{"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":53.1119,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":53.1119},"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":53.1119,"p90":69.9579,"p99":152.752,"mean":57.8557},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4316.84},{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":128.137,"p90":136.701,"p99":194.521,"mean":130.069},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4315.84},{"name":"Ecostake","slug":"ecostake","ms":{"p50":178.812,"p90":267.181,"p99":325.363,"mean":198.524},"successRate":99.907,"sampleSize":4306.84}],"sparkline":[53.603,51.8878,52.7575,52.1029,52.9027,53.0506,54.9232,54.0686,53.5694,54.7357,55.5017,58.8072,57.686,58.2276,56.3668,56.0528,55.1218,55.5401,54.8683,54.2434,55.3338,55.1587,56.2839,55.2163,55.7114,55.3526,55.3546,56.1128,58.0265,60.158,60.5534,59.9578,61.9743,62.522,64.4656,86.4807,89.2827,85.0328,61.6128,57.0623,55.9545,51.3588,53.8472,58.2381,61.4846,63.7381,63.8181,62.1187,60.7449,59.9502,60.6399,59.238,58.567,57.6749,56.6414,56.7974,57.2847,58.4663,58.7547,57.2648,56.6616,56.0051,55.3441,55.8352,55.3674,58.6362,56.5701,56.9973,54.0259,53.8466,53.711,53.3475,53.6625],"sampleSize":17250.36,"asOf":"2026-09-19T02:31:30.964Z","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"}