{"slug":"celestia-rpc","title":"Fastest free Celestia RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the Tendermint status method against every free, no-key public Celestia Cosmos SDK endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":47.0282,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":47.0282},"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":47.0282,"p90":60.9827,"p99":126.599,"mean":50.5676},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4321.84},{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":124.965,"p90":135.593,"p99":241.644,"mean":129.875},"successRate":93.6157,"sampleSize":4308.88},{"name":"LavenderFive","slug":"lavenderfive","ms":{"p50":160.639,"p90":206.212,"p99":250.341,"mean":167.641},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.84}],"sparkline":[50.4499,49.2745,50.1217,50.9555,51.4378,50.3554,49.0735,48.7127,49.1554,48.1111,47.9227,46.0791,47.0371,48.9265,49.0954,48.354,47.4365,48.646,48.4849,47.4049,46.8127,47.0064,47.0718,47.9249,48.9078,48.5451,49.8803,50.2535,50.8621,48.7577,48.4023,48.1957,48.684,50.2721,51.1935,50.7005,50.4827,49.6373,49.8106,48.3037,48.4151,48.9258,47.7499,48.8613,48.4408,52.1337,50.5551,51.495,48.7977,48.747,47.6541,49.1737,51.0375,55.4242,55.7119,55.5818,52.4715,54.1888,56.8542,59.3266,62.0221,60.7283,60.472,57.7443,56.957,54.6033,51.573,49.9889,49.1885,49.8949,49.67,51.0495,49.4404],"sampleSize":12949.560000000001,"asOf":"2026-09-18T19:15:00.961Z","headline":"PublicNode posts the lowest rpc latency at 47 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Celestia RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency.","quote":"PublicNode posts the lowest rpc latency at 47 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Celestia RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/celestia-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Celestia RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-09-18. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/celestia-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_celestia_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Celestia RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/celestia-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-09-18}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Celestia RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/celestia-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Celestia RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/celestia-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-09-18\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/celestia-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/celestia-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\":\"status\",\"params\":[]}`. 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 → 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 with a parsable decimal `sync_info.latest_block_height`), `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale` (more than 40 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=\"celestia\"`. Provider coverage at launch: 3 no-key endpoints (PublicNode, Polkachu, LavenderFive)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}