{"slug":"algorand-rpc","title":"Fastest free Algorand RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the Algorand algod status endpoint (last-round) against every free, no-key public Algorand node, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":19.9494,"leader":{"name":"Tatum","slug":"tatum","value":19.9494},"rankings":[{"name":"Tatum","slug":"tatum","ms":{"p50":19.9494,"p90":35.6364,"p99":59.548,"mean":23.1133},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4132.69},{"name":"AlgoNode","slug":"algonode","ms":{"p50":89.5872,"p90":378.856,"p99":1241.42,"mean":175.36},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4312.6},{"name":"Nodely","slug":"nodely","ms":{"p50":95.3535,"p90":368.058,"p99":1374.08,"mean":185.254},"successRate":98.88289999999999,"sampleSize":4177.36}],"sparkline":[19.1641,19.5587,20.6117,20.7907,20.8136,19.9098,19.6432,19.3425,19.3904,18.9257,19.0013,18.9268,21.6209,20.679,20.2446,17.4136,18.1097,17.8666,18.6249,18.7786,18.9368,19.0028,19.0507,19.9102,20.036,20.9124,20.7666,20.7532,20.6303,20.9038,22.3912,25.4302,27.0987,25.9936,23.9534,22.3366,22.9527,22.7169,22.5252,23.5581,23.8461,26.0136,25.6988,26.5958,25.9644,25.6661,24.4846,25.2567,25.5913,26.1429,25.3849,25.513,27.3333,29.3325,30.5274,30.1614,29.0674,28.295,28.2827,27.581,27.6619,26.4359,27.2639,27.4198,27.4936,25.7718,23.753,22.4862,21.4596,20.4939],"sampleSize":12622.649999999998,"asOf":"2026-08-19T18:34:16.473Z","headline":"Tatum leads rpc latency at 20 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Algorand RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Tatum leads rpc latency at 20 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Algorand RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/algorand-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Algorand RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-20. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/algorand-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_algorand_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Algorand RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/algorand-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-20}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Algorand RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 20, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/algorand-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Algorand RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/algorand-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-20\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/algorand-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/algorand-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: HTTP GET to <base>/v2/status with Accept: application/json. Pure REST endpoint, no API key in any request. The response JSON includes last-round (integer round number).","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 + parsable last-round), http_err, stale (round more than 90 behind the cross-provider tip), timeout. Latency without reliability is a misleading ranking signal.","This page is part of the per-chain RPC cluster derived from the cross-chain 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=algorand. Provider coverage at launch: 3 no-key endpoints (AlgoNode, Nodely, Tatum)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}