFinality	297.00	0	0	30	8,910
14	Etherspot	464.80	0	0	30	13,944

Best Public Polygon PoS RPC Endpoints on Mainnet for Europe

(8 AWS regions on October 30, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	Tenderly	28.06	0	0	240	6,734
2	POKT Network	37.96	0	0	240	9,111
3	Allnodes	48.52	0	0	240	11,646
4	dRPC	52.17	0	0	240	12,520
5	BlockPI Network	56.46	0	0	240	13,550
6	Flare Network	58.43	0	0	240	14,024
7	Blast API	79.63	0	0	240	19,111
8	Polygon Labs	85.12	0	0	240	20,428
9	QuickNode	94.45	0	0	240	22,668
10	LlamaNodes	126.84	0	0	240	30,441
11	Etherspot	168.94	0	0	240	40,545
12	thirdweb	223.22	0	0	240	53,573
13	Ankr	229.78	0	0	240	55,148
14	OnFinality	279.70	0	0	240	67,128

Best Public Polygon PoS RPC Endpoints on Mainnet for the Middle East and Africa

(3 AWS regions on October 30, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	POKT Network	151.92	0	0	90	13,673
2	Tenderly	158.32	0	0	90	14,249
3	BlockPI Network	162.53	0	0	90	14,628
4	Flare Network	177.82	0	0	90	16,004
5	Polygon Labs	183.61	0	0	90	16,525
6	QuickNode	198.10	0	0	90	17,829
7	Blast API	200.27	0	0	90	18,024
8	Allnodes	210.84	0	0	90	18,976
9	LlamaNodes	246.27	0	0	90	22,164
10	dRPC	269.00	0	0	90	24,210
11	Etherspot	283.89	0	0	90	25,550
12	Ankr	313.37	0	0	90	28,203
13	thirdweb	337.19	0	0	90	30,347
14	OnFinality	641.30	1	0	89	57,076

Best Public Polygon PoS RPC Endpoints on Mainnet for Asia

(8 AWS regions on October 30, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	Ankr	37.00	0	0	240	8,880
2	Polygon Labs	42.71	0	0	240	10,251
3	BlockPI Network	79.42	0	0	240	19,061
4	dRPC	94.40	0	0	240	22,657
5	Blast API	127.94	0	0	240	30,705
6	QuickNode	214.74	0	0	240	51,537
7	POKT Network	221.65	0	0	240	53,197
8	LlamaNodes	283.13	0	0	240	67,952
9	Tenderly	309.29	0	0	240	74,229
10	thirdweb	361.05	0	0	240	86,652
11	Flare Network	365.38	0	0	240	87,690
12	Etherspot	371.16	0	0	240	89,079
13	Allnodes	381.46	0	0	240	91,551
14	OnFinality	428.92	0	0	240	102,941

Best Public Polygon PoS RPC Endpoints on Mainnet for Australia

(2 AWS regions on October 30, 2024)

No	Provider	Avg (ms)	Failed	429	Success	Duration (ms)
1	Polygon Labs	17.30	0	0	60	1,038
2	Ankr	17.48	0	0	60	1,049
3	BlockPI Network	140.60	0	0	60	8,436
4	dRPC	144.67	0	0	60	8,680
5	QuickNode	205.37	0	0	60	12,322
6	Blast API	242.40	0	0	60	14,544
7	POKT Network	266.82	0	0	60	16,009
8	LlamaNodes	292.23	0	0	60	17,534
9	Tenderly	305.85	0	0	60	18,351
10	Flare Network	343.72	0	0	60	20,623
11	thirdweb	355.10	0	0	60	21,306
12	Allnodes	424.10	0	0	60	25,446
13	OnFinality	469.13	0	0	60	28,148
14	Etherspot	494.88	0	0	60	29,693

Overall Winner on October 30, 2024

Congratulations to Polygon Labs as the best public Polygon Pos RPC endpoint on mainnet (all endpoints).

Polygon Labs wins the best results for public Polygon PoS RPC in North America, and Australia.

Ankr achieves best scores for public BSC RPC in South America and Asia.

POKT Network is our top choice for public BSC RPC in Middle East and Africa.

Tenderly is our preferred public BSC RPC in South America.

Complete data and rankings for each of the 27 locations are in this sheet.

The IP addresses show the following clouds & CDNs:

CLOUDFLARENET: Allnodes, BlastAPI, BlockPI Network, dRPC, Etherspot, Flare Network, LlamaNodes, POKT Network, thirdweb.
SINGLEHOP-LLC: Ankr, Polygon Labs.
ORACLE-BMC-31898: QuickNode.
GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM: Tenderly.
EQUINIX-EC-DC: OnFinality.

Raw Results

dRPC, Etherspot – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/156e14fa-e29a-4999-9d76-0938e016a286/
Polygon Labs, QuickNode – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/3998a523-2742-4fb9-a560-feb3af44fe03/
Tenderly, thirdweb – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/587f2e2c-cb3c-4a4e-9dd7-5f8351dd9b29/
Ankr, Flare Network – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/3ddf6252-7cfd-4e51-aa90-cabe0d50d5ad/
LlamaNodes, BlockPI Network – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/73ba2677-288e-49e5-87ff-ea30c113ee62/
Blast API, POKT Network – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/006843f6-b490-4228-8081-91ef12a99d60/
OnFinality, Allnodes – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/6961cc40-a8eb-407a-b432-6399f15ce48e/
1RPC, GetBlock – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/9b9d7a77-87d5-4319-ad92-b2159ef084f1/
SubQuery Network, RPC Fast – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/2b64fbf3-9f51-4d89-a437-11ca57537367/
Nodies, OMNIA – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/3c19c817-07b6-43e5-9f3b-656f4e4c6d3d/
BlockEden.xyz, Node RPC – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/fb291d74-f26d-4ba9-9f44-b8039089709e/