{"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":87,"leader":{"name":"Lava Network","slug":"lava","value":87},"rankings":[{"name":"Lava Network","slug":"lava","ms":{"p50":87,"p90":411.533,"p99":1933.58,"mean":219.472},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":526.707},{"name":"LavenderFive","slug":"lavenderfive","ms":{"p50":196.333,"p90":211.4,"p99":369.667,"mean":205.179},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":497.674},{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":197.333,"p90":222.667,"p99":420,"mean":218.798},"successRate":98.4552,"sampleSize":523.784},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":264.667,"p90":597.667,"p99":674.333,"mean":316.671},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":528.709}],"sparkline":[197.056,269.395,249.046,254.661,210.936,208.082,198.916,201.875,197.963],"sampleSize":2076.874,"asOf":"2026-07-24T15:31:54.487Z","headline":"Lava Network leads rpc latency at 87 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Cosmos Hub RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency.","quote":"Lava Network leads rpc latency at 87 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 2026-07-24. 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 2026-07-24}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Cosmos Hub RPC, live no-key Cosmos SDK endpoint latency. Retrieved July 24, 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  - 2026-07-24\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"}