{"slug":"akash-rpc","title":"Fastest free Akash Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the Tendermint status method against every free, no-key public Akash Network Cosmos SDK endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":194.667,"leader":{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","value":194.667},"rankings":[{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":194.667,"p90":219.333,"p99":379.333,"mean":201.892},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":414.767},{"name":"Ecostake","slug":"ecostake","ms":{"p50":242.833,"p90":1934.37,"p99":4931,"mean":691.039},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":410.763},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":471.667,"p90":631.333,"p99":740.667,"mean":472.478},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":415.766}],"sparkline":[229.358,213.588,209.223,199.053,197.05,195.887,195.518,198.392,198.792,280.778],"sampleSize":1651.059,"asOf":"2026-08-04T22:12:37.545Z","headline":"Polkachu leads rpc latency at 195 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Akash Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Polkachu leads rpc latency at 195 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Akash Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/akash-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Akash Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-04. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/akash-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_akash_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Akash Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/akash-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-04}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Akash Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 4, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/akash-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Akash Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/akash-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-04\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/akash-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/akash-rpc","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities","methodology":["Cadence: every 60 seconds per provider, from each of 3 probe regions (us-east Virginia, eu-west Amsterdam, sgp Singapore). Headline p50/p90/p99 aggregate across all 3 regions via Prometheus `avg(quantile_over_time(...))`; per-region breakdowns are first-class on this page via the region tabs.","Payload: `{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":<rotating>,\"method\":\"status\",\"params\":[]}`. Plain HTTP POST, identical for every endpoint, no API key in any request.","Latency: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms to 10 s), so percentiles are computed via Prometheus `quantile_over_time` over the last 24 hours.","Call-result classification: `ok` (HTTP 200 + non-empty result with a parsable decimal `sync_info.latest_block_height`), `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale` (more than 40 blocks behind the cross-provider tip), `timeout`.","This page is part of the per-chain RPC cluster derived from the cross-chain [rpc-capabilities](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities) benchmark; the identical harness, cadence and exclusion rules apply on every chain.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"akash\"`. Provider coverage at launch: 4 no-key endpoints (PublicNode, Polkachu, Ecostake, AutoStake)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}