{"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":200.333,"leader":{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","value":200.333},"rankings":[{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":200.333,"p90":280,"p99":446.867,"mean":215.763},"successRate":97.6939,"sampleSize":670.103},{"name":"LavenderFive","slug":"lavenderfive","ms":{"p50":202,"p90":261.833,"p99":1452.67,"mean":261.442},"successRate":98.9493,"sampleSize":673.737},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":488,"p90":660,"p99":814,"mean":451.077},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":682.672}],"sparkline":[224.011,212.447,214.246,215.085,219.891,215.714,214.737,213.117,215.096,217.894,214.391,217.316],"sampleSize":2026.5120000000002,"asOf":"2026-08-04T17:08:52.414Z","headline":"Polkachu leads rpc latency at 200 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Celestia RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency.","quote":"Polkachu leads rpc latency at 200 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 2026-08-04. 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 2026-08-04}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Celestia RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency. Retrieved August 4, 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  - 2026-08-04\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"}