{"slug":"kava-rpc","title":"Kava 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 Kava EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":38.8696,"leader":{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","value":38.8696},"leaders":[{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","value":38.8696}],"rankings":[{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","value":38.8696,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":38.8696,"p90":72.0538,"p99":104.379,"mean":48.2515},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4314.75},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":60.1815,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":60.1815,"p90":99.0082,"p99":243.61,"mean":71.7793},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4313.75},{"name":"Kava Labs","slug":"kava-official","value":111.863,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":111.863,"p90":117.695,"p99":420.971,"mean":116.468},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4320.75},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","value":248.008,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":248.008,"p90":450.903,"p99":620.777,"mean":278.087},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4309.75}],"sparkline":[47.602,44.58,49.0127,52.3233,57.9277,53.3069,49.574,43.176,44.6226,48.2059,51.467,48.6101,44.3595,42.1723,43.1796,44.0715,45.3875,48.6176,50.1055,48.3307,46.2793,45.0018,46.0917,44.0325,42.48,42.6134,43.1459,44.5681,44.6536,46.0366,44.9875,43.7621,42.5221,43.8464,47.9896,51.4292,51.7696,48.2589,45.8482,49.2689,51.9489,55.2592,55.3513,58.7417,58.6692,57.462,54.6298,52.701,53.3986,54.2338,56.5355,57.4056,56.0573,54.5587,51.8965,48.2803,44.2549,40.9527,41.8781,44.5587,46.1341,45.7476,42.3563,40.6448,40.3155,41.3408,41.4592,41.1158,41.6721,48.8244,53.4347,56.7562,53.7422],"sampleSize":21568.75,"asOf":"2026-11-02T09:19:51.095Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-11-02T09:19:51.095Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":5,"ranked":4,"headline":"Ankr has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Kava RPC endpoints measured above the 50 % success floor (5 listed), 39 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"Ankr has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Kava RPC endpoints measured above the 50 % success floor (5 listed), 39 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kava-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Kava RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-11-02. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kava-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_kava_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Kava RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kava-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-11-02}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Kava RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kava-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Kava RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/kava-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-11-02\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. 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 Kava-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"kava\"`. Provider coverage: 5 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}