{"slug":"starknet-rpc","title":"Fastest free Starknet RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for starknet_blockNumber against every free, no-key public Starknet RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":291.824,"leader":{"name":"Lava Network","slug":"lava","value":291.824},"rankings":[{"name":"Lava Network","slug":"lava","ms":{"p50":291.824,"p90":1804.68,"p99":2873.03,"mean":664.091},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":484.689},{"name":"OnFinality","slug":"onfinality","ms":{"p50":400.364,"p90":1595.79,"p99":2931.86,"mean":634.184},"successRate":88.3869,"sampleSize":488.318}],"sparkline":[387.902,363.266,468.302,609.839,698.85,779.888,785.449,719.192,682.932],"sampleSize":2426.508,"asOf":"2026-08-18T18:15:43.942Z","headline":"Lava Network leads rpc latency at 292 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Starknet RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Lava Network leads rpc latency at 292 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Starknet RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/starknet-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Starknet RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-18. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/starknet-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_starknet_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Starknet RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/starknet-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-18}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Starknet RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 18, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/starknet-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Starknet RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/starknet-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-18\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/starknet-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/starknet-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\":\"starknet_blockNumber\",\"params\":[]}. Plain HTTP POST, identical for every endpoint, no API key in any request. Non-cacheable by design: the rotating id defeats edge caches.","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 block number), http_err, jsonrpc_err (HTTP 200 carrying an error body), stale, 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 benchmark; the identical harness, cadence and exclusion rules apply on every chain.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=starknet. Provider coverage at launch: 5 no-key endpoints (dRPC, Lava, Nethermind, OnFinality, 1RPC)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}