{"slug":"astar-rpc","title":"Fastest free Astar Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Astar Network RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":61.9036,"leader":{"name":"OnFinality","slug":"onfinality","value":61.9036},"rankings":[{"name":"OnFinality","slug":"onfinality","ms":{"p50":61.9036,"p90":357.51,"p99":2299.95,"mean":193.334},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.58}],"sparkline":[183.267,200.81,205.763,223.128,185.572,190.128,170.022,161.147,120.142,90.4702,198.401,200.055,192.007,127.09,200.562,250.269,243.242,224.6,259.455,297.81,270.061,183.419,135.887,153.82,264.824,261.688,309.142,258.293,245.617,221.532,211.23,205.186,210.164,169.749,194.802,137.242,170.986,226.39,283.879,394.864,344.368,304.588,252.01,281.63,333.873,304.722,241.451,142.398,70.6294,59.1254,115.969,172.204,175.343,119.331,75.1606,109.285,169.593,222.999,197.802,138.259,72.8767,84.7064,112.386,145.75,158.762,163.151,195.091,219.54,229.348,195.073,136.074,115.519,93.9941],"sampleSize":8636.27,"asOf":"2026-08-15T10:12:02.382Z","headline":"OnFinality leads rpc latency at 62 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Astar Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"OnFinality leads rpc latency at 62 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Astar Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/astar-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Astar Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/astar-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_astar_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Astar Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/astar-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-15}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Astar Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 15, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/astar-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Astar Network RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/astar-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-15\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/astar-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/astar-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\":\"eth_getBlockByNumber\",\"params\":[\"latest\",false]}`. 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), `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err` (HTTP 200 carrying an error body), `stale` (more than 20 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=\"astar\"`. Provider coverage: 2 no-key endpoints (OnFinality, 1RPC). PublicNode returned 404; BlastAPI DNS is dead."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}