{"slug":"babylon-rpc","title":"Fastest free Babylon RPC, live no-key endpoint 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":179.206,"leader":{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","value":179.206},"rankings":[{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":179.206,"p90":192.121,"p99":358.045,"mean":189.423},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":2506.86},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":213.654,"p90":612.953,"p99":848.954,"mean":332.723},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":2504.86},{"name":"LavenderFive","slug":"lavenderfive","ms":{"p50":234.115,"p90":277.496,"p99":476.71,"mean":245.539},"successRate":99.8402,"sampleSize":2504.86}],"sparkline":[180.252,179.603,179.414,177.667,175.564,175.393,175.74,178.818,179.416,179.898,179.445,179.11,178.99,177.623,178.171,178.43,178.735,179.899,181.53,183.284,184.619,194.702,197.28,201.62,192.273,190.985,184.688,225.905,235.458,233.549,221.723,211.579,212.703,183.369,187.861,193.288,192.462,187.142,183.059,185.659,187.773,186.343],"sampleSize":7516.58,"asOf":"2026-08-28T13:39:17.566Z","headline":"Polkachu posts the lowest rpc latency at 179 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Babylon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Polkachu posts the lowest rpc latency at 179 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Babylon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Babylon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-28. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_babylon_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Babylon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-28}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Babylon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 28, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Babylon RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-28\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: 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 (parsable block height returned), http_err, jsonrpc_err, stale (block more than 40 behind the cross-provider tip), timeout.","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=babylon. Provider coverage at launch: 3 endpoints (PublicNode, Polkachu, LavenderFive)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}