{"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":14.6667,"leader":{"name":"Solana Labs","slug":"solana-official","value":14.6667},"rankings":[{"name":"Solana Labs","slug":"solana-official","ms":{"p50":14.6667,"p90":156.333,"p99":638.667,"mean":59.3736},"successRate":99.42,"sampleSize":4314.77},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":87.3333,"p90":106.667,"p99":551,"mean":111.255},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4308.75},{"name":"Solana Vibe Station","slug":"solanavibestation","ms":{"p50":195,"p90":220.333,"p99":600.843,"mean":207.648},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4317.75},{"name":"Lava","slug":"lava","ms":{"p50":447,"p90":886.333,"p99":1660.67,"mean":497.642},"successRate":99.8141,"sampleSize":4304.75},{"name":"LeoRPC","slug":"leorpc","ms":{"p50":563,"p90":630.333,"p99":915.4,"mean":590.643},"successRate":97.0063,"sampleSize":4309.75}],"sparkline":[38.4011,45.934,96.7783,113.691,136.978,102.874,103.228,76.7044,87.5595,82.9186,101.61,79.5653,68.3794,33.3207,27.8579,55.4649,43.5208,43.2121,13.6536,27.0651,34.0455,57.1975,74.2885,67.3879,45.6374,35.4995,119.669,211.606,188.293,105.654,92.0849,157.98,146.193,79.3502,60.1097,66.8627,67.2042,22.346,18.8312,20.7553,23.8264,35.9806,44.5236,54.0222,41.3625,33.4167,21.6083,28.6889,35.4722,34.8903,28.0694,46.2639,60.1528,57.8571,48.7617,33.0191,32.826,13.3824,60.6826,61.9598,61.3153,13.2744,12.7623,12.7197,18.8152,41.0972,43.8366,37.9778,55.1985,55.9702,71.1871,31.0504,39.4193],"sampleSize":21555.77,"asOf":"2026-07-14T02:06:11.539Z","headline":"Solana Labs leads rpc latency at 15 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Solana RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Solana Labs leads rpc latency at 15 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 2026-07-14. 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 2026-07-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Solana RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved July 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  - 2026-07-14\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"}