{"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":195.07,"leader":{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","value":195.07},"rankings":[{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":195.07,"p90":215.288,"p99":417.252,"mean":207.019},"successRate":99.9534,"sampleSize":4290.87},{"name":"LavenderFive","slug":"lavenderfive","ms":{"p50":196.585,"p90":243.664,"p99":448.638,"mean":215.858},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4304.87},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":575.987,"p90":616.674,"p99":754.672,"mean":483.201},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.87}],"sparkline":[217.497,219.011,217.381,233.3,245.054,239.373,212.943,199.524,198.961,195.347,193.569,196.317,199.907,204.627,206.607,211.155,207.868,207.905,207.196,208.961,208.131,204.267,202.685,199.999,202.681,201.003,200.364,198.938,196.595,193.665,194.312,199.145,204.195,207.387,207.067,206.824,202.673,204.542,204.632,206.199,204.041,202.65,199.891,200.882,199.741,204.996,202.922,205.282,199.755,204.921,205.551,207.185,201.05,197.58,196.028,195.504,196.228,198.001,199.93,207.629,206.173,205.578,203.291,203.617,263.108,259.668,268.058,212.542,212.402,204.665,210.303,209.642,209.477],"sampleSize":12914.61,"asOf":"2026-08-14T16:04:11.953Z","headline":"Polkachu leads rpc latency at 195 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Celestia RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency.","quote":"Polkachu leads rpc latency at 195 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 2026-08-14. 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 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Celestia RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency. Retrieved August 14, 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  - 2026-08-14\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"}