{"slug":"kava-rpc","title":"Fastest free Kava RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the `eth_getBlockByNumber(\\\"latest\\\", false)` method against every free, no-key public Kava EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":10.6414,"leader":{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","value":10.6414},"rankings":[{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","ms":{"p50":10.6414,"p90":202.045,"p99":352.428,"mean":69.8877},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4295.87},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":86.8073,"p90":252.601,"p99":542.035,"mean":120.566},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4292.87},{"name":"Kava Labs","slug":"kava-official","ms":{"p50":232.426,"p90":242.521,"p99":947.868,"mean":252.766},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4323.87},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":250.504,"p90":352.071,"p99":1329.01,"mean":271.717},"successRate":88.7717,"sampleSize":4266.86}],"sparkline":[78.0494,76.9728,63.798,68.0002,75.9126,70.8,66.94,64.7191,68.4328,69.9115,72.9945,82.0919,82.8,80.2245,71.1168,71.5949,75.843,73.0185,74.8201,68.8577,67.4907,62.0015,61.9404,68.156,69.1625,69.5381,63.4473,65.0109,66.4268,77.9929,84.3035,80.6302,68.57,59.2657,65.0937,69.8792,76.443,72.2158,67.7894,62.6563,59.7019,61.9075,60.6137,64.3616,64.6691,61.2434,60.1027,54.9548,67.2633,67.5104,75.3629,75.0972,72.298,72.8878,71.2559,78.1617,79.5545,76.7626,64.5714,68.3999,59.0073,68.8364,63.5916,75.6894,71.6216,69.2184,69.5639,71.8466,75.2601,69.9079,67.8515,69.2855,76.4491],"sampleSize":21459.329999999998,"asOf":"2026-08-14T16:08:11.543Z","headline":"Ankr leads rpc latency at 11 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Kava RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency.","quote":"Ankr leads rpc latency at 11 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Kava RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kava-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Kava RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-14. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kava-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_kava_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Kava RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kava-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Kava RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kava-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Kava RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kava-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-14\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kava-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/kava-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. 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 hex block number), `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err` (HTTP 200 carrying an error body), `stale` (more than 20 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=\"kava\"`. Provider coverage: 5 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}