{"slug":"cosmos-hub-rpc","title":"Fastest free Cosmos Hub RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the Tendermint `status` method against every free, no-key public Cosmos Hub Cosmos SDK endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":71.9792,"leader":{"name":"Lava Network","slug":"lava","value":71.9792},"rankings":[{"name":"Lava Network","slug":"lava","ms":{"p50":71.9792,"p90":313.896,"p99":1641.87,"mean":170.504},"successRate":99.9769,"sampleSize":4326.75},{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":195.306,"p90":216.111,"p99":435.678,"mean":205.902},"successRate":99.9537,"sampleSize":4325.75},{"name":"LavenderFive","slug":"lavenderfive","ms":{"p50":195.741,"p90":202.661,"p99":460.231,"mean":205.539},"successRate":99.9534,"sampleSize":4296.75},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":258.332,"p90":588.051,"p99":636.742,"mean":331.537},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4329.75}],"sparkline":[173.689,192.376,172.134,172.861,138.498,143.049,119.283,133.548,137.145,161.852,159.384,155.629,131.733,142.358,163.924,174.232,177.122,150.332,139.928,122.04,136.428,137.426,146.177,153.874,158.522,177.793,156.97,157.595,139.509,138.24,133.006,127.301,127.297,127.775,141.455,143.176,157.762,144.582,167.417,171.341,168.166,156.611,175.698,182.218,174.377,149.575,157.136,169.319,179.845,163.672,142.365,119.974,146.586,184.78,223.372,219.976,193.84,204.767,218.158,215.535,172.141,176.509,190.782,239.213,207.981,188.683,166.192,260.214,278.901,303.541,235.135,260.897,210.221],"sampleSize":17279,"asOf":"2026-08-14T15:03:56.637Z","headline":"Lava Network leads rpc latency at 72 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Cosmos Hub RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency.","quote":"Lava Network leads rpc latency at 72 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Cosmos Hub RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/cosmos-hub-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Cosmos Hub RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-14. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/cosmos-hub-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_cosmos_hub_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Cosmos Hub RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/cosmos-hub-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Cosmos Hub RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/cosmos-hub-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Cosmos Hub RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/cosmos-hub-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-14\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/cosmos-hub-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/cosmos-hub-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. Non-cacheable by design: the rotating id defeats edge caches that would answer a bare head query without touching a node.","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` (HTTP 200 carrying an error body), `stale` (more than 40 blocks behind the cross-provider tip), `timeout`. Latency without reliability is a misleading ranking signal.","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=\"cosmos-hub\"`. Provider coverage at launch: 4 no-key endpoints (PublicNode, Polkachu, LavenderFive, Lava Network)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}