{"slug":"cosmos-hub-rpc","title":"Cosmos Hub RPC endpoints: free public URLs by 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":90.2741,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":90.2741},"leaders":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":90.2741}],"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":90.2741,"p90":190.452,"p99":596.922,"mean":127.136},"successRate":99.8848,"sampleSize":4341.94},{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":140.088,"p90":243.111,"p99":736.173,"mean":181.211},"successRate":99.76939999999999,"sampleSize":4336.94},{"name":"ecostake","slug":"ecostake","ms":{"p50":142.46,"p90":237.856,"p99":664.682,"mean":177.38},"successRate":99.7685,"sampleSize":4320.94},{"name":"LavenderFive","slug":"lavenderfive","ms":{"p50":175.52,"p90":234.296,"p99":550.995,"mean":190.354},"successRate":99.9538,"sampleSize":4328.94}],"sparkline":[205.965,205.537,187.874,166.81,160.998,171.026,176.858,172.952,158.907,154.394,156.025,152.833,160.278,164.311,160.756,159.779,146.785,155.653,154.873,160.638,130.15,101.696,79.9585,81.9481,81.1182,79.057,77.8771,74.2697,71.4006,64.2309,64.6922,62.5339,66.6872,67.9992,65.8168,61.7199,64.2716,73.9043,83.3305,86.463,85.1452,85.2392,85.753,86.874,89.0117,89.0795,94.0578,91.7607,91.9637,89.7323,94.2111,96.3403,95.241,91.8731,96.2513,118.306,157.884,212.439,228.688,225.848,209.474,231.737,237.636,216.903,160.949,127.152,112.119,108.455,108.897,128.931,180.017,203.708,195.172],"sampleSize":17328.76,"asOf":"2026-10-22T22:32:50.439Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-22T22:32:50.439Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":4,"ranked":4,"headline":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Cosmos Hub RPC endpoints measured, 90 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Cosmos Hub RPC endpoints measured, 90 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/cosmos-hub-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Cosmos Hub RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-22. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/cosmos-hub-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_cosmos_hub_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Cosmos Hub RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/cosmos-hub-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-22}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Cosmos Hub RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 22, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/cosmos-hub-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Cosmos Hub RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/cosmos-hub-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-22\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. The request id rotates, but that does not guarantee a cache miss: many caches normalise `id` away. Measured 2026-10-08, fixed and rotating ids answer within 2 to 4 percent of each other.","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 Cosmos Hub-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"cosmos-hub\"`. Provider coverage today: 4 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}