{"slug":"chihuahua-rpc","title":"Fastest free Chihuahua RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for Tendermint /status queries against every available public Chihuahua endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":171.355,"leader":{"name":"Validatus","slug":"validatus","value":171.355},"rankings":[{"name":"Validatus","slug":"validatus","ms":{"p50":171.355,"p90":202.915,"p99":522.438,"mean":190.851},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":171.836},{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":193.228,"p90":215.308,"p99":396.908,"mean":202.706},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":175.852},{"name":"Chihuahua","slug":"chihuahua-official","ms":{"p50":194.491,"p90":200.7,"p99":435.066,"mean":204.755},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":171.836}],"sparkline":[188.196,198.879,191.874],"sampleSize":519.524,"asOf":"2026-08-28T20:09:48.208Z","headline":"Validatus posts the lowest rpc latency at 171 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Chihuahua RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Validatus posts the lowest rpc latency at 171 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Chihuahua RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/chihuahua-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Chihuahua RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-28. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/chihuahua-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_chihuahua_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Chihuahua RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/chihuahua-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-28}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Chihuahua RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 28, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/chihuahua-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Chihuahua RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/chihuahua-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-28\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/chihuahua-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/chihuahua-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 /status. The result.sync_info.latest_block_height field (string-encoded integer) is extracted as the current block height.","Latency: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms to 10 s), so percentiles are computed via Prometheus quantile_over_time over the last 24 hours.","Call-result classification: ok (parsable block height returned), http_err, jsonrpc_err, stale (block more than 20 behind the cross-provider tip), timeout.","This page is part of the per-chain RPC cluster derived from the cross-chain 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=chihuahua. Provider coverage at launch: 3 endpoints (Chihuahua official, Polkachu, Validatus)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}