The goal of our analysis is to determine the top free Linea RPC endpoint on mainnet for each continent as well as the best overall, globally. According to our infrastructure directory for Linea, there are at least 16 eligible free and public endpoints for the mainnet on December 19, 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 Alchemy, Dwellir, Particle Network etc. to use their private endpoints to perform a similar analysis. 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 16 eligible providers and our inspector form accepts two at a time, we did 8 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. Btw, we ruled out Ankr, All That Node, Noves, QuickNode and Tenderly because Linea is not available on their free plans and the public endpoint for BlockPI was unavailable. Additionally, we couldn’t obtain free accounts for Nirvana Labs and NOWNodes as they require a payment method.
- 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
- Dwellir gave us inconclusive result due to “too many requests“.
- UNIFRA blocked our probes from multiple region and the error message was:
{"message":"Your app has reached maximum qps limit","code":429},"id":1}. - GetBlock blocked our probes due to “connection timeout“.
- Extrnode blocked our probes from multiple regions as the rate limit was exceeded.
- 1RPC gave us an “Exceeded the quota usage” error.
- Moralis also blocked our probes from multiple regions as the rate limit was exceeded.
The Top 10 Linea RPC Endpoints on Mainnet
Overall / Global Ranking
(27 AWS regions on December 19, 2024)
| No | Provider | Avg (ms) | Failed | 429 | Success | Duration (ms) |
| 1 | Blast API | 64.51 | 0 | 0 | 810 | 52,251 |
| 2 | dRPC | 72.61 | 0 | 0 | 810 | 58,817 |
| 3 | thirdweb | 104.62 | 0 | 0 | 810 | 84,744 |
| 4 | ENVIO | 128.45 | 0 | 0 | 810 | 104,048 |
| 5 | Infura.io | 140.11 | 0 | 0 | 810 | 113,489 |
| 6 | Linea.build | 183.60 | 0 | 0 | 810 | 148,712 |
| 7 | Particle.network | 199.30 | 0 | 0 | 810 | 161,433 |
| 8 | Allnodes | 224.44 | 0 | 0 | 810 | 181,798 |
| 9 | Alchemy.com | 236.06 | 0 | 0 | 810 | 191,205 |
| 10 | Etherspot | 276.33 | 0 | 0 | 810 | 223,826 |
Best Free Linea RPC Endpoints on mainnet for North America
(5 AWS regions on December 19, 2024)
| No | Provider | Avg (ms) | Failed | 429 | Success | Duration (ms) |
| 1 | Blast API | 28.05 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 4,207 |
| 2 | Infura.io | 38.39 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 5,759 |
| 3 | thirdweb | 42.85 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 6,428 |
| 4 | dRPC | 43.70 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 6,555 |
| 5 | Linea.build | 74.83 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 11,224 |
| 6 | Allnodes | 85.55 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 12,832 |
| 7 | Alchemy.com | 92.59 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 13,889 |
| 8 | ENVIO | 127.85 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 19,178 |
| 9 | Etherspot | 252.47 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 37,871 |
| 10 | Particle.network | 293.11 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 43,967 |
Best Free Linea RPC Endpoints on mainnet for South America
(1 AWS region on December 19, 2024)
| No | Provider | Avg (ms) | Failed | 429 | Success | Duration (ms) |
| 1 | dRPC | 16.27 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 488 |
| 2 | Infura.io | 121.73 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 3,652 |
| 3 | Blast API | 129.57 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 3,887 |
| 4 | Linea.build | 173.20 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 5,196 |
| 5 | Alchemy.com | 187.50 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 5,625 |
| 6 | ENVIO | 211.70 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 6,351 |
| 7 | thirdweb | 273.03 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 8,191 |
| 8 | Etherspot | 300.70 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 9,021 |
| 9 | Particle.network | 381.80 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 11,454 |
| 10 | Allnodes | 582.80 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 17,484 |
Best Free Linea RPC Endpoints on mainnet for Europe
(8 AWS regions on December 19, 2024)
| No | Provider | Avg (ms) | Failed | 429 | Success | Duration (ms) |
| 1 | ENVIO | 22.60 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 5,424 |
| 2 | Blast API | 31.95 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 7,668 |
| 3 | Allnodes | 44.94 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 10,786 |
| 4 | dRPC | 53.08 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 12,738 |
| 5 | thirdweb | 68.45 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 16,427 |
| 6 | Infura.io | 99.04 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 23,769 |
| 7 | Etherspot | 132.84 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 31,881 |
