{"slug":"solana-rpc","title":"Fastest free Solana RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for getSlot at the processed commitment against every free, no-key public Solana RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":12.3094,"leader":{"name":"Solana","slug":"solana","value":12.3094},"rankings":[{"name":"Solana","slug":"solana","ms":{"p50":12.3094,"p90":515.313,"p99":718.578,"mean":117.537},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4312.02},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":95.6281,"p90":2757.16,"p99":7392.95,"mean":695.377},"successRate":89.8643,"sampleSize":4273},{"name":"Solana Vibe Station","slug":"solanavibestation","ms":{"p50":225.216,"p90":260.285,"p99":690.452,"mean":232.692},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4315.02},{"name":"Lava","slug":"lava","ms":{"p50":250.821,"p90":541.155,"p99":1337.43,"mean":305.752},"successRate":99.1122,"sampleSize":4281.01},{"name":"LeoRPC","slug":"leorpc","ms":{"p50":624.554,"p90":749.716,"p99":1345.42,"mean":669.621},"successRate":79.7389,"sampleSize":4284.99}],"sparkline":[35.991,37.4498,45.0763,26.1663,25.3607,90.186,135.507,206.896,156.936,134.773,102.234,94.8181,95.9939,58.1227,61.1874,77.0338,82.9449,91.9738,44.0432,39.295,32.3966,59.1292,89.1113,77.0369,57.6746,35.474,49.9123,76.0443,115.535,168.296,152.502,174.522,153.344,136.646,106.68,83.4804,148.212,178.008,224.73,206.508,186.198,183.819,217.979,252.034,260.617,255.276,235.662,201.311,192.603,182.383,175.598,148.376,133.491,160.073,156.649,138.467,119.629,79.1852,56.3868,16.5194,14.8532,14.8935,21.9711,27.7198,36.4437,41.9045,36.3142,67.7576,80.9587,106.876,122.547,173.683,220.351],"sampleSize":21466.04,"asOf":"2026-08-14T16:16:56.792Z","headline":"Solana leads rpc latency at 12 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Solana RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Solana leads rpc latency at 12 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Solana RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/solana-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Solana RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-14. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/solana-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_solana_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Solana RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/solana-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Solana RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/solana-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Solana RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/solana-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-14\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/solana-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/solana-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 via the region tabs.","Payload: `{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":<rotating>,\"method\":\"getSlot\",\"params\":[{\"commitment\":\"processed\"}]}`. Plain HTTP POST, identical for every endpoint, no API key in any request; the rotating id defeats body-keyed edge caches.","Latency: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram, percentiles computed via Prometheus `quantile_over_time` over the last 24 hours.","Call-result classification: `ok`, `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale` (more than 300 slots, about 2 minutes, behind the cross-provider tip), `timeout`. Latency without reliability is a misleading ranking signal.","No archive-depth audit on Solana: the EVM chains probe `eth_getBalance` at historical heights, which has no equivalent on public Solana endpoints. Disclosed rather than faked.","LeoRPC disclosure: the endpoint uses a publicly documented FREE query key (solana.leorpc.com/?api_key=FREE). It is admitted as keyless in practice since no signup is required; flagged here for transparency.","This page is part of the per-chain RPC cluster derived from the cross-chain [rpc-capabilities](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities) benchmark; identical harness and exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=\"solana\". Provider coverage: 5 no-key endpoints (Solana Labs, PublicNode, Lava, LeoRPC, Solana Vibe Station). Excluded with verified refusals 2026-07-12: dRPC (Solana is paid-tier only), Ankr (403 key required), OnFinality (shared quota permanently 429), BlockPI (no public URL), Triton free.rpcpool.com (403), Blast API + ExtrNode + AllThatNode (DNS dead), OMNIA (521), Helius + Shyft + BlockEden (key-gated)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}