{"slug":"celestia-rpc","title":"Celestia RPC endpoints: free public URLs by 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":65.53,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":65.53},"leaders":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":65.53}],"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":65.53,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":65.53,"p90":91.975,"p99":336.663,"mean":75.9994},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4320.75},{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","value":151.289,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":151.289,"p90":174.507,"p99":279.031,"mean":158.354},"successRate":99.9536,"sampleSize":4316.75},{"name":"LavenderFive","slug":"lavenderfive","value":182.873,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":182.873,"p90":211.406,"p99":242.505,"mean":189.589},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.75}],"sparkline":[72.2627,75.9121,73.7571,85.1557,88.0056,84.969,73.0606,66.4595,66.1851,68.4028,71.6401,72.7235,71.0961,71.9242,73.2013,75.6726,75.0835,73.847,72.0573,68.8683,67.961,66.5149,68.9319,71.8083,73.5523,71.9863,68.7762,67.3402,70.1601,71.2619,74.3449,71.3839,74.1318,73.511,75.3798,82.1413,89.7287,86.4451,74.3847,64.514,67.5733,66.676,63.9816,60.8421,61.1277,71.9752,82.4479,94.3388,93.3153,84.4164,92.3407,97.2151,96.5111,79.1505,68.9784,72.8595,77.1975,77.5098,75.5881,76.6688,81.5857,84.211,84.1084,81.8387,80.1784,86.1105,82.902,81.2902,71.2173,74.9842,77.9027,80.9163,75.874],"sampleSize":12956.25,"asOf":"2026-11-02T20:33:21.097Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-11-02T20:33:21.097Z","ageHours":0.2,"stale":false},"measured":3,"ranked":3,"headline":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Celestia RPC endpoints measured, 66 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Celestia RPC endpoints measured, 66 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/celestia-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Celestia RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-11-02. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/celestia-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_celestia_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Celestia RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/celestia-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-11-02}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Celestia RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/celestia-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Celestia RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/celestia-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-11-02\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 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 Celestia-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"celestia\"`. Provider coverage today: 3 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}