| 8 | Linea.build | 147.79 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 35,469 |
| 9 | Alchemy.com | 163.43 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 39,224 |
| 10 | Particle.network | 203.20 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 48,767 |
Best Free Linea RPC Endpoints on mainnet for the Middle East and Africa
(3 AWS regions on December 19, 2024)
| No | Provider | Avg (ms) | Failed | 429 | Success | Duration (ms) |
| 1 | ENVIO | 123.97 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 11,157 |
| 2 | Blast API | 135.74 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 12,217 |
| 3 | dRPC | 150.31 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 13,528 |
| 4 | thirdweb | 171.67 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 15,450 |
| 5 | Infura.io | 199.53 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 17,958 |
| 6 | Allnodes | 209.68 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 18,871 |
| 7 | Etherspot | 224.89 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 20,240 |
| 8 | Linea.build | 243.69 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 21,932 |
| 9 | Alchemy.com | 272.39 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 24,515 |
| 10 | Particle.network | 276.28 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 24,865 |
Best Free Linea RPC Endpoints on mainnet for Asia
(8 AWS regions on December 19, 2024)
| No | Provider | Avg (ms) | Failed | 429 | Success | Duration (ms) |
| 1 | Blast API | 72.98 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 17,516 |
| 2 | dRPC | 74.92 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 17,982 |
| 3 | Particle.network | 96.70 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 23,208 |
| 4 | thirdweb | 112.55 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 27,011 |
| 5 | ENVIO | 189.27 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 45,424 |
| 6 | Infura.io | 206.78 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 49,627 |
| 7 | Linea.build | 251.20 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 60,289 |
| 8 | Alchemy.com | 374.01 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 89,762 |
| 9 | Allnodes | 393.49 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 94,438 |
| 10 | Etherspot | 396.10 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 95,064 |
Best Free Linea RPC Endpoints on mainnet for Australia
(2 AWS regions on December 19, 2024)
| No | Provider | Avg (ms) | Failed | 429 | Success | Duration (ms) |
| 1 | Blast API | 112.60 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 6,756 |
| 2 | dRPC | 125.43 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 7,526 |
| 3 | Particle.network | 152.87 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 9,172 |
| 4 | thirdweb | 187.28 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 11,237 |
| 5 | Infura.io | 212.07 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 12,724 |
| 6 | Linea.build | 243.37 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 14,602 |
| 7 | ENVIO | 275.23 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 16,514 |
| 8 | Alchemy.com | 303.17 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 18,190 |
| 9 | Allnodes | 456.45 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 27,387 |
| 10 | Etherspot | 495.82 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 29,749 |
Overall Winner on December 19, 2024
Congratulations to Blast API as the best free Linea RPC endpoint on mainnet (all endpoints).
Blast API wins the best results for free Linea RPC in North America, Asia and Australia.
ENVIO achieves best scores for free Linea RPC in Europe and Middle East and Africa.
dRPC is our top choice for free Linea 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: Alchemy, Allnodes, BlastAPI, dRPC, Extrnode, Etherspot, Linea, Moralis, Particle Network, thirdweb, UNIFRA
- AMAZON-AES: Infura
- IP-Projects GmbH & Co. KG: ENVIO
- Qavat AB: Dwellir
- velia.net Internetdienste GmbH: GetBlock
- MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK: 1RPC
Raw Results
- Blast API, ENVIO – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/b4f8ef53-13f6-4257-b83e-1bcaf5e208d5/
- Etherspot, Infura.io – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/a37c432f-3844-4477-a763-f471bbc312f8/
- Particle.network, thirdweb – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/49eea62b-e3a4-40cf-a721-f766bd519551/
- Allnodes, dRPC – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/3a2c638d-fbef-4cb1-867e-66950d620ebf/
- Linea.build, Alchemy.com – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/4c6bfc3d-5c22-44e4-9179-5d29a00111aa/
- Dwellir.com, UNIFRA – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/a106d9c6-e755-466b-a0de-2f2e6f0d90db/
- GetBlock, Extrnode.com – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/65a0dcd1-5d72-4523-8bec-29e63521a628/
- 1RPC, Moralis-nodes.com – https://www.comparenodes.com/global-node-comparison/ada5151a-bf49-4591-ace8-81ab681efab9
