{"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":86.2781,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":86.2781},"leaders":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":86.2781}],"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":86.2781,"p90":161.275,"p99":347.399,"mean":107.981},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4313.74},{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":107.284,"p90":121.114,"p99":207.691,"mean":111.264},"successRate":99.9768,"sampleSize":4316.74},{"name":"LavenderFive","slug":"lavenderfive","ms":{"p50":153.33,"p90":207.033,"p99":319.434,"mean":166.627},"successRate":74.3567,"sampleSize":4317.76}],"sparkline":[105.228,101.113,99.6303,90.449,89.7379,89.2782,89.9598,90.9023,91.2489,93.5677,92.2898,93.3836,95.2694,96.0199,99.4696,93.4928,94.8794,91.3814,94.972,95.9398,98.1412,103.265,102.771,103.877,109.53,110.488,107.487,99.775,99.4556,95.7372,97.2614,94.5604,99.6076,90.9737,91.4627,90.5363,98.1401,105.176,103.715,105.209,96.193,99.3687,97.2357,104.735,102.932,101.624,97.5845,101.482,103.634,111.045,114.967,122.26,129.774,142.325,154.024,168.338,175.509,183.531,177.017,176.142,157.851,131.308,104.254,95.7072,98.6753,98.1252,96.6076,97.2174,100.965,101.955,105.698,103.92,117.536],"sampleSize":12948.24,"asOf":"2026-10-12T19:15:20.806Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-12T19:15:20.806Z","ageHours":0.2,"stale":false},"measured":3,"ranked":3,"headline":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Babylon RPC endpoints measured, 86 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Babylon RPC endpoints measured, 86 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 2026-10-12. 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 2026-10-12}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Babylon RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 12, 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  - 2026-10-12\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"}