{"slug":"stellar-rpc","title":"Fastest free Stellar Soroban RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for getLatestLedger against every free, no-key public Stellar Soroban RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":271.107,"leader":{"name":"Gateway.fm","slug":"gateway","value":271.107},"rankings":[{"name":"Gateway.fm","slug":"gateway","ms":{"p50":271.107,"p90":304.214,"p99":650.557,"mean":279.606},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":580.842},{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","ms":{"p50":320.31,"p90":1681.24,"p99":2296.85,"mean":594.935},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":583.846},{"name":"Lightsail Network","slug":"lightsail","ms":{"p50":320.606,"p90":637.055,"p99":1411.64,"mean":378.565},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":577.841},{"name":"SorobanRPC.com","slug":"sorobanrpc","ms":{"p50":351.891,"p90":601.838,"p99":1960.4,"mean":440.105},"successRate":87.52109999999999,"sampleSize":563}],"sparkline":[307.719,291.177,286.736,271.19,267.455,263.792,271.7,279.544,294.11,289.431],"sampleSize":2873.381,"asOf":"2026-08-18T18:45:47.191Z","headline":"Gateway.fm leads rpc latency at 271 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Stellar Soroban RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Gateway.fm leads rpc latency at 271 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Stellar Soroban RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/stellar-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Stellar Soroban RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-18. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/stellar-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_stellar_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Stellar Soroban RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/stellar-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-18}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Stellar Soroban RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 18, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/stellar-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Stellar Soroban RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/stellar-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-18\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/stellar-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/stellar-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\":\"getLatestLedger\",\"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 ledger sequence), http_err, jsonrpc_err (HTTP 200 carrying an error body), stale (more than 10 ledgers behind the cross-provider tip), 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=stellar. Provider coverage at launch: 5 no-key Soroban endpoints (Gateway.fm, Ankr, OnFinality, SorobanRPC.com, Lightsail Network)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}