{"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":38.5135,"leader":{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","value":38.5135},"rankings":[{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","ms":{"p50":38.5135,"p90":134.747,"p99":285.865,"mean":71.4711},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4315.77},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":46.3276,"p90":57.5595,"p99":117.15,"mean":48.7808},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4315.77},{"name":"Kava Labs","slug":"kava-official","ms":{"p50":109.228,"p90":118.984,"p99":435.245,"mean":116.923},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4320.77},{"name":"dRPC","slug":"drpc","ms":{"p50":204.024,"p90":330.609,"p99":548.731,"mean":216.692},"successRate":98.7945,"sampleSize":4314.78}],"sparkline":[66.2463,69.4215,73.6566,70.9163,74.213,69.8573,66.1273,59.0488,55.8447,62.9372,65.2984,73.2247,71.1638,75.8654,70.6758,67.2525,71.6253,77.2632,72.5177,63.5696,63.3629,74.6363,75.8034,73.5366,69.4786,73.3058,69.7575,69.2312,69.7682,71.178,71.8383,69.2613,69.5284,72.0826,74.4166,81.2589,78.551,71.0868,66.6325,69.8673,72.211,70.9565,65.2786,65.1095,65.9121,65.527,62.8086,68.4438,75.8487,79.6405,74.9123,71.2883,75.3794,76.5174,79.8288,79.3818,78.3654,79.5235,77.118,78.6003,71.9318,76.102,77.8388,79.9984,78.5361,77.6661,74.7198,72.3426,67.3023,66.0641,63.107,62.9725,68.7812],"sampleSize":21581.86,"asOf":"2026-09-18T01:40:18.031Z","headline":"Ankr posts the lowest rpc latency at 39 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Kava RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency.","quote":"Ankr posts the lowest rpc latency at 39 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 2026-09-18. 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 2026-09-18}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Kava RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Retrieved September 18, 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  - 2026-09-18\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"}