{"slug":"persistence-rpc","title":"Fastest free Persistence RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the Tendermint status method against every free, no-key public Persistence Cosmos SDK endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":169.333,"leader":{"name":"Persistence Foundation","slug":"persistence-official","value":169.333},"rankings":[{"name":"Persistence Foundation","slug":"persistence-official","ms":{"p50":169.333,"p90":180.667,"p99":492,"mean":183.106},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4315.6},{"name":"Polkachu","slug":"polkachu","ms":{"p50":190.333,"p90":200,"p99":374,"mean":196.509},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4316.6}],"sparkline":[189.919,183.489,182.342,183.633,182.392,188.783,184.917,191.524,192.092,192.1,186.954,184.256,187.193,184.746,178.729,175.954,182.469,186.921,188.792,185.586,184.331,183.971,179.133,173.888,168.206,168.912,182.711,194.705,191.66,178.593,169.639,171.313,178.551,180.914,183.594,175.907,175.922,173.746,177.821,178.169,180.925,179.214,177.311,178.374,180.558,182.478,182.4,180.107,180.658,176.833,181.637,183.376,186.525,183.775,181.619,194.312,202.138,206.042,202.181,197.737,193.044,181.235,180.381,184.44,184.196,180.924,178.504,184.6,183.829,181.951,177.813,179.342,179.491],"sampleSize":12952.800000000001,"asOf":"2026-08-08T13:28:02.635Z","headline":"Persistence Foundation leads rpc latency at 169 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Persistence RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Persistence Foundation leads rpc latency at 169 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Persistence RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/persistence-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Persistence RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-08. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/persistence-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_persistence_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Persistence RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/persistence-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-08}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Persistence RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 8, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/persistence-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Persistence RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/persistence-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-08\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/persistence-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/persistence-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.","Latency: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms to 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 decimal `sync_info.latest_block_height`), `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale` (more than 40 blocks behind the cross-provider tip), `timeout`.","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=\"persistence\"`. Provider coverage at launch: 3 no-key endpoints (Polkachu, PublicNode, Persistence Foundation)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}