{"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":98.6669,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":98.6669},"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":98.6669,"p90":393.004,"p99":6139.39,"mean":365.472},"successRate":89.35260000000001,"sampleSize":4237},{"name":"Solana","slug":"solana","ms":{"p50":171.323,"p90":632.943,"p99":759.242,"mean":251.88},"successRate":99.9067,"sampleSize":4298},{"name":"Solana Vibe Station","slug":"solanavibestation","ms":{"p50":185.181,"p90":244.226,"p99":697.284,"mean":213.634},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4305},{"name":"Lava","slug":"lava","ms":{"p50":282.491,"p90":1268.84,"p99":2108.11,"mean":504.288},"successRate":96.24629999999999,"sampleSize":4242.19}],"sparkline":[1687.21,1462.4,1979.88,2352.54,2926.14,2320.57,1785.27,1060.21,1232.37,2597.02,3190.21,3208.25,2025.5,1497.12,769.752,695.668,460.689,403.486,181.876,253.888,217.397,198.913,119.115,112.243,118.124,119.092,119.261,120.893,119.189,113.145,106.543,101.891,107.87,111.754,117.053,127.534,139.892,144.969,130.339,120.821,117.994,124.768,118.71,164.811,252.165,505.614,842.282,700.296,462.786,192.871,441.459,407.412,382.254,129.808,131.225,136.308,130.228,122.326,120.615,124.135,119.712,121.823,142.126,159.246,165.171,156.921,162.542,184.054,172.561,195.546,192.019,239.985,220.901],"sampleSize":21351.18,"asOf":"2026-08-28T11:52:17.689Z","headline":"PublicNode posts the lowest rpc latency at 99 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Solana RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"PublicNode posts the lowest rpc latency at 99 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 2026-08-28. 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 2026-08-28}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Solana RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 28, 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  - 2026-08-28\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"}