{"slug":"kaia-rpc","title":"Kaia RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the `eth_getBlockByNumber(\\\"latest\\\", false)` method against every free, no-key public Kaia EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":170.605,"leader":{"name":"Kaia Foundation","slug":"kaia-official","value":170.605},"leaders":[{"name":"Kaia Foundation","slug":"kaia-official","value":170.605}],"rankings":[{"name":"Kaia Foundation","slug":"kaia-official","value":170.605,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":170.605,"p90":179.213,"p99":203.818,"mean":172.605},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4319.75}],"sparkline":[171.32,172.136,171.963,171.926,171.629,171.715,171.806,171.637,171.642,171.741,171.905,171.68,171.833,171.601,171.859,171.324,172.01,171.511,172.063,171.844,171.684,171.342,170.771,171.839,173.449,174.385,173.936,172.934,172.199,171.408,171.765,172.887,173.826,173.608,173.003,172.794,173.091,172.95,173.483,173.234,173.179,172.957,173.318,173.15,173.404,172.599,173.462,173.527,173.985,173.872,173.711,173.182,172.944,172.236,171.883,172.692,172.646,172.742,171.495,171.924,171.939,172.301,172.89,174.058,174.285,173.701,173.068,172.189,171.709,171.529,173.386,174.56,174.183],"sampleSize":4319.75,"asOf":"2026-11-01T18:26:21.098Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-11-01T18:26:21.098Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":1,"ranked":1,"headline":"Kaia Foundation is the only free public Kaia RPC endpoint measured, at 171 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"Kaia Foundation is the only free public Kaia RPC endpoint measured, at 171 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kaia-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Kaia RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-11-01. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kaia-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_kaia_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Kaia RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kaia-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-11-01}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Kaia RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kaia-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Kaia RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kaia-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-11-01\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kaia-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/kaia-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\":\"eth_getBlockByNumber\",\"params\":[\"latest\", false]}`. 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 Kaia-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"kaia\"`. Provider coverage: 1 no-key public-read endpoints live today, each listed with its URL in the endpoints table on this page. dRPC removed (500 paid plan only)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}