{"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":53.2026,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":53.2026},"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":53.2026,"p90":69.8188,"p99":151.778,"mean":57.871},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4316.84},{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":128.075,"p90":136.701,"p99":194.588,"mean":130.19},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4315.84},{"name":"Ecostake","slug":"ecostake","ms":{"p50":178.766,"p90":267.025,"p99":325.363,"mean":198.501},"successRate":99.9071,"sampleSize":4306.84}],"sparkline":[52.2453,52.8678,52.9482,55.0058,54.1692,54.0286,54.6046,56.4706,58.5756,57.4712,57.2957,56.2835,56.3254,55.3974,55.2683,54.9429,54.1908,55.21,55.4919,56.153,55.4881,55.4169,55.3716,55.5347,56.1293,58.2676,60.0417,60.8685,60.6872,61.9902,62.0949,63.9789,87.6218,89.6201,84.5115,60.2785,56.4968,55.166,51.5877,54.3985,59.1011,61.6409,63.8801,64.0403,62.2444,60.7331,59.6205,60.3287,59.1239,58.4415,57.7159,56.2697,57.2619,57.3565,58.71,58.3117,56.9562,56.5282,55.7706,55.4631,55.7898,55.4051,58.2805,56.469,56.9712,54.1962,53.9716,53.6874,53.2185,53.9069,52.4136,52.684,51.8162],"sampleSize":17250.36,"asOf":"2026-09-19T03:34:30.958Z","headline":"PublicNode posts the lowest rpc latency at 53 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Akash Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"PublicNode posts the lowest rpc latency at 53 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 2026-09-19. 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 2026-09-19}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Akash Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved September 19, 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  - 2026-09-19\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"}