{"slug":"babylon-rpc","title":"Babylon RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for Tendermint status queries against every available public Babylon endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":83.4479,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":83.4479},"leaders":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":83.4479}],"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":83.4479,"p90":119.224,"p99":333.11,"mean":98.6762},"successRate":99.9767,"sampleSize":4303.79},{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":111.537,"p90":123.154,"p99":232.178,"mean":117.712},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4310.79},{"name":"LavenderFive","slug":"lavenderfive","ms":{"p50":158.506,"p90":201.194,"p99":249.668,"mean":166.659},"successRate":99.60560000000001,"sampleSize":4310.79}],"sparkline":[86.5242,84.4889,81.7918,83.1222,85.6426,89.9206,93.5382,93.6969,89.9472,89.8299,90.4204,98.4867,95.895,97.9687,92.8148,92.3798,98.7485,100.446,103.667,98.6184,102.534,102.629,99.9643,93.4989,97.6257,110.012,117.98,135.713,130.819,121.24,99.8211,101.529,108.465,114.003,109.68,112.267,106.251,106.524,100.991,103.688,103.264,98.2782,94.0707,85.8565,86.4185,87.4477,93.1025,96.6597,94.9585,94.6173,99.205,98.063,102.642,99.0396,101.561,97.0588,92.3623,92.8233,91.4749,99.3126,103.534,105.224,102.221,100.312,97.3656,97.9044,102.089,100.459,100.886,95.811,95.176,87.3137,84.1291],"sampleSize":12925.369999999999,"asOf":"2026-10-10T04:47:18.812Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-10T04:47:18.812Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":3,"ranked":3,"headline":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Babylon RPC endpoints measured, 83 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Babylon RPC endpoints measured, 83 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Babylon RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-10. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_babylon_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Babylon RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-10}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Babylon RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 10, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Babylon RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-10\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/babylon-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: GET <endpoint>/status. Returns a Tendermint status JSON object; block height is read from result.sync_info.latest_block_height.","Latency measurement, call-result classification (`ok`, `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale`, `timeout`) and the archive-depth audit follow the cluster method documented on [rpc-capabilities](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities#methodology); this page is the Babylon-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=babylon. Provider coverage today: 3 endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}