{"slug":"stellar-rpc","title":"Stellar Soroban RPC endpoints: free public URLs by 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":143.472,"leader":{"name":"Gateway.fm","slug":"gateway","value":143.472},"leaders":[{"name":"Gateway.fm","slug":"gateway","value":143.472}],"rankings":[{"name":"Gateway.fm","slug":"gateway","ms":{"p50":143.472,"p90":167.582,"p99":194.732,"mean":143.281},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4321.79},{"name":"OnFinality","slug":"onfinality","ms":{"p50":195.232,"p90":231.319,"p99":1339.68,"mean":233.277},"successRate":72.2163,"sampleSize":4306.1},{"name":"Lightsail Network","slug":"lightsail","ms":{"p50":199.822,"p90":272.914,"p99":646.286,"mean":220.877},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4312.79},{"name":"SorobanRPC.com","slug":"sorobanrpc","ms":{"p50":208.597,"p90":307.495,"p99":882.115,"mean":236.146},"successRate":99.79050000000001,"sampleSize":4295.79},{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","ms":{"p50":628.007,"p90":1230.32,"p99":1819,"mean":654.507},"successRate":99.9769,"sampleSize":4322.79}],"sparkline":[142.906,144.975,148.604,149.356,149.358,146.158,145.313,144.018,142.09,143.418,145.42,148.497,147.457,144.295,142.503,141.737,143.599,143.209,141.745,139.293,138.155,137.768,138.408,139.279,139.065,139.663,139.931,141.222,140.588,140.235,139.766,140.804,145.87,148.716,149.283,144.802,144.329,145.908,147.815,152.283,153.757,155.828,152.121,147.681,143.87,142.706,142.669,141.773,141.124,143.067,144.685,145.645,150.437,150.342,149.225,141.279,139.225,137.842,139.005,140.987,140.661,140.204,138.81,141.135,141.8,140.755,137.284,135.483,136.964,137.601,141.1,143.374,144.33],"sampleSize":21559.260000000002,"asOf":"2026-10-03T01:24:17.499Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-03T01:24:17.499Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":5,"ranked":5,"headline":"Gateway.fm has the lowest median latency of the 5 free public Stellar Soroban RPC endpoints measured, 143 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"Gateway.fm has the lowest median latency of the 5 free public Stellar Soroban RPC endpoints measured, 143 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/stellar-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Stellar Soroban RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-03. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/stellar-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_stellar_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Stellar Soroban RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/stellar-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-03}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Stellar Soroban RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 3, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/stellar-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Stellar Soroban RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/stellar-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-03\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 measurement, call-result classification (`ok`, `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale`, `timeout`) and the archive-depth audit follow the cluster method documented on [rpc-capabilities](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities#methodology); this page is the Stellar Soroban-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to chain=stellar. Provider coverage today: 5 no-key Soroban endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}