{"slug":"story-rpc","title":"Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the `eth_getBlockByNumber(\"latest\", false)` method against every free, no-key public Story EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":70.7071,"leader":{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","value":70.7071},"rankings":[{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","ms":{"p50":70.7071,"p90":84.331,"p99":310.46,"mean":82.7129},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4330.75},{"name":"Story Foundation","slug":"story-official","ms":{"p50":79.343,"p90":85.1096,"p99":114.415,"mean":81.09},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4295.74},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":255.908,"p90":596.168,"p99":729.344,"mean":335.844},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4291.74},{"name":"Stakely","slug":"stakely","ms":{"p50":274.287,"p90":579.591,"p99":2020.46,"mean":381.237},"successRate":99.134,"sampleSize":4273.74}],"sparkline":[88.6067,85.0838,86.835,87.9366,82.9519,84.4336,82.2554,81.1916,76.9878,78.7997,84.4976,87.3828,89.4457,91.9304,97.4606,97.4433,97.3427,96.0093,98.3214,90.2607,81.0563,76.3072,76.2512,79.4845,76.3527,76.941,76.108,76.8039,76.6958,74.9228,80.0743,85.47,89.7491,92.2663,86.1406,80.9752,74.4601,76.5697,77.9278,79.1073,79.7053,80.1599,80.5606,80.1136,81.2571,80.4891,78.7446,77.7161,79.9396,81.9968,81.2568,78.8213,83.0286,89.5936,95.4961,88.8679,83.8219,75.9785,74.885,72.1156,71.0608,74.5882,78.8572,82.1391,86.7157,88.6696,93.047,86.7641,84.665,80.2377,80.9458,78.6306,77.9153],"sampleSize":17191.97,"asOf":"2026-08-14T15:14:11.643Z","headline":"Ankr leads rpc latency at 71 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency.","quote":"Ankr leads rpc latency at 71 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-14. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_story_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-14\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/story-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\":\"eth_getBlockByNumber\",\"params\":[\"latest\", false]}`. Plain HTTP POST, identical for every endpoint, no API key in any request. Non-cacheable by design: the rotating id defeats edge caches that would answer a bare head query without touching a node.","Latency: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms → 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 hex block number), `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err` (HTTP 200 carrying an error body), `stale` (more than 20 blocks 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](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/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=\"story\"`. Provider coverage: 4 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}